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Lino Severino
Untitled 24 x 30 inches acrylic on canvas 1967
Lino Severino (1932-2004, Silay City) is a pilot and a painter. He
joined the Philippine Air Force in 1952 and became a commercial
pilot after he retired from military service. He was a member of
a number of painting groups in the 1970s, such as the Saturday
Group, the Thursday Group, the Antipolo Group, and the Samahang
Tubiglay organized by Vicente Manansala. He participated in
numerous group exhibitions, such as the Art Association of the
Philippines Annual Competition in 1955 and the CCP Annual in
1978. He was the art director of the Miladay Art Center in Makati
in the 1970s.
Severino is best known for his Vanishing Scene series, hyperrealist
paintings of facades of turn-of-the-century heritage houses in Ilocos
Norte, Vigan, Iloilo, and Silay City. In his work, he captures the
weathered grain of wood, grit of stone, and detail of ironwork
window ornaments and verandillas. Critic Alice Guillermo has
described his works as having a “somber, elegiac atmosphere that
distinguishes them from similar works by other artists which, while
skillfully executed, have a literal quality that does not rise above
material detail.”
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