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Art and History
at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
Julio Susana. (Jamao, La Vega, 1937). Holds a solo
exhibition in 1959, as a student of the National School
of Fine Arts, from which he graduated, holding anoth-
er single exhibition in 1964. Draftsman, sculptor and
painter who was awarded a scholarship to study at the
School of San Francisco, Madrid, Spain. Upon returning
to Santo Domingo activates his pictorial projection with
social content and subscribed to the so called «Colonial
Cubism.» Susana went to the United States, residing in
Miami, Florida and New York, while maintaining links
with the home country.
The writer John Austin, speaks of «Magic revealed» in
the paintings of Susanna. «The visual result is eerily, authentic Castillo, Cándido Gerón and Marianne de Tolentino, all
art that transcends time, space and cultural boundaries. The
magical aspect of each work is psychic residue that remains be-
tween ineffable distance of the conscious and unconscious real-
ity…» (Catalog Justo Susana, with text by John Austin,
November 3, 2010).
«Protection of Life,» oil/canvas, 128x89 cm., 1999.
Cándido Bidó. (Bonao, 1936/Santo Domingo 2011).
Small in stature however, big as a painter. When the
monograph «El paraíso azul (Blue Heaven) «was pub-
lished, in 1999, and this title was the theme of a solo
exhibition in Panama, he adhered to an artistic history
of nearly half a century with dozens of solo exhibitions
in important individual and collective exhibition, many
awards and a remarkable international recognition.
«Sembradores,» acrylic/canvas, 90x106 cm., 1991 v «Dama
con sombrila azul,» acrylic/canvas, 101x101 cm., 1992 v
«Maternidad,» acrylic/canvas, 80x59 cm., 1996.
Elsa Núñez. (Santo Domingo, 1943). Until 1995, when
she registers the discourse, «Back to Yesterday,» the painter
has made 31 solo exhibitions, event thought with varied
thematic issues, drawn from various research sources and
life, her work offers an unmistakable personal mark even
when it is hanging in a collective, whose number is large.
Medal of Merit by the Department for the Advancement
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of Women (1996), this recognition is one of many received
by a sustained discursive linearity. Elsa Núñez develops in
a territory that extends from the expressionist testimony
to the romantic, geographic and symbolist visions, and
mostly figurative in almost all her works.
«Untitled,» oil/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1991 v «Mujer alada,»
acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1991 v «Dama con flores,» oil/
canvas, 75x100 cm., 1992 v «Mujer acostada con mariposas,»
mix/canvas, 75x100 cm., 1995.
Ramón Oviedo. (Barahona, 1927). Artistic subject of
several monographs written between 1987-1999, by Efraín
of them are valuable documents on the role of this «Il-
lustrious Master of Dominican painting,» as stated by the
House of Representatives of the Republic in 1997, year
in which Oviedo presents his production «Evolutionary
Persistence of Form in Matter,» in Ecuador, Venezuela,
United States and in his home country.
«En algún lugar,» mix/canvas, 30x40 inch., 1992 v «El
Canal de la Mona,» acrylic/canvas, 30x40 inch., 1992 v «Un-
titled,» mix/canvas, 140x81 cm., 1995.
Norberto Santana. (Santo Domingo, 1943). Muralist,
easel painter and teacher, until 1999 he has had sixteen
personal samples and multiple group exhibitions. Odalis
G. Pérez writes the following about his style: «You can say
that in Norberto Santana’s work, sensitive geometry is light in
the drawing, and he particularizes an object that we cannot
classify as Cubist or Neo-Cubist or just Neo-Expressionist, but
rather stylistically syncretic. For the pictorial object is organized
on a planimetric surface, taking its significance in the various
pictorial screens of the subject’s perceptual.» (Catalogue of
Norberto Santana, G. context Odalis Pérez, November
15, 2006).
«La Guagua,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1993.
Jorge Severino. (Puerto Plata, 1935). Until 1986, when
the publication of the monograph «Jorge Severino. Twenty