{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40688,"auction_id":65,"set_id":93,"lot_number":"165","artist":"Ang Kiukok (1931-2005)","title":"Still Life Fruits","starting_price":1800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1999 (upper left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24” x 36” (61 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Finale Art File confirming the authenticity of this lot.","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The works of Ang Kiukok mark a definitive niche in the evolution of the Filipino still life. For centuries, still lifes depicted fruits with luminescent sunlight trapped indoors, reflected in their rinds, and romantic  chiaroscurro vanishing in the background.  This style influenced the bodegones of the Paterno ladies entered as exhibits  in the Regional Exposition of the colony in 1895. The success of old masters such as Juan Luna in the European Salons from 1881 onwards helped bolster the influence  of the Madrid Salon on Philippine freelance painting. Henceforth, the shapes of objects would become more defined solidly,  highlighted sharply and modelled in hues subdued by burnt sienna and gray. The very contemporary visual spontaneity experienced in this particular piece, while it is not unlike the exuberance of  the still life works of Filipino artists of generations past, such as Jose Maria Asuncion (1865-1925) and Emilio Alvero  (1886-1956) was and is an independent achievement of Ang Kiukok, intrinsic in the way he came up with the manner  of execution. Early attempts at the abstract, especially by painters who did not quite know first-hand what modern art was all about, were disastrous as the mechanical repetition of slices of watermelon and halved fresh coconuts. The success of contemporary still life artists, such as Ang Kiukok, along with Manansala and Malang, was in synthesizing  a distinctly Filipino character with the geometric shapes of abstract art.  The fruits and other elements on the table are  at once nonchalantly Oriental and Western in the economy and honesty of his brushstrokes. The less angst ridden and more formalist aspect of Ang Kiukok’s art is seen in his series of Still Lifes.  Ang Kiukok’s stll lifes  of local fruits and vegetables thrive on a dialogue of warm and cool tones.  The geometric compositions which often include  a kitchen or dining table at once suggest perspective in depth and deny it by asserting flatness in planes that establish two  dimensionality.  Color, too, is innovative in that it can become independent of shape or even go outside white, while the  ground is sectioned into hard edge planes of rich glowing hues that summon their cool complementaries.  However, the fruits and vegetables themselves, while they are steeped in Cezannesque color theory, have their own quaint charm and unwilting freshness along with their subtle micromovements within their space.","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":550000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":550000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":642400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39825,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/65/93/lot/165.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":164,"next":166,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}