
The subject is a scene from the novel Noli Me Tangere by National Hero Jose Rizal, where Elias is subduing a crocodile by attempting to tie the beast’s jaws shut. The emerging tension of the narrative commences early on with a fishing expedition that fails to haul in any catch. It turns out that a crocodile has been trapped inside the net. In this chapter titled “The Crocodile Fight,� Rizal displays a narrative skill that, while not likely conscious of it, evinces a sensitive filmic eye, attuned
to the vivid power of the camera lens, as the reader is quickly engrossed in what in contemporary terms is known as an “action scene.�
How to seize a fleeting action and freeze it, as it were, into a permanent and obdurate solid material was the daunting challenge which faced the sculptor Graciano T. Nepomuceno.
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Artist/s
Graciano T. Nepomuceno
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Date
1950
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Medium
Sculpture
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Dimensions
Man - (h) 4 1/2� x (l) 14� Crocodile - (h) 4 1/2� x (l) 25� Base : (l) 18� x (w) 9 1/2� x (h) 2 1/8�
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The subject is a scene from the novel Noli Me Tangere by National Hero Jose Rizal, where Elias is subduing a crocodile by attempting to tie the beast’s jaws shut. The emerging tension of the narrative commences early on with a fishing expedition that fails to haul in any catch. It turns out that a crocodile has been trapped inside the net. In this chapter titled “The Crocodile Fight,� Rizal displays a narrative skill that, while not likely conscious of it, evinces a sensitive filmic eye, attuned
to the vivid power of the camera lens, as the reader is quickly engrossed in what in contemporary terms is known as an “action scene.�
How to seize a fleeting action and freeze it, as it were, into a permanent and obdurate solid material was the daunting challenge which faced the sculptor Graciano T. Nepomuceno.
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Artist/s
Graciano T. Nepomuceno
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Date
1950
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Medium
Sculpture
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Dimensions
Man - (h) 4 1/2� x (l) 14� Crocodile - (h) 4 1/2� x (l) 25� Base : (l) 18� x (w) 9 1/2� x (h) 2 1/8