Artist Info: Wilfredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982) Lam is a major figurative artist. More than any other Twentieth Century master, he is the artist most responsible for introducing the expressive force of Afro-Carribean spiritual traditions into modern painting. It is Lam’s fascination with voodoo, trance states, and the rituals of spiritual transformation, which adds a new poetic dimension to the iconography of Surrealism. S