{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37252,"auction_id":48,"set_id":76,"lot_number":"123","artist":"Manuel Ocampo (b.1965)","title":"Comprehensible Only To A Few Initiates","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"2015","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"79” x 75” (201 cm x 191 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"ARNDT Fine Art, Singapore Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"“Paintings are not spectacular, they are not experience driven, they require a slow read,” quipped the American-based Filipino artist Manuel Ocampo who paints this massive contemplative work in this graffiti-laced canvas. Ocampo perforates graffiti with splashes of browns, maroons and greens in vandalizing a cool toned background of light blue reminiscent of the works by the British artist David Hockney that resembles a swimming pool that is relaxing and refreshing to one’s eyes. Intriguing in this sanguine work, atypical from the dark and thought evoking canvasses that Ocampo is renowned for, is that the vandalism that is splashed unto the canvass blends through perfectly with the oceanic blue background.   But in his distinct style, Ocampo conveys a hidden message from its title stenciled into black on a white placard on the canvas. Here, the artist states that the true meaning of this works is only known by the select few. There is a clear reference to the early Christian philosophies of Gnosticism from the first and second century AD from the Greek terminology of gnostikos meaning having knowledge albeit secretive in nature that a mere mortal cannot be completely understood in its gravity. This is in line with Ocampo’s fascination with religious iconography and Christian philosophy In experiencing the unseen, Ocampo induces us the viewer to delve deeper into the true knowledge from this work and coerces to see beyond a mere blend of colors.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1300000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1300000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1518400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35281,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/48/76/lot/123.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":122,"next":124,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}