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...wasn't until the arrival in the 1920s of Fernando Amorsolo, arguably the country's most famous painter, that Philippine landscapes and figures began to appear more prominently in the archipelago's art. "Amorsolo's project was to find an idealized Philippine landscape and form of female beauty," says Ahmad Mashadi, head of the National University of Singapore's art museum. The artist took his nationalistic mission seriously, often too seriously, dipping his brush deeply in bathos and nostalgia. Amorsolo's paintings were suffused with movement, but they could be earnest to the point of comedy. Though he produced some...
...Joya and Fernando Zóbel had been virtually obliterated. Drawing inspiration instead from American artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the cool mathematical lines of Zóbel fitted surprisingly well into the Marcoses' own propagandistic aims. According to Ramon Lerma, director of Manila's Ateneo Art Gallery, the Marcos regime was preoccupied with modernity. "They wanted to present the Philippines as keeping up with the rest of the world," he says...
...freed of the burden of representing the Philippines. "After Marcos left, the scene exploded and became plural," says Toh. Ranging from the dark paintings of Javier, whose lonely ash-gray landscapes owe as much to film noir as to Manila's inescapable haze, to the surrealism of Ventura, Philippine art has finally become, as Mashadi puts it, "post-ideological." And it is this mature quality that has caught the attention of the Asian art market. Philippine artists today have scattered in their own interesting directions. The achievement of Thrice Upon a Time is showing how they got there...
...what I did. Use the film-festival system. Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission...
...that the passing of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary was overlooked in your Farewells section. In addition to touching millions as a folksinger, Travers championed the causes about which she sang--including civil rights, the Vietnam War and the gay-rights movement. Her activism and art will live on forever...