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Rene Portocarrero
oleo sobre cartulina
50 x 65 cm |
Period: The Vanguard
Born in the neighborhood of El Cerro, Havana, in 1912. He began painting from an early age and at 14, he enters the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts. Having a strong temperament and unable to adapt to this apprenticeship, he leaves the institution and starts working on his own. His work was first exhibited at the Salon of Fine Arts, in Havana. He was a professor at the Free Institute of Painting and Sculpture directed by Eduardo Abela in 1939. Portocarrero traveled through Haiti, Europe and the US, where he opened an exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery, in New York, in 1945. He has worked on many murals and ceramics.
Portocarrero's works are exhibited in the permanent collections of the Museums of Modern Arts of: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and San Francisco; at the National Gallery in Canada; at Bellas Artes, Caracas; the Milwaukee Art Center, The Pan American Union in Washington; Modern Arts of Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Art Museum, Indianapolis; Bellas Artes, Montevideo; Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru; and at the National Museum in Havana.
He has painted tirelessly since his childhood and has never planned any of his work. In his spontaneity, he has no idea of what work he will create until the brush is about to strike the canvas.
