Patterned after El Greco of his views of his adopted city of Toledo in Spain, Malang paints the luminous red sky with the sun as its forefront. This cubistic landscape conjures the Catholic tradition of the Philippine society and the Virgin Mary towering over the miniscule townsfolk represented by the family below. For the artist, Malang is stringent in adopting a spatial division between the city and the sky. The city which is congestive, tight and packed, while the sky opens up to radiant sun that eclipses the viewer’s gaze with stark colors of yellows and reds.
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Mauro Malang Santos (1928-2017)
White Sun
signed and dated 1971 (lower right)
oil on canvas
35”x 35” (89 cm x 62 cm)
SOLD: PHP 9,344,000
Literature: Duldulao, Manuel D., Contemporary Philippine Art, Vera-Reyes, Inc., 1972, p.211 (illustrated)