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Art and History
at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
Twice a master; as an artist and a professor at the Contest. Since the 1970s, he became an active exhibi-
academy he established in his home city, Santiago, as well tor of different themes, namely market’s and typical
as at the Fine Arts National School and his home atelier, mulatto farmers’ scenes.
Yoryi Morel was a modern painter. He gave thematic
and stylistic foundations to Santiago’s regional school. «Two Women,» acrylic/canvas, 70x96 cm., 1977. The
Hilario Rodríguez, Plutarco Andújar and Carlos Hidalgo painting is a landscape, defined by various planes. The
were among the painters who received his influence and side one or the first, shows on its extreme, a foliage
expressed it in different ways. mound associated to various leaning trees, truncated by
the composition’s treatment. Then, the yellowish path
Juan Plutarco Andújar and Hilario, part of the where two women walk carrying baskets and clothes bun-
1950’s generation, upon graduation, they started exhibit- dles on their respective heads. An ochre land edge form
ing their works during that period. They also travel inter- a sideline elevation towards a green savannah with trees
nationally, mainly to the United States. Both, returned and diverse elements completed by a lineal forest, like
back to Dominican Republic, subscribed to different the blue mountainous group in contrast with the cloudy
contests and hold individual exhibitions. sky pale tone. «Girl with Roses,» pastel/paper, no date, 25x19
cm. During his years in New York, Hilario worked until
Juan Plutarco Andújar. Had an individual showing he became a skilled pastel technic portraits painter. The
theme of the mulatto girl’s profile with hat and yellow
at Nader Gallery (Santo Domingo, 1974), while Hilario dress entranced by the roses she holds in her hands, is a
Rodríguez registered various individuals at Casa de Teatro stamp of effective contrast between typological figuration
(1975) and Auffant Gallery (1977). and abstractionist background.
«Atarazana,» mix/canvas, no date, 50x34 cm. Spiritually, as Carlos Hidalgo. (Santiago Rodríguez, 1948). Trained
a Santo Domingo’s resident, the painter is stricken by his
native Northwest Atlantic and the Southern Caribbean lit- at the Fine Arts National School. Since 1969 takes part
toral’s luminosity. His masters José Gausachs, Yoryi Morel in different students exhibitions and after 1970, contin-
and Hans Paap, had an influence on his landscape treatise ues to show his work as a professor. In 1975, he paints
(rural, local, maritime, villager and urban) as it is seen on various murals at the History Museum and at Gallery 7,
the commendable painting «Atarazana» which focus on an at a time he establishes an artistic relationship with Yoryi
architectonic group related to the colonial habitat, apart Morel, visiting often his atelier in Santiago.
from revealing a personal style’ faultless palette.
«Market,» oil/canvas, 8x10 cm., 1977. The picturesque
Hilario Rodríguez. (Santiago, 1936). He started his scene full of colour and merchant’s customs is repre-
sentative of the painter’s discourse conscious turn after
pictorial instruction at the Yoryi Academy, receiving guid- receiving academic instruction. This turn shows –if not
ance from Félix Negro Disla. As a scholarship holder from his adhesion to Yoryi’s scholar mode– his discovering of
the Dominican government, he studied at the Fine Arts the creole and vernacular essences as well as himself and
National School with masters Gausachs, Yoryi Morel, his northeastern, national discourse. The farmers and
Gilberto Hernández Ortega and Vela Zanetti. In 1962 merchants theme that defines the works of Yoryi Morel,
he traveled to New York and participated in collec- Carlos Hidalgo and Hilario Rodríguez, connects with the
tive showings. Back to the country in 1966, he works visions of artists like Cándido Bidó, Justo Susana, León
in publicity, painting only occasionally. In 1969, his Bosch and Miguel de Moya…
painting «Cibao» is awarded at the IV León Jimenes
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