Tag: UP Fine Arts
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From the Archive: Philippine University’s 1936 Painting Exhibition
Originally published in The American Chamber of Commerce Journal, Vol. XVI, No.4 (April 1936) We review the yearly art exhibit at the University of the Philippines because wealth patronizes art and because, further, it is far ahead of past exhibits. We should say it contains at least a dozen pieces that would grace the average…
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Dying Gaul in Philippine Cinema and Plaster Casts Conference at Aby Warburg
The image above is a film still from Babaing Hampas-Lupa (1952), an LVN Pictures melodrama written and directed by Nemesio E. Caravana and photographed by Raymond Lacap. The image shows Nida Blanca and Rogelio de la Rosa standing beside a plaster cast of the Dying Gaul inside the galleries of the University of the Philippines…
Geronimo Cristobal 