Charcoal on Paper. Seller's Statement: From the Rod Paras Perez Collection Dominador Castañeda belonged to the liberal conservative group of artists. Alfredo Roces writes that for Castañeda, "art was a personal choice, and a personal journey, not a struggle for public attention. During his many landscape sketching forays, the artist advised his son, Porfirio: Don’t look at the subject too often. Paint your first impression. You have to feel the atmosphere of the subject…”