Zao Wou-ki, a name familiar especially to art collectors who competed in bidding for his prized paintings at major auctions, passed away in Switzerland on April 9. The modern art master, who was acclaimed in his adopted homeland of France, was 93.
Growing up in Frisco, Quezon City, in the ’60s, Gene de Loyola knew he had a dab hand sketching human figures and street scenes. After school time, he would spend hours practicing and developing his skill, influenced by Braulio Dayao, an artist renowned for his landscape and portraiture works. De Loyola’s friends began [...]
To grow up in Tanay, Rizal, just like in its neighboring town of Angono, home to many of the country’s great artists, is to learn how to draw and paint its rustic beauty—modest houses under a mango tree; golden rice stalks dancing in the wind; bountiful fish frolicking on the pond.
My first relationship was with a married man, an executive in my office. At the time, a married friend said to me something which you also mentioned in a previous column, that “men are homing pigeons,” meaning, there was no future in that relationship. It was so heartbreaking for me that I left the country. It was a long-term relationship.
Inspired by the Pompidou Center in Paris, which for nearly two years removed all the men’s art from its modern galleries, the Seattle Art Museum is letting women take over its downtown building this fall.
“Optiks” is a suite of large paintings that depict the signs of the times. Alvin Villaruel has a pulse for the guile of our perceptions.
Remember those days long ago when movie posters were done by hand by artists and people who barely knew how to paint? Did you ever wonder who made those band posters and album covers? Have you ever designed a poster for a gig—one that would perhaps end up on someone’s bedroom wall someday?
Singer, businesswoman, decorator, hotelier and evangelist, Kuh Ledesma has discovered that a sense of purpose is the deepest expression of the heart and soul. Recently, she rekindled her passion for painting, which conveys her innermost feelings.
A bitter spat over one of Berlin’s best-loved art collections, a clutch of invaluable Old Master paintings, came to a head this week with the German government vowing to find a compromise.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) announced the seven grand winners of its first National Art Competition at the Forum Hall of Airport Casino Filipino in Paranaque City last July 6, 2012.
Among Filipino artists, Carlos V. Francisco is one of a few in whom interest by the public, by scholars, by connoisseurs and collectors has not waned. In the landscape of Philippine art (which is abreast, or tries to be, with the latest), the art of Francisco has been and continues to be examined. His artworks are coveted, while his style and aesthetics impact or inspire artists from his native Angono and from farther afield.”
