Roberto Fabelo (born 1951

Camagüey Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by S ...

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) is a contemporary Cuban painter, sculptor, and illustrator.

Biography

Born in

Guáimaro Guáimaro is a town and municipality in the southern part of Camagüey Province in Cuba. It is located between the cities of Camagüey and Las Tunas (city), Las Tunas. History Guáimaro features prominently in Cuban history as the place where in 18 ...

, Camagüey,Moore, Robin D. (2006) ''Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba'', University of California Press, , p. 81 Fabelo studied at The

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and at the

Instituto Superior de Arte The University of Arts of Cuba / Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) was established on September 1, 1976, by the Cuban government as a school for the arts. Its original structure had three schools: Music, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts. History ...

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. He was a professor and a jury member for very important national and international visual arts contests. The Cuban state awarded him a medal for National Culture and the

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for his outstanding artistic career. Fabelo's art consists of nude women, who often appear with bird-like features, including a beak and wings. He drew in textbooks, and created figures out of the pictures already in the textbook. Another example of his art was water colored markers used to draw on silk embroidered fabric. His work is exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

,Lascom, Caroline & Cameron, Sarah (2002) ''Havana'', Footprint Handbooks, , p. 62 and in the Cuban embassy in

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.Cuban Visual Arts Salon to be Inaugurated in Mexico
, cubaheadlines.com, October 27, 2010, retrieved 2010-10-31 His 2009 sculpture of a group of human-headed cockroaches can be found climbing one of the walls of the Havana Fine Arts Museum, entitled ''Survival''.Almaguer, Osmel (2009)
Fabelo’s Cockroaches
, ''

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'', April 25, 2009, retrieved 2010-10-31 He also illustrated a 2007 edition of

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's novel ''Cien años de soledad''.Cuban painter Roberto Fabelo illustrates Cien años de soledad
, cubaheadlines.com, December 30, 2007, retrieved 2010-10-31 He was described by the ''

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'' in 2002 as "one of Cuba's premier artists", with high demand for his paintings in the United States and elsewhere.Eaton, Tracey (2002) "Cuban art leaps onto world scene: Collectors take notice as artists use work for political mouthpiece", ''

'', April 28, 2002

References

1951 births Cuban artists Living people National Art Schools (Cuba) alumni {{Cuba-artist-stub Instituto Superior de Arte alumni