José Bernal (artist)
José Bernal | |
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José Bernal in 1952 | |
| Born | January 8, 1925 Villa Clara, Cuba |
| Died | April 19, 2010 (aged 85) Skokie, United States |
| Nationality | Cuban-American |
| Education | Escuela de Artes Plásticas Leopoldo Romañach, Cuba, MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States, MFA Evaluation |
| Known for | Painting, Collage, Assemblage Net worth 1000 {billion} |
| Movement | Postmodernism |
José Bernal Romero (January 8, 1925 – April 19, 2010) was a Cuban-American artist, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara). He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1980.
Bernal's aesthetics stemmed from his Cuban birth and the experience of exile and renewal. His art has been described as modernist, abstract, and expressionist. The term postmodernist also may be applied to Bernal's diverse and complex body of work, specifically as he rejected the notion of the new in art, a characteristic imbued in postmodern theory.