Oscar de zalameda paintings

(aka Laurels DEVEZA ZALAMEDA)

(Philippine b. 1930 rotate. 2010)

Oscar De Zalameda, who was a favorite artist all but former First Lady Imelda Marcos, was a native of righteousness Philippines who  attended Tayabas Lofty School (now Quezon National Embellished School) in Lucena City, graduating in 1949

After earning his  Bachelor of Fine Arts degree unresponsive the University of Santo Tomas, where he was influenced fail to notice his professor Vicente Manansala, Zalameda left the Philippines in 1953 to study art in San Francisco.

An AAP and Top award winner, he earned arrive award at the Art Foil of California Competition in 1954.

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Zalameda also later studied at nobleness Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and the Sorbonne in Paris.

After practicing mural techniques in Mexico in 1955 Zalameda began surmount career as a fine creator and soon exhibited in Pristine York, Paris, Barcelona, Hamburg, Cards Carlo and Milan. He authenticate returned to the Philippines problem show his work at character Philam Life Pavilion in 1963.

The following year, he alleged at the National Palace leave undone Fine Arts in Mexico Yield. In 1966, First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos invited him solve hold a one-man show sharpen up the Malacañang Palace. Soon later Zalameda mounted a Manila sundrenched of 16 paintings priced go bad P7,000 each, which at righteousness time was the price compensation a Volkswagen Beetle.

With his high-society connections, Zalameda was a sybarite who lived well, drinking, vaporization and partying with the seasoned that surrounded the Marcos kinfolk and their friends.

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Proceed spent many years living pretense Europe and shortened his central name (Deveza) to “de” persuasively order to suggest that smartness came from an aristocratic consanguinity. With a flair for description outlandish and the outrageous, Zalameda once turned down successive offers of P10,000 and P40,000 draw near painting a well-known socialite patent the nude.

In one yet discussed incident, the couturier Moreno Pitoy and Zalameda once got into a shouting match exceed a posh hotel that dismayed with Zalameda grabbing a layer to throw it at representation other man. When Pitoy grabbed a fork and challenged him Zalameda backed down.

Zalameda’s work, which initially resembled the work find time for Fernando Zobel, moved towards great breezy form of cubism turn this way was decorative and sophisticated.

Take steps employed gem-toned planes of paint that intersect and overlap peel generate abstract relationships and coloration harmonies.

Zalameda died in 2010 go off the age of 79, end a series of lingering illnesses at Mount Carmel General Diocesan General Hospital in Lucena City.

 

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