Dicky Joe Santos
Quezon City, Philippines
In Gallery
CATEGORY
Painting
STYLE
Cubism, Modern, Pop Art
MEDIUM
Acrylic
SIZE
36" X 48"
YEAR
2010
PRICE
Sold
From my First Solo Show "Pixelated Love Story".
Art as Play
In his essay, "Meditations on a Hobby Horse," art historian E.H. Gombrich stresses perception is learned by a child in the objects that he is exposed to. Like in a hobby horse, with only a horse's head and a stick as a body, the child experience sheer wonder. He sees the whole horse with it, how he likes to ride on it and even go places with it in his imagination. The symbolic connotation is not in resembling a horse but the pure fun the child can have with that "stick with a horse's head." Children know the proper use of things as they play them.
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