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Manuel Vidal

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1929, Havana, Cuba / 2013, Cuba

Painter, draftsman, engraver and graphic designer.

The artist studied several studies in Cuba and abroad. He exhibited for the first time with the painters Antonio Vidal, Fayad Jamís, Antonia Eiriz and Guido Llinás in 1951. In 1954 he spent two months working and visiting museums in NY. Upon his return he works as a cartoonist in advertising agencies and illustrates stories in magazines.

In 1959 he received a scholarship, awarded by the General Directorate of Culture of the Ministry of Education of Cuba to study painting in France and the Scholarship to study painting and engraving at the Real Círculo Artístico in Barcelona, ​​Spain, from 1960 to 1961.

For two years he visits museums throughout Europe. Upon his return, he designs the monthly Pueblo y Cultura. He has published poems, stories, articles on plastic arts and drawings in the magazines Islas, Signos, Unión, Pueblo y Cultura, Revolución y Cultura, among others.

The National Museum of Fine Arts, treasures the artist's work.