Fishermen at Wharf

The painter, Cesar Buenaventura, was a Filipino painter known throughout his home country for his vibrantly colorful and thickly painted depictions of landscapes and people of the Philippines. Born on January 14, 1922 in Manila, Philippines, Buenaventura was the son of the celebrated Filipino painter Teodoro Buenaventura. The younger Buenaventura was initially forbidden from studying art in school because of his father’s objections, but later on, his father would train him and allow him to become a pupil of the famous painter Fernando Amorsolo. He died in 1983 in the Philippines. —– The painting depicts the busy life of fishermen. It may also be noticed that there is no suggestion of any woman figure in the painting. Culturally, and by practice, men in the Philippines do the fishing as that job requires physical strength that are not normally expected of women. This relatively large-scale painting is done using an impressionistic technique by giving importance to the shapes of the subject rather than giving them accurate faces and details.