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A print of Domingo García: 2 Exposiciones (Domingo García: 2 Exhibitions), 1964, by Lorenzo Homar.
Lorenzo Homar was a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and designer of costumes, jewelry, and theater sets. Active from the 1950s through the 1990s, his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America is equaled by few.
Homar designed four different posters for exhibitions of Domingo García’s work, of which this is the first and the best known. It was one of Homar’s favorites among his own posters. The composition focuses on a stylized depiction of García in profile, with information about the two exhibitions incorporated on his body. The portrait, like all those Homar made of García, presents the artist as charismatic and theatrical.
García was part of a well-known group of Puerto Rican artists known as the “Generación de los Cincuentas” (Generation of the Fifties). He worked in a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, and sculpture, and his style fused expressionism and Pop art. His work was exhibited widely in Puerto Rico as well as in much of the Spanish-speaking world within his lifetime.
Measures 17 x 11 inches. Ships rolled.