Os Renovadores (the Renewers) or Os Novos (New ones) was a group of artists who wanted to renew the visual Galician arts from the 1920s. Artists It was a diverse movement. Maside, Souto, Colmeiro, Seoane, Eiroa, Mazas, Torres, Laxeiro and others, are considered members of the group. José Frau is sometimes named, and is also included Virxilio Blanco, who went to Cuba at a very young age. For their support and influence, it is also common to include Castelao, Camilo Díaz and Asorey. Some others were Urbano Lugrís, María Antonia Dans, student of Lolita Díaz (first woman member of Real Academia Galega de Belas Artes) with Elena Gago; and Ángel Johán, Colombo, Cebreiro, Pesqueira, Concheiro, Bonome, etc. or the surrealists Granell and Mallo. Isaac Díaz Pardo, after the murder of his father Camilo Díaz, continued the legacy of his family of artists, and renewed the forms of design and ceramics. The precursors Since the Séculos Escuros (Dark Centuries), efforts to maintain the dignity of Galician culture were made in Arts (like Compostelan Baroque), Science and Education (with Martin Sarmiento and Benito J. Feijoo), and in Literature (as recent discoveries show). In the 19th century, some events led to a resurgence (Rexurdimento), especially in poetry. In plastic arts, like in painting, there is an affinity for romantic and post-impressionist landscapes influenced by Cézanne. Among them there is a regionalist feeling for their landscapes, and some Galicians, like Valle-Inclán, accused the artistic primacy of the Madrid - Valencia axis inside Iberian Peninsule. Some of the most Galician promising artists died young and were called 'the Sick Generation'. Precursor's gallery of images The vanguards In Europe, the vanguards appeared strongly. Some Spaniard artists, specially from Catalonia, went to France (Picasso, Miró, Dalí...). In the 1920s, the Xeración Nós wanted to link Galician and European cultures, and the 'Generation of 25' emerges (the renovators of Galician poetry and theater). Plastic artists born in the first decade of the century don't break with older artists, such as Díaz Baliño, Castelao or Asorey, but they try to value, renew and democratize Galician tradition. Writers and plastic artists gather around El Pueblo Gallego, which begins to publish graphic and written works in Spanish and Galician. In 1921, Santiago Ramón y Cajal awarded Daniel Castelao a scholarship to learn about the avant-garde in Europe. He spent almost one year traveling and he published fragments of his travel diary