A Stylistic Analysis of Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s Social Realistic Paintings

For context, what you’re reading now is a submission for a final requirement in a College course that I am enrolled in, titled “Art Criticism”. My Professor has tasked me and my classmates to write and publish 10 separate articles on various disciplines and styles that had been taught to us during class. This is one of those 10 articles. These four oil paintings of the Filipina artist <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/anita-magsaysay-ho/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Anita Magsaysay-Ho </a>(1914–2012) taken from Artnet.com that all depict and share the important visual characteristics and traits that make up her art style. These four paintings are as follows: Women Feeding Chickens (1979. 80.5 x 150 cm), Tomato Pickers (1975. 91.5 x 76 cm), Women with Baskets, Fish and Crab (1980. 76 x 91 cm), Women With Baskets and Mangoes (1980. 76 x 91.4 cm). <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*tvilLR8UIamKIEcTcjCR5g.jpeg" style="height:735px; width:700px" /> Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914–2012). Date Unknown. Women Feeding Chickens depicts four women, three wearing green skirts and one in red, carrying rattan baskets while feeding several chickens in wide, grassy farmland. Tomato Pickers is a wide painting that presents to us three white bandanna-wearing women that are picking green tomatoes and placing them in bamboo baskets in a large green field. Women With Baskets, Fish, and Crab presents to us the same women from the previous two paintings but this time they are holding three rattan baskets that permeate the artwork’s foreground and background alongside seafood such as fish and crabs. Women with Baskets and Mangoes depicts the same trio of women carrying vase-like bamboo baskets alongside a white fabric containing four mangoes in the foreground. <a href="https://medium.com/@funkyboy/a-stylistic-analysis-of-anita-magsaysay-hos-social-realistic-paintings-4a6a5aab351a">Read More</a>