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Danilo De los Santos
«Colonial Zone,» acrylic/canvas, 20x14 inch., 1984 v
«Face,» acrylic/canvas, 20x16 inch., 1986 v «Cellist,» oil/can-
vas, 40x30 inch., 1992 v «Composition,» oil/canvas, 40x30 inch., 2010). He lives in the Dominican capital, attends artistic
1991 v «Face profile,» mixed/canvas, 49x39 cm., 1986 v «Unti-
tled,» oil/canvas, 100x80 cm., 1989 v «Abstract,» mixed/canvas,
100x75 cm., 1991 v «Music,» acrylic/canvas, 32x39 inch., 1989.
Norberto Santana. (Santo Domingo, 1943). He gradu-
ated from the National School of Fine Arts (1963), with
extensive training in Spain, then completing training
with his teacher Colson. He holds first solo in the Do-
minican capital (1966-1967), earning an award for paint-
ing at the V León Jimenes Art Contest (1969). During
the 1970s showcased four solos. He produces Duco and
fresco murals, accept responsibility teaching, showcasing
solos later on, during the 1980s decade. With a refined
style of combined figurations in compositions of «recti-
linear geometricism,» one can notice a neoclassicist dis-
play in his discourse. The qualities of that style are lost,
approaching later on –during the 1990s– themes related
to social reality: neighbourhoods, landscapes and human
subjects among other everyday issues, his palette offers
clarities in spectrum and light, persisting in its diagram
and geometry.
«Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 50x60 cm., 1985 v «Land-
scape,» acrylic/canvas, 60x50 cm., 1986 v «Landscape,» acrylic/
canvas, 52x77 cm., 1986 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x100
cm., 1988 v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1993.
Said Musa. (Santo Domingo, 1959). He studies at the
ENBA during the years 1967-1972, under the teacher
Jaime Colson. He is a draftsman, painter, ceramicist,
muralist and an award-winning sculptor in León Jimenes
Art Contest (1992) and the National Biennial (1994). He
has held several solo exhibitions from 1980 to the pres-
ent century, in his style of painting, the figurations are
characterized by strong chromatic contrasts accentuated
by lines and suggestive geometric shapes.
«Child sitting,» oil/canvas 121x66 cm., 1993.
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Dionisio Pichardo. (La Vega, 1929/Santo Domingo,
and literary gatherings, embarking on his own pictorial
complete training by attending the National School of
Fine Arts and received guidance from the teacher Col-
son. He is associated with the 1950 generation. He held
solo exhibitions for a decade, from 1957 to 1959. With a
living experience in New York, he held a solo exhibition
in that city before returning back to his birthplace, where
he continued his artistic career. His work ranges from
dense expressionist figurations, abstractions and works
of geometric solutions.
«Picasso Contemplating the Dove of Peace,» oil/canvas,
64x53 cm., 1983.
Leopoldo Pérez (Lepe). Leaving behind the stark so-
cial drama of strong black frame of the 1960s, though
while still being expressionist, since the showings of the
Proyecta Group, to which he belongs, his palette be-
comes lighter with yellow and bluish textures. Between
1974 and 1987, he develops new compositional themes
showing landscapes, strolls and sellers, not excluding the
space geometrizations as «drawing armature» surfacing or
internalized; demonstrating «Lyricism and spiritual vitality
(…) which expresses that character of uniqueness settling his
painting as only Lepe knows how,» comments Abil Peralta
Agüero.
«Sailboat,» oil/canvas, 83x106 cm., 1983 v «Mountain
Landscape,» oil/canvas, 75x100 cm., 1986 v «Pinewoods,»
acrylic/canvas, 86x114 cm., 1987 v «The Stroll,» oil/canvas,
88x104 cm., 1987.
Alberto Ulloa. (Altamira, Puerto Plata 1950). He re-
turns from Spain with a Professor of Fine Arts degree
from the Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid, in
1977, the year he holds a solo exhibition at the Gallery
Auffant. In 1978, another solo showing is presented at
the Gallery of Modern Art, achieving an award for paint-
ing at the XIV Biennial in 1979. Ulloa’s new production