Art and History at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
future painters. A decade prior to those years, the cinematographic invention of the Lumière brothers had a notable native follower: Arturo Francisco Palau, who had filmed the short documentary «The Pilgrimage of Virgin Altagracia» (1921), and the feature film «The Ambush of Cupid» starring Delia Weber, Pedro Troncoso Sánchez, Paino Pichardo, among others. The filmmaker Palau had published a prestigious magazine, «Black and White,» which circulated between 1908 and 1930, among other modernist publications. During these years, graphic design and artistic caricature were represented by exponents like Copito Mendoza and Bienvenido Gimbernard. The latter was associated with the printed advertisement of mass media. In the 1920s, agricultural fairs and cultural events have been held, but none like the National Exhibition in the city of Santiago in 1927; organized by the Chamber of Commerce, including samples of agriculture, industry, livestock and art. It had an inter-Antilles flair, and the art exhibition showcased the work of young painters like Federico Izquierdo and Octavio A. Morel (Yoryi). The National Exhibition took place in a large architectural scene and opened in the presence of President Vásquez, who showed interest in continuing to rule at the end of his term in 1928. Vásquez was old and sick when reelected. His reelection provoked a national crisis and political opposition that coincided with the Great Depression of 1929, which affected the finances and the global market. At this juncture of capitalist and political crisis, the Dominican opposition concocts the Santiago civic movement, which turned into an armed revolution against the gubernatorial seat of the capital of the country causing the overthrow of Horacio Vásquez. The civic revolution led by Rafael Estrella Ureña, produced no bloodshed, however it uncovered a conspiracy that included General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, cunning military man who won the 1930 election process. The General establishes an authoritarian government, eliminating all opposition with the support of the army 336