Jose ignacio fletes cruz biography books

Nicaraguan Painter Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz is a Primitivista artist, whose naif style of image-making is associated with a utopian Christian community, founded in the mid s by Roman Catholic Poet-Priest Ernesto Cardenal in the remote Solentiname island chain at the southern end of Lake Nicaragua.

Jose ignacio fletes cruz biography books

A disciple of Trappist Monk Thomas Merton, the Nicaraguan cleric was an ardent proponent of Liberation Theology and believed the church should actively support the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice. Soon after Cardenal arrived on the main island of Mancarron, the parish church became a center where the fishermen and farmers of the archipelago could learn about art, poetry, and radical Christianity, and the Solentiname community was born.

Cardenal noticed the islanders were skilled in decorating gourds, and invited Nicaraguan Figurative Painter Roger Perez de la Rocha to come to the community in to give art lessons.

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