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For, it is so common among us [Filipinos] to look up to a foreign talent…. [ 3 ] Several of Castrillo's most important works are monumental sculptures commemorating Filipino historical events or personalities, including Rajah Sulayman (1976), the People Power Monument (1993), The Battle of Zapote Bridge (1997) and the Bonifacio Shrine (1998).
The National Museum of Fine Arts (Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Sining [1] [2]), formerly known as the National Art Gallery, is an art museum in Manila, Philippines. It is located on Padre Burgos Avenue across from the National Museum of Anthropology in the eastern side of Rizal Park .
Constancio Bernardo (December 22, 1913 – August 8, 2003) was a Filipino painter and professor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is known for making the earliest modern geometric abstract paintings in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.
Greek art, especially sculpture, continued to enjoy an enormous reputation, and studying and copying it was a large part of the training of artists, until the downfall of Academic art in the late 19th century. During this period, the actual known corpus of Greek art, and to a lesser extent architecture, has greatly expanded.
José Honorato Lozano (1815 or 1821-1885) was a Filipino painter born in Manila.He is best known as the pioneering practitioner of the art form known as Letras y figuras, in which the letters of a patron's name is composed primarily by contoured arrangements of human figures surrounded by vignettes of scenes in Manila - an art form that may have derived loosely from illuminated manuscripts. [4]
La barca de Aqueronte, translated in English as The Boat of Charon [1] or Charon's Boat, [2] is an 1887 oil-on-canvas and allegorical painting [1] [2] by the Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo. The work was a gold medalist during the Exposicion General de las Filipinas [1] (International Philippine Exposition) in Madrid. [3]
Modern Greek art, after the establishment of the Greek Kingdom, began to be developed around the time of Romanticism. Greek artists absorbed many elements from their European colleagues, resulting in the culmination of the distinctive style of Greek Romantic art, inspired by revolutionary ideals as well as the country's geography and history.
The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna.Luna, working on canvas, spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators.The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid, where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three). [1]