Ada Balcacer

Ada Balcacer or Ada Balcácer (born 16 June 1930) is a Dominican Republic visual artist.

Ada Balcacer
Born16 June 1930
Santo Domingo
NationalityDominican Republic

Life

Balcacer was born in Santo Domingo.[1] She was brought up in the countryside and her ambition was to have a career in medicine but a horseriding accident led to a broken arm. Worse still the arm did not heal and gangrene obliged the doctors to amputate.[2] Latin American art history will be remembered as one of the two most famous one-armed artists, next to Mexican José Clemente Orozco.[3]

Like Clara Ledesma. she studied for four years in Santo Domingo at the National Fine Art School where many of the teachers were emigres from the war in Europe.[4] Her teachers included the Spanish artist Josep_Gausachs.[5] She then went to America in 1951 a lived in New York for twelve years.[4] When she returned to the Dominican Republic she achieved some success.

Her abstract approach is said to be to avoid censorship given the political turmoil in her country in the 1960s.[6]

Balcacer has used her knowledge of marketing to advise women on how they can sell their traditional crafts.[7]

References
  1. "Ada Balcácer: Outstanding Figure of National and Latin American Art". Ada Balcácer. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  2. Jesus, Carlos Suarez De (2014-05-15). "Ada Balcacer: One-Armed Genius at PAMM". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  3. Jesus, Carlos Suarez De (2014-05-15). "Ada Balcacer: One-Armed Genius at PAMM". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  4. "Paddle8 | For the 21st-century collector". www.paddle8.com. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  5. Brown, Isabel Zakrzewski (1999). Culture and Customs of the Dominican Republic. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 170. ISBN 9780313303142. ada balcacer.
  6. Balderston, Daniel; Gonzalez, Mike; Lopez, Ana M. (2000-12-07). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Routledge. ISBN 9781134788521.
  7. Beyer, Barry K. (1992). Latin America and Canada. Macmillan/McGraw Hill School Publishing Company. ISBN 9780021459087. ada balcacer.


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