Iván Tovar

About

Iván Tovar was a Dominican painter and sculptor renowned for his surrealist works influenced by Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró. Born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, he studied at the National School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1959. In 1963, he received a painting scholarship to Paris, where he lived and worked for two decades, becoming the first Dominican painter to exhibit at the Paris Biennale and showing in Stockholm, Luxembourg, and New York. His art featured mysteriously sexual themes, subconscious explorations, geometric forms with bodily energy, and dreamlike landscapes, producing around 1,000 works in his career.[1][6][7]

Neo-Surrealism with subliminal abstractions, geometric forms imbued with bodily energy, and dreamscapes