MANILA, Philippines — Young local artist Caterina "Micat" Po is preparing for her first-ever solo show, "Seeing Beyond: Images From The Subconscious," featuring her watercolor abstractions.

Just as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907 made Matisse's Portrait of Mme Matisse of 1905 seem passé, so Kandinsky's First Abstract Watercolor of 1910 made Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ...