Dominador Hilario Castañeda is a Filipino artist born in 1904. Castaneda has been known to be a close comrade of Fernando Amorsolo. It was because of this that the classical artist made a conscious effort to deviate from the prevailing Amorsolo School’s stylistic leanings. Castaneda’s unique artistic style, one that is characterized by the dominant aura that Amorsolo himself held during the time, made him more accepting of the relatively new idea of Modernism in art, albeit halfway. Thus, Castañeda’s works do not feature the seemingly exaggerated bliss that are commonplace in Amorsolo’s own canon. Instead Castaneda’s works occupy a more realistic and intimate space. He was also noted to have said to his son: “Don’t look at the subject ...