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Cinemalayan Review

As we go on with our next task, we were asked to watch one Cinemalayan entry for the year 2012. It was quite uninteresting at first since I really don't like to watch Indie films, but since it is a requirement, we challenged ourselves to go on. It was rainy that time and excitement doesn't dwells on. Good thing when we get there (CCP), we got to catch up the last ticket since it is the last day of film showing and many students are waiting, like us, to watch even one of the films.

GIVE UP TOMORROW exposes a Kafkaesque extravaganza populated by flamboyantly corrupt public officials, cops on the take, and a frenzied legal and media circus. It is also an intimate family drama focused on the near mythic struggle of two angry and sorrowful mothers who have dedicated more than a decade to executing or saving one young man, Paco Larrañaga.

A very good documentary of a young man, whose willing to struggle a kind of life in prison just to be able to clean his name up though it's quite tough for him to do it.

At first, I thought, why on earth was someone fight for something that he really can't deny. I mean, he's already sentenced and we all know that if one has already sentenced by court, he cannot be acquitted. And then I learned that he is only framed up by the parents of the two victims, and since those parents has a strong connection to the corrupt government, the only thing that he can do is to call for help, not in this country but on the others that might have a stronger power to stop his death execution.

Excitement got heats up, and the feeling of disinterest changed. I learned that, if you really concentrates into something even though you might thought that it is boring, you will know something from it and to your amazement, you will really learn huge from it.

Ancient Timeline

In this section, we also learned all of the things that one might say that not all tribe are all the same. Quite amusing and at the same time, fun and exciting ^_^.

Metal Age

Anthropomorphic Pots
Ayub Cave, Saranggani Province
Earthenware pots resembling human figures were found in Ayub Cave, in Pinol, Maitum, Saranggani Province. The jars used for secondary burial were dated to the Metal Age about 5 BC. - 225 A.D. Each of the twenty nine jars recovered from the site is unique. The head-shaped covers portray different kinds of facial expressions: sadness, joy, contentment. The heads were either plain, perforated or coated with red and black paints. Some have earrings, others are tattoed. Some head-shaped covers depict teeth while others have arms, female breasts and male genitalia.

Butuan Boat
Libertad, Butuan City 320 AD
Prehistoric boats were recovered in Butuan, Agusan del Norte in 1978. There are nine existing prehistoric boats. The first boat dated 320 A.D. is in the site museum in Libertad, Butuan. The second boat dated to 1250 A.D. was transferred to the Pinagmulan Gallery (The Origin), in the 2nd floor of the Museum of the Filipino People in Manila. The third boat dated 990 A.D. is in the Butuan Regional Museum (Agusan del Norte, southern Philippines).

New Stone Age

Manunggul Jar
Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Pt., Palawan 895-775 BC
The cultural treasure found in the early 1960’s in Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan is a secondary burial jar. The upper portion of the jar, as well as the cover is incised with curvilinear scroll designs and painted with natural iron or hematite. On top of the jar cover or lid is a boat with two human figures representing two souls on a voyage to the afterlife. The boatman is seated behind a figure whose hands are crossed on the chest. The position of the hands is a traditional Filipino practice observed when arranging the corpse. The burial jar which is unrivaled in Southeast Asia and considered as the work of a master potter, signifies the belief of early Filipinos in life after death. It is dated to the late Neolithic Period, about 890-710 B.C.

National Artists

Much to my delight, after seeing the works of art of our National Artists, I have picked these three. Why did I picked them? Wait till you see... Juan Luna y Novicio
(October 23, 1857 — December 7, 1899)
was an Ilocano Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists.

Spoliarium
by Juan Luna
Oil on Canvass
The painting features a glimpse of Roman history centered on the bloody carnage brought by gladiatorial matches. Spoliarium is a Latin word referring to the basement of the Roman Colosseum where the fallen and dying gladiators are dumped and devoid of their worldly possessions. At the center of Luna’s painting are fallen gladiators being dragged by Roman soldiers. On the left, spectators ardently await their chance to strip off the combatants of their metal helmets and other armory. In contrast with the charged emotions featured on the left, the right side meanwhile presents a somber mood. An old man carries a torch perhaps searching for his son while a woman weeps the death of her loved one. The Spoliarium is the most valuable oil-on-canvas painting by Juan Luna, a Filipino educated at the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura (Philippines) and at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain. With a size of 4.22 meters x 7.675 meters, it is the largest painting in the Philippines. A historical painting, it was made by Luna in 1884 as an entry to the prestigious Exposicion de Bellas Artes (Madrid Art Exposition, May 1884) and eventually won for him the First Gold Medal.

