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🇨🇺120 years ago today, Cuban painter #WifredoLam (1902-1982) was born. His Cantonese father did calligraphy, inspired by Confucian/Daoist traditions, mother was a Congolese descendant, and godmother, an Afro-Cuban priestess. You can say he was made in and of the Third World.🧵1/7 
Over his 80 years, #WifredoLam was conscientised by the Spanish Civil War, anti-colonial struggles, Negritude, Surrealism, and the Cuban Revolution. He drew, painted, sculpted, illustrated, engraved, and gave expression to aspirations of colonised peoples. 2/7
In Europe, #WifredoLam befriended Surrealist André Breton, Communist painter Pablo Picasso, and Caribbean anti-colonial thinkers, later visiting Aimé Césaire in Martinique. In a growing anti-colonial and black consciousness, Lam turned towards his African roots in his art. 3/7
