“Pag-unlad ng iyong sarili”

“NATIONALIANS are compassionate, trustworthy, resilient, industrious and repectful” . Ito ay ang limang Core Values ng National University na dapat gampanan ng bawat estudyante.

Ako ngayon ay Accountancy student ng National University, sa aking palagay mahirap gampanan ang mga iyon. Marahil sa iba ito ay madali, Ngunit para sa akin mahirap itong gampanan. Ito ay dahil sa maraming temptasyon ang nakalaan sa atin at marahil ito ay nakakagambala sa ating pagaaral. Isa dito ay ang mga “Gadgets” katulad ng cellphone. Dahil ito ay isa sa dahilan para kuhain ang iyong atensyon. Alam ko na ang cellphone ay isa sa mga kagamit-gamit sa panahon ngayon. Marahil isa itong ginagamit sa pakikipagkomunikasyon sa mga kaibigab, kaklase, pamilya, teacher, mga kamag-anak at iba pa at isa ito rin ay may kakayahang gumamit ng inernet, sa pamamagitan ng Wifi at Data Connection upang magamit mo ito sa iyong paghahanap ng iyong mga kailangan sa pagaaral.

Ngunit kung titignan mo ito sa kabilang dako, ito rin ay isa sa nakakapag-destruct sa iyong pagaaral dahil sa panahon ngayon ang mga kabataan ay napapadalas gumamit sa social media na kung saan, nakukuha na ito ng iyong oras na dapat ay inilalaan mo nalang iyon sa pagaaral.

Isa ding paraan ng pagkuha ng iyong temptasyon ay ang pagiging tamad o mas iisipin mo nalang na magpahinga ka nalang ng buong araw kesa sa magbasa na dapat ay pinaglalanan mo ng oras upang makatulong sa iyong pagaaral.

Kung titignan natin, sobrang dami ng temptasyon sa mundong ito at mahirap itong pagisa-isahin. Ngunit paano mo nga ba ito malalampasan? Sa paanong paraan? Ano-ano nga ba ang dapat gawin?

Sa aking palagay isang paraan na dapat mong gawin ay ang pag-adopt  ng limang Core Values. Sapagkat doon ka matututong mapalago ang iyong sarili. Isa sa limang core values ay ang Compassionate na ang ibig sabihin ay pagiging maalalahanin sa kapwa. Isa ito sa dapat mong taglayin dahil iyon ay isang magandang katangian upang makilala ka ng mga taong nakapaligid sa iyo at dahil doon kakikilala ka rin bilang isang taong mapagkumbaba at laging bukas ang palad sa iba. Ang pangalawa naman ay ang Trustworty o pagkakatiwalaan. Isa itong magsisilbing gabay upang mananatali ka bilang estudyante na ka-tiwa-tiwala at isa itong magandang katangian na dapat ugaliin upang magsilbi kang magandang halimbawa sa iba dahil nga sa dahilan na ikaw ay pagkakatiwalaan. Ang pangatlo naman ay ang resilient o ang pagiging matatag. Ito ay dapat mong taglayin sa lahat ng aspeto ng iyong buhay upang sa ganon ay madali mo nalang lampasan ang mga problema na kakaharapin mo. Isa rin iyang magandang halimbawa nag-rereflect sa aking sarili dahil. Kakailanganin kong maging matatag sa lahat ng aking paglalakbay sa aking kursong Accountancy. Bagama’t ito ay mahirap ngunit ito ay malalampasan kung ako ay magiging matatag. Ang pangapat naman ay ang industrious o pagiging masipag. Dahil ang lahat ng bagay ay napagsususmikapan at lahat ng bagay ay iyong makakamit kapag itinataglay mo ang ugaling ito. At ang panghuli ay ang respectful o pagiging marespet. Ito ay dapat mong matutunan sa lahat ng bagay. Dahil kung marunong kang rumespeto sa lahat ng aspeto ng iyong buhay, walang duda na ito rin ay babalik sayo at matututo din silang respetuhin ka.

Iyon ay ang limang Core Values na Dapat taglayin ng bawat estudyante. Upang lumago sila, hindi lamang sa pang-akademika kundi lalago din sila sa kanilang mga sarili at sa lahat ng aspet ng kanilang buhay.

