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“It was like some sort of hell…For me, trafficking in the dignity of a people is just that: hell. I refused to paint cha-cha-cha.”

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Wifredo Lam

On adopting a new form of painting in Cuba in “Wifredo Lam: the unlikely comeback of the Cuban Picasso” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/wifredo-lam-the-unlikely-comeback-of-the-cuban-picasso/ in The Telegraph (2016 Aug 31)

“I thought back to Europe being invaded by the Nazi army with great sadness … For me, seeing Europe had been everything. When I came back to Cuba, I was taken aback by its nature, by the traditions of the Blacks, and by the transculturation of its African and Catholic religions. And so I began to orientate my paintings toward the African.”

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Wifredo Lam

On painting after returning to Cuba in “Wifredo Lam: Man of the World” https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/wifredo-lam-man-of-world (Tate; 2016 Aug 16)