PROPERTY FROM THE DON VICENTE "TIKING" LOPEZ COLLECTION

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Cesar Legaspi’s oeuvre highlights the shifts in ideologies that were taking a hold of the Filipino art world, since the years after World War II. Celebrated for his refining of cubism within the country’s history of modern art, Legaspi sought to distance himself from the Conservative Art Movement favored during the postwar era and used his artworks as a vehicle to do so. He deliberately rebelled against Filipino painters whose paintings he believed had hindered the progress of Filipino art, with local artists continuing in this theme of expressionism and the beautification of national identity. The present piece entitled Shields is demonstrative of the artist’s desire to divorce himself from populist aesthetics, and appropriate new modes of expression into his paintings.