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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 Perdo-
mo, 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, Am-
able Sterling…

–In 1970, the following artists are added: Dioni-
sio 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 exhibi-
tion 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 emerg-
ing artists: Peña Defilló, Domingo Liz, Ada Balcácer,
Mario Gaspar Cruz, Ramón Oviedo, Félix Gontier and
Thimo Pimentel, which appears in 1968, date when stu-
dents 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

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