(b. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1931).
One of Puerto Rico's most acclaimed artists, Myrna Báez is known both locally and abroad for her painting and graphic work. She studied painting for 6 years at the Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain, and upon her return to Puerto Rico, from 1959 to 1963, she learned to create woodcuts and silk-screen printing at the Graphic Arts Workshop led by Lorenzo Homar (b. 1913). She learned other printmaking techniques at the Pratt Graphics Center. Báez's prints of the 1960s were created by using various materials, and presented scenes from everyday life, executed with flawless technique. In the 1970s Báez began to paint middle-class people in unreal colors and ambiguous spaces. She used the device of the picture within the picture, as well as mirrors and the simulation of photography in order to express concepts about art as a staging and as a creation of visual impossibilities. Her painting The Blue Hour (1993-94) sho
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