Artist: Diosdado Lorenzo
Analysis:

The most disturbing and largest of the paintings is Diosdado Lorenzo’s Rape and Massacre in Ermita. The former head of the University of Santo Tomas Fine Arts Department painted it in 1947 at a time when the country was still reeling from the shock of the over 100,000 men women, and children slaughtered, bayoneted, and senselessly butchered in Manila in February 1945. The pain was so intense that many, to survive psychically, buried these events in the deepest recesses of their minds for many years. My generation had parents who were teenagers during the war and whenever they were asked about those times, spoke little and with much reluctance.

Lorenzo’s painting portraying two Japanese soldiers raping and killing family members in an Ermita home depicted a common horror not just in Manila neighborhoods but throughout many parts of the country. A young girl in the foreground is already dead from stab wounds, while another young girl with long hair in the background is naked and wounded. The husband has just been bayoneted. The wife struggling with a Japanese soldier clutching a knife, her breasts exposed, is about to be raped and murdered. A crying baby in a crib is a foreboding sign. There were countless stories by World War II survivors who saw Japanese soldiers flinging babies into the air and thrusting them with bayonets as they fell to earth. An altar with dangling rosaries is set on one side, mute and helpless. A tropical foliage seen from an open window vainly hides the fire and terror occurring outside.

Answer:
Mimetic-A bloodied artwork showing how the Japanese soldiers torturing Filipinos and abusing women sexually.

Pragmatic-To show the Filipinos how the conquerors tortured our ancestors.

Name: Andrade, Joey C.

Name: Andrade, Joey C. How you view an artwork tells more about you than the work of art

All of us has different approaches on a specific artwork. It depends on how you connect the meaning of the artwork on your life. If you saw something on the artwork that makes you remember something on your past or artwork that will inspire you. It’s just on how an artwork will affect you.

Everytime I saw an artwork about povert I can easily relate myself because were also short financially. You can also relate yourself on musics. Whenever you’re in love or brokenhearted you listen to love songs because you can relate on the lyrics. Everyone can express their emotions through art. It’s just on how you connect it with your life.

 

 

Sunlight on the coast by Winslow Homer

The image of the ocean crashing against the coast intrigued Winslow Homer from the time he moved to the rugged peninsula of Prout’s Neck, Maine, in 1883. A few years earlier (1881-1883) Homer had lived in the English coastal fishing village of Cullercoats on the North Sea, painting the sea mostly as a backdrop for the people who lived there. Only in 1890, beginning with Sunlight on the Coast, did Homer shift away from essentially narrative subjects to focus on the pure seascape elements of rock, light, water, and sky. The subject of Sunlight on the Coast is the never-ending battle between the sea and the shore, captured under specific conditions of light and weather. The painting’s simplified composition, strong linear rhythms, earth-toned harmonies, and broadly textured brushwork determine its particular mood. A heavy blue-green wave rolls in and breaks over a shelf of brown rocks, spewing foam and spray. Homer successfully conveyed the wave’s heaving, weighty mass and the iridescence of the swirling countercurrent. The wave’s bulk, its powerful sliding, rolling motion, and its suction force as it funnels in on itself represent nature’s might. Homer’s title for his painting seems curious. Sunlight barely pierces the darkness, although it transforms the backwash of one wave into a glittering surface and illuminates a portion of the sea and a steamship on the distant horizon. This diagonal recession in space from the dark lower left to the light upper right runs counter to the angle of the wave and conveys the vastness of the sea. As in the paintings that were to follow Sunlight on the Coast, Homer’s depiction of the forceful interplay between the sea and the shore is an image of contemplation that manifests aspects of man’s relationship with nature.

source: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/sunlight-on-the-coast/3wEESaV2H-hQyA?hl=en

Approach: I think the author used all of the approaches. A) Mimetic, “The subject of Sunlight on the Coast is the never-ending battle between the sea and the shore, captured under specific conditions of light and weather.” B) Expressive, Winslow Homer’s was described living near the seas, thus, influencing him to paint about oceans etc. C) Pragmatic, it is also described that man has a relationship with nature. D) Formal or Aesthetic, the author pointed out the different colors, strokes used by Homer in the painting.

Name: Bryan Christopher Inocente

REPOLLES, Monica Deyn V.

