Artist:
Angelito Antonio (b.1939)

Title:
Family

Signed & Dated:
signed and dated 1998 (lower right)

Medium:
oil on canvas

Measurements:
24” x 30” (61 cm x 76 cm)

Write Up:
It is clear that Angelito Antonio’s style is influenced by
Vicente Manansala’s transparent cubism, but what sets
him apart from his mentor is his sharper linear clarity and
distinct washed-out color tones, as exemplified in this work.
Stylistically depicted family members also show the Filipinoness
that characterizes Antonio’s works. With his strong
cubist style—also his nationalist style of Modernism—and use
of colors’ emotional properties, everyday people and scenes
are poetically rendered, making him one of the finest genre
artists in the country. Along with Antonio Austria, Norma
Belleza, and Mario Parial, among other second-wave Filipino
modernists, Antonio continues to champion expressionism in
the country’s art scene.