Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Madrid

ABOUT THE WORK

          The village gathering scene is one of the cherished subjects of Amorsolo.  The main focus is on a pair of tinikling dancers in the field surrounded by revelers both young and old.  Abundant  food is presented in basketfuls of assorted fruits, as well as the traditional roasted pig or lechon being prepared by two  townsfolk.  All painted with a combination of spectacular,  fleeting romanticism and meticulous, somber literalism.
          By the 1950s, Amorsolo’s mastery of the Filipino genre painting has crystallized, from his postwar urban encroachment,  he continued to make many outdoor studies of the untouched Philippine countryside, in an ardent endeavor to capture the  light and color of what he has observed.  In a conscious  engagement with nature, the rhythms of the land, people  and place, inform the work of Amorsolo.  The characteristic  of this work reflects his nostalgic attitude towards the countryside.