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Spotlight on a tainted master
This book drives home 90% of the Wifredo Lam story - here we see a painter as brilliant as any of the great Europeans with whom he spent many years of his early youth. Lam was born in Cuba, and as the son of a black ex-slave and a Chinese immigrant, he probably would have never been recorded in history had it not been for the vision of his grandmother, who saved enough money (recognizing his artistic talent) to send the young Lam to study art in Spain. Because of racism, he ends up in Paris, where he hangs around Picasso and the other luminaries of the times. It is easy to see how Picasso "discovered" African themes in Lam's works and copying the Cuban master's ideas, delivered a new period to his own works. Lam escapes the Nazis and returns to Cuba, and after Castro becomes an icon in world art - somewhat tainted in the eyes of many Cubans -- by his close relationship with the government of the Communist dictator. There has been much controversy about Lam's works after his death, as many "fakes" have surfaced, and some have even accused the Cuban government of producing (and certifying) them.