Antonio Broccoli Porto born September 19, 1955, New York City is a renowned artist, visual artist and sculptor. Entered Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. There he took up fine art studies and earned a B.A. degree in Arts. In May 1978 Broccoli Porto held an art exhibition in the Thomas Payne Museum of New Rochelle, New York, as part of a Nationally accredited Honors Program Thesis entiltled Historical Landscapes. In the 1980s, he traveled to Italy and continued his artistic studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti Brera Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. [1] The artist has a dual citizenship, that of Italy and the United States. When he returned to New York, he studied two years of Latin percussion at the Harbour Conservatory located in El Barrio of Manhattan. Influenced by his great love of Puerto Rican culture, Broccoli Porto moved to Puerto Rico and enrolled in La Liga de Arte League of Art in San Juan. He also studied for three years at Escuela de Artes Plasticas School of the Plastic Arts located in Old San Juan. There he took art courses on painting and sculpture. Broccoli Porto had as professors Eric Lluch, a understudy of Andy Warhol and Master Sculptor José Garcia Campos, who would be of great influence in his metal works. Puerto Rican music became an important part of his life and is reflected in his art. A large amount of his collection is made up of musical themes interpreted through the plastic arts. Professor Judy Betts a renowned writer and Watercolorist from Louisiana, U.S.A. served as a great influence his use of blends and transparencies in watercolour paintings, for which he is well known. Broccoli Porto eventually decided to use his maternal surname, Porto, as his artist signature because of its ties to the island of Puerto Rico. Broccoli Porto was a member of The Association of Watercolorists of Puerto Rico AAPR for more than 8 years and served for a brief period as Vice President of that organization. He is listed with the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña Puerto Rican Institute of Culture as a Puerto Rican visual artist and sculptor. He is an active member of the UNESCO Artists of Puerto Rico. In June 1999, Juan Carlos Morales, director of the Spanish version of William Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream, presented at Bellas Artes de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, commissioned Broccoli Porto for the Caribbean Version set and costume designs. He was awarded an UNESCO Medal in December 2000. In December 2001, he won a 2nd Prize in the Graphics Category at the El Dia Nacional del Artista Pintor Puertorriqueño Annual National Day of the Puerto Rican Artistic Painter. His painting Madonna Saurie graces the cover of the novel The Princess Papaya by Cuban American author, Himilce Novas, which was released on September 30, 2004 by Arte Publico Press, of the University of Houston, Texas. Porto is represented by the following Galleries: Estudio Cajiga, Old San Juan, PR, Petrus Galeros, Miramar, PR,Gomez Fine Art,SJ, SoHo Myriad, Atlanta Ga,Galeria Latina,Cornwall UK, Gallery So Hyun, New York City.

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