Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Romeo Tanghal
Famous Filipino Artist: Romeo Tanghal is a famous Filipino comic book artist who has worked primarily as an inker. He became well-known in the industry in the 1980s for his work on DC Comics' The New Teen Titans. The Teen Titans, also known as The New Teen Titans, New Titans, or The Titans, is a DC Comics superhero team. Teen Titans animated television series ran on Cartoon Network from July 2003 to January 2006. Based on the 1980s version of the team but diverging from that continuity in some ways, the series spawned two related comic book titles, Teen Titans Go! and Tiny Titans.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Juan Paolo Aquino
Famous Filipino Photographer: Juan Paolo "Jaypee" Aquino is a famous Filipino film director and photographer. He is considered one of the most prolific directors in Filipino media today, having directed television shows and short films for almost a decade. His trademark, visually arresting images, has re-invented the pace and the look of the different lifestyle magazine shows that he has directed throughout the years in the Philippines.
In 2006, Juan Paolo Aquino started his own personal project and tried his knack for photography. He spent more than five months travelling around Southeast Asia and mainland China to document the wealth of cultures from the different countries in the region. Emotional Core was the name of the project, and is now presently exhibited in Uncut Creative's Web Gallery. Some of his works have also been selected to be a part of the Dazed And Confused European Exhibit Project.
A graduate of the London Film School, Juan Paolo Aquino lived in London for almost four years and worked in a number of international film productions before going back to Manila. Some of his films were exhibited in a number of major short film festivals all through Europe.
In 2006, Juan Paolo Aquino started his own personal project and tried his knack for photography. He spent more than five months travelling around Southeast Asia and mainland China to document the wealth of cultures from the different countries in the region. Emotional Core was the name of the project, and is now presently exhibited in Uncut Creative's Web Gallery. Some of his works have also been selected to be a part of the Dazed And Confused European Exhibit Project.
A graduate of the London Film School, Juan Paolo Aquino lived in London for almost four years and worked in a number of international film productions before going back to Manila. Some of his films were exhibited in a number of major short film festivals all through Europe.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Famous Filipino Artist Fernando Zobel
Fernando Zobel y Montojo who was born on August 27, 1924 and died on June 2, 1984, also known as Fernando Zobel de Ayala y Montojo, Fernando M. Zobel, and Fernando M. Zóbel de Ayala, was a famous Filipino businessman, a famous Filipino modernist painter, and patron of the arts. Fernando Zobel, the son of Enrique Zobel de Ayala (1877-1943) and Fermina Montojo y Torrontegui, he was born in Ermita, Manila, and a member of the prominent Zobel de Ayala family. He graduated from Harvard University in 1949.
Fernando Zobel was one of the greatest Hispano-Filipino artists of his time, but ask laymen and experts alike and it would be evident that little is known of him apart from cursory information on his landmark paintings—or apart from whatever conceptions the lineage of his prominent surname brings.
Upon entering Harvard in 1946, although he decided to read history and literature, the first thing he did was to buy a box of oil paints. Without any academic training, he decided to paint. Painting was partly the reason why he later stayed on as a bibliographical researcher at the university. Around this time, he met the Boston artists Reed Champion and Jim Pfeufer who helped him launch his career as an artist.
Fernando Zobel was one of the greatest Hispano-Filipino artists of his time, but ask laymen and experts alike and it would be evident that little is known of him apart from cursory information on his landmark paintings—or apart from whatever conceptions the lineage of his prominent surname brings.
Upon entering Harvard in 1946, although he decided to read history and literature, the first thing he did was to buy a box of oil paints. Without any academic training, he decided to paint. Painting was partly the reason why he later stayed on as a bibliographical researcher at the university. Around this time, he met the Boston artists Reed Champion and Jim Pfeufer who helped him launch his career as an artist.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Danny Sillada
Famous Filipino Artists: Danny C. Sillada (born in 1963 -, Cateel, Davao Oriental, Philippines) is a Filipino surrealist painter, poet, musician, philosopher, performance artist, and literary, art & cultural critic from Mindanao. He was a recipient of 2003 "Pasidungog Centennial Awards" for literary and visual arts, a centennial event that was attended by the president of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in his hometown province in Davao Oriental.
As a multi-talented artist, Danny Sillada also writes and publishes poetry and philosophical essays both on print and on-line, composes and performs ethnic songs, hip-hop and ethno-techno music at the local Metro Manila alternative venues. He was described in a research paper submitted to the University of Asia and the Pacific as “the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe. Sillada is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic."
As a multi-talented artist, Danny Sillada also writes and publishes poetry and philosophical essays both on print and on-line, composes and performs ethnic songs, hip-hop and ethno-techno music at the local Metro Manila alternative venues. He was described in a research paper submitted to the University of Asia and the Pacific as “the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe. Sillada is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic."
Monday, January 26, 2009
Jose Rizal
Famous Filipino Artists and National Hero: Jose Rizal's multifacetedness was described by his German friend, Dr. Adolf Meyer, as "stupendous." Documented studies show him to be a polymath with the ability to master various skills and subjects. He was an ophthalmologist, sculptor, painter, educator, farmer, historian, playwright and journalist. Besides poetry and creative writing, he dabbled, with varying degrees of expertise, in architecture, cartography, economics, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, dramatics, martial arts, fencing and pistol shooting. He was also a Freemason, joining Acacia Lodge No. 9 during his time in Spain, he became a Master Mason in 1884.
Jose Rizal's most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. These writings angered both the Spaniards and the hispanicized Filipinos due to their insulting symbolism. They are highly critical of Spanish friars and the atrocities committed in the name of the Church. Rizal's first critic was Ferdinand Blumentritt, a Czech professor and historian whose first reaction was of misgiving. Blumentritt was the grandson of the Imperial Treasurer at Vienna in former Austro-Hungarian Empire and a staunch defender of the Catholic faith. This did not dissuade him however from writing the preface of El Filibusterismo after he had translated Noli me Tangere into German. Noli was published in Berlin (1887) and Fili in Ghent (1891) with funds borrowed largely from Rizal's friends. As Blumentritt had warned, these led to Rizal's prosecution as the inciter of revolution and eventually, to a military trial and execution.
Jose Rizal's most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. These writings angered both the Spaniards and the hispanicized Filipinos due to their insulting symbolism. They are highly critical of Spanish friars and the atrocities committed in the name of the Church. Rizal's first critic was Ferdinand Blumentritt, a Czech professor and historian whose first reaction was of misgiving. Blumentritt was the grandson of the Imperial Treasurer at Vienna in former Austro-Hungarian Empire and a staunch defender of the Catholic faith. This did not dissuade him however from writing the preface of El Filibusterismo after he had translated Noli me Tangere into German. Noli was published in Berlin (1887) and Fili in Ghent (1891) with funds borrowed largely from Rizal's friends. As Blumentritt had warned, these led to Rizal's prosecution as the inciter of revolution and eventually, to a military trial and execution.
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