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November 3, 2025

Artes de las Filipinas welcomed the year 2022 with its latest publication

Jose John Santos III's Subconscious Upwellings
Jose John Santos III's Subconscious Upwellings
February 2010 -- While many of the ideas of the young artists today swirled in chaotic orbits, Jose John Santos’ paintings remain simple and fantastic and are always governed by thought. In many...
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Bonifacio Nicolas Cristobal: Rediscovering a Forgotten Great
Bonifacio Nicolas Cristobal: Rediscovering a Forgotten Great
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...
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Ramon Estella: A Purveyor of Modern Art
Ramon Estella: A Purveyor of Modern Art
March 2012--Ramon Estella first made a name for himself as a writer and director for film, television and radio during the 1950s before having his solo exhibition in 1959 at the Philippine Art Gallery....
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Kitty Taniguchi's Quintessential Feminine Aesthetic
Kitty Taniguchi's Quintessential Feminine Aesthetic
May-June 2010--Kitty Taniguchi is among the few female painters who had successfully trespassed upon a male-controlled territory. For the past thirty years, she has faithfully explored themes of femininity...
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Trying to understand why art can offend, and why artists should continue to be free
Trying to understand why art can offend, and why artists should continue to be free
      “What in art gives such remarkable power that it can offend?  What makes people susceptible to being offended?”  Thus spoke Prof. Flaudette May Datuin,...
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Alfredo Roces: Man of Arts and Letters (Second of Two Parts)
Alfredo Roces: Man of Arts and Letters (Second of Two Parts)
February 2016--Alfredo Roces holds a prominent place in the history of Philippine art. He is a painter who started with a figurative style but soon began to amalgamate Expressionism, Fauvism and Impressionism...
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Van Gogh was murdered, claims forensic expert: "He did not shoot himself"
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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School of Sanso
School of Sanso
August 2016--Juvenal Sanso (1929, Spain) is a seminal Philippine modernist. His works have been collected in museums in Philippines, France and the United States. He studied Fine Arts at the University...
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Lucian Freud Says Thank You to the Nation with a Corot Painting
Lucian Freud Says Thank You to the Nation with a Corot Painting
February 2013--The late artist Lucian Freud has left a treasured painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot as a thank you to Great Britain for welcoming his family when they arrived as refugees in 1933....
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Marcel Belleza Antonio: The Son, The Man, The Painter (Second of Two Parts)
Marcel Belleza Antonio: The Son, The Man, The Painter (Second of Two Parts)
Do you ever include your personal experiences in your works? I do sometimes. I cant recall which ones but I know Ive done a series of works that are biographical in nature. Your paintings had some air...
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