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The Jungle
1943
Tall hybrid figures crowd a field of sugar cane. Cubism and Surrealism meet the violence and spiritual histories of colonial Cuba.
Artist field note
Wifredo Lam
Surrealism returns to the plantation.
Appears inLatin America
The five in one idea
Lam took the formal freedoms of European modernism and redirected them toward Caribbean history, religion and colonial power.