{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22414,"auction_id":25,"set_id":44,"lot_number":"154","artist":"Lydia Velasco (b. 1942)","title":"Kanyang Pahiwatig","starting_price":240000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2000 (lower right)","medium":"acrylic on canvas","size":"36” x 24” (91 cm x 61 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Lydia Velasco’s 2000 acrylic on canvas piece titled Kanyang Pahiwatig showcases\nVelasco at her best. Velasco’s female figure, a motif the artist is widely regarded\nfor, features exaggerated contours and lines that complement the figure’s relatively\nheightened scale and proportions. It is this unnatural treatment that lends Velasco’s\nwork a sense of both burgeoning tension and palpable passion. Each brush stroke\nis visually distinct, allowing the viewer to experience the scene’s spatial presence\ndespite the inherent flatness of the canvas. Velasco is also no stranger to suggestive\nand evocative themes. Yet her works are never shallow nor gratifyingly provocative.\nInstead, Velasco’s figures are undeniably progrssive, able to find and accept dignity\nwithin the natural desires of the body and the flesh.
\nOne of the most notable Filipina modernist painters, Lydia Velasco depicts strong\nand impressive women in her body of works. Her signature female figures\ndominating the canvases show various personalities and moods, characterized by\nsensuousness, strength, and an almost-masculine assertiveness. Velasco asserts\nwomen identity and freedom through the elongated and massively rendered\nsubjects which also show the artist’s view of the inherent qualities of women.\nNational Artists H.R. Ocampo and Cesar Legaspi are among the prominent figures in\nthe art scene who influenced her painterly techniques.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Lydia Velasco (b. 1942) Kanyang Pahiwatig signed and dated 2000 (lower right) acrylic on canvas 36” x 24” (91 cm x 61 cm)