Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Makati City

ABOUT THE WORK

One of the most recognized names in modern Philippine art is Oscar Zalameda. The iconic modernist has forged an alluring brand of cubism that melds a myriad of stylistic approaches into a powerful, distinctive brand all his own. Here, Zalameda combined solid and more transparent colors to enhance the dynamic subject's instantaneous quality. It has a strong rhythmic quality where he delineated each facet by using different but related geometric patterns and color combinations. The fluidity of motion is maximized. All of the abstracted details have a sinuous development, the picture is filled with a sense of movement, and Zalameda’s abstractions often alluded to weightlessness. He distributes the graduated planes of the surface and the areas of light and shade in rhythmic patterns.