Provenance: Provenance:
Rod Paras-Perez collection

ABOUT THE WORK

Legaspi and Paras-Perez’s Mother and Child is reminiscent of Trois Femmes (Three Women, 1908) by the Cubist master, Pablo Picasso, wherein orange and green are the salient hues. The orthogonal grid that fills the canvas gives configuration to the subjects’ physique at acute angles. In Cubism, the human body is rendered as a non-contextual figure stripped off of any physical or sacred archetypes and is depicted as an encapsulation of a formalist aspiration. Paras-Perez’s extensive knowledge of contemporary art and his consistent consolidation of figurative and non-figurative elements, Orientalism and Occidentalism, and organic and geometric forms combined with Legaspi’s sensibility for the modification of shapes through polished and thorough brush strokes with an emphasis on the graceful flow of continuous shapes and colors have resulted to a masterpiece that evokes a sense of affiliation and attachment even in a non-pictorial and non-representational manner.