‘Art for a cause’ Connections, Experiences, Stories

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 09/12/2018

WHAT do you see?” That was the question I asked my twins Nicholas and Antoinette as we went around the “Art for a Cause: Art Exhibit by Cebuano Artists” at the lobby of Chong Hua Hospital Mandaue.…

The sorrows

Sofia Aliño Logarta 03/21/2018

On Tuesdays and Fridays I pray the Seven Sorrows Rosary using my cellphone or the computer. I have to confess that at first I got carried away by the visuals. In the flight to Egypt, I checked…

‘Sugbuanon Realism’

Raymund Fernandez 01/30/2018

The good news is that we can now actually see local movements in the world of Sugbuanon art: There is an emerging contemporary art movement expressing itself in “Street Art” and its extensions; There is an Abstract…

Leonardo’s unfinished painting

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 01/07/2018

In March 1481, the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopelo in Florence commissioned Leonardo da Vinci, then 29 years old, to make a painting for their altar. Leonardo began working on the “Adoration of the Magi”,…

CEBU CAN DO A TURKEY!

Editorial 12/29/2017

  Netizens were amazed how a group of Turkish artists transformed a graffiti wall in Turkey’s City of Van into a canvas of plastic bottle caps, creating perfect replicas of famous paintings. A netizen named Rex Argonza…

Painting looted during WWII returns to Poland

AP 11/29/2017

WARSAW, Poland — Representatives of the US and Polish governments are publicly unveiling a 19th-century painting that was looted during World War II and recovered by the FBI. The ceremony Wednesday marked one of the latest recoveries…

Paintings depicting issues in the society on display at SM Art Center

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/25/2017

Look beyond the art. With a variety of issues hounding society, an Augustinian priest turned his thoughts to painting, hoping to help people understand the different faces of life. At least 12 oil paintings painstakingly done by…

Raphael’s last painting

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 03/11/2017

Giorgio Vasari called it Raphael’s “most beautiful and most divine” work, this painting—“The Transfiguration”—which now hangs in the art gallery of the Vatican Museums. When Cardinal Giulio de Medici, who later became Pope Clement VII, commissioned it,…

Leonardo’s unfinished painting

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 12/31/2016

In March 1481, the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopelo in Florence commissioned Leonardo da Vinci, then 29 years old, to make a painting for their altar. Leonardo began working on the Adoration of the Magi,…

Veco brings back color to Cansaga playground

PR 12/15/2016

VISAYAN Electric Company (Veco) employees and volunteers rehabilitated last Nov. 19 a playground under the New Cansaga Bay Bridge in Consolacion town, northern Cebu that the power distribution utility built for the community in 2012. Around 30…

Of muses and musings

Apple Ta-as 10/31/2016

AN ARTIST uses his hands and mind to create new things. But, more importantly, Novereich Agustin wants his artworks to speak of his “individuality”—be it through drawing, painting, beadwork, or poetry. Here we begin to appreciate the…

When Art meets Tea

Thea C. Rinen 03/31/2016

THE LAST time I held a brush and did watercolor painting was in grade school. That  was, well, decades ago when bell-bottoms, miniskirts and clogs were in vogue. One of the things we did in art class…

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