La Una Bulakena
by Juan Luna
Oil on Canvass

Portrait of a Lady
by Juan Luna
Oil on Canvass

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto
(May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972)
is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. Born in Paco, Manila, he earned a degree from the Liceo de Manila Art School in 1909.

Portrait of Mrs. Banks
by Fernando Amorsolo
Oil on Canvass

Portrait of Francis Burton Harrison
by Fernando Amorsolo
Oil on Cavass

Portrait of Don Julio dela Orden
by Fernando Amorsolo
Oil on Canvass

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo
(February 21, 1855 - March 13, 1913)
was a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century, and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Mariano Ponce and Graciano López Jaena, although he neither involved himself directly in that movement, nor later associate himself with the First Philippine Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.

La Tragedia de Gobernador Bustamante
by Felix Hidalgo
Oil on Canvass

La Enferma
by Felix Hidalgo
Oil on Canvass

Don Luis Perez Dasmarinas
by Felix Hidalgo
Oil on Canvass

Sculptures

Three Dancers
by Jerusalino V. Araos
Wood

Metamorphosis (Piroutte) [left]
by Jerusalino V. Araos
Wood, organic dye and finishes
Technique : Direct carving and painting
Media : Light and space

Pepe's previous lesson on avoiding the 3F temptations (Attitude) [center]
by Jerusalino V. Araos
Wood, organic dye and finishes
Technique : Direct carving and painting
Media : Light and space

Kustumusik (Arabasque) [right]
by Jerusalino V. Araos
Wood, organic dye and finishes
Technique : Direct carving and painting
Media : Light and space

Mother and Child
by Napoleon Abueva
Adobe

Kaganapan
by Napoleon Abueva
Bronze cast with golf leaf

Torso
by Napoleon Abueva
Adobe

Bust of an Old Lady
by Guillermo Tolentino
Marble

Paintings

First Mass at Limasawa
by Carlos "Botong" Francisco
oil on canvas
The mural depicts Fr. Pedro Valderrama officiating the mass in an improvised altar in the presence of Ferdinand Magellan, Pigafetta (chronicler of Magellan), Spanish soldiers, and the natives in awe.

c The painting depicts the planting of the cross in Cebu in 1521 with Ferdinand Magellan, Spanish soldiers and the natives with intricate tattoos known as pintados. The original cross can still be found in a special kiosk in Cebu City. This mural painting is one of the best representations of historical artwork in the collection. Manansala’s rendition is an amalgamation of the traditional and modern techniques in painting. It also manifests his mastery of transparent cubism.

Spices of West Indies
Oil on Wood

Pasig River
by Miguel Galvez
Oil on Canvass

U.P. Site Today
by Dominador Castaneda
Oil on Lawanit Board

Old Bureau of Science Building
by Macario Santos
Oil on Canvas

Hills of Nikko
by Jose T. Joya Jr.
Oil on Canvass

Homage to Tandang Sora
by Hernando R. Ocampo
Acrylic

La Playa de un Cadox
by Felix Hidalgo
Oil on Canvass

Superstition
by Cesar Legaspi
Oil on Canvass

National Museum

The National Museum of the Philippines is the official repository established in 1901 as a natural history and ethnography museum of the Philippines. It is located next to Rizal Park and near Intramuros in Manila. Its main building was designed in 1918 by an American architect Daniel Burnham. Today, that building, the former home of the Congress of the Philippines, holds the National Art Gallery, natural sciences and other support divisions.

The adjacent building in the Agrifina Circle of Rizal Park, formerly housing the Department of Finance, houses the Anthropology and Archaeology Divisions and is known as the Museum of the Filipino People.