The Kiss Painting

According to the world art history, The Kiss is probably Gustav Klimt’s most famous painting of his so-called ‘Golden Period’ (1898 – 1908) when most of his masterpiece artworks utilized gold leaf. Klimt start The Kiss on 1907 when he was 45 and still lived with his mother, and finished in 1908. The Kiss painting is widely considered to be the greatest painting ever, better than even the Mona Lisa. What make The Kiss outstanding from other paintings? 1. Its art is made of modernity and a very close relationship with the erotism. 2. The artist seeks to give a dimension almost crowned to his fabric. 3. It represent the topic of the pressure in love. 4. The use of symbolic and gold leaf as per following explanation; A couple is intertwined on a floor of flowers resembling a meadow, it is wrapped in a full gilded clothing. The decoration of this cape, with the image of a mosaic, varies according to the sex: black and white rectangles for the man, of the coloured circles and the flowers for the woman. Of this emergent unit heads and the hands which constitute the expression of a great intimacy. The knelt woman gives herself to her companion the closed eyes and lets herself go to passion love. 5. The artwork evokes a world of harmony where the couple is insulated in sublimation from the feeling in love, being unaware of the world real and evolving in an unreal and idealized world makes of a great power in love. Klimt compared the sexual pleasure to the artistic joy and gave him a spiritual dimension. It was also particularly attached to the representation of the ideal beauty. What are interpretations of Klimt The Kiss? 1. The common gold shrouding, and indeterminate background evokes the timelessness, and union of selves that a kiss can engender. 2. The represents of how bright, beautiful, and golden everything is when you first kiss someone. 3. The man is lost in the kiss (faceless and unidentifiable) while the woman is turning her head away and is aloof from the kiss. 4. The female is succumbing to the male and experiencing a moment of sexual ecstasy. 5. A symbolic representation of the kiss of Apollo to Daphne at the moment she is transforming into a laurel tree (Ovid, The Metamorphosis). 6. The man is forcing a kiss on the woman who is turning away, but unable to escape. 7. The Kiss exemplifies a loss of self, reconciliation and unity that only lovers experience. 8. The couple stimulates opposing energies contributing to the connection. The man displays knowledge, black and white contrast, and binary information, as his energy towards the woman. The woman balances this by using her femininity, warmth, and decorous flowers as her energy towards the man. The woman is rooted in the ground, symbolizing her connection to “Mother Nature,” which means it’s only normal that she connects as the image of flowers. Underneath the man pictures of rabbits are visible and are benefiting from Mother Nature’s grass. This symbolism of balanced connection between the two parts is the essence of what love means. 9. Some think that Klimt and his beloved companion Emilie Flöge modeled for the masterpiece. However, this is not confirmed. 10. The Kiss is a discreet expression of Klimt’s emphasis on eroticism and the liberation therein. The Kiss falls in line with Klimt’s exploration of fulfillment and the redeeming, transformative power of love and art. The Kiss is deviant from Klimt’s frequent portrayal of women as the lascivious femme fatale. Why The Kiss painting could be a great gift to impress your loved one? The Kiss painting by Gustav Klimt is a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. Only the faces and hands of this couple are visible; all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love.

Article from: paintings.analysis.blogspot.com

 

Ronalyn Del Rosario

España y Filipinas, meaning “Spain and the Philippines” in translation, is an 1886 oil on wood by Filipino painter, ilustrado, propagandist, and paladin, Juan Luna. It is an allegorical depiction of two women together, one a representation of Spain and the other of the Philippines. The painting, also known as España Guiando a Filipinas (“Spain Leading the Philippines”), is regarded as one of the “enduring pieces of legacy” that the Filipinos inherited from Luna. The painting is a centerpiece art at the Luna Hall of the Lopez Memorial Museum.

Description

The Spaniard woman or “Mother Fatherland” was drawn with “wide strong shoulders” while the Filipino woman was illustrated as “graceful” and brown-skinned. Both were wearing female dresses known as traje de mestiza or “dress of the mestiza“. The dressing of the women in traje de mestizas shows the cultural character, class consciousness, and social transformations resulting from 19th century Hispanization. Both women have their backs to the viewer, heading towards a far-away horizon, while embarking on the steps of a staircase.Side by side in the painting, Spain was shown to be leading the Philippines along the path to progress and development.

The taller and maternal white figure of a woman is Spain, a representation of the “benevolent image of colonialism”, is pointing ahead and guiding the “humbly dressed” Filipina to the “right way”. The painting appeared in the book entitled El legado de España a Filipinas or “the Spanish legacy in the Philippines” with the accompanying caption stating: España guiando a Filipinas por la senda del progreso (“Spain leads the Philippines on their way to progress”). It is further described as a painting that once linked the colonized with its former colonists, a “bucolic allegory” of the master and the servant “walking hand in hand”.

