The Paintings of
Domingo Garcia Criado
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Domingo Garcia Criado had quit painting when I met him, but I saw promise in a couple of the paintings he had saved for his family, and insisted he start painting again. His paintings have a very naive quality about them, but if you compare them to the only one of the early paintings I have (the last painting in row three below) you can see how far his painting has come. Domingo  rather than calling me Jose, as everyone else of his generation does, he uses the respectful term "Don Jose." Rather than think of himself as an artist, he thinks of himself as a campesino who is also a painter. Somehow this natural humility comes through in his paintings.
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Row 1           Back up to row 1

1a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Bailando el Son (Traditional Dancing), 2000, 16" x 20". cat. DOM-019
1b. Domingo Garcia Criado: Fiesta de Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday Celebration), 1999, 16" x 20". cat. DOM-012
1c. Domingo Garcia Criado: Vendiendo Frutas (Selling Fruits), 2000, 16" x 20". cat. DOM-023
Row 2           Back up to row 2
2a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Adoración de la cruz de semana santa (Adoration of the cross during Holy Week), 2002, 16" x 20". cat. DOM-035
2b. Domingo Garcia Criado: Cortando café y cortando caña (Picking coffe and cutting down sugarcane), 2002, 25" x 33". cat. DOM-034
2c. Domingo Garcia Criado: Tejedora (Weaver), ca. 1985, 13" x 14". cat. DOM-008
Row 3           Back up to row 3
3a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Curando Hueso (Bone setting), 2000, 16" x 20". cat. DOM-022
3b. Domingo Garcia Criado: Esta tortiando (She is making tortillas), 2003, 16" x 20". cat. DOM-037
3c. Domingo Garcia Criado: Barbero (Barber), 2003, 16" x 20". cat. DOM-036
Row 4           Back up to row 4
4a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Nacimiento de Niño Díos (Birth of the child of God), 2001, 17" x 34". cat. DOM-032
Row 5           Back up to row 5
5a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Volteando hilo (Spinning thread), 1999, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-013
5b. Domingo Garcia Criado: Tejiendo (Weaving), 2003, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-021
5c. Domingo Garcia Criado: Preocupacion con problemas (Worrying about troubles), 2001, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-027
5d. Domingo Garcia Criado: Noviasgo (Courtship), 1999, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-018
Row 6           Back up to row 6
6a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Cortando café (Picking coffee), 2000, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-020
6b. Domingo Garcia Criado: El lobo mata la oveja (The wolf kills the sheep), 2001, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-030
6c. Domingo Garcia Criado: Vendiendo Frutas (Selling Fruits), 2001, 25" x 20". cat. DOM-031
6d. Domingo Garcia Criado: Noviasgo (Courtship), 2000, 25" x 20". cat. DOM-025
Row 7           Back up to row 7
7a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Noviasgo (Courtship), 2000, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-028
7b. Domingo Garcia Criado: Peleando por una mujer (Fighting over a woman), 2001, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-029
7c. Domingo Garcia Criado: Estaba dejando los elementos a los pollos (Scattering the feed for the chickens), 2003, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-040
7d. Domingo Garcia Criado: El pintor (The painter), 2003, 20" x 16". cat. DOM-039
Row 8           Back up to row 8
8a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Orando Maximón (Praying to Maximon), 2001, 33" x 25". cat. DOM-033
8b. Domingo Garcia Criado: Esta Cosechando (Harvesting), 1998, 33" x 25". cat. DOM-011
8c. Domingo Garcia Criado: El torrero (The bull fighter), 2003, 25" x 20". cat. DOM-041
8d. Domingo Garcia Criado: El rapto del Gallo (The abduction of the rooster), 1999, 16" x 14". cat. DOM-016
Row 9           Back up to row 9
9a. Domingo Garcia Criado: Cosechando Uvas (Harvesting grapes), 2003, 12" x 9". cat. DOM-005
9b. Domingo Garcia Criado: Esta Mordiendo el perro (The biting dog), 1998, 18" x 27". cat. DOM-015
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Antonio C. Ixtamer ] [ Domingo Garcia Criado ] Diego Isaias Hernandez Mendez ] Emilio Gonzalez Morales ] Jose Antonio Gonzalez ] Juan Fermin Gonzalez Morales ] Lorenzo Gonzalez Chavajay ] Maria Elena Curruchiche ] Maria Teodora Mendez ] Mariano Gonzalez Chavajay ] Matias Gonzalez Chavajay ] Mario Gonzalez Chavajay ] Miguel Angel Sunu ] Paula Nicho Cumes ] Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay ] Samuel Cumes Pop ] Rafael Gonzalez y Gonzalez ] Juan Sisay ] Vicenta Puzul ]
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