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The purpose of this paper is consideration about issues of work of art’s autonomy in regard to its creator and issue of artistic freedom according to privative theory of art connected to Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy. Presented philosophy of art emphasizes analogical feature of art, and it includes in art’s domain every intentional type of creation in unlike modern tendency to unification arts around idea of beauty whilst distancing from twentieth-century anti-essentialism. The main function of art understood in this way is replenishing privations found by man in the world. The essence of art is realization by creator his concept. From this point of view the aim of whole creation is good of work for itself which leads to recognition of autonomy and self-sufficiency of work of art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En la República Dominicana las formas e ideas artísticas contemporáneas tuvieron que esperar tanto al arribo de los refugiados europeos tras los devastadores conflictos mundiales de finales de los años treinta, como a las idas y venidas de algunos artistas dominicanos para ser asimiladas. Sin duda, un proceso de asimilación tardía que produjo un carácter endémico singular en su medio cultural. Así, dentro de una de las dictaduras más terribles que ha soportado América, la evolución del arte corrió paralela a los sucesos políticos y sociales más trágicos, orientándose, a grandes rasgos, de dos maneras diferentes: por un lado, a través de la vía puramente estética, la que al parecer desembocó en la abstracción (de la que creemos se acierta por vez primera su origen); por otro, de la simbólica, la que acogiéndose a la tradicional figuración empleó herramientas de insubordinación y de protesta como sutil desahogo. Asimismo, a pesar de prolongarse el trujillato hasta 1961, fecha del tiranicidio, acotamos la franja temporal de estudio por motivos de extensión. Abstract Contemporary artistic forms and ideas had to wait in the Dominican Republic both up to the arrival of the European refugees after the devastating global conflicts in the late thirties as well as to the return of some Dominican artists to be assimilated. Without a doubt, this process of late assimilation produced a regional and special characteristic in its cultural environment. In this way, within one of the most dreadful dictatorships borne in America, the evolution of art ran in parallel to the most tragic political and social events, orienting itself, in general, in two different ways: on the one hand, through the purely aesthetic one, that apparently ended in abstraction (from which moreover we think its origin is guessed for the first time); on the other hand, through the symbolic one, the one that via traditional figurative art used insubordination and protest tools as a subtle relief. Additionally, in spite of being extended the Trujillato until 1961, the date of the tyrannicide, we delimit the chronology of the study because of the extension of the text.