Through My Lens

  A Do ... Va La Nave ? Paris, 1885 Juan Luna Next Saturday, the wealthiest art patrons of the country will be outbidding each other to bring home this long lost Juan Luna painting. This would be an auction to watch! The painting found its way back home, from Paris to Cordoba to Manila. I am hoping an institution or a museum like the National Museum would win it but if a private individual with tons of moolah gets to bring it home, it will never again be available for the publi c to view. This noon, I decided to visit the auction preview at Rockwell to see the painting in actual. It is beyond awesome! I thought about how crazy Luna was to kill his wife in a fit of jealousy but I also thought of how undeniably talented he is. Of course there are the priceless "Spoilarium" and the controversial P47M "Parisian Life" paintings now at the National Museum that are testaments to this Filipino's genius but my personal appreciation of art chooses "A Do......

*Girl with the Pearl Earring Oil Pastel 18x24 Roel Obemio Along with three other Saturday group artists, the very promising painter Roel Obemio held an exhibit at the Art Center on Aug.1 , 2015 entitled "Four Play". Most of the works are a collaboration of the talents of Migs Villanueva,  Anna de Leon, Omi Reyes and Roel Obemio himself; and with a power cast like that in Philippine modern art, one could only expect sheer visual pleasure. Six paintings in the exhibit however [one painting not pictured in this blog] were purely the works of Roel Obemio. The volumetric figures he is known for found its way in the works of 17th century Master of Dutch Light, Johannes Vermeer; a tribute to the latter's unparalled talent. It was pure joy to see how Obemio kept the poetic timelessness of Vermeer's images of ordinary life while brushing onto the painting his own whimsical style.  The  joy these artworks brought me was simply overpowering that I soon foun...

Images of the Papal Visit to the Philippines, January 2015 Images taken at Roxas Blvd, January 16, 2015 while Pope Francis was on his way to the MOA Arena to meet with Filipino families.