Historical significance

Although an oil on canvas masterpiece that projected a close bond between Spain and the Philippines through feminine figures, it is a propaganda painting that revealed the true hope and desire of Filipino propagandists during the 19th-century: assimilation with Spain, reform, equality, modernization, and economic improvement. Contrary to Jose Rizal’s estimation that Luna was a “Hispanophile”, or a person who could never go against Spain, the España y Filipinas portrait is a “less combative posture” of Luna for showing to Spain and the viewers of the painting the needs of the Philippines at the time.

Approach

The author used mimetic approach because it delivers a message the bond between Spain and the Philippines. The painting revealed the true hope and desire of Filipino with Spain on reform, equality, modernization, and economic improvement

 

“How you view artwork tells more about you than the work of art”

Ronalyn Del Rosario

The principle of “beauty is in the eye of beholder” is related to the quotation. Beauty can be virtually anything if you have the eyes to see it. Artists introduces their works consciously and unconsciously. You understood art by your feelings and emotions. Your critique to artwork reflects your personality, experiences, beliefs and mood. Your opinion to art is your feeling when you see it. Art can communicate an idea, feeling or principle to the viewer.

For me, I appreciate more the artworks inspired by nature. I find it relaxing, full of life, peaceful and amazing. Especially the sunset and sunrise. In connection with my life, for the sunset gives me peace and every sunrise gives me one day more to hope. That no matter what, don’t give up for everyday is an opportunity to you to become a better person.

Villafranca, Hanna Jane O.

 

The Devil’s Music 2009

Description:

This two dimensional art work was created by the Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick in 2009 and is titled The Devil’s Music. The imagery in this mixed media piece is very graphic, set against a black background in a vertical format. There is a border around the entire piece made of collaged paper, inside of which are small diamond symbols, framing buildings and organic shapes. The center of the piece also features large orange text that says ‘No. 9’.

Interpretation:

The symbolism in this piece is first communicated through the words and numbers in the composition, reading ‘No. 9’. This number suggests that the piece is the ninth of the series, or perhaps the address of the building shown on the bottom portion of the composition. Fitzpatrick’s arrangement symbolizes organized chaos with scattered graphics in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. Each graphic is evenly spaced and rarely overlaps in perfect harmony. The border is straight like a perfectly fit puzzle giving a sense of control, while the bright colors visually pop off the page representing life and energy.

Analysis:

The contrast in this picture showcases the vibrant color of each graphic against a black background. This difference creates a sense of energy along with the variety of shapes and sizes in the work. The text ‘No. 9’ is an area of emphasis, or a focal point, in this composition. The color of the text is orange and is repeated in other imagery around the border to better unify the piece through repetition, or rhythm.

 

Judgment:

I think this piece is a success because I am drawn to the style, or aesthetic, in Tony Fitzpatrick‘s body of work. His style manipulates space, representative of the city lights and energy of New Orleans at night. His craftsmanship is exemplary, showing clean edges on each collaged piece further lending to the organized aesthetic of the mixed media work. The technique uses in layering printed paper against a black background is compelling and reminiscent of a specific time period. Through these strategies, Fitzpatrick communicates a feeling of a busy city with character and life, with references to media and print from the time

How you view an artwork tells more about you than the work of art

Art is a representation of our dedication or devotion in life. Every move we put our efforts and time into it, the more satisfaction we would get. But sometimes, the piece of art reflects the meaningless of the artist itself and not the necessity. It depends on how a person will give meaning to the work of art.

 

We make our life an artwork. Sometimes people appreciates us, but most of the time, they dont. No matter how dedicated and devoted we are to make our life looks better, still they have no eyes to see and the heart to feel what’s inside of you. What they’ll see is only the facade. On the other hand, people appreciates you if they are pleased with you, ridicule you when they don’t. That’s reality, that’s life. It always depends on the perception of a person to appreciate an artwork.

Camacho, David Andrey O. “How you view an artwork tells more about you than the work of art”

Artwork tells how to become an imagination person. It makes own thought how to widen our creativeness in doing art. There, we can show the world our God given talent specially in drawing. It could help us us to think positive things that could bring us to be become a successful person someday.

About my personality, i could show an art by showing my talent in using musical instrument. In that way i can create different notes that tells the beautiness of the things that im looking or imagining.