Description:
A metamodernist approach exploring the artist's personal knowledge of neo-cognitive expressionism through memories and recollection. More to follow.
Caratao-Gabriel
Miracle of the Sun (Number 1)
2026Acrylic on canvas12 x 16 inches₱170,000mcg@carataogabriel.comDescription:
Still a metamodernist approach in neo-cognitive expressionist style, an artist's creative expression to tell the tale that needs to be told: first, there was empathy, next prudence, and last but not least, compassion, revealing Our Lady's prophetic message to the 3 children urging the world to do---prayer, penance and peace.
Metamodernism is a perspective, a way of seeing--transcending what was learned, unlearned and relearned--began in the origins of modernism, to the dissent of postmodernism, now awakening to what is now metamodernism. In metamodernism, you are now self-aware of your being and becoming; you have awakened, to find meaning, as a way forward.
This is how the artist approached the planning, the creation, the painting of the Miracle of the Sun and the tale that needs to be told as a narrative. As the painting was being created, all throughout the process, the artist expressed varying emotions, sensory memories in cognitive recall, experiences and senses of past flashback recalling the events as if it happened in the present, right there, right now, as remembered, becoming clearer and clearer as succession of events occurred. This artist called it cognitive expressionism because the painting awakened cognitive processes, information and experiences--and you have now become aware of it that you are aware of it--as this artist had been, in metamodernist approach.
In the midst of modern life as events transpired as experienced or observed, and the secret as understood here to be--the interpretation of the stories where the viewer is led to make sense of the interrelatedness of both, despite the abstract representation, to form a cohesive whole in accordance to one's own perception--is that, in retrospection, what still holds true and resonates in perpetuity, giving strength when hope is waning and light dims, is Our Lady's words, as always had been, to do prayer, penance and peace, and that is what this artist understood in interpreting the Miracle of the Sun.
The story, if you ever noticed, had already been there, formed and revealed before it was ever painted. What of empathy, prudence and compassion in the painting are yet to be told in clarity according to this artist's cognitive expressionism, by and by.
Caratao-Gabriel
Title to be announced, Floral Series
2026Acrylic on canvasDescription:
Also a metamodernist approach in neo-cognitive expressionism, this religious art motivates reflection and meditation upon the mysteries to allow contemplation, communion and dialogue with the Almighty God through the lives of His son Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. More to follow.
Caratao-Gabriel
Reimagining our Republic's Awakening (or Independence Day and our Freedom of Creative Expression in the 21st Century), Poetry Series
2026Acrylic on canvasDescription:
A metamodernist approach where visual and verbal interpretation of creative expressions are represented as one united cognitive experience. More to follow.
Caratao-Gabriel
Will of the People: Democracy is in our Votes, Republic Series
2026Acrylic on canvasDescription:
Another metamodernist approach in neo-cognitive expressionism inspired by our people's collective identity and constitutionally mandated right of suffrage. More to follow.
Caratao-Gabriel
[Artist's Interpretation of] Rizal's The Imagination Peoples the Air
2026Acrylic on canvasA metamodernist approach in neo-cognitive expressionism creatively interpreting Rizal in modern times. More to follow.
Caratao-Gabriel
Forensics and Evidence
2026Oil on canvasDescription:
Artist welcomes the viewer's perceptive interpretation of scientific knowledge in light of Michaelangelo's creative genius in his masterpiece, The Creation of Adam. Another metamodernist approach in neo-cognitive expressionism. More to follow.
Caratao-Gabriel
Sensory Memory (or Remembering History of [Poetry and Love Letters of My Sonnets of A Love Story, a Decade to] 2024)
2026Oil on canvasDescription:
Another metamodernist approach in neo-cognitive expressionism. More to follow.