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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.
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."
Oller’s paintings were a big contribution of history during this time. His paintings showed conflicts and daily lives of people outside of his home country as well as subjects internally. The author Edward J. Sullivan describes in his book, From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism:
This is a list of landmarks in Puerto Rico. These are either tourist attractions, places of interest or famous landmarks located in Puerto Rico . The list is divided among the 78 municipalities of the island.
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.
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 ...
The museum contains one of the most important Pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere, [8] holding some 4,500 pieces of art [3] [9] distributed among fourteen galleries. [10] 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 ...
Luis Germán Cajiga is Puerto Rican painter, poet and essayist known for his screen printing depicting Puerto Rico's natural landscape, its creole culture, and religious motifs. He was born in 1934, in the municipality of Quebradillas , Puerto Rico, and his studio is currently based in the Old San Juan .