A SWIRLING fury of colors dance around the canvas, creating a vivid yet abstract image that is both immersive and captivating. The lines travel in unpredictable trajectories, forming a calming path of shapes that beckon the eyes to follow. The entire picture is abstract. Yet, the message is concrete.
Such is the work of Filipino artist Glenn Baustista.Bautista is the seventh of Eugenia Angeles and Ignacio Bautista's nine children. His mother was a deaconess and his father a church minister. Therefore, he was reared in a family of faith. He went to the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alice Guillermo, art historian and author of 'The Uncommon Art of Glenn Bautista,' says, 'Total and spontaneous creativity is the principle that moves wide-ranging artist who resist tested formulas and whose prodigious work in diverse media, two and three dimensional, builds a universe of striking, haunting images that continually tease and challenge the mind.
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