In this video, you will learn the secrets behind one of his most celebrated works: The Jungle. To help you navigate it, we recommend answering these questions as you go along:
When did Lam paint the jungle, and why do you think it is important to his story?
How does it affect its meaning when critics compare it to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
How do you think his relationship with the Martinican poet Aime Cesaire affected his work?
How did his relationship with ethnographer Lydia Cabrera affect his work?
How did he begin to express his cultural miscegenation in this work?
What is the meaning of the figure who raises his hand on the left side? And what do the scissors mean?
How does he present the vegetation?
How does this work relate to Cabrera's book "El Monte"?
How did Picasso and Lam use black aesthetics in their work, and how is it different?
How did Lam incorporate his European artistic legacy?
Is this work a representation of "surrealist primitivism"?