Art and History at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
the desert landscape and an atmosphere of lunar magic, sunny and an explosive sky full of flowers, resulting in a great promoter of the new figuration. «Little Dominican House,» acrylic/canvas, 105x50 cm., 1980 v «Little Dominican House,» acrylic/canvas, 104x41 cm., 1981 v «Little Dominican House,» screen/paper, 83x60 cm., 1985 v «Little Dominican House,» screen/paper, 85x62 cm., 1985 v «Little Dominican House,» acrylic/canvas, 75x100 cm., 1989.
Amaya Salazar. (Santo Domingo, 1951). She starts her training at the Academy of Painter Julia de Guerra (1979), continuing in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1979-1980). She holds five solo exhibitions from 1981-1985, showcasing four additional ones between 1987-1990, in Madrid, Bilbao, Milan and Santo Domingo. Her first exhibition established a highly personal visual voice. The moderation of her various themes offer a thinner chromatic composition, a conjugation between sfumato-light of daily eloquence and new figuration. Critics appreciate a «beautiful style (…) a subjective intimate universe» (Satur Abon), «reality becomes fantasy, perhaps articulating a better world» (Cesar Iván Feris). «Untitled,» oil/canvas, 95x49 cm., 1982 v «Two Women,» Oil/canvas, 30x40 cm., no date v «Maternity,» oil/canvas, 40x50,» no date v «Couple,» acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm., no date.
Danicel/Danilo De los Santos. (Puerto Plata, 1942). He is trained in Santiago de los Caballeros where he does all his schooling, artistic and academic studies, cofounded of the Group Friordano which emerged in the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (1967), where he obtains a Bachelor’s degree in Education and is linked as faculty and staff from various areas. In 1972, he holds a solo exhibition where he showcases the maroliano theme, feminine, naive and black, which appears in various cycles that are associated with the new configuration. «Marola,» silkscreen/paper, 85x60 cm., 1985 v «Marola in front of a Stained Glass,» oil/canvas, 126x101, 1989 v «Carnival,» mix/paper, 74x109 cm., 1990.
Adolfo Piantini. (Santo Domingo, 1946). He was initially trained at the ENBA and the Academy of Gilberto Hernández Ortega, later studied in New York at various art schools, establishing residence in the United States. Jeannette Miller states: «He begins exhibiting in 1966 and his expressive language is channeled through shadowy images that relate to his learning experience with Hernández Ortega and Elsa Núñez. Piantini himself recognizes that his pictorial work was primarily impacted by a Renaissance influence, followed by a period of attraction for the Gothic to get to expressionism, and the product of his encounter with Rowalt, to a new-fauvism. Then, he was impressed by the work of Fernando Peña Defilló, and started incorporating the characteristics of what is called new Dominican figuration (…). In his last solo in 1977, Piantini continues working the Dominican image through a kind of monumental composition reminiscent of Cándido Bidó’s proportions. (JM, History of the Dominican Painting, 1979, pp.77-78).
Jorge Severino. (Puerto Plata, 1935). He received drawing training form maestro Arzeno Rafael at a school in his hometown, continuing his pictorial creation on his own, holding first solo exhibition in 1966. He gets painting awards in the IV León Jimenes Art Contest (1968) and the XIII Biennial (1974). «The Lady» is the winning work, which poses a figurative style on black women highlighted in white, individually targeted in his second individual exhibition in 1978. Magic and myth are welcomed in his works, among other matters that relate him to Dominican Pop Art. But «Family Portraits,» presented at Casa de Teatro (1981) and other related series from 19831986, are the ones which lead him to a formal imaginary iconography, linking him to the new configuration. «Lady,» canvas print/paper, 35x26, 1985 v «The Bride,» mix/canvas, 106x90 cm., 1985. «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 104x90 cm., 1993 v «The Bride 1,» acrylic/canvas, 101x91 cm., 1994 v «Black Lady,» acrylic/canvas, 101x76 cm., 1995.
Thimo Pimentel. (Santo Domingo, 1941). Personality of many facets: doctor, artist, photographer, sculptor, painter,
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