We were extremely excited when we found out that Juvenal Sansó was coming to Cebu. We’ve heard so much about the world-renowned, multiawarded living art legend—that it seemed as surreal as his bright, dreamlike landscapes that he would actually hold an exhibit of his personal collection at Qube Gallery’s first anniversary and grace the affair.
The Qube art gallery is the concern of Jon Gotiong and Maris Holopainen, at the Henry Hotel in Banilad. It has just celebrated its first anniversary. To mark the occasion, they brought in their most important art exhibit so far.
“It’s like making a copy of an Amorsolo [painting] and then destroying the original Amorsolo,” a heritage conservationist described the fate of “The Furies” of Italian sculptor Francesco Riccardo Monti.
The first antique Filipiniana dictionary I ever owned (“Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala” by Pedro de Sanlucar, 1754) came from Ambeth Ocampo. Way back in the early ’80s, he was already collecting a lot of old Filipino books—I mean by “old” that most of them were still in Spanish—that I then wondered what their use ever was going to be. (You’d need a Spanish dictionary beside you all the time.)
The female Amorsolo” was a phrase-paean ascribed to the recently departed Anita Magsaysay-Ho, by virtue of the fact she was the only female member of the so-called Thirteen Moderns, a list drawn up by Victorio Edades, pioneer proselytizer of modern art in the country.
In Fabian de la Rosa’s “Homeward Bound,” a farmer astride his carabao trudges along a lane framed by lush, soaring bamboo from either side forming a cathedral-like dome. In Fernando
A few years ago, the Manila art crowd was abuzz over the multi-museum Amorsolo exhibits. On display was a whole range of works by one of our most famous National Artists.
After all that rain, it was finally a gloriously sunny afternoon, dahlings, when those women of stature, the Congressional Spouses Inc., joined hands with Art Gallery Manila at the south
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