Provenance: Claudia Luz

ABOUT THE WORK

Whether it be in his paintings or his sculptures, Arturo Luz works consistently in the abstract, calling attention to what Manila critics describe as an “elegant Mandarin sensibility". Arturo Luz, like Fernando Zobel, Constancio Bernardo, Lee Aguinaldo, and Jose Joya are among the artists who explored non-objective art in painting and mixed media works, both in linear and painterly styles. But Luz, through discipline, has built his reputation around distinct visual worlds stripped of distraction and sentiment. His direction had to do with abstract painting of a geometric-planar kind. A founding member of the modern Neo-Realist school in Philippine art, Arturo Luz received the National Artist Award, the country's highest accolade in the arts, in 1997.