December 2013--From 1960-1965, Renato Rocha had a winning streak in various art competitions including the University of the Philippines Student Catholic Action Art Competition (UP SCA) and the National Student Art Compe...
In spite of the glare and blare of the demanding city life lies a moment wherein the only thing you can't help but do, is to breath in the scent of May. One such example is the Flores de Mayo, also known...
Amidst the concrete jungle in the middle of the city of Caloocan, amongst the smog of pollution, stands the dignified figure of Andres Bonifacionational hero, Founder of the Katipunan, Father of the Filip...
November 2015--At the age of six his father presented him a French book of drawing lesson: and the child sat down and did the lessons over and over with crayons. Then his father took him to the School of Fine Arts on R. Hi...
April 2010 -- In the early years of her artistic direction, Yasmin Sison began experimenting with abstract expressionism. Utilizing a rich knowledge of form and color, her gestural paintings included bright and splashy c...
September 2014--In 1978, Lex Tvbiera received his first commissioned work from Emmi Barbin, an ardent art collector based in Missouri, U.S.A to paint the American jazz musician, John Coltrane. Signing Tvbiera as his artist...
June 2012-- Bonifacio Cristobal’s artistic influence was as great as his contemporaries. He began his painting career in 1937 after obtaining a Certificate in Painting from the UP School of Fine Arts. Upon his gr...
July 2016--ifferent Island of the Philippine archipelago had bad various names in history. The native inhabitants had their own names, but as each wave of foreign voyagers touch these places they either baptized them with t...
March 2013--The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has returned Virgin and Child, a 15th-century painting attributed to the Master of Flémalle (1375-1444), to the estate of Max Stern, a German-born Jewish dealer who fled the Nazis...
October 2015-- Ukiyo-e, the popular color woodblock prints of Japan, are globally recognized and renowned, but their raunchier examples tend to see less light, rarely going on public display. Known as shunga (“spring...
