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Puerto Rican art is the diverse historic collection of visual and hand-crafted arts originating from the island. The art of the Puerto Ricans (Spanish: puertorriqueños or boricuas) draws from the various cultural traditions of the indigenous Taino people, as well as the history of the island as the subject of various other nations.
Nayda Collazo-Llorens (born 1968 in San Juan, PR) is a visual artist whose work spans drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, video, and public art. Her work combines images, sound, and text to investigate how the mind processes information.
Ordinary Puerto Rican Pava. The pava is a straw hat made out of the leaves of the Puerto Rican hat palm.It is normally associated with the Puerto Rican jíbaro and with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Puerto Rican artists. It includes artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
A vejigante is a folkloric character in Puerto Rican festival celebrations, mainly seen during Carnival time. Traditional colors of the Vejigantes were green, yellow and red, or red and black. Today, Vejigantes wear brightly colored, ornate masks corresponding to the colors of their costumes that detail bat-like wings.
Make these flavorful recipes for everything from ropa vieja to birria to tembleque to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month.
Antonio Lopez (February 11, 1943 – March 17, 1987) was a Puerto Rican fashion illustrator whose work appeared in such publications as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Interview and The New York Times. Several books collecting his illustrations have been published. n his obituary, the New York Times called him a "major fashion illustrator."
These influences are evident in the fields of dance and music, such as la bomba, la plena, and most recently in reggaeton, which is an Afro-Caribbean based Puerto Rican genre, as well as influences in Puerto Rican Spanish, and Puerto Rican cuisine. The presence of African diasporic religions, such as Santeria, is due to African influence.