Amorsolo, papara na sa Ayala

Last few days of "culture coup" Amorsolo retrospective!

"His Heart, Our Art" reaches its last leg of exhibition in Makati City's Ayala Museum and will run until March 8.

Dubbed as "Amorsolo’s Maidens Concealed and Revealed," Inquirer.net said "the exhibit will focus on women as a way of understanding Amorsolo’s celebration of beauty and feminine sensuality."

It further noted, the collection will "draw attention to his country maidens from the American period in our history and his studies of nudes from the postwar years."

Amorsolo had the following stop overs since September last year:
 
UP Vargas Museum: "Amorsolo, His Contemporaries and Pictures of War: Capturing Anxieties" from Sept. 23 to Nov. 16, 2008.

Lopez Museum: "Tell Tale: The Artist as Storyteller, Amorsolo as Co-Author" from Sept 24, 2008 to April 4, 2009.

The National Museum: "Master Copy" from Sept. 25 to Jan. 15, 2008.

Metropolitan Museum of Manila: "Philippine Staple: The Land, The Harvest and the Maestro" from Sept. 26, 2008 to Jan. 13, 2009.

Yuchengco Museum: "Mukhang Tsinoy: Portraits by Fernando Amorsolo" from Oct. 1, 2008 to Jan. 17, 2009.

GSIS Museum: "Rituals and Amorsolo" from Oct 2, 2008 to Dec 20, 2008.


* http://amorsoloretro.com/

Bonifacio's Fort

A GuillermoTolentino historical tour de force right smack in the middle of urban chaos. Do we care? Oh, here comes the MRT-3 extension project...

Sweet ArtPetron7 victories for 2 PUP studes

Two Polytechnic University of the Phillipines students shone bright in the biggest ArtPetron contest to date.

Beating over a thousand other entries by students from all over the country, Ronald Jeresano and James Brian Ona emerged as among the 12 Grand Prize winners in Painting and Photography categories of ArtPetron7 National Student Art Competition.

The two received their prizes at the Petron MegaPlaza in Makati City, Aug 28. They interpreted this year's theme "Alay sa Palatandaang Bayan" with two of Manila's most important landmarks.

Jeresano did a realistic watercolor rendition of the Fort Santiago gateway titled "Revealed History, Behind Mystery". Ona on the other hand captured in morning sunshine the soaring steel arches of Quezon Bridge in Quiapo. His black and white photo is Ona's second straight grand prize win.  

Ona was a former member of the PUP College of Communication's photgraphic organization, Sinag Club.

For more info, visit www.artpetron.com