Emilさんのイラストまとめ

Anita Magsaysay-Ho's "Fruit Vendor" (1957) was sold yesterday for P86.4 million (USD 1.56 million).

Once payment is made (where no questions are asked as to the source of money and the true identity of the buyer), the painting can disappear and accrue in value as time goes by.

I recently acquired these excavated pennanular (literally “almost ring-shaped”) earrings from an old collection. They were once worn by our precolonial ancestors, both males and females. The use of these types are confirmed in Boxer Codex drawings from the late 16th century.

In Visayan mythologies, eclipses happen when the sky-serpent called "bakunawa" (literally, "bent serpent") swallows the moon.

In Iloilo, it is tradition that during an eclipse, people make noise using metal pots to distract the bakunawa and cause it to spit out the moon.

Juan Luna’s painting “Huyendo del Baguio” (Fleeing from the storm) reminds us that typhoons have been rummaging us since time immemorial. Yet, it appears that we and our authorities always respond poorly to typhoons as if they come as a surprise.

Poverty has been an enduring subject in Philippine art, from our National Artists like Botong or Manansala to contemporary stalwarts like BenCab or Garibay. Your problem really is not “poverty porn,” but because it was a beautiful lady with a non-poor upbringing who tackled it.

Photographs of old "us" are studies of elegance, good taste and design.

But at which point did we lose them and start thinking that Filipino aesthetics is or has to be kitschy?

In other words, kelan tayo naging baduy?