About the Art work We see a man standing reading the newspaper. Behind him is a gate, taller than the man with, what seems to look like, tropical vegetation being kept from the man, peaking through the openings, and some managing to escape the gate and stand next to him on either side. What plants […]
“Noviembre 1976” by Puerto Rican artist, Myrna Báez Read More »
A personal and relatable story about the challenges and motivations of learning to drive in one’s 50s and how the he use of images and references to art adds helped along the way.
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If you have known me for any amount of time you know how much this painting means to me. Mainly because de Pareja reminds me of my dad every single time I see this work, and second, we have a person of color painted with such dignity in the 17th century! We know his name
Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter at the Met Read More »
About the Artwork In this coffee art painting by Ramón Frade, Caracolillo, we see a young lady picking coffee beans off of a bush. She smiles at the viewer, land and sky behind her, the wicker basket, front and center, this act very much part of her identity. Nothing else matters but this moment ,
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When you think of 19th century Puerto Rico, the artist that comes to mind is Francisco Oller. But there was a trio of artists who were sisters who formed part of the artistic community at that time. I am talking about Amalia, Asunción and Magdalena Cleto Noa. Art education in Puerto Rico begins with three
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Jose Rosa’s work, 1873-1973, is part of a series of nine prints commemorating the centennial of the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico. Description of image The image consists of seven uplifted intersecting arms of varying skin tones, each with a chain around their wrist as their hands form fists. All around the arms, as
I remember getting on the bus one day on my way to teaching a craft entrepreneurship course on how to use Etsy. I had the first seat right across from the bus driver and I was reading my notes, he said ‘you look really interested in what you are reading, I’m curious, care to share?’
While touring European museums and churches in the ’60s, a 21-year-old Barkley Hendricks was struck by the lack of black presence in Western art. This inspired his now best known works: life-sized paintings of black people in empowered, classical depictions. These were friends, relatives and strangers, originally from his hometown of Philadelphia, that communicated a new assertiveness and pride among black Americans.
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Today I bring you Francisco Oller’s Plátanos amarillos,1893, from the collection of El Museo del Barrio, to talk about adapting. I think it’s safe to say there is no other staple as adaptable as plantains.
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Arpilleras, produced in Chile between 1974-1989, are artworks made from appliqué or embroidery on a background of sackcloth that tell stories about one of the darkest times in Chilean history; the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990. The regime’s political policies led to economic inequality, a crisis of healthcare, and
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