death_date birth_place training name field birth_date article_title birth_name
1979 1906 santiago de los caballeros , dominican republic juan bautista gómez ; self-taught yoryi morel painting 1906 yoryi morel
 jorge octavio morel tavares
yoryi morel

yoryi morel -lrb- born jorge octavio morel tavares -rrb- -lrb- 1906 -- 1979 -rrb- was a painter from the dominican republic .
along with jaime colson and darío suro , he is considered one of the founders of the modernist school of dominican painting .
a native of santiago de los caballeros , he spent most of his career in santiago province .
although he studied under juan bautista gómez in his youth , he is generally considered to be self-taught .
morel is the leading dominican `` costumbrista '' painter and is known for his landscapes , genre paintings , and portraits .
morel held his first solo exhibition in santo domingo in 1932 .
he participated in the dominican republic 's first biennial art exhibition in 1942 , and won first prize in the sixth biennial in 1952 .
he was declared the `` pintor nacional '' -lrb- national painter -rrb- by the dominican congress on october 25 , 2006 .
morel founded a fine-arts school in santiago de los caballeros , which was attended by clara ledesma .
two retrospectives were held to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth : `` por los caminos de nuestra expresión '' at the museo bellapart in santo domingo in 2006 and `` autonomía y trascendencia '' at centro león in santiago de los caballeros in 2007 .
