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Art and History
at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
In this exhibition, Master Guillo Pérez, also reveals an
extraordinary artist and a historian of the visual. There are
undoubtedly, in his motives, a romantic nuance, but also fluid
strokes and the effectiveness of a precise outline, due to the rigor to Celeste Woss y Gil» (1995) and «Merengue visual
of the lights. Our artist captures landscapes, monuments, vil-
lages and animals from a moving and sentimental or synthetic
spelling. There is no doubt that this exhibition has come to rep-
resent in the life of this artist an unprecedented milestone (…)
because it manages to get together all the features (…) of a city
as important as Santiago de los Caballeros. (CB introduction
text, November 28, 1989).
«Monumental I,» oil/canvas, 55x66 cm., 1989 v «Monu-
mental II,» oil/canvas, 83x68 cm., 1989 v «Monumental IV,»
oil/canvas, 78x88 cm., 1989 v «Monumental V,» oil/canvas,
96x104 cm., no date v «Monumental VI,» oil/canvas, 88x110
cm., 1989 v «Monumental VII,» oil/canvas, 90x104 cm., 1989.
«Monumental VIII,» oil/canvas, 97x121 cm., 1989 v «Monu-
mental IX,» oil/canvas, 137x266 cm., 1989 v «Monumental
X,» oil/canvas, 137x266 cm., 1988/1989 v «Monumental XI,»
oil/canvas, 96x53 cm., 1988/1989.
José Vela Zaneti. (Burgos, 1913-1999). He grew up as
an artist in Santo Domingo; since his arrival in 1939. He
became a mural painter and was a professor at the Fine
Arts National School, and its director until the beginning
of the 1950’s, when he leaves for Mexico City. From his
frequent returns to Dominican Republic, that he consid-
ered his country, two of his drawings are included on the
Popular’s collection. When he died, his will of resting
next to his endearing friend, the architect José Antonio
Caro Álvarez; were honoured.
Marianela Jiménez. (Mao, Valverde, 1925, Santo
Domingo 2012). She is the only painter of the 1940’s
generation and member of the founding students of
the National School of Fine Arts that survives dur-
ing the last century, displaying a creative potential
as an artist woman and renowned master. She was
in 2000 the director of the academic campus where
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she trained, and to that date, had held individual,
and collective exhibitions showing her important works,
including «Women and Dominican Art Today. Tribute
rhythms,» organized by the Centro León and held at
the Museo del Barrio in New York (2006). Painter of
landscapes, still-life, popular scenes and portraits, her
steady hand when drawing and painting, features a
more expressionistic vigour than other languages that
combined with a palette of effective chromatic nu-
ances. «Figures of Women,» oil/canvas, 127x122 cm.,
Dated 2001, is a work treasured by the bank’s collec-
tion.
Darío Suro. (La Vega, 1917, Santo Domingo, 1997).
Restless painter never committed to any style, even pro-
ducing differentiated works on similar dates. His «Com-
position,» is full of geometry in blues and blacks against
a yellow background, keeps a connection with his link
to the international abstraction he assumed in Spain.
He came back to his wife, to Santo Domingo, where
he died.
Federico Izquierdo. (Monción, 1904/Santiago. 2004).
He is the only survivor painter from the 1930s’ generation,
and whose first recorded exhibition was at the National
and Inter-Antilles exhibition held in Santiago de los Cabal-
leros (1927), where he grew up, was trained, and became
a teacher of Secondary School and Fine Arts. Exhibitor
of the First National Biennial (1942) and other official
exhibitions, his personal samples were recorded in the
city of the Yaque River. For his extensive arts, civil,
cultural and educational management, the Dominican
Government decorated him with the Order of Duarte,
Sánchez and Mella in rank of Knight. He is a renowned
portraitist, painter of landscapes, folklore and vernacu-
lar typicality. His work «Carnival Evening,» oil/canvas,
101x75 cm., 1999, is the last one he painted before his
death.