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Myrna Báez was born on 18 August, 1931 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, is a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker (1931–2018). Discover Myrna Báez's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 18 August 1931
Birthday 18 August
Birthplace Santurce, Puerto Rico
Date of death 24 September, 2018
Died Place Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
Nationality United States

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1931

Myrna Báez (born August 18, 1931 – September 24, 2018) was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico.

She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country.

Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Her work has been characterized as confident and complex.

She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Báez was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, to an upper-middle-class family and was one of five children.

Her father, Enrique Báez was a civil engineer and her mother, America Gonzalez was a teacher and an independent and confident woman.

Báez was strongly influenced by her mother.

Her mother insisted that all of her children take classes in the arts and she exposed them to the theater and reading.

Báez started painting classes at age nine.

Báez was described as an intelligent and gifted child.

1947

She graduated from the Colegio Puertorriqueno de Niñas in 1947.

1951

Báez received a bachelor's degree in the sciences from the University of Puerto Rico in 1951.

She was exposed to many cultural and artistic movements while at the University.

There had been a migration of many Spanish intellectuals and artists to Puerto Rico at the time and many of them were active around the University.

She began to develop ideas about issues surrounding Puerto Rican independence.

She believed that Puerto Rico should be an independent country.

Báez attended political rallies and cultural events.

Báez supported the woman's rights movement and identifies as a feminist.

Báez left for Spain, initially to study medicine but ended up completing studies on painting at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid.

Before she arrived in Spain, she spent time in New York and Paris, immersing herself in the culture of both cities.

1952

In 1952, her passion for the arts led her to leave medical studies and pursue painting.

1953

She applied at the San Fernando Art Academy and was rejected, but she worked hard to build up her portfolio and was accepted in 1953.

1957

She received her master's degree in art from San Fernando Art Academy in 1957.

Afterwards, she returned to Puerto Rico to study with graphic artist Lorenzo Homar at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Báez's career started in 1957.

1960

Much of Báez's early art works, created during the 1960s, are described as "traditional images of Puerto Rico."

During her earlier period of work, she often portrayed images of "everyday life" for "Puerto Rico's working-class people."

She began to use more printmaking techniques, such as engraving and woodcuts.

She later studied lithography and intaglio techniques with Dimitri Papagiourgi in Spain.

She became influenced by impressionism, surrealism and abstract art, incorporating many of these aspects into her work.

1962

She was a teacher of painting and drawing at schools in Puerto Rico between 1962 and 1987.

1969

Later, she studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1969 to 1970.

1970

Báez became interested in working with collotypes in the 1970s.

1981

From 1981 to 1987 she taught at the Art Students League in San Juan.

Báez paints in both oil and acrylic.

Báez's paintings are "softly painted" and "luminous."

Her prints, especially her collotypes, are "rich" in texture and color.

2018

She died on September 24, 2018, following a heart attack, while in convalescence for a lung infection at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital, in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

Her family had her remains cremated.