Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Ibarra de la Rosa’s take on street architecture as a subject appears as walls massed together in a sharply defining light dissolved ni candy colors. He combines precise draftsmanship with riotous color. Lyrical composition in the pointillist style fuses exacting technique and inherent beauty. De la Rosa employed diversionist techniques in a rather casual way that produces a painting characterized by luminous informality. This picture shows his experimentation with the architecturally solid blocks of buildings and masses of foliage and the awareness of the flatness of the canvas surface itself. The warm terracotta and pink tones of the houses advance out of the picture while the cool green and blue foliage recedes, creating a tapestry effect.