Popular Butchers. By: Miguel Hernández

Category: Painting • Technique: Oil on canvas • Format: 48" x 80" • Year: 2006
XX Award, Centro E. Leon Jimenes.
Santiago, Dominican Republic.


This work of art explores the social reality of our society. It comes from a deep reflection of the urban condition: the deformity of the pattern in which America lives.

The populace who, knowingly or not, reinforce poverty, present themselves to us. Those who run and are elected to power make of the community the same that butchers make of a dead cow. The cow is chopped into pieces and is not recognizable as its whole self. It no longer possesses the power it did before it was butchered. Here enters the practice of many politicians: once in power, this person begins to repeat the butchering process for his supporters, who also posses a several thousand-year hunger that eats them from within.