The Physicality of Humanitarian Art To look at the work of Fernando Puma is to confront a deliberate rejection of the smooth and the superficial. He did not merely paint; he built surfaces. By utilizing a technique he termed texturism, Puma employed both the brush and the knife to create a tactile reality that demanded physical engagement. This was not a decorative impulse. He viewed his practice as a form of humanitarian art, a metho…