Laudo kilométrico, 1950 ca.

---

Lorenzo Homar
Print

Lorenzo Homar is one of the most important artists of the Community Education Division (DIVEDCO) and the Graphic Arts Workshop director of the division between 1951 and 1956.

This print portrays, from left to right, the artist and essayist José Antonio Torres Martinó, reclining on the floor over some dispersed sheets of paper with his head rested on his left hand; to his side is Félix Bonilla Norat, painter and art professor in the University of Puerto Rico between 1956 and 1975, who sustains a long list of papers; and, standing, Sebastián González García, also professor in Art History in the Humanities Faculty of the same university, with a set-square in his left hand signaling the Eiffel Tower at a distance with his right hand. A poly-lobed arch over columns evokes the front of the Puerto Rican Athenaeum, framing a row of signals with the inverted letter “K” that faces towards the Eiffel Tower. The figures are displayed in an open field. As characterized in many of Homar’s works, the caricature was an emblematic medium for satirical and political commentary. This print could be interpreted as criticism towards the extensive award given in the art competition in the Puerto Rican Athenaeum in 1959.

Permanent collection, MAB – Donation by Domingo García