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ART
MODULE 6: LESSON 2

SUBMITTED BY: Tristan Olvido

SUBMITTED TO: Jemima Oberes

 Heliconia, 1996 Yellow Bird, 1993

Medium: oil on canvas Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Rapture, 1992 Untitled, 1996

Medium: painting Medium: mixed media

 Endless Blues, 2001 ALAMANDAS, 2002

Medium: oil and painted cloth stitched Medium: oil and painted cloth stitched

OBSESSION, 1996 Watusi: I’m lost without you, 1991

Medium: oil, acryclic Medium: lithograph

Pictures of you, 2000 Dead Serious

Medium: oil on canvas Medium: oil on canvas

 Pacita Abad
Pacita Abad was a well-known Filipino painter. Abad's work fluctuates between abstraction
and representation while continually employing the rich reds, purples, and yellows of Islamic
Filipino textiles and culture, as evidenced by her rhythmic repeats of shape, pattern, and
color. Abad is best known for inventing the trapunto painting method, which is a
reinterpretation of Italian quilting techniques. She began stuffing her later canvases with
culturally laden things like shells, fabrics, and mirrors, and affixing them to the surface of her
amalgamate works. She was born on October 5, 1946, in Batanes, Philippines, and traveled
widely, living on six of the seven continents. She attended the Art Students League in New
York and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., to study painting.

Abad developed a technique of trapunto painting (named after a quilting technique), which
entailed stitching and stuffing her painted canvases to give them a three-dimensional,
sculptural effect.