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Oscar Deveza Zalameda BIOGRAPHY
1930 Manila, Philippines - 2010 Lucena City, Philippines. Known for: Abstract easel painting, murals.
The following text was published in ARTSPEAK By Ramon E.S. Lerma | Updated July 25, 2010 - 12:00 am. For Zalameda, 'art should command a high price'. Oscar Zalameda stunned Manila audiences when he... Read full biography
The following text was published in ARTSPEAK By Ramon E.S. Lerma | Updated July 25, 2010 - 12:00 am. For Zalameda, 'art should command a high price'. Oscar Zalameda stunned Manila audiences when he mounted an exhibition of 16 paintings at the old Hotel Filipinas along Roxas Boulevard in the 1960s,... Read full biography
The following text was published in ARTSPEAK By Ramon E.S. Lerma | Updated July 25, 2010 - 12:00 am. For Zalameda, 'art should command a high price'. Oscar Zalameda stunned Manila audiences when he mounted an exhibition of 16 paintings at the old Hotel Filipinas along Roxas Boulevard in the 1960s, charging P7,000 then the price of a VW Beetle for each piece. From the onset of his career, Zalameda firmly believed that artists should be amply rewarded. According to his friend, Wilson Tan,... Read full biography
The following text was published in ARTSPEAK By Ramon E.S. Lerma | Updated July 25, 2010 - 12:00 am. For Zalameda, 'art should command a high price'. Oscar Zalameda stunned Manila audiences when he mounted an exhibition of 16 paintings at the old Hotel Filipinas along Roxas Boulevard in the 1960s, charging P7,000 then the price of a VW Beetle for each piece. From the onset of his career, Zalameda firmly believed that artists should be amply rewarded. According to his friend, Wilson Tan, Zalameda remarked that "not everyone knows art, so it should command a high price.". That artists were of a different ilk was to be the guiding principle behind a long career that started very promisingly with pieces that Tan describes as being akin to the... Read full biography
The following text was published in ARTSPEAK By Ramon E.S. Lerma | Updated July 25, 2010 - 12:00 am. For Zalameda, 'art should command a high price'. Oscar Zalameda stunned Manila audiences when he mounted an exhibition of 16 paintings at the old Hotel Filipinas along Roxas Boulevard in the 1960s, charging P7,000 then the price of a VW Beetle for each piece. From the onset of his career, Zalameda firmly believed that artists should be amply rewarded. According to his friend, Wilson Tan, Zalameda remarked that "not everyone knows art, so it should command a high price.". That artists were of a different ilk was to be the guiding principle behind a long career that started very promisingly with pieces that Tan describes as being akin to the works of the late Fernando Zobel. The art appraiser Robert Lane who also saw those early works, thought that t... Read full biography
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The following text was published in ARTSPEAK By Ramon E.S. Lerma | Updated July 25, 2010 - 12:00 am
For Zalameda, 'art should command a high price'
Oscar Zalameda stunned Manila audiences when he mounted an exhibition of 16 paintings at the old Hotel Filipinas along Roxas Boulevard in the 1960s, charging P7,000 then the price of a VW Beetle for each piece. From the onset of his career, Zalameda firmly believed that artists should be amply rewarded. According to his friend, Wilson Tan, Zalameda remarked that "not everyone knows art, so it should command a high price."
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