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Danilo De los Santos
Teté Marella. (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1943). With a Alberto Ulloa. (Altamira, Puerto Plata, 1950). Like Fer-
rich training in diverse fields, mainly in arts activism, she nando Ureña Rib, he is linked to the 1970’s generation
arrives in Dominican Republic in 1973, undertaking dif- of artists. He studies at the Fine Arts National School
ferent jobs in publicity and the press. Her first individual and joints the Group of Six, taking part of collective ex-
exhibition as a caricaturist of noble Santo Domingo’s hibitions before he leave for Spain pursuing to broad his
characters, opened up at Casa de Teatro in 1974. In the training. He graduates from the Real Academia de San
1970s, her colour pencils and water-colours typified her Fernando, Madrid (1975-1977).
drawing of a strong conceptuality and structure; with
poetic plump women and daydream atmospheres that «Pink Couple in a Hamlet,» mix/canvas, 62x48 cm., 1974.
broaden her personal universe. Her individual and col- The painting focus into a couple of naked lovers, sur-
lective exhibiting records are thick. She enjoys the esteem rounded by a white halo, at the forefront. The couple
of various national art collectors. emerges from the bushes, at the opposite side of a red-
dish, purple and white tones hamlet that climbs up to a
«Girl with Flowers,» watercolor, ink/paper, 5x6 inch., yellowish sky on the horizon. The thematic message is a
1978. A drawing of a sweet rounded smiling head, car- symbolic one.
rying a basket full of red roses and thick green leaves.
From the basket down to the neck, a head of hair, or Alonso Cuevas. (El Limón, Jimaní, 1953). As in the
an undulating calico creates a halo over the infant girl’s
innocence. case of Alberto Ulloa, he graduates from the Fine Arts
National School. He forms part of the Six Group; take
Fernando Ureña Rib. (La Romana, 1954). Awarded part in collective exhibitions, then travels to Europe.
There, he complete graduate studies in Madrid and Mar-
as a painter in students competitions organized by the seilles and establishes his residence. His juvenile pro-
Friordano Group in 1970 and 1971. He graduated as a duction allows him to win the prize at The Royal Bank
drawing professor from the Fine Arts National School, Students Contest. At that time he tends toward the big
recording his first individual in 1973, presented by his format, the domestic themes, the still lives and the well-
master Jaime Colson. Then, he travels to Spain, setting crafted, refined chromatic farms.
off his objective figurations to open reflections as part of
his professional growing as the oneiric drafter, grotesque «Still Life,» mix/canvas, 91x120 cm., 1974 v «The Table,»
painter and the organic sculptor he is. These are the defi- acrylic/canvas, 154x178 cm., 1974. A style defined by the
nitions applied to his eleventh individual exhibition at Geometry and the use of a few chromatic ranges con-
Caferelli Gallery (Santo Domingo, 1979). nect both pieces although their compositions differ. The
«Still Life» conjugates on a disperse an distorted linearity
«Soroche (Mountain Sickness),» acrylic/canvas, 115x97 in which three ranges alternate in the representation of
cm., 1978. In this expressionist portrait, humor, drawing a table with fruits, jars, glasses and a blue cloth; ranges
and color combine with no difference, showing the fo- that are repeated in the architectural context. The red-
cused subject with an almost grotesque disproportion- dish ochre table color is repeated as well in almost all the
ate humor. The dressed in green man adipose volumes, mentioned elements, all of them partially illuminated
stooped, grey hair profile, big intertwined hands and red- in orange-colored yellow. The still life’s sharp drawing
dish skin, fill up the frame format in a composition that strengthen the composition increasing the contrast be-
hardly leaves a dark context. A short white neck and a tween the forms and the informal and soft gridded back-
cloth suggests the man is a bartender or a waiter. ground. «The Table» is a conjugated composition with
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