Furthermore, Betty Seminario becomes the designer of all her characters’ costumes; she refuses to follow the established trends which are based on the Andean population’s tradition. Instead, she reinvents the different designs of each of her characters’ costumes, according to her criteria in color and models.
          Her work as a whole inspires optimism and happiness. In her paintings all spaces are filled; in other words, each part in every painting has details and characters that occupy all the spaces.
Betty Seminario resides in New York since 2002. This city provides her with a new frame of mind that is making her generate new art work; very different from the European vision of tranquility and passivity, which she enjoyed in the suburbs of Rome.
           The experience of living in New York is a totally new challenge for her It includes facing the array of traditions of different ethnic groups that intertwine with each other; the fast pace living and different attitudes; the mixture of costumes and upbringings; the constant activity of people throughout the year, in which the avant-garde is the bread of everyday and the idiosyncrasy is the one that allows the most unexpected behaviors and lifestyles. The vision of Betty will be different; she will have to reinvent new designs of her characters and elaborate a new totally different landscape to demonstrate then a new society. Her paintings will be the result of an intense transculturalization that can only occur in the life of an artist that has lived in such diverse environments, like Peru, Italy and New York.

Dtt. Faustino Quintanilla, Director of the QCC Art Gallery
writer and plastic artist of the University’s board.

Museum Queensborough Community College The City University of New York
December 2,004

          The work of Betty Seminario goes beyond of what is known as costumbrismo; it is fundamentally based on the folklore of the Peruvian population. In regards to the festivities and daily activities in her paintings, her main goal is not testimonial, but instead it is based on various characteristics, such as, the brightness of its costumes, pottery, etc. She displays an array of color and happiness through a description of unique details, in which it is shown the perspicacity of the children; the everyday commercial transactions; the ingenuity of naive youngsters; the pragmatism of the older people; all of these details captured in a singular landscape that is neither Andean nor European. For Betty, such concept was created while she resided for more than 15 years in Europe, Rome-Italy.
          She has painted for various important collections, such as the mural for the Municipality of Scalea, Italy; which displays a panoramic view of the city along with a huge crowd of people carrying flags and colorful clothing from the Andean towns; it is an “Andino Europea” (Andean European) painting of peculiar characteristics.