RAUL MARTINEZ (Cuba 1927-1995) "Che Guevara"

RAUL MARTINEZ (Cuba 1927-1995)

"Che Guevara"

Plate signed (19)68

Serigraphy

Size 77 x 42 cm

framed

Publio Amable Raúl Martínez González, known as Raúl Martínez, (1 November 1927 – 2 April 1995) was a Cuban painter, designer, photographer, muralist, and graphic artist. He is best known for colorful pop-art portraits of leading Cuban political figures including José Martí and Camilo Cienfuegos.

By 1965, Martínez started losing interest in abstraction, but did not return to the "painting for the sake of painting" ideals of Los Once, who believed in "expression of aesthetic emotion through plastic means – form and color – so that the spectator faced with the work would be moved by its basic element: painting."[2] Figuration made its return to the work of the artist, who longed for closer communication with the public. "Magic always has been important for me, the magic of the surface and the magic of an expressive life transmuted on it. But magic I define the process of looking for the unknown, which is what I always have done.