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BINONG
JAVIER
The art of Binong Javier rivets the retina, as if determined not to release the
eyes from the painting’s mesmeric hold. Gazillions of squeezed-out, tiny
globules of pure, unsullied pigment blanket the pictorial space, arrayed in
militantly ordered fashion for the viewer’s delectation. In the artist’s hand,
color and material become one, triumphantly achieving visual cohesiveness,
with the eye and the mind inveigled to do the color blending, resulting in a
more intense luminosity. Needless to say, Javier subscribes to the idiom of
pointillism, the revolutionary painting technique pioneered by Georges
Seurat and Paul Signac. Binong Javier, however, used the technique in the
service of pure abstraction, giving it a formal thrust. Indeed, this is a radical
change that will gladden the hearts and eyes of the two French masters.
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