Sining at Kasining Essays
Part 1. Sining 1. AN ILLUSTRATOR'S MANIFESTO (This manifesto was used as wall text for my 2007 solo exhibit of illustrations and paintings at the Crucible Gallery. The remark I made here about a few Picasso imitators as second-rate artists have raised the hackles of some who felt alluded to. Well, allow me to clear things up. I'm not referring to all Picasso imitators, nor to all modernist painters for that matter. The fellows I have in mind were those who haven't gone through the whole route of first learning the rudiments of realist drawing and painting before adopting abstraction or modernist figuration as their style. I wrote this manifesto in a state of pique, when I was reminded again of the snub I was subjected to by a female painter years before she died. I met her when I was working as a gallery assistant at the Galleria delas Islas in 1986. She came...