La Jungla

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La Jungla is a landmark 1943 painting by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam that fuses Afro-Cuban spiritual imagery with modernist styles to critique colonialism and plantation society.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
La Jungla canonical 2

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf painting ⓘ
artForm gouache on paper ⓘ
artHistoricalSignificance canonical work in Museum of Modern Art collection ⓘ
key work of Latin American modernism ⓘ
collection Museum of Modern Art collection ⓘ
linked to: MoMA collections
colorPalette browns ⓘ
earth tones ⓘ
muted greens ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Cuba ⓘ
creator Wifredo Lam ⓘ
creatorNationality Cuban ⓘ
creatorRole Wifredo Lam was a Cuban modernist painter ⓘ
linked to: Wifredo Lam
depicts Santería-inspired imagery ⓘ
hybrid human-animal-plant figures ⓘ
sugarcane field ⓘ
genre modernist painting ⓘ
hasPart dense vegetation ⓘ
elongated limbs ⓘ
mask-like faces ⓘ
inception 1943 ⓘ
influencedBy African art ⓘ
Afro-Cuban religions ⓘ
linked to: Cuban Vodú

European modernism ⓘ
linked to: Modernism

Pablo Picasso ⓘ
languageOfTitle Spanish ⓘ
locatedIn New York City ⓘ
location Museum of Modern Art ⓘ
mainSubject Afro-Cuban spirituality ⓘ
colonialism ⓘ
plantation society ⓘ
materialUsed gouache ⓘ
paper ⓘ
movement Afro-Cuban modernism ⓘ
linked to: Cuban avant-garde

Cubism ⓘ
Surrealism ⓘ
productionLocation Cuba ⓘ
styleCharacteristic dense compositional layering ⓘ
flattened space ⓘ
fragmented forms ⓘ
mask-like stylization ⓘ
theme critique of colonialism ⓘ
critique of plantation economy ⓘ
cultural hybridity ⓘ
racial identity ⓘ
spiritual resistance ⓘ
titleInEnglish The Jungle ⓘ

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wifredo Lam → notableWork → La Jungla ⓘ
The Jungle → originalTitle → La Jungla ⓘ