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Art and History
at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
Also the conceptual new-abstraction and new-expression- monuments, roosters, a retrospective of drawings that
ism, the geometric configuration, the new-surrealism, express the addressing of his topics, series «Force and
the spectral new-humanism and landscaping from the Motion and Force of my Land» (1988) and «Homage to
80s with which identify known, new and expert paint- Santiago» (1989), resulting in a solo presentation that
ers. The generation of the eighties, in its representation makes him worthy of many awards including the medal
expresses the spirit of adaptation to certain historical pat- «Pro-national» art, awarded by the Ateneo Amantes de
terns of Dominican painting, but the spirit of freedom in la Luz.
each artist tends to individualize as creator.
«The Sky of my Land,» oil/canvas, 38x78 inch., 1983 v
NEW FIGURATION «Red Wood,» oil/canvas, no date v «Sugar Factory,» oil/can-
It’s a trend linked to realism that when excluding vas, 60x76 cm., no date v «Colonial Zone,» oil/canvas, 78x93
inch., 1986-1988 v «Oxen, Wagons and Carts,» oil/canvas,
dramatic expressionism, mollifies reality with a serene, 75x100 cm., 1987 v «Sugar Cane and Oxen,» screen/paper,
simple and subjective interpretation. It is taken up by 60x85 cm., 1985 v «Marina,» oil/canvas, 83x103 cm., 1987 v
some teachers: Fernando Peña Defilló, who abandons «Port,» oil/canvas, 60x75c cm., no date v «Carts and Oxen,»
abstraction; with Guillo Pérez and his new approach oil/canvas, 150x190 cm., 1983.
towards local visions full of chromatic ranges, and even
Darío Suro and his return to the landscape inspired Cándido Bidó. In 1980 the artist has fifteen solo ex-
by the island’s geography in a move from abstractions
and eclipses to the native soil, the forest, the mountain, hibition, seven awards in national art competitions and
the nocturnal and even the human body as shown in an unmistakable presence whose style gives primacy to
«Storm,» from the bank collection. As sculptural works primary colors. In 1980, at the Museum of Modern
bound to the new figurative tendency, we have already Art, he helds his sixteenth personal exhibition entitled
alluded to «Ladies» and «Meninas» by the maestro Prats- «Bidó» with the caption, «I paint the things and people
Ventós, author even of landscaping and a paraphrase of in my village,» referring to his native Bonao, town that
related figures and faces. marks his poetic essence: affable, dazzling, imaginative,
simple. His round face characters with almond shape
Dominican Figuration has nothing to do with the eyes offer a hieratic serenity, leading a «Blue Paradise»
European tendency, especially French, although is related of landscapes, houses, flowers, birds and distinctive
to the Antilles, Caribbean and Latin American interpreta- sunshine… The romance, the magic or surrealism con-
tions. The Dominican trend has the following characteris- solidate in his personal universe.
tics: serene speech, revisited Creoleness, placid imaginary
beauty of the surroundings, non complex composition, «Birdcage,» acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1980 v «The
direct conjugation, regularly planimetric, chromatic com- Tree and Birds,» acrylic/canvas, 102x 102 cm., 1981 v «Wom-
position without affectation, self-indulgent, beautiful, bu- an with Bird,» acrylic/canvas, 100x65 cm., 1984 v «Women
colic, charming, humanistic, creative, bright… in Profile,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1984 v «Maternity,»
acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1984 v «Maternity,» oil/canvas,
Guillo Pérez. With paintings dating from 1946-1951, 100x75 cm., 1985 v «Village Girl,» screen/paper, 84x58 cm.,
1985 v «Adam and Eve,» acrylic/canvas, 151x127 cm., 1986
and an ascending career from the previously men- v «Woman with Bird Toy,» acrylic/canvas, 1987 v «Head,»
tioned year, holds numerous solo exhibitions between acrylic/canvas, 45x55 cm., 1988 v «Untitled,» 2 watercol-
1969-1989, on topics about landscape, floral, colonial ors/paper, 32x26 cm.,and 78x26 cm., 1978-1982.
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