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Art Shapay

It is well known that the Cuban Art Academy of Fine Arts named San Alenjandro and located in Havana, Cuba has enjoyed the recognition of the art connoisseurs and the world during several decades. It started since the 1800's when great masters like Leopoldo Romanach who was a prominent teacher and painter gave inspiration to nearly three generations of Cuban artists and played a very important roll in the development of the Cuban academy with his brilliant perspective to new methods for depicting artistic ideas; although he was never considered as a part of the Vanguard movement.

The very traditional art school rapidly gained unequal prestige throughout the world even after the war raised against the Spanish government that ended in 1920. It's very important to remark that in its main essence; the Cuban art has always been based in a deep influence of the Art Nouveau and the Barocco style that was brought to the "magic" island by Spaniards and Italian masters during the times of the colony. Right after the communist Cuban revolution in 1959 there were many changes within the academy that brought about multiple artistic confrontations among masters who were students by that time and a strong rejection to the traditional disciplines established before by the Spanish academy. One of the main reasons was the perception imported by great Cuban artists like Mariano Rodriguez, Amelia Pelaez, Victor Manuel Garcia, Rene Portocarrero and others.

They were times of new visual propositions that; in some way were opposed to the many artistic tendencies imposed by the strictly materialistic ideas of the socialism and its main leader, who ruled the dream of hundreds of artists into only one slogan:” Art from the revolution and for the revolution".

For hundreds of students who passed the academy from the 70's until nowadays it was like being trapped in house of walls with no windows to see the big changes of the artistic world and although this site is not intended to rely on political issues, it’s not avoidable to state that; unfortunately; that was the reality that the artist Aurelio Zuniga, well known as Shapay and many others had to go through in order to complete their studies in an academy of highly talented masters who could not depict openly their artistic perceptions about their social surroundings...about their personal dreams.

Maybe that's why when any observer has the opportunity to enjoy any of Shapay's artworks will always have the impression of seeing images that belong to some uncertain time and place. You will see the art of a very exquisite provider of the most deep "sentiments" into paper or canvas...you will see what is felt and cannot be stated by simple words.

Shapay entertains the attention of any person at any level and always leaves a sublime impression of visual “organicity” in an environment of lyrical spiritualism. His drawings show with no doubt the enormous control of all the techniques that he develops on paper. The effect of transparences, refined lines and fading shapes with his "chiaroscuro" make of Shapay's works a vivid representation of what he calls his "visions of angels...with silent noise".

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