10 famous artist and their work

10 famous artist and their work

Fernando Zobel de Ayala, Virevia II, 1960

Fernando Zobel de Ayala,

Despite Fernando Zóbel’s prolific background as kin of the prominent

Zóbel de Ayala family, one can guess, from his biography, that his life was
far from easy. He had suffered health problems since childhood, lost his
father to an infection, and lived through political turmoil both in Spain
and in the Philippines.
Virevia II, 1960
His art style, abstractionist, was inspired by Mark Rothko, but although
Rothko is famous for vibrant colours, Zóbel’s artwork has been mostly
done in blacks, whites, blues, and greys. Although some works evoke a
calming feel with their soft, even brushstrokes, others are created that
feel quite tense, with sharp, dark, crisscrossing lines against a light
backdrop.
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Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Women Amidst Bananas, 1979

Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Women Amidst Bananas, 1979

Anita Magsaysay-Ho, a first cousin to former president Ramon

Magsaysay, is one of the Philippines’ pioneering modernist
painters. She was the pupil of Fernando Amorsolo, whose
influence can sometimes be seen in her landscape artworks
such as Fish Harvest At Dawn and Three Women In A Landscape.

In this painting, the women are gathering bananas in what may be a

planation. The dense, repetitive lushness of the banana leaves in
the background and the plants in the foreground make the entire
composition seem like a huge textile design. Magsaysay-ho gave her
figures an Eden to tend. In a 1979 article, Philippine Artistic Genius,
Pamela M. Alexander discussed the artist’s treatment of her figures.
“The artist’s idealization of women depends on certain stylistically
decorative elements which bestow a poetic temperament on her
works,”
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