Wifredo Lam, Zambezia, oil on canvas, 1950, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Wifredo Lam picture of artist, Cuba, 1943.
Elijah Shalaway, Senior, English major and studio art minor
ABSTRACT:
In this episode of Mira! We look at Wifredo Lam’s La Jungla. La Jungla stands as the most famous Surrealist painting of the surrealist movement. Lam’s La Jungla not only highlights the black Cuban culture, but glorifies the land of Cuba as well as the history of slavery through the use of the African depictions, tall sugar cane stalks, and tobacco leaves.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Khan Academy. “Lam, The Jungle.” Accessed October 7, 2019. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/lam-the-jungle.
Noel, Samantha A., “Envisioning New Worlds: The ‘Tropical Aesthetics’ in the Art of Wifredo Lam and Aaron Douglas.” Art Journal 77, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 76–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2018.1530012.
“Wifredo Lam.” In Wikipedia, October 6, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wifredo_Lam&oldid=919874217.
The Museum of Modern Art. “Wifredo Lam. The Jungle (La Jungla). 1943 | MoMA.” Accessed October 7, 2019. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/34666.
Wilfredo Lam, The Jungle – Smarthistory.” Accessed October 1, 2019. https://smarthistory.org/lam-the-jungle/.
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