The great Cuban modernist, whose politics and Afro-Asian roots shaped his paintings and inspired generations of artists, gets a revelatory survey at MoMA.
Art history, which likes categories and keeping things neat, has never known what to do with certain artists, Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) being one. Surrealist? Cubist? Latin American? Afro-Asian? Insider? Outlier? Yes. No. Sort of. Maybe.
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