Category: Paintings

  • Manton de Manila

    The mantón de Manila became one of the most recognizable textiles in nineteenth-century Spain, and Juan Luna’s Mujer con mantón de Manila (c. 1880s) offers a precise record of its material qualities and its use in urban fashion. The painting shows a woman standing outdoors, wrapped in a large silk embroidered shawl. Its cream ground,…

  • We have nothing to add to this world

      Above: A folded photograph by Romero Barragan The story of Romero Barragan (1942–2014), an avant-gardist painter and sculptor who fell into obscurity after the Marcos regime, and his journey to redefine an artistic practice that sought to obliterate the divisions of life and art. One can perceive the 1980s in Philippine art as a…