Letras y figuras

Letras y figuras (Spanish, "letters and figures") is a genre of painting pioneered by José Honorato Lozano during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. The art form is distinguished by the depiction of letters of the alphabet using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called Tipos del País popularized by Damián Domingo. The letters depicted spell out a phrase or a name, usually that of the patron who commissioned the work.[1] The paintings were done with watercolor on Manila paper. The earliest example of this art form dates from 1845; the latest existing specimens were completed during the latter portion of the American period in the 1930s during the administration of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.[2]

BALVINO MAURICIO, José Honorato Lozano, 1864

In 1995, an album of José Honorato Lozano's paintings were auctioned at Christie’s at the starting bid of £300,000.[2]

Examples

See also

References
  1. Blanco, John D. (2009). Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines. University of California. ISBN 978-0-520-25519-7.
  2. "Letras Y Figuras Uniquely Filipino Art Genre". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. Ocampo, Ambeth R. (2 April 2014). "A peek into Kapitan Tiago's house". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  4. Kyo, Satoshi. "SATOSHI on Letras Y Figuras, an ingenious Filipino art form". Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  5. Kyo, Satoshi. "SATOSHI on Letras Y Figuras and Alvaro Jimenez". Retrieved 2 April 2015.
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