About the Artist
Adigio Benítez
1924–2013
Adigio Benítez was one of the most representative Cuban artists between the 1950s and 1960s. The artist graduated from the National School of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” in 1949 and worked as a caricaturist cartoonist in Havana’s newspaper Hoy before and after the triumph of the Revolution. In the mid-1940s, his cartoons and political drawings began to echo the spirit that lived in those years. His work was distinguished by the great mastery of the brush and the formal conditions that dominated in any of the manifestations that he assumed. Benítez was a prodigious caricaturist, painter, designer, poet, and founding teacher at the National School of Plastic Arts and the Superior Institute of Art. In 2002, Adigio Benítez won the National Prize for Plastic Arts, awarded to him for his life work in the promotion of the plastic arts in Cuba and his contributions to contemporary artistic visibility.
