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at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
compositional similarities and differences, in the first one and graduated as professor of Visual Arts at the Universi-
solved with three horizontal planes where the burning sun dad Autonóma de Santo Domingo and follows graduate
as a central element makes the sky look yellowish, burns studies at Roma’s Fine Arts Academy (1972-1974).
the brownish soil and conforms a reflection of yellows and
mammees in what seems to be a path and a water mirror. «Sign,» mix/canvas, 48x69 cm., 1973. A supportive of
With «Rooster,» he bursts with a theme reiterating, in short conceptualism as the artistic action register, he believes
and long terms, a quality of color command that made him that the art work never stop been a concept, an idea or a
a master, a differentiated heir of the Yoryi’s school. symbol, represented as an aerial form in blue over a red
background, projecting a perceptible pulsation.
Julia Sánchez de Guerra. (Puerto Rico, 1914/Santo
Orlando Menicucci. (Santiago, 1949). He was taking
Domingo, 2011). In her native island she started art
«Social Work» studies at the Universidad Católica Madre y studies. After marrying a Dominican man she settled in
Maestra when a student’s exhibition celebrating the open- Santo Domingo, forms a family and continued studies at
ing of the institution campus, brought him in contact with the Fine Arts National School. Private painting professor
five university colleagues, all of them founders of the Fri- since 1966, she gets involved in the creation of APEC’s
ordano Group, in 1967. The nucleus attracts the critics’ Art School, becoming its principal until 1975. During
attention, institutional support and national projection. her tenure, she created the Infantile Painting National
Orlando obtains the Second Painting Award at the IV Festival. In 1977 she held an exhibition showing paint-
Biennial in Ibiza, Spain, 1970, at the time his discourse ings and a recreation of religious icons. Three of her
already was showing the compositional, extra-pictorial and pieces focuses on urban spaces:
chromatic characteristics of a personal abstractionism.
«Yellow Facade,» acrylic/canvas, 59x78, 1978 v «Colonial
«Abstraction,» mix/canvas, 96.5x75 cm., 1970. In a rect- Zone,» water-colour/paper, 14x22 inch., 1978 v «(Untitled),» wa-
angular format, the geometric figures in different scales ter-colour, paper. 1978. Her gaze captures three spaces of the
and limpid forms, precise and with sober chromatic Dominican capital ancient colonial houses. One of them,
range; define a dominant structure of a black mass with is the two floors facade with two brown closed door balco-
triangles, circles and little metallic squares, resembling nies and two bushes on plant pots. One of them crowns a
an sculptural conceptual plane on a space of not less roof fragment and the first level lateral doorway. A fourth
chromatic light greys. On the opposite extreme, slender and broad greenish door with relief is half-opened. The
figures in an expansion in red with solutions in yellow. yellow colour coating the architecture is more enraged
than in the other themes about buildings, captured in a
Geo Ripley. (Caracas, 1950). The family’s exile was the two alleys corner, and an interior yard with facade, road,
stairs, street-light, gardening and a vestibule communicat-
reason he was born in Venezuela, growing up and getting ing with a higher area, letting to perceive a bi-level con-
his education in Santo Domingo; becoming known as a ju- struction. The paleness or absence of human beings in the
venile artist in 1967. That year his piece, «inspiration,» was three views, creates certain romantic nostalgia.
awarded by the León Jimenes Contest. Associated to some
other young artists, exhibit in different collectives during Nancy Rosado. (Licey, Santiago, 1940). Graduated
1969-1970. That later year he takes part at the IV Biennial
in Ibiza, Spain. In 1972 he is chosen for the «Expo New Im- from the Visual Arts National School and related to
age, 10 avant-garde artists» held at the Universidad Católica the 1960’s generation, she conduct specialized studies
Madre y Maestra campus. In that period, he attends classes
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