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José Campeche y Jordán (December 23, 1751 – November 7, 1809), is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas. Campeche y Jordán loved to use colors that referenced the landscape of Puerto Rico, as well as the social and political crème de la crème of colonial ...
There is also rock art and remains of stone tools. [38] El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve: Sonora: 2013 1410; vii, viii, x (natural) The reserve is located in the Sonoran Desert. The Pinacate Shield has numerous volcanic features, the most prominent being ten maar (steam blast) volcanic craters that are almost perfectly ...
Miguel Pou Becerra [note 1] (24 August 1880 [2] – 6 May 1968) [3] was a Puerto Rican oil canvas painter, draftsman, and art professor. [4] Together with José Campeche and Francisco Oller, he has been called "one of Puerto Rico's greatest masters."
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.
To pay homage to Clausell and recognize him as one of the precursors to modern art in Mexico, a juried event called the Bienal de Pintura Joaquín Clausell (Biennial of the Painter Joaquín Clausell) has been sponsored by the National Council for Culture and Arts, the Ministry of Culture of the State of Campeche and the Autonomous University of ...
El Velorio (Spanish for "The Wake") is an 1893 8-by-13-foot painting by Puerto Rican Impressionist painter Francisco Oller depicting a baquiné, a type of traditional wake. This painting is considered one of the most important pieces in the art history of Puerto Rico and is therefore considered a national treasure.
The most elaborate and artistic painted pictographs being the Rock art of the Chumash people, and petroglyphs those of the Coso people in the Coso Rock Art District. [12] Ancient Northwest Coast art features formline painting on woven items and wood; however, few of these items survived the centuries the temperate rainforest climate.
The modern city of San Francisco de Campeche was founded in 1540 by Francisco de Montejo upon the site of Can Pech, the former capital city of a Maya chiefdom. The city of Campeche was terrorized by pirates and marauders (such as the 1633 Sack of Campeche and the 1663 Sack of Campeche) until the city constructed major fortifications. The ...