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Volume 2 | No. 69 | Cagayan de Oro City | December 8-14, 2014
Architect Cocoy Paano’s
“The Publisher” - an extraordinary work of art by Joe Palabao Art Enthusiast
Maj e s t i c an d my s t i c a l portraiture , 22 x 30 oilon-canvas “The Publisher” etched by known Filipino Synergy Artist Extraordinaire Architect Melbourne ‘Cocoy’ Paano was finally unveiled for viewing last December 5, 2014 at exactly 6:11 PM. Portrait of Prominent Publisher from Mindanao- Dante M. Sudaria, CEO & President of Business Week Mindanao Group of Publications was the artist subject. For two long months, Cocoy Paano painstakingly finished the art piece and worked
during wee hours of the night with endearing hands touching the fine lines of his canvass. The artwork is a fusion and synergy of art vis-a-vis architectural perspective in the industry. Art enthusiasts from the upper echelon of the Region consider the artwork of Cocoy as a ‘MASTERPIECE’ in portraiture painting. The portraiture depicts the life story of “The Publisher” from his humble beginnings, his hard work, his desires, his dreams and how he dared life’s challenges which made him to what he is now-a phenomenal
and fast rising publisher of Mindanao. The Publisher is now considered as a priceless piece of art and collectors’ piece of art. “ The Publisher” a portraiture by Cocoy Paano is a MASTERPIECE which has achieved apotheosis of the soul to art enthusiasts which catapults him as a great and unique artist in the country today in his approaches to the synergy of art and architecture. This piece of art will surely be considered as a priceless life time collection by the patrons and the patroness of art of Mindanao, and of Cagayan de Oro City as one of the upcoming
The Publisher intermediate global cities in 22 x 30 the world. Oil on-canvas “ The Publisher” has By Architect Cocoy Paano t h at a r t i s t i c i n t e g r i t y which demands from the has the rich knowledge artist to capture not only and experience from his its likeness to the human mentors who harnessed subject but a soul of the his skills in “handling the portraiture that is essential technique” for painting. He to the process in making a is one artist who never stops majestic portrait painting. It learning in enriching his depicts the synergy of art and craft to perfection and giving architecture masterpieces of justice and satisfaction to his Architect Melbourne ‘Cocoy’ clientele. Paano which apotheosized As a third generation art appreciation. Its majestic artist, Architect Cocoy Paano’s beauty is beyond the capacity portraiture “The Publisher” o f h u m a n d e s c r i b i n g . 22 x 30 oil-on canvas has The majestic beauty of great influences with the great the “Publisher” has that works of the first generation symmetry, proportion and artists like Martino Abellana composition of his work. with great and immortal Architect Melbourne portraitures of Dona Modesta “ C o c o y ” P a a n o a s a Singson Gaisano, 1984-Oil on Filipino synergy –artist had Canvas 41 x 34; Collection: experienced a “whole range Stephen Gaisano and Martino of art,” so he could stand with Abellana “To Catch a Fox is conviction to the artworks Not The Thing” Portrait of and designs that he creates. Stephen Gaisano, 1987,oil-on He has prepared himself canbvas, 55 x 31: Collection to be in the mainstream in Stephen Gaisano. this flourishing field. He S e c o n d g e n e r a t i o n
Cebuano artist, Romulo Galicano has also influenced Cocoy’s portraiture “The Publisher”. Galicano has learned to stretch and frame Abellana’s canvases and at the same time he watched him paint, thus coming naturally and effortlessly under the senior artist’s fatherly tutelage. Romulo Galicano’s Mother & Child, oil-on canvas, 35 x 45 is a museum head turner now becomes a Private Collection Architect Melbourne ‘Cocoy’ Paano’ majestic portraiture “The Publisher” an art of work ‘extraordinaire’ now has achieve apotheosis of the soul which makes him a great and unique painter in his approaches to his master piece. In totality, his art work has that artistic integrity which demands from him to capture not only the likeness of the subject but a soul that is essential in making majestic portrait painting beyond whose beauty is beyond compare.
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