{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22348,"auction_id":25,"set_id":44,"lot_number":"88","artist":"Angelito Antonio (1939 - 2025)","title":"Mother and Child","starting_price":220000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1985 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24” x 36” (61 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Distinguished modernist Angelito Antonio rose to prominence due to his well-defined figurative-expressionist style. In the early days of his career, his artistic style was geared towards black and white series. He later developed his clear-cut artistry, showcasing his unique style by integrating stylized representation and color schemes into his works. The subjects of his works evolved from having religious themes to depicting a utopian Philippine life, with an emphasis on countryside culture and heritage.
Regarded as having both modernist and expressionist predilections, Antonio has produced works that exhibit his aesthetic disposition for more than five decades. Similar to his wife, Norma Belleza, he has a penchant for the folk genre, depicting fishermen, vendors, and other native folks that encapsulate a bona fide representation of Filipino lifestyle and values. This untitled piece showcases his powerful figurative expressionism. For Antonio, color represents the hope of his obscure subjects - a yearning for alleviation and deliverance from the despondent situations they are in. There is an idiosyncratic high-spiritedness in the jarring hues that brings out the strength of this work. Considered as one of the most influential modernists in the Philippine art scene, Antonio is a noteworthy avant-garde of action painting and one who contributed to the burgeoning of Cubism in Philippine art.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Angelito Antonio (1939 - 2025) Mother and Child signed and dated 1985 (lower left) oil on canvas 24” x 36” (61 cm x 91 cm)