Provenance: Provenance: Acquired from Odette Alcantara by the present owner

ABOUT THE WORK

The late critic Dr. Rod Paras-Perez wrote: “Edades’ choice of scenes bereft of any attempt to ‘prettify’ showed the way to a new world. Edades opened the door to Modernist Art in the Philippines and did not close it afterward. In the process of opening that door, his ideas also changed the tone of art discourse in the country—perhaps with more far-reaching effect than is easily perceived.” His studies in the U.S. and exposure to European modern art influenced his craft that’s not inclined toward idyllic subject matters and presenting refined detailing, and he paved the way for generations of Filipino artists who utilize modernist approaches to art-making. After Edades retired from the University of Sto. Tomas where he served as a dean of its architecture department and also taught painting, he settled with his wife, Jean Edades, in Davao during the late 1960s. This 1969 landscape piece further reveals his fruitful efforts to go beyond the standards of the classical tradition of painting. The father of modern Philippine painting, Edades presented reality as he saw it through modernist expression.