Mentored by Martino Abellana, Carcar-born master realist Romulo Galicano renders idyllic views with heightened details that evoke dramatic impact and a nostalgic mood. He was also under the tutelage of abstractionist Florencio Concepcion in the University of the East, where he took up fine arts. His works are characterized by heightened effects of light, shade, and colors, as well as a certain mesmerizing liveliness resulting from his attention to achieving pictorial approximations of nature. Though Galicano has painted numerous scenes depicting local and rural landscapes, his constant sojourns to foreign cities and spaces have also been subject to his masterful brushwork and unparalleled technique. There was a time when paintings of faraway cities were unspoken badges of sophistication for the artist. Paintings as remembrances of distant lands broaden the viewer’s world, opening doors to how the artist perceives the experience of a faraway place.
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Romulo Galicano (b. 1945)
Late Winter in Paris
signed Paris (lower left and verso) dated 1990
oil on canvas
30" x 40" (76 cm x 102 cm)
SOLD: PHP 2,102,400
* This lot is sold to benefit the Asian Cultural Council
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist