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Danilo De los Santos
Caballeros have been the painter’s visual focus, who
also pays an «Homage to Santo Domingo,» tittle of his
1993’ speech. «This painter of cities» as he is called by
Pedro Antonio Valdez, «portraits with accuracy and en-
chanted features, various fragments of our urban landscape.
The observer, from any part of the world he might be, while
looking at this canvas, would enjoy following the precision of
a skillful line, never lost to the colour brightness; conducting as an artist, specially preserving a fidelity of a luminous,
him through a city composed for a double concrete and oneiric
structure.»
The writer Valdez produced a work entitled «The
other fabric city» aiming to the painter eleventh individu-
al exhibition. (P.A.V. December 14, 2004).
«The Cord House,» oil/canvas, 101x76 cm., 1990 v «The
Cord Gate,» acrylic/canvas, 119x89 cm., 1995 v «Las Damas
street. National Mausoleum,» acrylic/canvas, 119x89 cm., 1995
v «A Venezia in San Francisco,» acrylic/canvas, 37x100 cm.,
1995 v «Conde Street,» acrylic/canvas, 73x100 cm., 1999.
Carolina Cepeda. (Río San Juan, Trinidad Sánchez
Province, 1952). With an important number of individ-
ual exhibitions and her bonds with the Santiago’s Pic-
torial School, her relevance as a woman artist allowed
to pick her name for «Today’s Women and Dominican
Art. Homage to Celeste Woss y Gil» (1992). From the
capital city, she remains loyal to the luminous tropical
landscape, full of composition solutions and technics, as
the use of relief au palette knife. Her landscapes, mar-
ket by multicolour ranges and well-mannered visions are
product of a harvest, as in her work dated between 1989
and 1991: emblematic landscapes of her own radiant per-
sonal style.
«Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x100 cm., 1990 v «Land-
scape,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1990 v «Landscape,» acryl-
ic/canvas, 136x49 cm., 1990 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas,
60x75 cm., 1991 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm.,
1991 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm., 1991 v «Ba-
nana Leaf,» oil/canvas, 60x49 cm., 1991 v «Landscape and a
River,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1991.
Amaya Salazar. (Santo Domingo, 1951). As a sculptor
and painter, she appears as one of the 40 exhibitors at
«Today’s Women and Dominican Art-Homage to Ce-
leste Woss y Gil,» event held at Casa de Bastidas, 1992.
In 1993, she has an individual showing in which she
reconfirms «the highly personal place she has achieved
refreshing, soothe style. Her lyric conjugates light and
colour as lit ranges on the pictorial texts, representing an
ascent and a status consolidation, clearly manifested at
the Guernica Gallery on the mentioned date.
«Maternity,» acrylic/canvas, 30x42 inch., no date v «Ma-
ternities,» acrylic/canvas, 30x40 inch., no date.
Francisco Santos. (Santo Domingo, 1949). In his dis-
course, linked to the Dominican new-figuration, from
1999-1994, the painter was still focused on the mulatto
woman with pigeons, and on these birds, gathered or
alone. Then he produced the discourse «Quarter Experi-
ences. Homage to a Friend» at the Modern Art Museum
(1997). In it, the figurative representations result in anon-
ymous allusion and narratives of individuals expressing
their quotidian experiences, not alien to the social reality.
As an affectional new-constructive from the Antilles, he
conjugates the orange-colour, the purple and, especially,
the black. An eloquent apology to the aestheticism and
awareness of his belonging, as well as a broad look to the
theme; are the unifying elements in his discourse.
«The table,» acrylic/canvas, 47x28 inch., 1988 v «Compo-
sition,» mix/canvas, 100x100 cm., 1996 v «Camino a la liber-
tad,» acrylic/canvas, 40x30 inch., 1997.
Tete Marella. (Buenos Aires, 1943). Living in Santo
Domingo and assuming the Dominican nationality, her
incipient drawing iconography, including the sweet fat-
ties, was searching for architectural scenic contexts. With
time, the augmented silhouettes reflected better the in-
fluential Antilles colours and, of course, the country to
which these characters subscribed. They make evident
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