Three Women in A Landscape
Three Women in A Landscape
Three Women in A Landscape
(Anita Magsaysay-Ho)
Describe its Subject
It displays three ladies gathering fruit, a symbol of
togetherness within Filipino society, particularly
among women. The scene is near in many trees, the
one woman is getting all the harvested fruits, the
other one is helping to put the fruits in the basket,
and the other one is holding a lever to get the fruits.
Its like a great flow of unity to get the work done
and have a beautiful day.
The Materials
Anita Magsaysay-Ho used egg tempera for her artwork.
The artistic use of tempera is more difficult than oil paints,
Magsaysay-Ho's reinforces this through the use of bold,
desire lines and simplification of forms: kerchiefs tied
around angular faces, swiftly formed arms and legs, yet all
with a strong gestural quality despite their abbreviated
renditions. The materials bring out to the art you'll see it in
the artwork. Yes because you will not call it an arts if you
didn't use different materials in artworks.
The art elements and principles
A three women harvesting fruits, a show of solidarity within the communal nature of Filipino
society particularly amongst the women.
• True artistic calling, blending localised genre scenes with an almost geometrical sense of
modern figuration.
• Decisive lines and simplification of forms: triangular kerchiefs tied around angular faces,
swiftly formed arms and legs, yet all with a strong gestural quality despite their abbreviated
renditions.
• Three Women in a Landscape is similar to other works from this period, showing stylized
figures and strongly coloured interlocking background hues to draw the central image into a
tightly concentrated whole.
• Unifying Features Line, shape, color, value, texture, form, and space are some
of the elements of art and design that are organized or composed in a painting
according to the principles of balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern,
rhythm, unity/variety, and other elements of composition. This gives the
painting structure and helps Anita Magsaysay convey her intended message.