1. Miguel Pou Becerra was a Puerto Rican oil canvas painter, draftsman, and art professor.
17 Facts About Miguel Pou
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Miguel Pou was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to Juan Bautista Pou Carreras and Margarita Becerra Julbe.
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Miguel Pou began drawing with Pedro Clausells and painting with Spaniard Santiago Meana.
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Miguel Pou became a public school teacher at age 20, and assistant superintendent in the Ponce School District in 1900.
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Miguel Pou directed his school for the next forty years, until 1950.
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Miguel Pou was very much admired for his artistic works in Puerto Rico.
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Miguel Pou studied painting and drawing intensively and taught art.
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Miguel Pou wanted to capture the ideal of what a jibaro or jibara was.
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Miguel Pou painted the beauty that the people and the land had from both the physical and spiritual perspectives while synergistically merging the two.
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Miguel Pou liked to portray what the artist called "regional types".
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Miguel Pou was inspired by the rural and urban landscapes, popular characters, and the human figure.
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Miguel Pou's works have been exhibited in many Puerto Rican towns, North America, Madrid and Barcelona, and Paris.
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Miguel Pou's work has been recognized in Puerto Rico, the United States, and Paris.
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In 1966, Miguel Pou was the first director of the Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico, an institution of higher learning in the visual arts in San Juan.
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Miguel Pou Becerra died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 6 May 1968.
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Miguel Pou was buried at Cementerio Catolico San Vicente de Paul in Ponce.
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Miguel Pou is honored at Ponce's Park of the Illustrious Ponce Citizens.