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Dec 12, 2022 · Three Women with basket by Anita Magsaysay Ho. Anita Magsaysay-Ho was a Filipina painter who specialized in Social Realism and post-Cubism in regard to women in Filipino culture. Magsaysay-Ho’s work appeals to Modernism by utilizing more abstract designs and styles rather than realistic approaches.
Contextualized in a flattened color field that also signals a generic sense of agricultural labor in the Philippines, the women are anonymized and made symbolic, not of beauty, but of a labor archetype: the peasant as woman.
Jun 7, 2021 · The painting of three women wreathed by eight baskets once belonged to Charito Panganiban Melchor, who had bequeathed it to her eldest son. Charito was married to the technocrat Alex Melchor, a trusted adviser to nine different Philippine presidents.
Oct 2, 2021 · Women With Baskets, Fish, and Crab presents to us the same women from the previous two paintings but this time they are holding three rattan baskets that permeate the artwork’s foreground...
Cultural Cache Online Season 3: “Three Women with Baskets” by Anita Magsaysay-HoEpisode 7 is here!To celebrate the 54th Anniversary of the Cultural Center of...
Three Women and Baskets. Medium: Philippine jade, wood mosaic. Size: 66 x 95.5 cm. (26 x 37.6 in.) Description: *. Sale: *.
Painted between 1950 - 1954, Three Women in a Landscape (Lot 187) is a rare and relatively early work, executed in Magsaysay-Ho's signature egg tempera on canvas. The artistic use of egg tempera is more difficult than oil paint, as the consistency makes this medium harder to control.
