Donde manda capitán…, 1959

(When the captain’s in charge…, 1959)

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Lorenzo Homar
Ink pen drawing over paper

Lorenzo Homar, inspired by a column by César Andreu Iglesias, published in the newspaper El imparcial on the 8th of December of 1959, illustrating the scene in which Ricardo Alegría, director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, requested the use of El Morro for a Christmas Festival and coronel Breckenridge rejected the petition.

Lorenzo Homar masterfully cultivates the genre of political caricature and satire, allowing him to gain an important place in the printmaking tradition of Puerto Rico, as well as achieving, through the image, to express frustrations of the unstable political push-and-pull and injustices of the time. He is one of the most proficient of the renowned generation of the 1950’s as well as one of the primary illustrators, designers, and printmakers of the DIVEDCO. Furthermore, he was director of the Printmaking Workshop between 1951 and 1956.

Permanent collection, MAB