Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Dominican Republic
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Yoryi Morel 🇩🇴

Jorge Octavio Morel Tavares (Known as "Yoryi")
Master Costumbrista Painter, Founder of the Santiago Academy, National Arts Laureate
Born 1906-10-25 🇩🇴 Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Passed Away 1979-04-14 Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Lifespan 72 years old
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"Our countryside is alive with light, movement, and spontaneous joy; that is the true soul I paint."

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Foremost Dominican costumbrista painter whose vibrant, sun-drenched impressionist brushwork celebrated the rural landscapes, cockfights, merengue dances, and everyday folk rituals of the fertile Cibao valley.

Biographical Record

Jorge Octavio 'Yoryi' Morel was born in Santiago on October 25, 1906. Showing brilliant precocious skill in drawing, Morel held his first solo exhibition in Santo Domingo in 1932, stunning critics with his radiant, loose brushstrokes.

Unlike contemporaries who copied European academic styles, Morel painted the luminous tropical reality of the Cibao: barefoot peasants riding donkeys, joyful rural weddings, village carnivals, and lush royal palms. Founding the Academia de Pintura Yoryi in Santiago, he trained generations of Dominican visual masters.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Municipal Cemetery of Santiago (30 de Marzo)
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
GPS: 19.4510, -70.7020
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