Paintings

"Spolarium"

by: Juan Luna

In this painting, I had felt the artist's emotions and expressed the violations and abuse of the Spaniards to our fellow Filipinos. One of the most popular painting in the Philippines, the Spolarium, depicts the 19th century horror experience by Filipinos. It emphasized the violation of Human Rights by the colonizers of Spain. Juan Luna, one of our National heroes expressed his patriotism by painting one such masterpiece to enlighten the Filipinos out of oppression. 

In the Spolarium, Juan Luna is able to unite his painting into expressing his message by correlating every element with one another. In the use of color, he creates a harmonious relationship between the red in the center of the painting and shade of green in the darkness. Light is also balanced because of light colors used in the left side of the painting against the grim-darkness of the right side. He creates a division because of this, one half shows the horror of dragged corpse and on the other, the mourning of a lady. Because of the contrast in color, the point of interest is able to draw attention.


"Where Everything is Broken"
by: Chester L. Calayag

The painting signified sadness and it tells us that the child is experiencing sadness with regard to her family. The melting house signifies that there is a problem in the family and is tormenting the child.

In this poignantly painted image of a face of a girl distraught over what seems to be a withering house-cake, the sign of a fractured household is stark. And bearing the brunt of the disunion is the child, who may well be the daughter, caught in the crossfire of marital strife. The artist, whose precocious talent is clearly demonstrated, reveals both emotional condition and psychological insight, and a form that is infused with rigor and sadness.

"The Great Farewell"

by: Mark Andy R. Garcia

The artist was able to express the sadness in the painting by the wise choose of materials to be used and the strokes and techniques that were applied while making the said painting also contributed in the sadness theme. In these painting, one can see a mother and a father and will make the viewer think that they are sulking for someone's death. in the artist point of view of his artwork, the mother is dead and is like giving the last wishes and responsibilities to the latter partner.

"Souvenir"

by: Dexter Sy

 

I see this painting as a line of people with the 7 deadly sins in mind going to a doctor that cures them. Humans are fragile creatures that easily give in to temptation. This is the common pattern of human life. One need someone to cure this temptation and lead their lives to salvation.  

The artist limens a queue for a teaspoon of treatment from a dispenser, the people in varying heights and in different moments of anticipation, with their shoes strangely strewn across the floor. In some kind of reference to a Breughel painting, it may well be an allegory of remedy, as well as hope in a piece that is demanding in its devotion to ornament and painstaking drawing.

"Philippine Deep"

by: Manuel Lotsu Q. Manes

 This painting expresses the sad truth behind majority of people experiences in our world today. it depicts the struggling of a family to survive from drowning in the sea. Drowning symbolizes the hardships and problems filipino families experiences in the society, such as poverty and hunger.

"Steal-Life"

by: Salvador Corpuz Sierra

the definition of still life painting and combine it with things that contributes to human destruction or death. the inanimate things that either be natural or man-made are the common things that are being made as a subject in a still life painting. the painter made these inanimate things to symbolizes things like nuclear and toxic and other things that destroys humanity and fuse it. 

"Signa Temporum"

by: Joseph T. De Juras

This painting is a wrenching visual diatribe on The Great Tribulation - "a period of time before Rapture, a worldwide experience of hardship, disaster, famine, war, pain and suffering." A balletic dance of death twist in agony and intense pain before the viewer's eyes, with the central image of two contorted bodies riddled with bullets. The impulse is to duck and cover and not be caught in the crossfire, though the assault is clearly one-sided. A veritable scenario of a shooting practice the grisly scene is in stark opposition to the punctilious finesse of its execution.

"Behind Paradise Island"

by: John Paul Antido

 I see in this painting that it symbolizes the common flow of life of people. some people go to work for their children to be able to go to school.

Locus of this paradise island is this deceptively ordered topographical landscape wrought with with the patient care of an embroiderer. Surveyed from an omnipresent viewpoint, the scene is polymorphous: a migration of natives flying off to distant lands, above the oceans of patterned waves; revellers falling in line for a town carnival; school children at attention for the singing of the National Anthem, while National Hero Jose Rizal is stolidly stationed with his back to this generation of Filipinos. The terrain is a visionary nightmare of progress, with skyscrapers and factories spewing the waste of technology. Painstakingly rendered, the painting has an unreal fabulist tone, as though the artist were enraptured by the surreality of his imagery.

"The Cure"

 by: Armand Jay S. Arago

 What i see in this painting is that it signifies that sometimes the cure to evil things is the evil itself. There is a human mentality that sometimes sacrificial lambs are needed to stop the mass destruction. It is like choosing between two evils...then choose the less evil. Applying it in the society, if One must make sacrifices for the benefit of more people...then it shall be done.

"14 Missed Calls"

by: Alexander Marcaida Roxas

Sacrificial lamb is the masked innocent child clad in white pajamas, prostrate on the floor and crunched in foetat position that alludes to the shape of a telephone. Beside him is a toy gun which is a symbol for the violence that has wrought immeasurable destruction impelled by widespread hunger, unemployment, homelessness and mediate of illicit drugs. The title is a direct reference in the past 14 administrations since the country attained independence, a seating capsulation of the mismanagement by the nation's elected leaders who have refused to listen to the desperate calls and please of the people. The painting is a darkly luminous meditation on the state of teh country's leadership, a fraught signifier of teh failure to lead the Filipinos to "The Promise Life."

"Nang Yumanig ang Mundo"

(When the world shook)

In this painting, what I saw was that it signifies how the world is being run and how it shook as the human activities becomes more violent and violent. the world is signified by the tilted bookshelf that is about to go down because of the different activities being made by the people in the bookshelf. Applying its sense to our human world, our world when people still doesnt care on the environmental effects of their activities will also be soon to go down or in other words be destroyed.

Pop-phantasmal is this vision of a heavily-weighted bookshelf tilted at rakish angle, with the books propitiously held in place. Is it mirage or illusion that such tectonic disturbance brought to life the characters that may have lain inert between the pages of these unread books? Japanese samurais rise amidst the battle tanks, while soldiers lurk between the nooks and crannies of books. Pope Benedict is in good company with a Tibetan monk and a worshipping Muslim while Mao Tse Tsung is in dalliance with the Mona Lisa. Indeed a funny thing happened on the way to Armageddon.