Mauro “Malang” Santos “Landscape” 1980 on Canvas Size: 30″ x 30″
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Mauro “Malang” Santos began his artistic journey as a newspaper cartoonist and illustrator in 1947. It was during 1967 when he dedicated his time to become a full-time painter. The classic themes in Malang’s paintings consisted of mother and child, woman vendors, barong-barong or shanties, and cityscapes all composed from his distinct style of geometric forms arranged into well-ordered, overlapping planes covered with a symphony of colors. Towards the late 1960s and early 1970s, his works became more stylized, simpler and less crowded but its sense of scale and proportion became bolder which is evident in his work in the CCP 21am Collection titled Landscape (1980).
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