ABOUT THE WORK

Angelito Antonio is one of the living masters of Modernism. He is popular for painting scenes from the Filipino rustic life in his famous Cubist style which incorporates the use of bright festive colors. His favorite subjects are farmers, fighting cocks, vendors selling their wares and produce in markets, churches, and sidewalks. Influenced by Manansala, Angelito Antonio is one of the prime movers of the Cubist style and action painting in Philippine art. Combinations of acidic yellow and black and white in its washed-out tones are his personal color schemes, painting local themes in rich meaningfulness and vibrancy in linear clarity. Figures are distorted, together with other objects and elements of its environments. His works during the Seventies have a neo-realism style that is distinct from the other artists of his time. His more recent works have more intense opaque colors and are more contemporary in style.