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Cuban-style art is a distinct ethnical coalescence of American, African and European visual design communicating the multiethnic demographic of the island. Artists from Cuba embraced European modernism and the 1920-1940 era witnessed a growth in Cuban vanguardism trends; these movements were identified by a mixture of modern esthetic genres. Renowned Cuban creatives were likely to hail from the earlier 1900s (for instance Amelia Pelez).

Arguably the most well-known piece of art to hail from Cuba was THAT photograph of a certain Che Guevara (shot by Mr Alberto Korda) which went onto become maybe one of the most noted images of the 20th century.

The local Cuban artist cause accumulated some pace after the opening of San Alejandro academy in 1818, which was built to fulfil the European predilection of the middle class population of Cuba. Towards the end of the 19th century, landscape paintings dominated the art movement of Cuba and classicism was still the genre of choice.

Nonetheless, the pioneering Cuban modern artists of the 1920s had scorned the academic formulas of Cuba’s national art academy. During their formative years, numerous Cuban artists had lived in France, where they studied and took in the fundamentals of cubism, surrealism and modernist primitivism. They returned to Cuba committed to ground-breaking aesthetic styles and were eager to combine this new artistic leaning with a Cuban influence. The vanguardia artists attained world acknowledgement only as recently as 2003 with the Modern Cuban Painting show at the MOMA in New York. These sorts of art styles have now been made very popular via canvas art mounted on walls worldwide.