{"id":13235,"date":"2021-11-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2021-11-08T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:47:07","slug":"jim-fitzpatrick-un-irlandes-que-convirtio-al-che-guevara-en-un-icono-pop-an-irishman-who-made-a-pop-icon-out-of-che-guevara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/jim-fitzpatrick-un-irlandes-que-convirtio-al-che-guevara-en-un-icono-pop-an-irishman-who-made-a-pop-icon-out-of-che-guevara\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Fitzpatrick: un irland\u00e9s que convirti\u00f3 al Che Guevara en un icono pop | An Irishman who made a pop icon out of Che Guevara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Im\u00e1genes
Imagen izquierda: Jim Fitzpatrick.\u00a0The Magic Cup,\u00a0<\/em>1986
Imagen derecha: Jim\u00a0 Fitzpatrick.\u00a0Nuada The High King,\u00a0<\/em>1978<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

La historia de Irlanda est\u00e1 llena de datos curiosos y de conexiones culturales inesperadas. Las noticias sobre las supuestas ra\u00edces irlandesas de algunos personajes importantes de la historia no dejan de sorprendernos todos los d\u00edas. Sin embargo, la historia que os contaremos hoy es un poco diferente, ya que en realidad se trata de un irland\u00e9s de pura cepa y de una leyenda de Hispanoam\u00e9rica, Ernesto Guevara. Jim Fitzpatrick<\/a> es un pintor reconocido y respetado internacionalmente que ha dedicado gran parte de su carrera a la representaci\u00f3n art\u00edstica de la mitolog\u00eda celta irlandesa. Fitzpatrick, de origen dublin\u00e9s, ha creado, entre otras obras notables, una incre\u00edble serie de ilustraciones para El libro de las invasiones<\/em> que incluye hermosos trabajos de nudo celta, un libro llamado El brazo de plata <\/em>que continua la historia de los guerreros Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann que llegaron a Irlanda, y una serie de portadas de discos musicales para famosos artistas irlandeses, como Thin Lizzy o Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u00bfOs est\u00e1is preguntando qu\u00e9 tiene que ver con el Che Guevara? Curiosamente, gracias a este maestro irland\u00e9s, la cultura de masas convirti\u00f3 a esta figura revolucionaria en un personaje glamuroso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 1967 Jim Fitzpatrick trajo al mundo un icono pop inmortal. Todo comenz\u00f3 con una exitosa fotograf\u00eda realizada el 5 de marzo de 1960 por el fot\u00f3grafo cubano Alberto Corda. Tras la muerte de Guevara, Jim Fitzpatrick cre\u00f3 un retrato bicolor que hoy es reconocible en cualquier parte del mundo y tan famoso como las Latas de sopa Campbell<\/em> (Campbell’s Soup Cans) de Andy Warholl o la portada del \u00e1lbum Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em> de los Beatles.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entonces \u00bfqu\u00e9 motiv\u00f3 a un artista que basa sus obras sobre todo en la est\u00e9tica y la elegancia a crear un retrato del l\u00edder cubano, tan ic\u00f3nico pero tan at\u00edpico para su l\u00ednea de trabajo? Lo m\u00e1s probable es que fuera un encuentro accidental el que marc\u00f3 el \u00e9xito posterior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuando Fitzpatrick ten\u00eda 16 a\u00f1os trabajaba como camarero en el Marine Hotel Pub de Kilkee. El Che Guevara entr\u00f3 en el restaurante buscando una forma de pasar unas horas libres que ten\u00eda durante un vuelo nocturno de Mosc\u00fa a Cuba con escala en Shannon. Fitzpatrick tuvo una r\u00e1pida charla con Guevara y conoci\u00f3 sus ra\u00edces irlandesas y su segundo apellido, Lynch. Este episodio impuls\u00f3 a Fitzpatrick a seguir los acontecimientos de la vida del Che Guevara y, m\u00e1s tarde, a representarlo en uno de sus primeros lienzos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Imagen
Imagen izquerda: Alberto Korda. Heroic Guerilla Fighter (Guerrillero Her\u00f3ico), <\/em>1960.
