Radhamés Mejía (Santiago, 1925-1977)
Radhamés Mejía Estevez (1925-1977), was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, second-largest city in the Dominican Republic.
His first instructions in art were from the great Yoryi Morel (Santiago, 1906-1979). His education continues at the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo, where he receives instructions from Manolo Pascual, and from which he graduates in 1948.
"A silent artist, regularly submerged in the alcoholic escape, assumes a transformation in pictorial language when abstraction and colonial cubism enter as twists in the national arts..." - Danilo de los Santos (Memoria vol 3).
His first instructions in art were from the great Yoryi Morel (Santiago, 1906-1979). His education continues at the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo, where he receives instructions from Manolo Pascual, and from which he graduates in 1948.
"A silent artist, regularly submerged in the alcoholic escape, assumes a transformation in pictorial language when abstraction and colonial cubism enter as twists in the national arts..." - Danilo de los Santos (Memoria vol 3).