A close contemporary of Amorsolo, Dominador Castañeda’s landscape, though similar in its predilection for classicism and realism, couldn’t be any different from the maestro’s. In comparison to Amorsolo’s fiery warm fields, Castañeda chooses to wash his landscape with cooler tones. The 1964 Barrio Scene and Old Sampaloc Tree, for example, are awash with light blues and cool greens that one could almost feel the cool, cloudless afternoon that Castañeda so lovingly portrays. His landscapes, while sharing the bliss of his contemporaries’ depictions of the Philippine countryside, are more reserved and intimate, a stolen glance in an otherwise normal afternoon that his viewers would return to again and again, drawn in by the nostalgia that Castañeda is adept at translating. (Hannah Valiente)
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Dominador Castañeda (1904 - 1967)
a.) Barrio Scene
b.) Old Sampaloc Tree
a.) signed and dated 1964 (lower right)
oil on masonite board
8" x 12" (20 cm x 30 cm)
oil on masonite board
8" x 12" (20 cm x 30 cm)
b.) signed and dated 1964 (lower right)
oil on canvas
9 1/2" x 13" (24 cm x 33 cm)
oil on canvas
9 1/2" x 13" (24 cm x 33 cm)
SOLD: PHP 360,480
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