Hernando “HR” Ocampo – Homage to Diego Silang on Canvas Size: 22.5″ x 30″
₱45,000.00
Hernando “H.R.” Ocampo had no formal artistic training. In the 1960s, he balanced working in advertising and his passion as an artist. By the late 1960s, he was able to fully commit as a painter as his profession. The nonfigurative nature of Ocampo’s works allowed him to lyrically formulate his visual language and aesthetic experience. The order of the shapes and forms and the intensity of color orchestrate a sense of movement, evoking the ebb and flow of life.
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