The clown is a difficult person to comprehend, the best loved figure in Italian Commedia dell Arte. Merry, radiating the spirit of wit and comedy, his movements were as gay and capricious as a butterfly. Here, the clown provides for a humorous foil to the lovely woman. Garibay’s multilevelled symbolism which traverses various cultural contexts makes for an art that continually proffers new insight. This thematic complexity is borne by a richly painterly style, with the suggestion of the linear application of colors among other techniques. These pictorial devices create a web of glistening transparent tissue that interconnects element throughout the entire visual field and creates a sense of emergence through time and spatial density.
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Emmanuel Garibay (b.1962)
The Woman and the Clown
signed (lower left)
oil on canvas
36” x 36” (91 cm x 91 cm)
SOLD: PHP 467,200
Provenance: Private Collection, Manila