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Mariano Numeriano Castañeda (20 December 1892 – 8 September 1970) was a Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 1948 to 1951 and also served as Military Governor of Cavite during World War II.
Dominador “Tango” Monzon Camerino (1 November 1899 – 24 July 1979) was a Filipino politician who served as one of the longest sitting governors of Cavite, having been elected at least two times throughout his political career, as well as succeeding numerous governors after their abrupt suspensions.
Consuelo Castañeda (born 1958, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist, professor, and art critic whose work includes painting, installations, photography, graphic art, architecture, and print. She was a major part of a movement of the relationship between art and politics in the 1980s avant-garde scene and revolutionized how women were treated in the ...
Portraits included self-portraits, Filipino jewelry, and native furniture. Landscape paintings depicted ordinary Filipinos participating in daily life. The paintings, often ornately signed, were made on canvas, wood, and a variety of metals. [228] Watercolours were painted in the Tipos del País [231] or Letras y figuras style. [232]
Castañeda's style is defined by elongated canon of the figures, little vertical movement, oval face, friendly and sparsely expressive, surrounded by a multitude of angels using a fleshy archaic concept. No less archaic are the robes, with gold prints minutely described, away from naturalism.
The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. [1] These artists also looked for inspiration outside of the United States.
grattage. Grattage (literally "scratching", "scraping") is a technique in surrealist painting which consists of "scratching" fresh paint with a sharp blade. [1] [2]In this technique, one typically attempts to scratch and remove the chromatic pigment spread on a prepared support (the canvas or other material) [3] in order to move the surface and make it dynamic. [4]
Zamarripa, along with other students from the art department, joined and he began dancing there with no formal training. [ citation needed ] When summer classes ended, the dance students wanted to continue dancing on their own, so they formed a local student group that met every Saturday. [ 2 ]