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E-Gallery of (3) Filipino Artist

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Victorio C. Edades "The Sketch, 1928"  Medium: 96 x 117 cm, oil on canvas,  “The Sketch” was painted in America and exhibited at the Seattle Fine Arts Society, which was composed of artists from Washington, Idaho, Utah, Oregon and Canada. It won the second highest honors. The first honors was won by one of my professors from the University of Washington. https://artplus.ph/victorio-edades-vanguard-of-philippine-modernism/ "The Lady in Maria Clara, 1971" Medium: oil on canvas The Lady, artistically conceived and depicted in the dictum of classicism (example: correct anatomy), sits in the open, flanked by two potted plants, and a tree behind which is unique with its three-layered crown. Subdued is the color range, echoed by the faint smile of the lady. Edades, the icon of modern art in the Philippines, has agrued in this work the timelessness of classical art. As a pictorial image of the Filipinos across time, “The Lady in Maria Clara” is a model of pulchritude by rea...