{"id":3679,"date":"2018-10-15T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:44:29","slug":"national-hispanic-heritage-month-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/national-hispanic-heritage-month-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"National Hispanic Heritage Month 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We join the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in recognition of the anniversary of Hurricane Mar\u00eda and Puerto Rico\u2019s ongoing recovery struggle, this post highlights the island\u2019s artistic heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puerto Rican Artists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Erika Hosselkus, Curator, Latin American Collections<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puerto Rican artists F\u00e9lix Rodr\u00edguez B\u00e1ez, Jos\u00e9 A. Torres Martin\u00f3, Lorenzo Homar, and Rafael Tufi\u00f1o (members of the Generation of \u201950) formally established the Centro de Arte Puertorrique\u00f1o in 1950. This studio, art school, and gallery was influenced by the Taller de Gr\u00e1fica Popular in Mexico and its mission of educating the public through art. At the same time, the member artists of the CAP used their work to express and assert a uniquely Puerto Rican identity.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This portfolio of 8 prints<\/a>, published in the late 1960s by the Centro de Artes Gr\u00e1ficas Nacionales, includes two works by each of four key members of the Generation of \u201950, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Raquel Rivera, Rafael Tufi\u00f1o, and J.A. Torres Martino. The pieces are reproduced from original prints and were chosen to portray the development in aesthetic of each artist since 1951, when the CAP issued its first portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Raquel Rivera\u2019s first print, \u201cMarea Alta,\u201d owes much to the influence of the Taller de Gr\u00e1fica Popular in both the social commentary made through its content and in its style. His second print, \u201cEl Pegao,\u201d reflects what had become Rivera\u2019s signature style, driven by a strong black\/white contrast.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The contrast between the two prints submitted by Lorenzo Homar is striking also. \u201cLa Tormenta\u201d a depiction of a man peering over his shoulder at an oncoming storm is poetic and suggestive while \u201cLa Vitrina,\u201d a critical depiction of tourism in Puerto Rico is bold and aggressive in style.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As a whole, this collection attests to the strength and evolution of print-making as an activist art form in mid-century Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We join the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month. Also in recognition of the anniversary of Hurricane Mar\u00eda and Puerto Rico\u2019s ongoing recovery struggle, this … Continue reading National Hispanic Heritage Month 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":3692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75054,12646,75052],"tags":[77960,77948],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-american-studies","category-miscellaneous","category-us-history-culture","tag-broadsides-prints-posters","tag-otd-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}