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List Of Dominican Painters
The following list of painters from the Dominican Republic (in alphabetical order by last name) includes painters of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Dominican Republic, of Dominican descent, or who produce works that are primarily about the Dominican Republic. A *Oscar Abreu (born 1978), painter, sculptor, and performance artist * Juan Andújar (born 1984), painter B * Cándido Bidó (1936–2011), Santo Domingo-born painter * Alejandro Bonilla (1820–1901), painter and teacher born in Santo Domingo, considered one of the fathers of the national Dominican pictorial tradition C * Jaime Colson (1901–1975), Modernist painter, writer, and playwright; born in Puerto Plata * José García Cordero (born 1951), Dominican-born French painter D * Luis Desangles (1861–1940), painter, sculptor, and educator G * Zenobia Galar (born 1958), painter * Adolfo García Obregón (1865–1931), painter, illustrator, educator, and critic * Enrique Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area (after Cuba) at , and third-largest by population, with approximately 10.7 million people (2022 est.), down from 10.8 million in 2020, of whom approximately 3.3 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The official language of the country is Spanish. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola before the arrival of Europeans, dividing it into five chiefdoms. They had constructed an advanced farming and hunting society, and were in the process of becoming an organized civilization. The Taínos also in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphic Artist
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed, or electronic media, such as brochures and advertising. They are also sometimes responsible for typesetting, illustration, user interfaces. A core responsibility of the designer's job is to present information in a way that is both accessible and memorable. Qualifications Designers should be able to solve visual communication problems or challenges. In doing so, the designer must identify the communications issue, gather and analyze information related to the issue, and generate potential approaches aimed at solving the problem. Iterative prototyping and user testing can be used to determine the success or failure of a visual solution. Approaches to a communications problem are developed in the context of an audience and a medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Peguero
Olivia Peguero (born 1961) is a Dominican contemporary landscape and botanical artist. Painting most of the year in the Dominican Republic and Florida, she is known for producing all of her studies and the majority of her finished pieces ''en plein air''. Unlike many other Dominican artists, her works are created in oil using a more traditional European style, many times depicting life as birth, existence and death within her flowers. Two common themes present in Peguero art are the conservation of old growth Dominican forests and pride in Dominican heritage. In 2007, Peguero enlisted the help of a few important collectors and corporate sponsors to form the Peguero Arte Libros Foundation and the Art Books for Education Program. A large percentage of the proceeds from the sale of her art are donated to the foundation. Early life and early education Peguero was born in Las Salinas, Barahona Province, and grew up in the small towns of Miches, El Seibo Province, on the east coast, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raquel Paiewonsky
Raquel Paiewonsky (born 1969) is an artist from the Dominican Republic. Early life and education Born in Puerto Plata (city), Puerto Plata, Paiewonsky graduated in 1991 from the Altos de Chavón School of Design in La Romana, Dominican Republic, La Romana. The following year she held her first solo exhibition at the Art Nouveau Gallery. She then traveled to New York City, where she lived and worked for a decade, studying at Parsons The New School for Design. After returning to the Dominican Republic she settled in Santo Domingo. Career Stylistically, Paiewonsky produces art across a range of disciplines and media, including painting, sculpture, and photography. She has exhibited work in many venues both in the Dominican Republic and abroad, in solo and group shows, and has been included in the National Visual Arts Biennial of Santo Domingo on multiple occasions. She received the Gran Premio Eduardo León award for her work in 2006, 2008, and 2012. Among the collections featurin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Núñez
Elsa Núñez (born 1943) is a Dominican abstract artist whose work spans more than 50 years. Elsa is the daughter of Mercedes Castillo de Núñez and Ramón Antonio Núñez. Her mother was a high school teacher, and her father served as a general in the Dominican military. Elsa's parents had 12 children and raised them in a strict Catholic environment during the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship. During her years in college, where she studied philosophy, Nuñez joined student-led political movements while, during the military intervention, her brother was killed. Nuñez’s work has run the gamut of artistic styles, from expressionism to abstraction, but the underlying themes remain constant. Sometimes Nuñez turns outward, toward the social conditions of everyday workers in the Dominican Republic or pays tribute to the women who toppled the Trujillo dictatorship. The acrylic painter also envisions female figures and their turbulent inner minds, according to Christina Noriega. Educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopoldo Navarro (painter)
Leopoldo Navarro (1862–1908) was a Dominican Republic painter, educator, mathematician, and sculptor born in Santo Domingo in 1862. An impressionistic romantic, he is considered one of the forerunners of national Dominican plastic arts, as well as a notable educator. He died on July 12, 1908, in Santo Domingo, at the age of 46. In the Museum Bellapart, a collection of Navarro's watercolors are displayed. An important street in Santo Domingo is also named after him. Biography Navarro was born in 1862 in Santo Domingo. The son of a Dominican mother and Spanish father, at seven years old he became an orphan and entered in San Luis Gonzaga School, founded by the religious philanthropist Priest Francisco Xavier Billini, who became his guardian and mentor.Danilo de los Santos. Memoria de la Pintura Dominicana. (Colección Centenario Grupo León Jimenes) 8v: il. Grupo León Jimenes. Santo Domingo, 2003. pg 225 He graduated from high school very young, soon entering the teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoryi Morel
Jorge Octavio Morel Tavárez (known as Yoryi Morel) was a Dominican painter, musician, and teacher born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; he is remembered as the leading costumbrista painter in the country and one of the early progenitors of the Dominican modernist school of painting, along with contemporaries Jaime Colsón, Darío Suro, and Celeste Woss y Gil. His style integrated realist and post-Impressionist techniques depicting a range of subject matters, such as street scenes of his native city, Santiago, of villages and rustic landscapes throughout the Cibao region; popular customs like festivals, religious rituals, ceremonies, and gaming activities; as well as an array of portraits of local characters. Morel spent most of his life in his native city. In 1933, he founded a fine-arts school in Santiago de los Caballeros, going on to teach other native artists, including Clara Ledesma. He died in 1979. Many of his works are exhibited in the National M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Ledesma
Clara Ledesma Terrazas (5 March 1924 – 25 May 1999)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an artist from the Dominican Republic. Early years and education Born in Santiago de los Caballeros, she attended Escuela Ercilia Pepín and in her teenage years studied art under Yoryi Morel at his self-named Academia Yoryi. Ledesma later was one of the first women to enroll in — as well as graduate from — the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo, graduating in 1948. There, her professors included Celeste Woss y Gil and George Hausdorf, while her primary mentor was painting professor Josep Gausachs. Fellow students included Gilberto Hernández Ortega and Eligio Pichardo. After graduating, she took a position teaching drawing at the same school. Career, continuing education and personal life In 1949, Ledesma had her first solo exhibition at the Ateneo of San Pedro de Macorís. In 1951 she opened a combination studio and galler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
