Puerto Rican artists from 1950 to 1985 created iconic works of art in the form of posters by using printmaking techniques. This era produced artists like Rafael Tufiño, Lorenzo Homar, Tony Maldonado, Isabel Bernal, and Antonio Martorell among many others. Printmaking is the technique of creating art by hand and by the artist who creates it. Artists create prints using silk-screening, woodcuts, linoleum cuts and other hand driven methods.
The posters they created promoted festivals, government programs and most of all fostered a genuinely Puerto Rican cultural identity. Today the printmaking technique also includes solar plate and monoprins (the process of creating individual prints using printing plates).
Please enjoy and support this virtual exhibition by a newly created group of printmakers members of PRIDA as we pay homage to these artists with our own prints.
