Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam’s pictorial world consists of a synthesis, a fusion of African and European art, with a strong influence from Cubism. He was also influenced by Surrealism, which flourished during the first half of the 20th century. In *Les amoureux*, the flat, barely modelled silhouettes seem reduced to mere symbols seeking to merge into a weightless universe where everything is rendered in shades of grey. The composition of the canvas is clear, the colours neutral. Lam remained, until the end, a creator of forms in which dream and reality unite. This tendency towards the irrational could not fail to attract the attention of the Surrealists, who immediately recognised him as one of their own. There was a regular correspondence between André Breton, a pioneer of Surrealism, and Lam, who played an active part in the second wave of Surrealism.

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