Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Puerto Rican art is the diverse historic collection of visual and hand-crafted arts originating from the island. The art of the Puerto Ricans (Spanish: puertorriqueños or boricuas) draws from the various cultural traditions of the indigenous Taino people, as well as the history of the island as the subject of various other nations.
The artists believed that there needed to be a new, distinctly Puerto Rican art. With these ideas in mind, they formed the Center of Puerto Rican Art. [2] The CAP served as a gallery, classroom, workshop, publishing press, and collaborative meeting space for many important Puerto Rican artists during the 1950s.
Rafael Tufiño's painting included portraits, landscapes and images of Puerto Rico daily life. During the 1950s, he was part of the "Generación de los Cincuentas" (the Generation of the Fifties), a group of artists who worked to create a new artistic style and aesthetic identity for Puerto Rico. [2] [3] [5]
Galería Nacional (National Gallery) located in Old San Juan within the historic colonial section of the capital of Puerto Rico, houses the largest collection of Puerto Rican paintings from the eighteenth century to the 1960s.
Puerto Rico has over 50 rivers, most originating from the island's central mountainous region which receives heavy rainfall. The largest of these rivers, Rio de la Plata , measures approximately 60.5 mi. (97 km), starting at an altitude of 2,625 ft (800 m) above sea level in Cayey before ending between the northern coastal towns of Dorado and ...
La Familia (Spanish for 'The Family') is the name of a mural by Puerto Rican muralist Rafael Ríos Rey located in the Barrio Obrero Community Center (Centro de Servicios Múltiples de Barrio Obrero) in Santurce, in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The mural depicts various scenes from the history of Puerto Rico with references to the popular ...
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
1950s establishments in Puerto Rico (10 C, 2 P) 0–9. 1950 in Puerto Rico (2 C, 4 P) 1951 in Puerto Rico (1 C, 2 P) 1952 in Puerto Rico (3 C, 4 P) 1953 in Puerto ...