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ABOUT THE WORK

Among the modernists, Ang Kiukok was the artist who utilized the creation of still lifes to its fullest. Beginning with linear forms in austere gray, and brown of textured surfaces, over the years, he transitioned to a more complex and bright-colored cubist still lifes of tabletops containing fruits, potted plants, or bottles. Still lifes, for the artist, marked an important milestone in his artistic career and growth. It wa through the paintings of objects that one can chart Ang’s journey from his early days as a strictly Modernist painter, with his stringent yet fluid emphasis on expression, to his later outings as a uniquely distinct artist with his focus] on an Expressionist-Cubist technique. In this work, the artist presents his signature take on still- life, with his rigid and geometric portions building up to a figurative flatness that somehow manages to both convey and detract perspective. Yet one can argue that it is the artist’s Figurative approach that brings his subject matter closer to reality than those produced by means of a more classical or formal method. By exaggerating his forms and figures, Ang captures both the physicality of the area and the inherent context it contains.