Enrique Martínez Blanco
(Cuba), 1947-2019
Born in Matanzas, Cuba. After studying painting, graphic design, and lithography at the National School of Arts, he became a teacher there. Martínez worked as an art director at a publisher in Havana from 1975 through 1989. In 1981 and 1989, he received a bronze medal at the Leipzig Book Fair and, in 1990, the Grand Prix at the Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations for Animals Have Many Faces. The imaginary creatures that appear in his illustrations, with body parts borrowed from other animals, such as a fish with a human face or a moray eel with a dog’s face, may appear strange at a first glance, but each character richly expresses its own individuality.
ANIMAL 28
Criatura 9 (Creature 9)
Bichito 5
Gato II (Cat II)
Gato III (Cat III)
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