"SALUTATIONS OF GREATNESS"

In the ever-expanding lexicon of creative terms and jargons, “realism” is the most fundamental of aesthetic themes and styles - often identified as the foundation that opens artists and audiences to the divergent byways and access roads of the visual arts space.

- By: Yasunari Ramon Suarez Taguchi

Widely banded with the terms “representational”, “narrative painting” or “portraiture”, the style is entwined with the virtues and values of masterful painting or illustration techniques - given that its ins and outs are bordered by the “capture what is seen as it is seen” principle in art-making.

Here in Cebu, the style continues to captivate the fancies of art lovers of all ages, a status which it congruently shares with the metro’s revue of contemporary-themed pieces - artworks whose intonations are brought to form by realism’s younger siblings; cubism, neo-expressionism, fauvism and abstract expressionism, among so many others.