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This powerful painting showing a seated human figure engrossed in thought and set against an energetic crimson background is quintessential Ang Kiukok - one of the leading lights of Philippine figurative expressionism.
The painting is a highly charged presentation of contrasts, which is achieved by the rendition of the pictorial space as a smooth surface vis-a-vis the textured application of paint on the subject. The inner struggle that is presented here goes beyond the literal. In as much as the human figure calls attention by its sheer size and position on the foreground, the vivid color behind the subject does not allow it to dominate visually, maintaining its own assertive presence.
