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art industry in the Philippines
smb replied to a topic in Intros and members announcements/advertising
Welcome to the artfreaks.com forums! ok... I guess the needs and problems of Filipino artists will be the same the world over. If they are "struggling artists," the hardest thing is to make enough money to live on. If they are successful, it might be hard to break away from their "genre" paintings and come up with something new? I think that Filipino artists are well supported by the NCCA http://www.ncca.gov.ph/ , the CCP http://www.culturalcenter.gov.ph/ , newspapers like the Philippine Star http://www.philstar.com and the Philippine Daily Inquirer http://www.inq7.net - and many of the private galleries in the Philippines. I would imagine that it is impossible to say exactly how many artists there are in the Philippines. If you include all the amateurs and students, I would hazard a guess at about half a million?? Whatever the true figure is, I am sure that it is increasing! Most artists who paint for a living are able tro get by on the earnings from the sale of their artworks - but many have to get out on the streets - selling to tourists and passers-by. In Ermita, Manila, locally produced art is sold roughly 50 / 50 to tourists and locals. I would immagine that in galleries outside the Ermita / Malate tourist belt, the greater proportion of the sales would be to middle class and wealthy locals. With the export market, a lot of Philippine art goes to expatriate Filipinos (OFWs who have settled abroad) - although there are big markets for Philippine art amongst the local populations in places like Hong Kong and Singapore, Germany and the USA Hope this helps! -
Only if the viewer's eye is as corrupted as the artists mind! -
The two on the left look like they are making love doggy style! The two on the right are in a standing-up missionary position!
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I have made an album for my good friend Butch, in the Members Gallery. (I don't know why he couldn't make his own album? Getting artists to post their own images on this gallery is like trying to get blood out of a stone! For some reason, you all seem to prefer the old Coppermine gallery...")
© © Butch Payawal
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Great stuff! Keep 'em coming! Hey, Eduardo! You must know some other poets or literary gurus?? Try to get them to post something here... even as a guest. At the moment, the only people posting anything much here are you and Lonvig. Chai and myself also chip-in the odd contribution but it will take more than 4 contributors to keep these forums alive. I am patient but not infinitely so... If we don't start to see some action on these damn forums before too many more years go by, I might just press the delete button on my web hosting control panel. By the way, my next literary contribution will be a small missive on my recent, short but very enjoyable, trip to Mindanao. This will appear on my Blog. I'm still working on the descriptions to the accompanying photos, which have already been posted at: Home > User galleries > smb > Bicol, the Visayas and Mindanao Chiao!!
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From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 36" x 24" -
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" Filipina ladies selling fish at the market -
Paco Gorospe - Abstract painting with red, gold and blue
smb posted a gallery image in Member's own albums
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" -
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 24" x 36" -
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
"Girl With Birds" Painting by Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 30" x 30" -
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
"Tupada" Painting by Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 30" x 30" -
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 30" x 30" -
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 30" x 30" A proud man with his prize fighting cock -
From the album: Paco Gorospe Paintings
Paco Gorospe - oil on canvas - 30" x 30" A beautiful, very colorful semi-abstract painting with song birds and flowers -
From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
A pastel painting of Philippine pop / rock star Barbie Almalbis on stage with her guitar. This was my second attempt at this painting. It was copied from an advertisement for Golds Gym that appeared in the Philippine Star of May 15, 2006. Barbie Almalbis is one of my favorite Filipina pop / rock stars. She looks great, she is a very intelligent girl and she is a highly accomplished musician! (She's also very fit - thanks apparently to Golds Gym!) To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com -
From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
This was my second attempt at this painting. It was copied from the front cover of the March 2006 edition of Savvy Magazine http://www.magnamags.com Shibani Kashyap is a very beautiful (and highly intelligent!) Indian actress and film star. To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com -
From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
A painting of Philippine pop / rock star Barbie Almalbis on stage with her guitar. This pastel on paper painting was based on an advertisement for Golds Gym that appeared in the Philippine Star of May 15, 2006. Barbie Almalbis is one of my favorite Filipina pop / rock stars. She looks great, she is a very intelligent girl and she is a highly accomplished musician! (She's also very fit - thanks apparently to Golds Gym!) To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com -
From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
This is another pastel of Filipina singer Nikki Gil. It is from a photograph of her that accompanied an article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer of May 15, 2006. The article was entitled "How Nikki mends her broken heart." (Apparently, Nikki says she sings better now, after her breakup with Gabriel Valenciano.) To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com -
From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
Mostly Rembrandt soft pastels, on Canson Mi-Teintes paper. This was copied from a photo that accompanied an article entitled "Beauty to Lani - Nothing to fear," that appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer of April 30, 2006 (Apparently, Filipina actress "Precious Lara Quigaman, Bong Revilla's new screen partner, has assured the senator-actor's wife Lani Mercado that there is nothing to fear...") I deliberately made her breasts somewhat over proportioned as I wanted to emphasize their beauty! To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com -
From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
A pastel portrait of two lovely and very beautiful Thai girls that I met in Bangkok on a short break in February, 2006. This painting was based on one of my own photographs. The photograph on which this painting was based, can be found at: MyKaChat.com Forums > Gallery > Members own albums > To all the girls To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com© © Vic Rolfe
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From the album: My early attempts at pastel painting
Copied from the front cover of the March 2006 edition of Savvy Magazine http://www.magnamags.com Shibani Kashyap is a very beautiful (and highly intelligent!) Indian actress and film star. To purchase a high quality print of this image, please visit: ArtWanted.com Various gift items and dozens of personalized products such as mouse pads, t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, puzzles and a lot more besides are also available, customized with this image at ArtWanted.com -
It doesn't matter a damn if we come from nothing and go back to nothing... That's a really selfish way of looking at life. We come - we go. But life lives on! The important thing is that before we go, we leave life in a better state than we found it. And don't forget, every little thing we do has unfathomable "knock-on" effects. When we smile at a stranger, it might just put them in a good mood - then they make someone else's day, then... it goes on multiplying... (The reverse is also true, of course. So next time someone cuts you up in heavy traffic - try to at least put on a freindly grimmace!!)
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I've been getting a bit carried away with my pastels lately. Here's a fairly recent painting that I was quite proud of: More of my recent pastels at: http://www.artfreaks.com/forums/index.php?...bum&album=4
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A collection of images of some of the works of Filipino artist Hugo Yonzon
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From the album: Hugo Yonzon Paintings
The image of this lovely Hugo Yonzon painting was very kindly supplied by Elena Sharp, from California, USA. Elena gave the folowing details for the painting: Mother and child 3 - 1985 10" x 10" Owned by Elena - might be for sale. If interested, please e-mail: emeraldprncss01@yahoo.com
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