 El tapón,acrylics and oils on linen,33 x 52", 1969.
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Myrna Báez Versión en español Painter and printmaker. Name as one of the master of Latin American by North American art historian Edward Sullivan. The Argentine art critic Marta Traba dedicated her a whole chapter in the controversial book "Propuesta polémica sobre el arte en Puerto Rico", where she described Báez as "the most qualified person I know in the visual arts in Puerto Rico". Báez studied in the University of Puerto Rico, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, the Printmaking Workshop of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña with Lorenzo Homar and in the Printmaking Workshop of Pratt Institute of New York. She has been professor of printmaking in the University of the Sacred Heart and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas. She has received numerous retrospective, being the most recent "Una artista ante su espejo" in the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico (2001-02), by curator Margarita Fernández Zavala. The curator writes in the book by the same titled : "The genre which best defines her work is the portrait. She has depicted her family and close friends convinced that they are essentially the people who inhabit her city. She herself belongs to that contemporary landscape. Báez has portrayed her Puerto Rican homeland for more than four decades. She describes it from its urban and rural aspects; iconized and interpreted; deserted and populated. Báez has used the genre to create the most relevant images of her generation, a fact that places her within the framework of our leading art tradition." Sullivan writes in the same book: "Her contribution in the field of painting (in both oils and acrylics) is notable as is her work in the graphic media. Báez may be said to have been the initiator of many of the most important trends and styles that have characterized Puerto Rican art throughout the second half of the twentieth century and into the new millennium. Myrna Báez has also been a critical figure in the dissemination of knowledge about the visual arts in her country and she has been one of the key elements in the promotion of artistic education in the island. A committed feminist, Báez has also been responsible for promoting the careers of many of the most significant younger women Puerto Rican artists through her affiliation with the Asociación de Mujeres Artistas." Others retrospectives have been "Ten Years of Painting and printmaking of Myrna Báez", Museum of El Barrio, New York/Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts/Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, P. R. (1982); "Three Decades of Myrna Báez' printmaking", Exhibition Tribute, VIII Bienal de San Juan del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Museo de Bellas Artes, San Juan, P. R. (1988); "Three Decades of Myrna Báez", Cultural week of Puerto Rico in Costa Rica, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, San José, Costa Rica. (1990). She was Third Prize, painting, 1era Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador. At the moment she is an Artist Resident of the University of the Sacred Heart (San Juan) and works in her studio. Founder member of the Hermanda de Artistas Gráficos. Her work is included in important collections like the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MOMA); Museum of the University of Puerto Rico; National Museum of Modern Art of Baghdad; The Museum of El Barrio, New York; Museum Haydée Santamaría, Cuba; Museum of Art of Costa Rica; Museum of Art of Puerto Rico; Museum of Art of Ponce; Museum of Art of Puerto Rico; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts of Massachusetts; Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña; and the Tourism Company of Puerto Rico, among others. The news of this artist. Book about this artist. Video about this artist.Articles:: |