Elsa Núñez

Elsa Núñez
Born Elsa Núñez
1943
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Elsa Núñez (born 1943) is a Dominican is an abstract artist whose work spans more than 50 years.[1][2]

Education

She studied at Colegio María Auxiliadora and the Instituto de señoritas Salomé Ureña, and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, where she graduated with a degree in Philosophy. She studied art at the National School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1962. In 1970, she moved overseas to Madrid, Spain, where she completed a post-graduate at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

Career

Núñez taught painting and drawing at the National School of Fine Arts, Colegio Dominicano de la Salle, la Universidad APEC. Along with her husband, actor and painter, Angel Haché, she directed the Children's Creativity Workshops at the Casa de Teatro, Museo de Arte Moderno y Muse de las Casas Reales. In 1979 she was awarded a scholarship with her husband by UNESCO to visit Children's Creativity Workshops throughout Spain and France, to study the methods of cultural activities that apply in those countries.

In 2012, The Ministry of Culture and the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, honored Elsa Núñez with the painting exhibition titled “Elsa Nuñez 1962 Retrospective 2012”, which was formed by 130 paintings spanning her career.[3]

María Elena Ditrén, Director Museum of Modern Art, described Elsa Nuñez's work as a reflection of the turbulent '60s, which were characterized by fear, anxiety and terror of the Trujillo dictatorship and the Revolution of April 1965.

References

  1. Brito, Margarita (May 5, 2012). "Elsa Núñez 50 años en el arte -". El Nacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  2. "Elsa Núñez celebra sus 50 años en el arte". El Día (in Spanish). May 29, 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  3. "Elsa Núñez con exposición en retrospectiva". El Caribe (in Spanish). June 14, 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
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