The Art of Golf

  Abstract series at the Grove by Rockwell Lloyd Tronco is an artist from Bacolod, Negros Occidental whose work hardly belongs in Negros. While a number of acclaimed artists have risen out of this Visayan province, it is undeniable that the movement of visual art in Negros flows in two streams.  The first has to do with the conservative and well-calculated renderings of old hacienda houses, scenes from canefields, fishing villages and shanties, all treated in the oft-recurring style emulated from Botong, Blanco, or Manansala.  The other stream by which art has taken its course in Negros is that of social realism.  In a province where social unrest is prevalent due to the enormous gap between the rich and poor, SR's popularity in Negros has been emphasized further through award winning works by acclaimed Negros artists, Nune Alvarado and Charlie Co. At the Grove by Rockwell Between the two tributaries there appears to be no place for the art of Lloyd Tro

I started a new blog to chronicle some of the artwork I'm making along the subject of golf. Some people will easily recognize this style. This is how I envision how Arturo Luz would render a golfer using his oft repeated style. Before I finally reached this rendering, I had to do numerous sketches of Luz's figures. I have another set of how a golfer (lady golfer) would be rendered by Malang. My Artist Profile:   A young Lloyd Tronco sketching with the late National Artist, Cesar Legaspi