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| Juan José Sicre |
Juan José Sicre (born Juan José Sicre Velez in 1898 –
1974)[1] was one of the greatest Cuban sculptors. His most famous sculpture is
of José Martí y Pérez (1958) (the José Martí Memorial) in the Plaza de la
Revolución in Havana.
Sicre graduated from an art academy in Havana in 1919 and
earned an art scholarship to go to Europe where he studied in Madrid at the
Fine Arts School of San Fernando in and later under Antoine Bourdelle in Paris,
returning to Cuba in 1927.[2]
Sicre, along with Gattorno and the painter Victor Manuel
introduced European modern art style to Havana, and began Cuba's Modern Art
Movement. He regularly contributed to the avant garde magazine, revista de
avance, which helped to establish a Cuban national identity in the arts from
1927-1930. Sicre became the professor of sculpture at the Academy of San
Alejandro.
He is best known in Cuba for his huge monuments to José
Martí, Simón Bolívar, and Victor Hugo, all located in Havana. He also did
statues of Eugenio María de Hostos in the Dominican Republic and of Alexandre
Sabès Pétion and the Heroes of the Battle of Vertières in Haiti. In the United
States he has a bust of John F. Kennedy at the Inter-American Development Bank.
He also has in Washington, DC busts of Henry Clay, José Cecilio del Valle and
Rubén Darío at the OAS Building. In Gainesville, Florida, there is a bronze
head of Martí at the Center of Latin American Studies of the University of
Florida. In Caracas, Venezuela, he produced a monument to Rómulo Gallegos.
He was married to Silvia D. Escoubet and their son, Jorge
Sicre Escoubet, lived in Cleveland, Ohio and played with the orchestra and his
grandson, Jorge Luis Sicre-Gattorno (1958- ), is an accomplished painter in the
United States.
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| Juan José Sicre Escultura del monumento al soldado Invasor |
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| Juan José Sicre Escultura en el Palacio de Bellas Artes |
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| Juan José Sicre Figura |
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| Juan José Sicre Fuente de las Americas |
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| Juan José Sicre Isle Erythropel Girona - 1932 |
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| Juan José Sicre Marti Statue |
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| Juan José Sicre Portrait de José Marti |
Las pinturas y esculturas de mi niñez.
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