Art and History at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
museums and great theatre, with Santo Domingo as the fundamental hegemonic city, even when other provincial cities are not excluded from the public-works program. Regarding the appreciations already discussed, below you will find a summary of the main events associated with the ongoing artistic endeavours. –The generation of 1960, whose first group have been cited (Bidó, Lepe, Elsa Núñez, Oviedo, Tovar…), in addition to those who display their work in collective or individually exhibitions between 1966-1970: Antonio Guadalupe, Norberto Santana, Félix Brito, José Perdomo, Virgilio Méndez, José Ramírez Conde, José Ramón Rotellini, Rosa Tavárez, José Félix Moya, Roberto Flores, Vicente Pimentel, Adolfo Piantini, Justo Susana, Geo Ripley, Julio Susana, José Miura, Adolfo Piantini, Amable Sterling… –In 1970, the following artists are added: Dionisio Blanco, Rafael Amable, Barón Arias, Luis Bretón, Carolina Cepeda, Lora Thelma, Carlos Hidalgo, Freddy Javier, Ramiro Matos, Said Musa, Fernando Ureña Rib, Julio York, Hugo Mata, Willy Pérez, Cuquito Peña, Francisco Santos… –This grouping phenomenon gets its drive from the movement «Art and Liberation,» which Silvano Lora headed in the early 60s, and also with the arts exhibition of the group «The Three,» associated to Cándido Bidó, Elsa Núñez and Leopoldo Pérez (Lepe). During the following five years period there is the emergence of distinct groups like «The Fist,» «The Mask» and «The Torch,» which includes writers and painters. «Projects» is another group composed of professional and emerging artists: Peña Defilló, Domingo Liz, Ada Balcácer, Mario Gaspar Cruz, Ramón Oviedo, Félix Gontier and Thimo Pimentel, which appears in 1968, date when students from Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra join in together, founding the group «Friordano» integrated by Daniel Henríquez, Frinette Torres, Danicel, Orlando Menicucci and Nonora Fondeur. In Santiago, Wilfredo García and Julio González lead «Thursday 68,» a group 344