In accordance with social media and El Nuevo Día, the extremely revered Puerto Rican visible artist Domingo García died on Could 12, 2022. Born in Coamo, Puerto Rico, he was a multidisciplinary artist who labored in many alternative media, together with printmaking, portray, and sculpture. El Nuevo Día writes:
The high-quality arts are in mourning, earlier than the sudden departure of artist Domingo García, whose loss of life was introduced this afternoon by his social networks. “I left… I flew to heaven… driving on this cloud… Domingo has simply handed away!” reads the message on the artist’s personal Fb account, asserting the loss of life of this grasp of sculpture and portray, with a photograph of his work, “Nube” (2007).
García was a multidisciplinary artist who labored [in various media] from engraving and portray to sculpture. Born in 1932 in Coamo, he additionally carried out the position of cultural supervisor. García studied on the Nationwide Academy of Fantastic Arts in New York and the Artwork Institute of Chicago. As well as, he studied portray with William Locke in London, an expertise that enriched his approach and dealing with of coloration.
Upon his return to the island, in 1958, he based the Campeche Gallery Workshop, an essential heart for the coaching of artists, an area for political dialogue and a pillar within the promotion of avant-garde currents. In 1988 he based his second artwork house, the Galería de Arte Latino-Americano, which remained till 1994 in an outdated theater on Fortaleza Avenue in Previous San Juan. The Coamo-born artist was an artwork trainer on the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico [School of Visual Arts of Puerto Rico], the place he left his mark on the educational improvement of the sector of latest Puerto Rican artists.
“One is a product of 1’s setting, and like Oller and Don Miguel Pou, I all the time wished to make use of worldwide modalities to create a [type of] portray that’s ours [Puerto Rican art.] … One interprets and makes use of the worldwide [language], however what one lives is one’s personal criollismo, the Puerto Rican situation. And this, inevitably, should seem in a single’s portray, or else it could be false,” García expressed in 1987, as acknowledged in Mari Carmen Ramírez’s e-book “Destello del yo: Seis décadas en Domingo García.”
Among the many distinctions that García acquired in his profession, the scholarships awarded by La Casa del Arte (1967-1968), the Guggenheim (1972) and the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts (1980) stand out. As well as, he participated in quite a few particular person and collective exhibitions, in addition to in biennials in Puerto Rico, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador and Spain, amongst others.
In 2007 he held a retrospective exhibition entitled titulada “Domingo García: Obra selecta en 60 años: 1947‑2007″ [Domingo García: Selected Work in 60 Years: 1947 2007] on the Puerto Rico Museum of Artwork. In his work he confirmed the affect of assorted tendencies equivalent to expressionism, abstraction and pop artwork, and a specific curiosity in concord and using coloration. Portraits and self-portraits of marked expressive pressure and psychological depth have been the predominant genres in his work. Presently, two of his work are on show on the Puerto Rico Museum of Artwork, “Impresiones de La Perla” (1959) and “Isabel volando” (1963).
In early September 2021, Garcia donated over 50 items of artwork equivalent to work, tapestry works, sculptures, and works on paper to the Institute of Puerto Rican Tradition (ICP). “This invaluable donation from Domingo García, probably the most influential voices of Twentieth-century artists in Puerto Rico, will enable increasing analysis on the artist’s profession, approach, and magnificence, whereas constructing on the historical past of Puerto Rican artwork,” stated María Del Mar Caragol, director of the ICP Fantastic Arts and Collections Program, upon receiving the donation.
Article translated by Ivette Romero. For full article in Spanish, see https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/notas/fallece-domingo-garcia-reconocido-artista-plastico-puertorriqueno/
[Photo by VANESSA SERRA DIAZ: Visual artist Domingo García was a professor at the Puerto Rico School of Plastic Arts, where he left his mark on the academic development of the contemporary Puerto Rican artists sector.]