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Plate with Geometric Figures
(Plato con Figuras Geométricas)
Author: Luis Martínez Pedro
Year: 1956
Medium: one-of-a-kind, hand painted ceramic plate
Size: 10 1/4 x 1 inches
Inventory No: C5642
Price: $
AVAILABLE
Illustrated in the book Luis Martínez
Pedro, Revelaciones, Fundación Arte
Cubano, 2017, page 41.
“Luis Martínez Pedro was one of the
pioneers of the concrete movement in
Cuba. Together with Sandú Darié, he
presented an exhibition at the
University of Havana in 1955 that, due
to its radical nature, is appreciated as a
milestone in the history of Cuban
abstract art... that same year, together
with Amelia Peláez and Wifredo Arcay,
he promoted the implementation of an
artistic ceramics project, a practice that,
until then, was considered to belong to
the fields of crafts... The historical-
artistic context of the island and the
experimental desire of the young
generation that had demolished
academic canons in the middle of the
century, paved the way for these
theories and led several of the most
important artists of the time down the
path of artistic ceramics.”
Raisa Ruiz Arias, excerpt from the book
Luis Martínez Pedro, Revelaciones,
Fundación Arte Cubano, 2017, page 23.
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