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The National Gallery of the Arts joins the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the National Academy of San Alejandro, an educational institution with which it has had close ties since the beginning of the last century.
his Cuban art building, until September 3, this exhibition, in which we can see sixty works.
At the exhibition, in one of the Museum's transitional rooms, there is a collateral program which includes a colloquium, presentation of books and teaching exercises in front of the public
Thus, Tuesday 3 and Wednesday, July 3 will be held the symposium "San Alejandro: Tradition and Contemporary Artistic Education in Cuba", in the audiovisual room of the Cuban Fine Arts Building. Similarly, the special cancellation of a commemorative stamp for the anniversary will be made, as well as the sale of volumes "Vermay, messenger of lights" and "The three Heredia", by the French researcher Sabine Faivre D'Arcier, published by the House of High Studies Don Fernando Ortiz
Meanwhile, every Friday in July, teachers and students of the school will give teaching exercises in front of visitors.
The exhibition "Bicentenary of San Alejandro: Tradition and Contemporaneity" brings together 60 works of different generations and different aesthetics and includes paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings. Thus, a panorama of the evolution of arts education in Cuba can be appreciated.
Exhibitions from the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts of San Alejandro and the National Library José Martí.
According to sources from the National Museum of Fine Arts, the official school established in Cuba for the teaching of the arts and the second on the American continent was one of the main contributions, in 1913 and 1926, to the collection of Fine Arts with which was founded the National Museum of Cuba and later to the growth of a gallery of Cuban and foreign paintings that remained in the permanent exhibition of this museum institution until nowadays.
Similarly, in this Academy, the two most important directors of the Museum were trained during his first fifty years of existence: Emilio Heredia and Antonio Rodríguez Morey.
Regarded by some as one of the first and firmest landmarks of our culture, the Ac Ademia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, founded in 1818, here in Havana, celebrates its bicentennial. It is one of the most emblematic cultural institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean and a must for the development of visual arts in the region
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