Os renovadores
In 1921, Santiago Ramón y Cajal gave Castelao a scholarship to learn about the avant-garde. For him, art must be universal and linked to the 'mother culture'. When he knew Central European art, he made some offensive comments about Picasso, who after his training in Galicia and Catalonia was creating Cubism in Paris. Castelao prefered the Russian new art because it was "linked to the people". Later, he published an essay saying that the vanguards could be "crazy, but not silly", and he wrote to the poet Manuel Antonio about old and new art roots. He spent one year traveling and he wrote in his diary: