EL SAPO - THE FROG
Woodcut

ALPHABET
Woodcut

LOS TURISTAS

 

 

PLENA: TINTORERA DEL MAR
Woodcut

COLIBRÍ
Woodcut

JOSÉ CAMPECHE AT THE DOOR TO OLD SANJUAN
Silkscreen

FÉLIX RODRÍGUEZ BÁEZ:
OILS AND DRAWINGS
Silkscreen Exhibition Poster

2nd LATIN AMERICAN GRAPHICS BIENNIAL
Silkscreen Exhibition Poster - 1972

FIVE SCARY STORIES
Woodcut

SIXTH CENTENNIAL OF THE COURT OF CÁDIZ
Silkscreen Poster

LE-LO-LAI
Caroling

JAZZ ACCORDING TO VIC MILES
Casein on canvas

"THE STAIRWELL TO NOWHERE"
LBJ escalates the war in Viet Nam.
Political carichature

"SAINT MERICAN WAY OF LIFE"
Political carichature

"HIGH STANDARD - HI FI"
Political carichature

"THE SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES"
Political carichature

 

 

 

Son of Spanish immigrants from Mallorca, Lorenzo Homar was born in Puerta de Tierra, a "barrio" of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1913. Raised in a home where his father, Lorenzo Homar Zampol, was a cultural and artistic promotor and his mother, Margarita Gelabert, a piano enthusiast. The young Lorenzo discovered at a very early age his love of art as well as sports: swimming and acrobatics.

In 1928, just as he finished grammar school, his family emmigrates to New York City where he attends Dewit Clinton School, which he soon needs to abandon for financial reasons, to work in a textile factory. Three years later, in 1931, he attends the Art Students League of New York, where he studies under George Bridgeman. Six years leter he begins an apprenticeship as a designer at Cartier jewelers aand at the same time atttends Pratt Institute. During WWII he enlists in the U.S. Army, seeing action in the Philippines where he is wounded. In 1946 he returns to Cartier and attends the Brooklyn School of Art. He meets and marries his wife Dorothy and they have two daughters, Susana and Laura. He continues to be physically very active by practicing tumbling and acrobatics on the beach at Coney Island, a habit he continued at the Escambrón beach in San Juán and teaching young children gymnastics, to somersault and tumble.

Upon his return to Puerto Rico in 1950, he co-founds, together with the artists Rafael Tufiño, José Antonio Torres Martinó, and Félix Rodríguez Báez, the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño. Two years later he is named Director of the Graphics Studio of the Graphic Art Division of the Department of Community Education where he produces most of his graphic output. He designs the logo of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and in 1957 he establishes their
Graphic Art Workshop where he remains for the next 15 years, leaving in 1975 to establish his own painting studio.

Among the many honors Lorenzo Homar has received, in 1978 the Ponce Art Museum organizes a retrospective exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchases a number of his works and the University of Puerto Rico grants him a Doctorate "Honoris Causa". the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture awarded Lorenzo Homar The National Medal of Honor in 2003.

On 16 February 2004 Homar died "conscious and talking", surrounded by family. His widow, Dorothy, writes how, after cremation: "We celebrated his life and scattered his ashes in the sea as he wanted. A large groupof the kids that worked with him on the beach assembled at Ocean Park and threw roses in the water. He had a large group of all people -- whatever they did."

Such was the man.

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