What They Say About STEVESANTOS Paintings
HR Ocampo, National Artist in Painting (1977)
’ll start my comments on the latest water colors of STEVESANTOS with two quotations. The first is from E. Aguilar Cruz, who said, “Steve cannot paint like his father; but Malang cannot paint like his son.” The second quotation is from my eight year-old granddaughter, who said, on seeing Steve’s latest water colors: “Ay kay ganda!” To both I say, “Amen
Vicente Manansala, National Artist in Painting (1975)
Tunay....Sapagka’t may damdamin
Jose Joya, National Artist in Painting (2003)
STEVESANTOS belongs to a new breed of Filipino representational artist who combine the heritage of abstraction with the poetic imagery of Neorealism. He avoids ultrasentimentalism and injects a high degree of intellectual to an otherwise stale realistic painting
Arturo Luz, National Artist in Painting (1999)
Reality to STEVESANTOS is the prosaic, ordinary and day-to-day stripped of sentiment and ornament, seen in unguarded moments and recorded with skill, honesty and insight.
Bencab, National Artist in Painting (2006)
STEVESANTOS is a young artist. A Good Technician. With the right direction and attitude, he could surpass his current influences and form a unique style of his own
Manuel Duldulao, Witer, TOYM Awardee
The best & brightest of his generation
Rod Paras-Perez, Artist
The pictorial world of STEVESANTOS can include the smallest object with clarity-plus. But it can also exclude the biggest object. Or edit objects beyond their usual shape. Thus his work becomes a dialectic between photography and perception. Between painting an object as a mode of telling and articulating an object as a way of self-knowledge. Technically precision comes in simply to lift painting from mere description into the plane of a revelation: painting not to record observed objects but to sing the poetry of things
Cid Reyes, Art Critic, Artist
STEVESANTOS is a first rate illustrator, which is high praise indeed, considering the appalling inadequacy of so many painters
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