#philippine art

[balkanparamo]

Farm Girl: Pablo Amorsolo

[jareckiworld]

Rodel Tapaya — The Healer (acrylic on canvas, 2012)

[appleflavoredkitkats]

for character design class, i decided to finally make some art for my comic idea featuring an autistic filipino student and your typical filipino school ghosts !!

not an actual comic (yet), but if it were, the student, tala, would be tasked to interview these ghosts by their guidance counselor. it's meant to be a whole commentary about how Awful the education system here is in the philippines + how all girls catholic schools traumatize their students

reblogs r appreciated <3

[nikomakii]

Tausug Princess or Portrait of Santanina Tillah Rasul (1951, oil on canvas) by Ireneo L. Miranda (1896-1964) at the National Museum of Fine art, Manila, Philippines.

[mntacuyan]

Drew my friend's Maria Makiling character 🧡💛☀️

I loved designing her in our call and I can't wait to work on one more fella's portrait 😏

[gerilya]

MANDA AT LUYONG Mural by Gerilya Shaw Blvd. Flyover pillars, corner EDSA, Mandaluyong City 2023

[muni-muniments]

Budols and bargains @ BLTX!

My zine collection so far... not including those made by my students in class! It's quite hard to believe that I've only just started my era of zine collecting in the early months of 2024 ~ I feel as though I've been amassing a collection of zines for much much longer and perhaps it's because I find too many inanimate and ephemeral things to have cultural and timely value.

Zinester gatherings like BLTX (acronym for Better Living Through Xerography) - which happens bi-annually - have provided such a perfect opportune for me to become a fully pledged hoarder of ephemera. I never knew there would be a way for me justify my strange sentiments to random pieces of receipts and paper (zines have showed me that there was such a way of design and curation for these things).

Recently at 98B Collaboratory a roundtable event was held called "Taking Care of Your Zines" amongst artists whom are also within the zinester circuits and have collected a plethora of them over the years. Sadly I had missed this roundtable discussion (as I spent a week and a bit gallivanting in Cambodia), because surely as my zine collection is only expected to multiply, I need to find a way of storing them correctly. I remember one artist friend based in Laguna, Czar Kristoff, bringing to SSPACE COFFEE (a roadside café on the way to Tagaytay) transparent duraboxes filled with the zines he gathered from artists and friends all over the world, whilst I am still keeping them in reused paper bags or cellophane pouches.

In another log I'll feature some of these zines and why they interest me. Whilst most times I resort to mindless purchases, I think I'm beginning to have a particular "taste" for specific sort of zines.

[markandygarcia]

[shirpowbra]

"Pinsan" (cousin in english) His name is Dante by the way I haven't been posting much cause I was so, sooo busy with taking care of things that my tiny brain can't even comprehend what I'm doing anymore haha Also since it's like independence day tomorrow, prolly prepare for something cause it's kinda exciting in my opinion haha anyways, happy pride, guys! Their orientations might change as time goes on but that's how I view them for now heh

[cedrickjuans]

Hymen, oh Hyménée! (1889) by Juan Luna (1857-1899)

[fotobasher]

frieren tingz (merch promo!)

Selling these as stickers at UP Town Center this April 13 & 14! 🇵🇭 It's rare to be drawn to draw for an animanga I'm glad it's frieren cus omg Story Beats and yuri-coded relationships

[balkanparamo]

The Origin of the World: Ben Cabrera aka Bencab

[philippineclassicalarts]

Tala goddess, 2021, oil on canvas, by Nat Lamina.

[appleflavoredkitkats]

here's my art catalog for ateneo celadon's moon rabbit + patrons of the arts fall!!! :-)

[sabbyywabbyy]

Portrait 1/3- Bulan is the god of the moon who is said to be so beautiful that lotus flowers shy away from his gaze, he is married to Sidapa, god of death, where they reside in the mountains

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[masgwi]

Harvest Season (1950)

Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (Filipino, 1892 – 1972)

Amorsolo was sought after by influential Filipinos including Luis Araneta, Antonio Araneta and Jorge B. Vargas. Due to his popularity, Amorsolo had to resort to photographing his works, sticking and mounting them in an album allowing patrons to choose from this catalog of his work. Amorsolo avoided creating exact replicas of his trademark themes by recreating the paintings by varying some elements.

His works later appeared on the cover and pages of children textbooks, in novels, in commercial designs, in cartoons and illustrations for Philippine publications such The Independent, Philippine Magazine, Telembang, El Renacimiento Filipino, and Excelsior. He served as the director of the University of the Philippine's College of Fine Arts from 1938 to 1952.

During the 1950s until his death in 1972, Amorsolo averaged finishing 10 paintings a month. However, during his later years, diabetes, cataracts, arthritis, headaches, dizziness and the death of two of his sons affected the execution of his works. Amorsolo underwent a cataract operation when he was 70 years old, a surgery that did not impede him from drawing and painting.