Tags: Paintings, Visual arts
By Marjorie Gorospe
ANGONO, RIZAL – Although highly influenced by National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco, Aaron Bautista believes any artist should strive to create his own identity through his craft.
Bautista’s work can be characterized with the vibrant brush strokes on his paintings, which seems to shout his love for “spring age” of life. He strives to add meaning into his work by incorporating mixed media, using materials such as corrugated cardboards and discarded coins.
“Although almost everyone in Angono look up to Botong (Francisco), we believe we are entitled to create our own identity,” says Bautista, a Fine Arts graduate from UP Diliman who majored in painting.
“Botong himself said that if we want to be known as artists, we should at least take a step a little further from him so that each of us will have distinctive qualities even though we came from one town,” he says
He is referring, of course, to Angono, dubbed the country’s art capital and home to generations of painters, sculptors and other artists. Bautista held a solo exhibit recently at the White Wall Gallery in Makati City titled The Rustic Scene, depicting the past and future of Angono’s art scene.
“While most of the artists paint the past, I want to show how we evolved as artists,” he says. Some of his works depict his disdain for the commercialization of art.
Bautista, though, admits that painting alone is not a stable source of income so he supplements it with his T-shirt silkscreen printing business. In his free time, he holds workshops for children along with other artists from the Angono Ataliers Association and Neo Angono Artist Collective.
Bautista was a two-time finalist in student art competitions sponsored by Shell and Metrobank. His paintings and exhibit schedules can be found on his Multiply account.
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