The artisan and the guajiro in the Cuban countryside (+ Photos)

By Lázaro David Najarro Pujol
February, 2021.- The artisan artist from Camagüey Nelson Luís Tornés Verdugo uses again and again in his ceramic works the figure of the Guajiro (from the Antillean Arawak means Lord, powerful man), published the national portal of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
This time, Nelson Luís Tornés, on the occasion of February 24, 1895 (restart of the wars in order not to let the Cuban independence spirit die), modeled in clay a peasant who loved the land and animals. Leer el resto de esta entrada »