La Jungla
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La Jungla is a landmark 1943 painting by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam that fuses Afro-Cuban spiritual imagery with modernist styles to critique colonialism and plantation society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Jungla canonical | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | painting ⓘ |
| artForm | gouache on paper ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
canonical work in Museum of Modern Art collection
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key work of Latin American modernism ⓘ |
| collection | Museum of Modern Art collection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
browns
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earth tones ⓘ muted greens ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Wifredo Lam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Cuban ⓘ |
| creatorRole | Wifredo Lam was a Cuban modernist painter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Santería-inspired imagery
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hybrid human-animal-plant figures ⓘ sugarcane field ⓘ |
| genre | modernist painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
dense vegetation
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elongated limbs ⓘ mask-like faces ⓘ |
| inception | 1943 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African art
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Afro-Cuban religions NERFINISHED ⓘ European modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ Pablo Picasso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| location | Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Afro-Cuban spirituality
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colonialism ⓘ plantation society ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
gouache
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paper ⓘ |
| movement |
Afro-Cuban modernism
NERFINISHED
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Cubism ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ |
| productionLocation | Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
dense compositional layering
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flattened space ⓘ fragmented forms ⓘ mask-like stylization ⓘ |
| theme |
critique of colonialism
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critique of plantation economy ⓘ cultural hybridity ⓘ racial identity ⓘ spiritual resistance ⓘ |
| titleInEnglish | The Jungle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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