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at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
demonstrate on one hand an imaginative figuration al- NEO-SURREALITY
lusive to linguistic connections, and on the other an op- Surrealism is a literary and visual trend that postu-
posing figuration combining geometric solutions. In this
latter trend one can perceive a Picassian connection, as lates dream and hallucinatory image as a way of under-
well as with Dominican masters. standing concepts, thoughts and the imaginable feeling
isolated from the objective world, appearing late in the
«Character,» media/paper, 60x40 cm., 1980 v «Face,» Dominican Republic. Here it develops in its early stage
acrylic/canvas, 30x40 inch., 1984 v «Woman in the Mirror,» with pioneer names: Eugenio Fernandez Granell, Jaime
acrylic/canvas, 57x33 inch., 1984 v «Portrait of a stranger,» Colson, Joseph Gausachs, Hernández Ortega, Julio Vega
acrylic/canvas, 98x152 cm., 1988. Batlle, although no absolute, with a dividing line in
1960. From this date, the second stage that we denomi-
Elsa Núñez. (Santo Domingo, 1940). She graduated as nate Neo-Surreality, starts with the transit of Jorge No-
ceda and Luis Oscar Romero from the distant New York,
a teacher of drawing and painting at the ENBA (1962) is represented by Iván Tovar, José Félix Moya, Domingo
beginning her individual exhibitions in 1963, adding an- Liz, Clara Ledesma, Félix Brito, Thelma Lora, Dionisio
other six until 1970, when she travels to Spain to expand Blanco, Alberto Ulloa, Ignacio Corner (Kuma), Fernan-
her training. In Madrid she shows two solo exhibitions do Ureña Rib, Manuel Montilla and Vicente Fabré.
in 1971. Upon returning to the country, she increases
her work as a teacher, as a host for children’s workshops .
and exhibitor at local and international collective show-
ings. Between 1972 and 1985, she showcased 15 personal Félix José Moya. (Sánchez, Samaná, 1944). He starts his
showings, among them, a retrospective that includes 80
paintings. Around the latter year mentioned, her dis- pictorial training in La Vega, continuing at the National
course offers an expressive openness where the internal- School of Fine Arts, where he graduated as a teacher. In
ized landscape of clear refreshing shades, consisting in 1967 he holds the first solo comprising 24 oil paintings
simultaneous abstractions with the figurations of women in which he initiates his adhesion to surrealism. In his
with elongated forms expressing spring voices, or rep- discourse on planimetric and deserted landscape he is
resenting the season of flowers and butterflies, among occupied with thoughtful images marked by the oneiric,
other visions of new-romantic tendency. which is what distinguishes him as one of the foremost
surrealist painters marking a sustained journey in the
«Face,» acrylic/canvas, 62x52 cm., 1987 v «The mysterious second half of the twentieth century.
bottom of the sea,» 125x125 cm., 1987 v «The mysterious bot-
tom of the sea,» acrylic/canvas, 125x125 cm., 1987 v «Work «Spell of the Fourth Dimension,» acrylic/canvas, 75x100
Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1991 v «Woman with
Flowers,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm., no date v «Woman with cm., 1988.» v «Spell of Criptomas in the Desert of the Irra-
Bougainvillea,» acrylic/canvas, 90x60 cm., no date v «Woman
Resting,» acrylic/canvas, 75x100 cm., no date v «Women with tional,» acrylic/canvas, 88x91, 1991 v «Marina with Pelican»
pamela hat and Butterfly,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm., no date
v «Spring,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm., no date v «Woman and acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1988.
butterfly,» screen/paper, 38x100 cm., no date v «Lady with
Flowers,» acrylic/canvas, 76x101 cm., no date v «Abstract,»
oil/canvas, 76x100 cm., no date. Iván Tovar. (San Francisco de Macorís, 1942). After
moving to Santo Domingo he gets to enter at age 13 in
the National School of Fine Arts, from which he graduat-
ed, holding solo exhibitions between 1959 and 1962. He
is an artist associated with the generation of 1960 who
decides to travels to Paris where he gets experience as a
militant and becomes associated with the teachers José
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