Artopia by Gao, an eight meter wide painting in one of the houses by Lor Calma & Partners featured in the ‘Tropical Architecture for the 21st Century’ book.
ARTOPIA
Artopia is the title of Gao’s first one-man show, a series of paintings in monochromatic golden schemes. The title of each work ends in “ia,” such as Artopia, which is also the title of the largest piece in the collection. The painting, Gao says, is a culmination of his journey as a self-taught artist. It is a collage of over 80 famous paintings and portraits by artists Gao studied to discover what kind of artist he wanted to be.
Gao, born Edgar Aguilar Rezaga, is from Negros Occidental, a southern province of the Philippines. Gao is a veteran of art competitions, a consistent finalist in recognition programs and competitions of the Art Association of the Philippines, Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE), and Pasalamat Arts & Cultural Festival.
Can you spot these famous works and artists in Artopia?
Full list of artists and works:
Francisco Goya | The Shootings of May 3rd 1808
Rembrandt Hermenszoon Van Rijn | The Anatomy of Dr. Pulp
Juan Luna | Spoliarium
Auguste Rodin | The Thinker
Leonardo da Vinci | Mona Lisa
Titian | Bacchus and Ariadne
Jan Van Eyck | The Arnolfini Portrait
El Greco | The Burial of Count Orgaz
Peter Paul Reubens | Raising of the Cross
Vermeer | The Art of Painting
Giorgione | The Sleeping Venus
Jacques-Louis David | The Death of Marat
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | Napoleon en su Trono Imperial
Artemisia Gentileschi | Judith Slaying Holofernes
Pieter Bruegel | Tower of Babel
Salvador Dali
Michelangelo | The Creation of Adam
James McNeill Whistler | Whistler’s Mother
Guillermo Tolentino | Oblation
René Magritte | The Son of Man
Salvador Dali | Crucifixion (Hypercube Body)
Henri Moore | Reclining Nude
Gustav Klimt | The Kiss
Jasper Johns | Three Flags
Wang Guangyi | Materialist’s Art
Edvard Munch | The Scream
Frida Kahlo
Grant Wood | American Gothic
Jackson Pollock
Zhang Xiaogang | Bloodline: The Big Family No. 3
Yue Min Jun
Nunelucio Alvarado
Lucian Freud | Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995
Roy Lichtenstein | Wham
Carl Fredrik Reutersward| Non-Violence
Roy Lichtenstein | POW!
Pablo Picasso | Guernica
Robert Indiana | LOVE
Ron Mueck | Untitled (Big Man)
Botticelli | The Birth of Venus
Edgar Degas | The Little Fourteen-Year Old Dancer
Roger Van Der Weyden | The Descent from the Cross
Sandro Botticelli
Hieronymus Bosch
Giotto de Bondone
John William Waterhouse | The Lady of Shalott
Chris Mars (two groups)
Francis Bacon
Charlie Co | Midnight Madness
Sergei Chepik
Paul Cezanne
Philomena Williamson
Jean Michel Basquiat
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Raphael
Zdzislaw Beksinski
Ron English
Max Ernst | Celebes (1921)
Leonardo da Vinci
Fernando Botero | Man on Horse
Ang Kiukok
Maxx Beckman | The Night
Thomas Eakins | The Agnew Clinic (1889)
Nyoman Masriadi
Mark Rothko
Queen Elizabeth
Antonello da Messina | Saint Jerome in his Study c. 1475
Marcel Duchamp | Fountain
Jeff Koons | Balloon Dog
Diego Velázquez | Las Meninas
Lucas Cranach
Caravaggio | Amor Vincit Omnia
Pieter Aertsen | The Adoration of the Magi c. 1560
Henri Matisse | Bathers with a Turtle
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Leonardo da Vinci | The Vitruvian Man
Michael Halsband | Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat with Boxing Gloves
Vincent Van Gogh | Self-Portrait
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Hokusai | The Great Wave of Kanagawa
Myron | The Discus Thrower
Michelangelo | Pieta
Lucas Cranach
Feliciano House by Lor Calma & Partners features in the ‘Tropical Architeture for the 21st Century Volume 1’ book.
