ABOUT THE WORK

Every schoolchild was familiar with Amorsolo scenes of planting rice and streams overhung with bamboo shot through with sunlight. These were scenes used to illustrate primers and readers then. His repertoire of techniques in catching the effect of sunlight on wet objects is dazzling. This work shows what the Amorsolo sunlight can do when it plays on water. At first glance, his narratives appear to be similar to typical traditional stories mirrored in turn of the century art. They are about peasant life against a background of rural landscapes, and the delights of young womanhood in an Arcadian setting. This is a good example of Amorsolo’s care and ability to express accurately the varying shapes and forms of nature, to depict the many greens in a landscape, to express the variety of grass, foliage accurately and to distinguish their various shapes and forms.