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Lorenzo Homar, well known and exhibited Puerto Rican artist. He cofounded, together with the artists Rafael Tufiño, José Antonio Torres Martinó, and Félix Rodríguez Báez, the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño. Two years later he is named Director of the Graphics Studio of the Graphic Art Division of the Department of Community Education where he produces most of his graphic output. He designs the logo of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and in 1957 he establishes their Graphic Art Workshop where he remains for the next 15 years, leaving in 1975 to establish his own painting studio. Among the many honors Lorenzo Homar has received, in 1978 the Ponce Art Museum organizes a retrospective exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchases a number of his works and the University of Puerto Rico grants him a Doctorate "Honoris Causa". the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture awarded Lorenzo Homar The National Medal of Honor in 2003. "Homar is credited as the artist most responsible for promoting printmaking in Puerto Rico. He trained other important artists, such as Antonio Martorell, José Rosa and Myrna Báez, and ran workshops at Cali in Colombia and in Havana, Cuba, helping to extend his influence further afield in Latin America. While serving as director of the graphic workshop of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, the most important in Puerto Rico, from 1957 to 1970, he produced more than 500 posters and several portfolios of screenprints, such as Casals Portfolio (1970), which were admired for their distinctive style and sophisticated technique. As many as 30 to 40 manual runs were used in the making of each poster, which were characterized also by an expressive use of typography and textures. Screenprinted posters, woodcuts, engravings, political cartoons, book illustrations, logos and stage designs all feature in Homar's prolific production. Read more
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