![]() In 1969, considered late in his career to start practicing another genre, Luz began experimenting with sculptural abstraction using metal, concrete, wood, and marble. Using his vivid and wild imagination, Luz transformed architectural elements, buildings, and temples into circles, rectangles, lines, and colors. I like things that are very stark, elemental, simple-like a stone or a shell.” One of his most celebrated series is the beloved cityscapes, which was inspired by his many travels to the historic and “lost” cities throughout Asia. They are by nature too decorative and pretty. Luz’s early works were figurative with his later works evolving into further abstraction, with forms and shapes losing identifying characteristics as he defined his style. Throughout its history the Luz Gallery displayed many exhibitions important to the modern art movement, assisted and influenced up and coming Filipino artists, and caught the attention of important collectors looking for the next artistic trend. He married artist Tessie Ojeda Luz and in 1960 established the renowned Luz Gallery in Manila. Luz spent 1954 in Spain and in 1955 exhibited his work at the Metropolitan Museum in Manila. He became known on the Philippine art scene when he held his first solo exhibition in 1951 at the Manila Hotel, following a previous exhibition of his drawings at the Raymond Duncan Gallery in Paris. Luz began exhibiting his works as a college student and received his first award at the annual art contest sponsored by the Art Association of the Philippines. He studied painting first in the Philippines, then the United States, Europe, and again in the United States in the following order: the School of Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila under scholarship at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York (1950) and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris (1951). Luz won the distinction of being designated National Artist of the Philippines, the highest artistic honor in the country, for Visual Arts in 1997. Although many of Luz’s works include only the essential elements of lines, curves, and a few toned-down colors, the Filipino people continue to show enthusiasm, devotion, admiration, and curiosity for them. In the later years of Luz’s career he also received recognition and praise for his sculptures, murals, photographs, and general taste in design. Many of these two artists’ works are now considered masterpieces. He is considered a pioneer of the Philippine Neo-realist movement (1950s-1960s) along with fellow Filipino artist Fernando Zobel de Ayala, for their adoption of a modernist approach to interpreting daily life in their native land. ![]() Arturo Luz is a Filipino modern artist best known for his minimalist, geometric, and abstract styles of art and his animated paintings of circus performers and musicians as well as his revered cityscape series.
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