Antonio Prats Ventós: Natalia Conde

By: Antonio Prats Ventós

Ever since the beginning, when she studied in the Plastic Arts School of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University, her teachers realized that she was something special: She had an inquisitive attitude that went beyond our answers. She didn't limit herself to what we taught her based on a program. Instead, she would work more than what we would ask her to and she would question more than we could answer.

Years of experience with students gave us the intuition that Natalia Conde was going to be an artist.

I have to clarify that an Art Schools teaches craftmanship to facilitate expression in any artistic manifestation, but they are not factories of artists. This depends on the sensibility of each person, on his creative imagination, on his work capacity, and on his sense of aesthetics , without caring about the incidences of daily life. He has to do his artwork passionately all the time.

This is the case of Natalia.

Her personality, her ease, the formats, and her constant dedication allows us to assure that the promise that she made her teachers believe, that they had AN ARTIST -in capital letters- in formation, has been amply fulfilled. Continue like that Natalia.

 September 5th, 1998