Contains 2 plates: "Mother & Child" & "Yakap ng Pagmamahal"
Size: 8.5 inches diameter /plate
With Box and Certificate of Authenticity
Limited stocks
About the Artist
Lydia Velasco's (b.1942) love for the arts is an innate calling she traces back to her childhood. Velasco took her early influence and encouragement from parents, who also appreciated the arts. Her father was a set designer for LVN studios while her mother was a typical homemaker who took care of the children, performed regular house chores, and occasionally painted still life works. Since her father earned a humble keep, she had to make the effort to contribute to their needs as fish vendor in Malabon.
Lydia Velasco was a student of the University of Sto. Tomas and pursued Fine Arts Major in Advertising. She worked shortly after as an artist for the advertising agency Philprom, where she stayed for more than a decade. Rising from the ranks, she became Art Director for several multinational advertising companies such as DYR, J.Walter Thompson, Pacifica, Ace Compton, Basic, and McCann-Erickson. It was in 1988, when she left advertising and ventured in entrepreneurship as co-owner of Lightmoves Photo/Design, Inc., where also became the company’s Art Consultant.
When her Lightmoves Design was stable, she returned to painting and became core member of The Saturday Group. Lydia devoted her time fully in painting and went way to discover her art, medium, and style. She focused her subjects on women, liberating them on her canvases and asserting their glory, identity, and freedom amid a mainly patriarchal society. She describes her depictions of women as elongated, massive, heavily set, and invigorated with almost masculine assertiveness.
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