Jaime Gordillo - La pareja con niños

This is a gorgeous oil on canvas, and it measures 26" x 20" (65 x 50cm.). Jaime Gordillo is a talented, and fairly well regarded local artist in Havana. He is now 74 years old. The wrinkles are due to the work being shot unstretched. They will come out, once the painting is stretched.   Cuba is a goldmine of talent. From the Russian influences, to the classical European artists, that many of the Cuban Masters studied with.    Despite a series of repressive governments the art scene has historically thrived in Cuba, where culture occupies a prominent place. Art played a key role in the Cuban revolution and there are currently about 14 art schools, a University of Fine Arts, as well as 13,000 ‘registered artists’ on the island, as Rene Duquesne of the National Council of Visual Arts points out. The African presence in Cuba is undeniable, incredibly strong and visible but because of the practice of whitening in the US, it is possible to shed, deny, or simply omit one's blackness in ord