Word: lerma
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...painters like Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Jose Joya and Fernando Zóbel had been virtually obliterated. Drawing inspiration instead from American artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the cool mathematical lines of Zóbel fitted surprisingly well into the Marcoses' own propagandistic aims. According to Ramon Lerma, director of Manila's Ateneo Art Gallery, the Marcos regime was preoccupied with modernity. "They wanted to present the Philippines as keeping up with the rest of the world," he says...