Accompanied by a certificate issued by Ms. Luisa Luz-Lansigan
confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Arturo Luz is a master artist in many different art forms from being a sculptor, printmaker, designer, and most especially as a painter. He is known as an innovator and founder in the Neo-realist school of art alongside contemporaries such as Vincente Manansala and Hernando Ocampo. During his time, Luz style was inspired by the modernist movement from painters such as Paul Klee, where throughout his long career, he had explored a variety of ways and techniques to experiment with presentations of different dynamic geometric forms and figures. Luz started studying in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas, then he moved to the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and then later to the Académie Grade Chaumière in Paris. In his later career, Luz had international exhibitions across the world in places such as the United States, Brazil, Japan, the United Kingdom, and many more. During this time, he also became the founding director of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila and later in 1997, Luz received the National Artist Award. It is no wonder that Arturo Luz has achieved much acclaim throughout his career, as his unique artworks made an impact on the Philippine art society. His modernist Neo-Realistic style explores and pushes the boundaries of forms and figures to be depicted in a whole new way. In this particular piece, “Two Performers Cyclist and Juggler” depicts a scene of two men performing a circus show, where one is a juggler and the other is a cyclist. These human figures in black and white against a bold red background emphasize Luz’s dynamic technique of using elements of linear lines and disproportionate geometric shapes that still manage to communicate and depict a scene of these two performers to the viewer. These different elements in this particular piece may be minimalist in detail, however works such as this show Luz’s focus on complex techniques of depicting figures is an example of the national artist’s skill and signature style.