Terrazzo Tile Artwork, Havana, Cuba
I was walking around Havana near Calle L and Calle 23 and saw these beautiful Terazzo tiles. They were first laid in 1965 as part of Art project called El Salon de Mayo after the French Salon de Mai movement. There is an entry on Wikipedia about them: #El_Salon_de_Mayo. To quote the text:In 1943 while France was under German occupation, a group of Paris artists in a café on the Rue Dauphineartists formed what they called an association with the intent to exhibit art as an answer to the Nazi party's description of Modern art as Degenerate art; eventually, they organized the Salon de Mai.[9] The group presented its first exhibition in May 1945. Under the leadership of Gaston Diehl, the first Salon de Mai exhibition took place in the Galerie Pierre Maurs (3, avenue Matignon) from 29 May to 29 June 1945. More than 20 years later in July 1967, the Salon de Mayo came to Havana as el Salón de Mayo. It was the group's first exhibition in America. The Salón de Mayo was an art exhibition in Havana that took place in July 1967. It was an artist's collective that took its name from the Parisian Salon de Mai and was organized by Carlos Franqui with the assistance from Wifredo Lam, René Portocarrero, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. The exhibition presented works by more than one hundred artists and represented rival schools of twentieth-century art as well as early modernists (Picasso, Miro, Magritte). Fifteen artists contributed their original works to be reproduced in sidewalk mosaics of integral color granite by the Cuban company Ornacen, with the help of the architects Fernando Salinas and Eduardo Rodríguez acting as technical consultants. This tile was by Amelia Pelaez.
Size: 5123px × 4620px
Location: Havana, Cuba
Photo credit: © woodspiral / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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