Artes de las Filipinas New Website

Artes de las Filipinas New Website

February 2009 – Two months short of its fourth anniversary, Artesdelasfilipinas.com is proud to launch its new layout. The site has been reogranized for better article categorization. The new site aims to offer new features in the coming weeks such as a search engine and options to print, email or bookmark an article. Artes de las Filipinas renews its partnership with EACOMM Corporation for providing us its award-winning DO-CMS Content Management System for the new site.

The site has been designed not to break any existing links to previous articles. However, if something has been overlooked and you encountered a broken link ,please notify us at info@artesdelasfilipinas.com so we may act on it right away.

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Raul Piedra's Textured Abstracts

June 2016--Known for his textured abstract paintings, Raul Piedra, still a college student in 1970, staged his first solo exhibition at the University of the East where he featured his paintings of botanicals,...

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Dex Fernandez As He Likes It

August-September 2017 -- Dex Fernandez began his art career in 2007, painting a repertoire of phantasmagoric images inhabited by angry mountains, robots with a diminutive sidekick, triangle-shaped flying...

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Making An Impression: Efren Zaragoza's Life in Art

January-February 2015--Efren Zaragoza had his first sighting as a printmaker in 1966 when he joined the First National Graphic Art Competition sponsored by the Art Association of the Philippines. His interest...

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Daniel de la Cruz's Touchstone of Modern Sculpture

January-February 2011 -- Many of the artists who emerged in 2006 found themselves pursuing a career in painting. But Daniel de la Cruz, who turned forty that year, actively turned his thoughts towards...

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Leonardo's Lover probably painted the Prado's Mona Lisa

April 2012--The Prado’s copy of the Mona Lisa was most likely painted by Salaì, Leonardo’s assistant and reputed lover. Salaì, whose nickname means “little Satan”,...

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Controversial Caravaggio to be unveiled in London

March 2013--Mahon bought The Cardsharps for £50,400 (est £20,000-£30,000) when it came up for auction at Sotheby’s, London in 2006, ascribed to a 17th-century “follower”...

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Lito Mayo's Alternate Reality

January-February 2017—Lito Mayo was a fixture in the Philippine art scene since the 1970s and his relevance in the history of Philippine art has never been questioned and ignored. When he was a college...

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Posthumous Prognosis for Supposedly Syphilitic Gauguin, via His Teeth

March 2014--It’s long been believed that painter Paul Gauguin was wrecked by syphilis when he died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, but thanks to some old teeth thrown down a well, he may posthumously...

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Van Gogh was murdered, claims forensic expert: "He did not shoot himself"

November 2014--The true nature of Vincent van Gogh’s death continues to be a topic ripe for mystery – after a leading forensics expert has claimed that the artist was murdered. The Sunflowers...

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Leo Abaya's Dialogue of Ideas and Images

September 2016--Leo Abaya has an enviable sense of timing. In 1993, his student plate of a collage study of images from magazines, Views and Points of View won the Jurors Choice at the Art Association...

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