Paintings for Free
Amirasolo and Other Essays Part 3. In my Book Essay 46. PAINTINGS FOR FREE I consider the painting behind me in the photo above as my best surrealist work. It remains unsold to this day. The title of this painting when I exhibited it at the Crucible Gallery in 2007 was "Happy Man". Ii was shown again under another title, "Corrupt Bureacrat Dissected", at the Altromondo Gallery in 2010 during a group art exhibit of winners in the Metrobank annual painting competitions. Two collectors have offered to buy this painting, but both deals fell through. One collector who expressed interest in buying this was one of the VIP guests in the Metrobank exhibit at Altromondo. She said that she's going to have this painting reserved for herself because she wants to give this as gift to the then newly-elected President Noynoy Aquino, to warn him of this type of politicians who'll definitely hover around him in the coming days. I was ela...