Contemporary Landscapes from Puerto Rico I

Museo de Arte de Ponce

Landscapes, particularly those featuring Caribbean beaches, have been an artistic mainstay since the Colonial era. The genre boasted scenes of unbound riches ripe for extraction by the Eurocentric viewers for whom the works were intended. The region continues to be portrayed as a paradisiacal getaway for the sake of the tourism industry. This grouping of paintings shows how contemporary artists have reworked the motif into dynamic, painterly explorations reminiscent of color-field painting and pointillism.