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Danilo De los Santos
Years of Painting,» written by Marianne de Tolentino, the the musician of Matrams and drums painting and the dancer
artist born in the north coast, has held eight solo exhi- that never stops,» notes Silvio Raigorodski in the catalog of
bitions, all in the country, an amount that exceeds his the exhibition the artist held at the Museum of Modern
records on national and international exhibitions. With Art in March 2007.
an agenda focused on negritude, he has referred to a line
of relatives, framing women on recreations of Art Nou- «Untitled,» oil/paper, 68x48 cm., no date.
veau, with indicators of Czech painter Alfons Mucha or
the «Salon des Moulin» patented by Toulouse-Lautrec, 4. THREE GENERATIONS REPRESENTA-
becoming subsequently, the brides of mythological Ogún TIVES. The «cincuentistas» (the fifties generation).
and other elegant, dressed-up and adorned brides, Mu- Ada Balcácer, José Cestero, Domingo Liz, Fernando
latto divas. Peña Defilló and Guillo Pérez. The «cuarentistas»
(the fourties generation): Vela Zanetti and Marianela
«The Bride,» oil/canvas, 106x90 cm., 1992 v «Untitled,» Jiménez (the only woman painter in this section; and
acrylic/canvas, 104x90 cm., 1993 v «Black Lady,» acrylic/can- the «treintistas» (the therties generation): Darío Zuro
vas, 101x76 cm., 1994 v «Bride 1,» acrylic/canvas, 101x91 cm., and Federico Izquierdo, the later, the sole painter
1994. survivor of the 30’s generation.
Justo Susana. (Jamao, La Vega, 1918/Santo Domingo Domingo Liz. (Santo Domingo, 1931/2013). The dis-
tinctive is represented by three works that reiterate his
2001). Renowned naïf painter, whose naive magical re- peculiar style with which he interprets the underworld
alism unveiled a personal discourse that has widened of La Ciénaga, situated on the banks of the Ozama, as a
since his first exhibitions in the early 1960s. He was and wonderful hallucinated reality. His characters are of pop-
remains unanimously recognized as the head of a daz- ular extraction, individualized by a lyrical oratory, play-
zling style. His themes on reality, in principle defined by ful and shaded with Antilles Surreality in colour, shape
a dense writing in colour, line and subjects, which at the and movement. There are three works, completed two
beginning were considered very «primitive,» were widen- decades before his death, occurred in 2013, when he was
ing during the four decades of the twentieth century. His granted in life the National Arts Award, by the Domini-
visions of insular landscape of plain and coastal environ- can Government. The three works of maestro Domingo
ment, reached its idyllic fullness with a luminous and Liz are executed in acrylic/canvas, inch., 1993, with the
illuminating sky. titles:
«Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1990 v «Land- «Composición 1,» 76x101 cm. v «Composición,» 75x60 cm.
scape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm., 1990 v «Landscape,» acryl- v «Ciclista,» 100x75 cm.
ic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1990 v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas,
100x126 cm., 1992 v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 123x150 Fernando Peña Defilló. (b. 1928). A painter of vari-
cm., 1993 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x66 cm., 1993 v
«Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 75x60 cm., 1993 v «Infantile ous themes, conjugated with the expertise of a trained
Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1994. teacher and equipped with a special lyricism in his trea-
tises «on the matter and spirit,». His works 1981-1984 al-
Geo Ripley. (Caracas, Venezuela, 1950). Abstract paint- ready referred to stands out, as well as the 1985 colour
screen prints. This teacher, signed three exemplary works
er, advocate of conceptualism, performativity, ritualistic in the 90s: «Butterflies,» oil/canvas, 76x88 cm., 1990 v «Wild
installer and scholar of religious magical belief «Ripley is
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