This October 1986 issue of Revolución y Cultura commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Granma landing, featuring a cover that combines Raúl Martínez's signature Pop Art aesthetic with documentary photography by Mario Díaz. Martínez's design presents a dynamic grid of faces rendered in warm oranges, yellows, and reds with bold black outlines, overlaid with a photographic portrait—creating a striking dialogue between the artist's graphic revolutionary iconography and contemporary photojournalism. The composition demonstrates Martínez's continued exploration of serialized portraiture and his ability to fuse Cuban political imagery with international Pop Art vocabularies.
This issue includes a feature article on Martínez himself ("Raúl Martínez: el tiempo que vive"), offering insight into the artist's ongoing influence on Cuban visual culture during the 1980s. The magazine continued to serve as a crucial platform for documenting Cuban cultural production across multiple disciplines, featuring content on cinema, poetry, theater, and García Lorca's writings from Havana. As the primary cultural publication of the Ministry of Culture, Revolución y Cultura remained central to articulating the relationship between artistic innovation and revolutionary ideology, showcasing how Cuban artists like Martínez maintained their distinctive visual languages while contributing to broader narratives of national identity.