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Araceli Limcaco-Dans
Araceli Limcaco-Dans (December 9, 1929–May 18, 2024) was a Filipino painter and educator. She is renowned for her work using calado embroidery in different mediums. Her early work started with portraits, but soon moved to still life and realism later in her career. Early life and education Araceli Limcaco-Dans was born in Manila to Eleuterio Limcaco, an insurance salesman, and Regina Fernandez, a housewife. Her childhood was strife with constant fighting between parents, financial difficulties, and economic instability due to World War II, war. At a young age, Araceli managed to find escape and solace through art, and soon found it to be a necessity once her parents separated and she became the sudden breadwinner. Her mother, now a single mother of four, needed to balance finances to support "Cely" and her siblings Fidelis, Ofelia, and Regina. Cely would help and earn extra money by selling portraits. Her brother Fidelis would grow up to be a priest and in 1975, was ordained b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Still Life
A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then. One advantage of the still-life artform is that it allows an artist much freedom to experiment with the arrangement of elements within a composition of a painting. Still life, as a particular genre, began with Netherlandish art, Netherlandish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the English term ''still life'' derives from the Dutch word ''stilleven''. Early still-life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
