Lorenzo Homar signed “Festival de Teatro Puertorriquena, Teatro Tapia” ~ 1962

Description: Lorenzo Homar (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1913 - 2004)Festival de Teatro Puertorriquena, Teatro Tapia serigraph, pencil signed l.r., 1962 Poster announcing the Fifth Puerto Rican Theater Festival, held at the Tapia Theater in 1962, sponsored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. It is printed with only three colors, however, the arrangement of the painted letters is so original that the letters seem to come to life, rhythm and movement. In the title, he makes a ligature with the letters V, A and L. With these letters he creates an interesting visual balance. In the upper left area, there is a labrador mask. The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture created the Program for the Promotion and Dissemination of Theater Arts in 1956. Through this division, it supported theater and dance. The playwright Francisco Arriví was in charge of directing this program from 1956 to 1980 and took a special interest in promoting the national theater. In 1958, the First Puerto Rican Theater Festival was organized with the purpose of creating a space for the presentation of the works of Puerto Rican playwrights. For each of these Festivals, which have been held year after year to this day, a seasonal poster was printed to promote it, and another was made for individual theatrical performances. Almost all the painters of this generation contributed to the theater poster. His works are in the collections of Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, MoMA, the MET, and others. sheet measures approximately: 18 3/4" W x 28" Hconservation linen backer measures approximately: 21 7/8" W x 30 3/4" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing and carrier fees. About Lorenzo Homar Painter, printmaker and professor. Son of Spanish immigrants from Mallorca, Lorenzo Homar was born in Puerta de Tierra, a "barrio" of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1913. Raised in a home where his father, Lorenzo Homar Zampol, was a cultural and artistic promotor and his mother, Margarita Gelabert, a piano enthusiast. The young Lorenzo discovered at a very early age his love of art as well as sports: swimming and acrobatics. In 1928, just as he finished grammar school, his family emigrates to New York City where he attends Dewit Clinton School, which he soon needs to abandon for financial reasons, to work in a textile factory. Three years later, in 1931, Homar attends the Art Students League of New York, where he studies under George Bridgeman. In 1936, he began to work at Casa Cartier. He worked as a jewelry designer for ten years while studying painting and printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School with artists Rufino Tamayo, Arthur Osler and Gabor Peterdi. There was a three-year break for WW II as Homar voluntarily entered the United States Army in 1942 and was discharged in 1945. He returned to his job at the House of Cartier and his studies at the Brooklyn Museum. Homar returned to Puerto Rico in 1950, he cofounded the Puerto Rican Art Center. From 1951 to 1956, he worked as a graphic artist and director of the printmaking section of the Community Education Division, and in 1957 he organized the Printmaking Workshop of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, which he directed until 1973. Homar is one of the most important representatives of the generation of Puerto Rican artists of the generation of Puerto Rican artists of the fifties and is well‑known for initiating and being a bastion of the important printmaking tradition in Puerto Rico. During his years at the printmaking workshops, he trained two generations of the best Puerto Rican artists; therefore, his influence in that discipline was pivotal. The meticulous technique he used in the graphic medium was directed to his pictorial work, of realistic style, characterized by the precision of colors and drawings. Among the awards he has received are: Guggenheim Scholarship (1956), Engraving Prize at the Puerto Rican Athenaeum's Christmas Festival Contest (1959); Leipzig Biennial Prize, Germany, for Unicorn on the Island (1965); Award for illustrations for the book The Three Wishes at the Bratislava Biennale, Czechoslovakia (1971). Solo shows include: Faculty Gallery, Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York, 1950; Posters and alphabets, Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, 1971; Ponce Museum of Art, 1978; Princeton University Library, 1983; Posters by Lorenzo Homar, Pío López Martínez University Museum of the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, 2000; Open Word, the magic letter: Posters by Lorenzo Homar, Museum of History, Anthropology and Art, UPR, 2001. Homar participated in numerous collective exhibitions in Puerto Rico and internationally in a large number of Biennials.

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