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Myrna Báez (born August 18, 1931 – September 24, 2018) was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. [1] [2] [3] She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. [4]
José Campeche y Jordán [note 1] (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.
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.
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.
The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus , celebrated at Christmas , are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke , and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition.
Museo de Arte de Ponce is the finest art museum in Puerto Rico. [11] The largest art museum in the Caribbean, [ 12 ] it has also been called one of the best in the Americas . [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] It was the first museum in Puerto Rico accredited by the American Alliance of Museums .
Caraballo also explored other aspects of Puerto Rican culture and artistic horizons, through his paintings, drawings, graphics, and tapestries. He was awarded "The Palma Julia de Burgos" Cultural award in 1978. In 1978 Jose Caraballo was included in the famous book "Painting and Sculpture of the Puerto Ricans" by Peter Bloch. This is part of ...
José Campeche, early Puerto Rican painter; although he also did portraits, his religious work is the most abundant of his known production [98] Bernardino Campi, works include Immaculée Conception [99] [100] Robert Campin, like many Early Netherlandish painters, he did much religious art [101] [102]