| Musician: | Artist: | Author |
| Juan Luis Guerra | M�nica Ferreras | Manuel Rueda |
| Examples | Examples | Examples |
| Art, music, and literature are developed in part on Western patterns. Almost equally strong is the African cultural strain. In the folk culture, especially the music, the African heritage is most noticeable. These two traditions blend in the popular national song and dance, the merengue. |
Musician | Juan Luis Guerra was born on July 7, 1956. He likes salsa and merengue music and is a very famous singer in the world of Latin American music. Also, Juan Luis Guerra became very popular in the United States when his music arrived there. His songs are about the people of his country (the Dominican Republic) and are very poetic. The music is a combination of many cultures and Guerra has many admirers in several parts of the world. When Guerra composes his songs, his metaphors and his imagination fly high, but he always keeps one foot on the ground that allows him to get across the social message. |
 Picture courtesy of www.CDNOW.com |
Music - Example Artist
 Picture courtesy of sites.netscape.net/monicaferreras |
M�nica Ferreras was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on February 17, 1965. She has 5 solo shows at galleries in Santo Domingo and in the US. In 1993 she won second prize in painting at the "First Young Dominican Painter's Award," Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, D.R., and in 1985 she was the recipient of a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, Holland, where she earned a Master's Degree in Environmental Design. She attended Altos de Chavon School of Design, La Romana, D.R., an art school affiliated with Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, and received the B.F.A. in Illustration and Fine Arts in 1985. |
Art - Example
 Picture courtesy of sites.netscape.net/monicaferreras Cast plaster, eggs, and wood, 45" x 21" |
 Picture courtesy of www.artistnation.com Acrylic paints/ Watercolor paints on wood, 11" x 24" |
Author | Manuel Rueda was born in 1921 in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. He was a Dominican poet and a recipient of the National Literature Award. Rueda, who also a pianist and musical composer, became a member of the Dominican Academy of Spanish Language in 1970 and was the creator of the literary movement "Pluralism" in 1974. He was, in addition, an honorary member of the Faculty of Sciences and Musical Arts of the University of Chile. Among his works is a "Panoramic Anthology of the Contemporary Dominican Poetry" and "Congregation of the Unique Body," with which he received the National Poetry Prize in 1990. Rueda died on December 20, 1999. |
Author - Example | Type: | Work: | Year: |
| Collections of Poems | Las Noches | (1953) |
| La criatura terrestre | (1963) | |
| Con el tambor de las Islas | (1975) | |
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Por los mares de la Dama National Poetry Award |
(1976) | |
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Las edades del viento National Poetry Award |
(1979) | |
| Plays |
La trinitaria blanca National Literary Prize |
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El rey Clinejas National Literary Prize |
(1979) | |
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Juana la loca Tirso de Molino Award of Spain |
(1995) | |
| Collection of Short Stories | Papeles de Sara | (1985) |
| Memoir | Bienvenida and the Night | (1994) |
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