Jaime Colson was a modernist

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

 painter from the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

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. Born in San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata, often referred to as simply Puerto Plata, is the capital of the Dominican province Puerto Plata.The city is famous for resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, located east of San Felipe de Puerto Plata. There are a total of 100,000 hotel beds in the city.The only...

, he studied first in Spain

Spain

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, in Madrid

Madrid

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 and Barcelona

Barcelona

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, before moving to Paris

Paris

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 and becoming accepted by the Cubists

Cubism

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture...

. He moved again, in 1934, to Mexico

Mexico

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, where he taught for a time before returning to the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

 in 1938. Colson's style was influenced by purism

Purism

Purism was a form of Cubism advocated by the French painter Amédée Ozenfant and the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret . Purism rejected the decorative trend of cubism and advocated a return to clear, ordered forms that were expressive of the modern machine age as documented in their 1918 book...

 and Surrealism

Surrealism

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, with a dose of Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

's classicism as well. Besides exhibiting as a painter he was active as a teacher; among his pupils was the Cuba

Cuba

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n modernist Mario Carreño Morales

Mario Carreño Morales

Mario Carreño Morales was a Cuban painter.He studied painting in the Academia de San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba since 1925 until 1926. In 1934, he studied in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain...

.

Colson died in Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

in 1975.