Imagen derecha: Jim Fitzpatrick. Che Guevara Poster (Retrato del Che Guevara),<\/em> 1967.
<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Y el resto es historia. El retrato es hoy en d\u00eda un s\u00edmbolo de rebeld\u00eda de cualquier tipo; incluso ha sido utilizado por los hippies y los activistas de Greenpeace. As\u00ed, de momento podemos interpretar esta imagen m\u00e1s como un s\u00edmbolo abstracto que como una representaci\u00f3n real de las ideas revolucionarias del Che Guevara. Adem\u00e1s, y curiosamente, otras maravillosas obras de arte de Jim Fitzpatrick nunca han conseguido ganar tanta popularidad entre las masas como el ic\u00f3nico retrato. Sin embargo, su curiosa historia refleja el papel que un encuentro ocasional puede jugar en nuestras vidas y c\u00f3mo a veces la obra de arte se hace m\u00e1s grande que su autor\u2026 e incluso que el propio personaje representado.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texto de Ekaterina Dragalina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim Fitzpatrick \u2013 an Irishman who made a pop icon out of Che Guevara  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irish history is full of curious stories and unexpected cultural connections. The news about alleged Irish roots of some important history figures keep surprising us every day. However, the story that we will tell you today is a bit different, since it is actually about a pure Irishman and a Latin American legend, Ernesto Guevara. Jim Fitzpatrick<\/a> is a renowned and internationally respected painter who has dedicated a big part of his career to the artistic depiction of Irish Celtic mythology. Fitzpatrick, a Dubliner, has created, among other notable works, an amazing illustration series for The Book of Conquests <\/em>which includes beautiful Celtic knotworks, a book called The Silver Arm<\/em> which continued the story of Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann warriors coming to Ireland, and a series of album covers for famous Irish artists, such as Thin Lizzy or Sin\u00e9ad O\u00b4Connor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it have to do with Che Guevara, you ask us? Curiously enough, it is thanks to this Irish maestro that the mass culture has turned this revolutionary figure into a glamorous character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1967 Jim Fitzpatrick brought an immortal pop icon into the world. It all started with a successful photograph made on March 5 1960, by a Cuban photographer Alberto Corda. After Guevara\u2019s death, Jim Fitzpatrick created a two-coloured portrait, which is nowadays recognisable in any part of the world and as famous as Andy Warholl\u00b4s Campbell\u00b4s Soup Cans<\/em> or The Beatles\u00b4 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em> album cover.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What motivated such an artist, who drives his works on aesthetics and elegancy, to create an iconic, but so unusual for his line of work portrait of the Cuban leader? It was most probably an accidental meeting, which marked the further success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Fitzpatrick was 16, he was working as a waiter at the Marine Hotel Pub in Kilkee. Che Guevara walked into the restaurant looking for a way to spend a few free hours he had due to an overnight flight from Moscow to Cuba with a transit in Shannon. Fitzpatrick had a quick chat with Guevara and got to know about his Irish roots and his second surname, Lynch. This episode has driven Fitzpatrick to follow the events from Che Guevara\u00b4s life and, later on, to depict him on one of his earliest canvases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest is history. The poster is nowadays a symbol of rebellion of any kind; it has even been used by hippies and the activists of Green Peace. This way, currently we can talk about this image as more of an abstract symbol then of an actual representation of Che Guevara\u00b4s revolutionary ideas. Moreover and curiously enough, other Jim Fitzpatrick\u00b4s astonishing artworks have never managed to gain such popularity in the masses as the iconic portrait. Nonetheless, its curious history reflects the role that a casual acquaintance can play in our lives and how sometimes the artwork becomes bigger than its author\u2026 even than the depicted character himself.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texto de Ekaterina Dragalina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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