Page 397 - Arte e Historia
P. 397
Art and History
at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
countryside with its greenery and peace,» «filling the walls 20x30 inch., no date v «Landscape with Roads,» acrylic/canvas,
with light and distilling a delicate smell of grass and wildflow- 28x40 inch., 1985 v «Landscape at Daybreak,» acrylic/canvas,
ers (…) He incorporates a range of greens, dominating perhaps 28x40 inch., 1985 v «Countryside of Greenery,» acrylic/can-
dozens of intoxicated colour-schemes with countless shades of vas, 30x40 inch., 1985 v «Sunflowers,» acrylic/canvas, 25x26
blue, yellow, red, even in the presence of delicacy and intensity. inch., 1985 v «Landscape with Plot in Front,» acrylic/canvas,
Trails and huts, with their areas of brightness, contribute to 30x40 inch., 1985 v «Landscape with Large Tree in Front,»
lighting the atmosphere, chromatic quality repeated with each acrylic/canvas, 28x40 inch., 1985 v «Marina,» acrylic/canvas,
painting.» 42x36 inch., 1988 v «Landscape (with blue home and red por-
tal), acrylic/canvas, 24x30 inch., 1988.
«Country Landscape with Flamboyant,» acrylic/canvas,
3. La Vega’s presence. From La Vega Province
26x36 inch., no date v «Landscape Sunset,» acrylic/canvas, by birth and place of residence, Elías Delgado, Timoteo
Santos (Vinagre) and Justo Susana, differentiated the
30x40 inch., 1983 v «Landscape with Road,» acrylic/canvas, three on discursive style and within the collection that
houses their works.
30x40 inch., 1985 v «Landscape with River,» acrylic/canvas,
30x40 inch., 1985 v «Landscape with Trees, Plains and Moun-
tains…» acrylic/canvas, 18x24 inch., 1988 v «Blue Landscape
with Flamboyant,» acrylic/canvas, 40x60 inch., 1994.
Hugo Mata. (San Víctor, Espaillat Province). Self-taught Timoteo Santos (Vinagre). (Jima Abajo, La Vega,
painter whose projection begins in the city of Santiago 1953/Santo Domingo, 2005). He studied for five years at
upon holding his first solo exhibition in 1978. From that the Academy of Fine Arts in La Vega, presenting the first
sample to 1993 he has thirty individual exhibitions, be- solo exhibition in the middle of El Conde street (1972),
sides presenting his paintings in collectives. He considers using the name Vinagre to sign his paintings which ini-
himself a costumbrista painter, for being able to recreate tially were landscapes freely interpreted. Afterword, the
the community where he is born, grows and presents painter turns to automatic and instinctive Surrealism.
himself assuming the surrounding reality of landscape
and country life with emotional perspective of everyday «Little Houses,» acrylic/canvas, 30x40 inch., 1972.
atmosphere, that of the dawn, the day, the dusk and the
night. Meticulous, nativist, its bucolic view is intimate Justo Susana. (Jamo, La Vega, 191 / Santo Domingo,
and lyrical. Although known for his personal landscapes,
he deals with other topics, such as still life, flower ar- 2001). After being discovered and he transcended as a naive
rangement, market, country cooking, the sea… painter, he dedicates himself fully to painting, task he as-
sumes with vigorous creativity depicting reality with illusory,
«Countryside Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 13x18 inch., dazzling and magic realist imagination. His landscapes over-
flow with colours, luminosity and compositional rhythm,
1982 v «Landscape with Flamboyant,» acrylic/canvas, 30x40 resuming geography as a sage of the island ecosystem. His
exhibitions are documented numerically from 1973 to the
inch., 1983 v «Market,» acrylic/canvas, 28x40 inch., 1984 proximity of the final years of the twentieth century.
v «Landscape with several Houses and Passers,» acrylic/can- «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 70x59 cm., 1983 v «Landscape
with Bridge,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1989 v «Untitled,»
vas, 30x34 inch., 1984 v «Rulo Plant,» acrylic/canvas, 40x80 acrylic/canvas, 84x120 cm., 1990 v «Landscape,» acrylic/ can-
vas, 75x60 cm., 1990 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm.,
inch., 1985 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 40x30 inch., 1985 1990 v «Infantile Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm., 1990
v «Landscape with Two Houses and Peasants,» acrylic/canvas,
30x40 inch., 1985 v «Red Sky Landscape,» acrylic/canvas,
24x30 inch., 1985 v «Blue Hut Landscape,» acrylic/canvas,
398
