Dario Suro

Dario Antonio Suro Garcia-Godoy was a Dominican painter, art critic, and diplomat, remembered as one of the most influential Dominican artists of the twentieth century. His paintings moved from the impressionist mood of his early work through the neo-realism of his maturity to the abstraction of his later career, and together with Yoryi Morel, Jaime Colson, and Celeste Woss y Gil he is considered one of the founders of modernist art in the Dominican Republic. He studied under his uncle, the painter Enrique Garcia-Godoy, and later with Diego Rivera in Mexico, and in 1993 he became the first artist to receive the Premio Nacional de Artes Plasticas.