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No other artist like Fidel Sarmiento has brought the luxury of visual art to people—from Bukidnon to Bilibid, from schoolchildren to seniors—demystifying and mystifying the process of painting, yet simultaneously encouraging the pursuit of artistry embedded in the Filipino’s DNA.
His Marilyn Monroe paintings and oversize soup cans are cultural icons, but in an exhibition opening Monday, New York’s Whitney...
His sand art has attracted a lot of well-deserved attention in Dubai, but also in the beaches of Oman, Siargao and Boracay.
In an exhibit that aims to present art as witness to life, and society's ills and conflicts, two Filipino artists tapped into Rizal’s work to re-define 19th century political resistance for the 2017 Venice Art Biennale. This year, the works of Lani Maesto and Manuel Ocampo, dubbed as The Spectre of Comparison, and curated by Joselina Cruz, will be mounted at the Arsenale, one of the event's main exhibition spaces. The Spectre of Comparisons was drawn from the phrase El demonio de las comparaciones of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere, a book that reflected the Filipino society under the Spanish regime. “The phrase encapsulates the experience of Rizal’s protagonist, Crisostomo Ibarra, when he gazes out at the botanical gardens of Manila and simultaneously sees the gardens of Europe,” Cruz said in a statement.
THE ILOILO visual-arts scene has become exuberant with the rise of galleries and new artists.
Fifteen years after she died for love, like a true artist, at the age of 28, Maningning Miclat, prize-winning visual...
The still life remains a popular genre in the visual arts for many reasons. For one, it is a showcase...
“The body does not lie.” Like a mantra, the late theater director Zenaida Amador drummed the statement on the minds...
To be proclaimed soon in Malacañang ceremonies as National Artist for the Visual Arts, the late Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (1932-2011) is among the great artists of the Philippine Modernist era.
Fernando Zóbel, one of our pioneer abstractionists and a master of wispy form and subtle monochrome, has acquired a certain mystique.
