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Kasalan signed and dated 1990 (upper left and verso) oil on canvas 32" x 34" (81 cm x 86 cm) Antonio Austria’s art has featured subjects with an assortment of characteristics that set them apart per period, while retaining certain traits that have preserved their essence. In this very work by the renowned modernist, there is an expressive tone that resonates of local and distinctly Filipino themes. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1956, Austria’s first job was in the Universal Textile Mills, as a textile designer for 10 years, before teaching art at the University of Santo Tomas in 1969 , before deciding to become an artist. In 1976 Leonidas Benesa noted that Austria’s “childlikeness is only a front for the silent workings of an architectonic mind.” “I struggle through every composition,” he told the critic Cid Reyes in 1997. (J.D.)