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(b. Managua, Nicaragua, 1929). He attended the School of Fine Arts under the nationally beloved teacher Rodrigo Peñalba, and belonged to a group of artists that sought to express their Nicaraguan identity through a contemporary visual language. The New Crucifixion, was created in 1989, after the artist fled from Nicaragua to the United States and was inspired by a mural he painted in his homeland named The Crucifixion of Nicaragua. Nicaragua, in D'Leon's opinion, "is a country laden with sex and sensuality, with a thousand repressions ...without the courage to be itself, free, independent and to honestly accept itself." This theme is present in his series the "Conflicting Birthdays" which focuses on the duality of birthdays, at once a celebration of life and yet occasions that bring us a year closer to our deaths. D'Leon has been in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America. In 1982, one of the artists' paintings was reprodu
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