Rafael Tufiño is a painter, artist, and printmaker who became a puerto-rican cultural figure, known locally as “Painter of the People”. He mainly painted portraits and landscapes illustrating daily life in Puerto Rico. Member of a artists collective, he created a new style and a new puerto-rican visual identity.
Characters represented in his artworks have distinctive pronounced features expressing a certain gravity. By the choice of these models, the painter places the spectators in front of the social reality of a minority from the agricultural-working class. These representations offer them an image full of dignity and unprejudiced without any social bias.
Rafael Tufiño is also known for the variety of silk-screened posters he produced, most of the time adapted from his own paintings, and his series of black and white lithographic prints illustrating agricultural class daily life – marking his active participation in puerto-rican social and cultural life.
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