{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40071,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"163","artist":"Juanito Torres (b. 1977)","title":"Pinagpala IV","starting_price":140000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2006 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"72” x 48” (183 cm x 122 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"In the last century, the gentler side  of the barung-barong (shanty) has been associated with artists like Mauro Malang Santos as he popularized the subject by over his socio-realistic implications.  Others before Malang had already taken up the subject  in the post-war period.  Vicente Manansala was a precursor of Malang in giving a less harsh depiction of the shanty — but  Manansala and Malang were abstractionists. \nOn the other hand, here comes Juanito  Torres who is widely known for his oil  paintings that bring to life scenes straight out of the most dramatic pages of Philippine history filled with gritty characters.  There  is always pathos, brittle charm, and wit  in the scenes he deftly recreates on his  huge canvases.  However, this work does  not have Torres’ usual historic references.\nTorres demonstrates his ability to evoke human empathy and “Pinagpala IV” reflects the same richness of realism and symbolism for which he is known for in his paintings. Even though he is in many respects a painter of history, Torres truthfully portrays ordinary people — living characters today from the bottom of Philippine society’s social rung,  yet it is the spiritual richness of the poor  that is imparted.\nLittle wonder that his work is imbued  with strong expressions of indigenous  Filipino spirituality.  The spiritual leitmotif  is interwoven throughout Torres’ “Pinagpala IV”.\nDetails such as halos suggest qualities of moral introspection which could not be found in protest art.  With his imagery the artist constructs upon this a meta-text, which is the radical interpretation of the work in terms of Filipino spirituality and social realities. \nThe spiritual aesthetic in this highly mediated and idiosyncratic language becomes part of a contemporary reflection on a sense of belonging to a domain of culture.  The scene resists protest art associations; rather, it invents its own, making the artist’s effort an interesting intertext to prevailing realities. \nTo be sure, the artist does not propose an ahistorical nativism, but an indigenous spirituality.  Think of the tenets of the  pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood penetrating Filipino Social Realism, what with the little boy with cherub’s wings, her mother  standing behind holding a halo in her hand (!) and then there frolicking in a corner is Torres' ubiquitous mascot, a native dog that's a permanent fixture in most of his works, but this time with another halo over its head.  The scene resemble  a mis-en-scene in a spiritual play set in social realist trappings.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Juanito Torres</strong> (b.1977)<br /><em>Pinagpala IV</em><br />signed and dated 2006 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />72&rdquo; x 48&rdquo; (183 cm x 122 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":260000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":260000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":303680,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38630,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/163.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":162,"next":164,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}