Danilo De los Santos
«Colonial Zone,» acrylic/canvas, 20x14 inch., 1984 v «Face,» acrylic/canvas, 20x16 inch., 1986 v «Cellist,» oil/canvas, 40x30 inch., 1992 v «Composition,» oil/canvas, 40x30 inch., 1991 v «Face profile,» mixed/canvas, 49x39 cm., 1986 v «Untitled,» oil/canvas, 100x80 cm., 1989 v «Abstract,» mixed/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1991 v «Music,» acrylic/canvas, 32x39 inch., 1989.
Norberto Santana. (Santo Domingo, 1943). He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts (1963), with extensive training in Spain, then completing training with his teacher Colson. He holds first solo in the Dominican capital (1966-1967), earning an award for painting at the V León Jimenes Art Contest (1969). During the 1970s showcased four solos. He produces Duco and fresco murals, accept responsibility teaching, showcasing solos later on, during the 1980s decade. With a refined style of combined figurations in compositions of «rectilinear geometricism,» one can notice a neoclassicist display in his discourse. The qualities of that style are lost, approaching later on –during the 1990s– themes related to social reality: neighbourhoods, landscapes and human subjects among other everyday issues, his palette offers clarities in spectrum and light, persisting in its diagram and geometry. «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 50x60 cm., 1985 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 60x50 cm., 1986 v «Landscape,» acrylic/ canvas, 52x77 cm., 1986 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x100 cm., 1988 v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1993.
Said Musa. (Santo Domingo, 1959). He studies at the ENBA during the years 1967-1972, under the teacher Jaime Colson. He is a draftsman, painter, ceramicist, muralist and an award-winning sculptor in León Jimenes Art Contest (1992) and the National Biennial (1994). He has held several solo exhibitions from 1980 to the present century, in his style of painting, the figurations are characterized by strong chromatic contrasts accentuated by lines and suggestive geometric shapes. «Child sitting,» oil/canvas 121x66 cm., 1993.
Dionisio Pichardo. (La Vega, 1929/Santo Domingo, 2010). He lives in the Dominican capital, attends artistic and literary gatherings, embarking on his own pictorial complete training by attending the National School of Fine Arts and received guidance from the teacher Colson. He is associated with the 1950 generation. He held solo exhibitions for a decade, from 1957 to 1959. With a living experience in New York, he held a solo exhibition in that city before returning back to his birthplace, where he continued his artistic career. His work ranges from dense expressionist figurations, abstractions and works of geometric solutions. «Picasso Contemplating 64x53 cm., 1983.
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Leopoldo Pérez (Lepe). Leaving behind the stark social drama of strong black frame of the 1960s, though while still being expressionist, since the showings of the Proyecta Group, to which he belongs, his palette becomes lighter with yellow and bluish textures. Between 1974 and 1987, he develops new compositional themes showing landscapes, strolls and sellers, not excluding the space geometrizations as «drawing armature» surfacing or internalized; demonstrating «Lyricism and spiritual vitality (…) which expresses that character of uniqueness settling his painting as only Lepe knows how,» comments Abil Peralta Agüero. «Sailboat,» oil/canvas, 83x106 cm., 1983 v «Mountain Landscape,» oil/canvas, 75x100 cm., 1986 v «Pinewoods,» acrylic/canvas, 86x114 cm., 1987 v «The Stroll,» oil/canvas, 88x104 cm., 1987.
Alberto Ulloa. (Altamira, Puerto Plata 1950). He returns from Spain with a Professor of Fine Arts degree from the Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid, in 1977, the year he holds a solo exhibition at the Gallery Auffant. In 1978, another solo showing is presented at the Gallery of Modern Art, achieving an award for painting at the XIV Biennial in 1979. Ulloa’s new production
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