Edited by OP Monzon
Four artists from different backgrounds have merged together to come up with an exhibit all their own: Joel Janer, Jo Florendo, Norbing Villez and OP Monzon at The Art Wall of the Cardinal Santos Medical Center Main Lobby to benefit the service patients under the Cardinal Medical Charities Foundation. The theme of the exhibit is literally a throwback, A RUSTIC SETTING that will run from July 10 to 30, 2017.
JOEL JANER: TANGLED REALISM AND IMPRESSIONISM
JOEL grew up in Metro Manila, but knows too well its offerings of congestion, pollution and its dark and dangerous alleys.
Perhaps this is the reason why Joel Janer prefers to paint idyllic rural scenes where the air is clear, the sky is blue and the trees and fields are not touched yet by concrete and steel.
A parish art workshop at the Industrial Valley Complex Marikina, brought Joel to discover his passion in the visual arts. With the encouragement of Fr. Uldarico Dioquino and the masterly guidance of artists Andy Urag and Pol Mesina, Joel was able to achieve a purpose in life. From this interesting encounter, Joel is continously developing his craft.
Impressionism and realism are Joel’s his main style of painting. He combines these two painting styles particularly in his popular Banig series - a realistic and impressionistic paintings on woven anahaw mats. These style of painting posted online caught the attention of art collectors who thought they were painted on real the Filipino mat and not on canvas.
Joel fits the role of a devoted husband, loving father and professional artist. Despite all these activities, he still finds time to be active in Let's Paint, an online art mentoring group, and Imprimatura, a group of plein air artists. Through these groups, he continuously help other artists discover themselves through the visual arts.
Joel's works can be seen on the Imprimatura Art Gallery's fb page.
NORBERTO VILLEZ: FROM COMIC BOOKS TO VISUAL ARTS
Born in 1976 in Camarines Sur, Norberto Villez was fascinated by the wonderful artworks in Filipino comic books. The pavement was his drawing board and he would use broken potteries and while stones.
He was inspired by the work of Fernando Amorsolo whose works he only saw in text books. As he was interested to paint, he proceeded to to take up Fine Arts major in Advertising at the Far Eastern University. Unfortunately, he was not able to finish the course.
He attended painting workshops conducted by Pol Mesina, Jr. He became a member of Sining Kulay at Tinta (SUKAT) group formed by Mesina and became even more active in painting.
After a series of group exhibitions, Norbing Villez held his first solo art show at GI Towers in Makati.
ANGELITO ‘JO’ FLORENDO: THE MASTER OF THE KOI
FLORENDO is a self- taught artist who recounts with affection the three persons who have given him great influence, his grandfather mentor Domingo Ibanez or “Lolo Domeng”; maestro Martin Catolos and his benefactor, art critic, editor, and publisher Manuel Duldulao.
Many of his paintings were published in Duldulao’s coffee table books.
Jo Florendo was born in Albay, but grew up in the province of Tanay, Rizal. Maybe this is the reason why his paintings are earthly and rustic. He painted landscapes - rice fields and trees, rivers and mountains, flowers and blooms. His favorite subjects are rudiments of the earth: the barn with the roosters, the mother hen feeding their chickens little and the cool nipa hut surrounded by the wild forest.
Painting nature seems to be a delicacy at the Rizal province. Why are there so many visual artists who come from this place? They say Rizal artists are slowly bred while still young to paint and depict the realities of the simple life. The province boasts of landscape sceneries, farmers working in the rice field and fishermen sporting their early morning catch. It is also the hometown of prominent artists and master artists.
But how can one go astray with such talent as Florendo, a boy growing in rich surroundings with the masters along with the smell of oil paint, the grease of acrylics and the earth colors of aquarelle?
The medium has become his world, and its color, his dream.
The Rustic Art of Jo Florendo by Alma C. Miclat/Inquirer http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/89315...
ORESTES P. MONZON: A LEAP FROM RADIOLOGY TO VISUAL ARTS
OP MONZON is a radiologist and nuclear medicine physician by education and training.
He is the chairman of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital and a member of the Philippine Board of Radiologic Technology at the Professional Regulation Commission.
He facilitates AA Appreciating Arts site to serve the Filipino artists to have a venue for their work and manages Ordinary Artists, an art group which includes the hearing impaired, the senior citizens, persons with disabilities, among others.
He writes, interviews artists for a feature article at AA, collects art, organizes medical and family life conferences, gallery exhibit openings and raises funds for charity.
After retirement from active medical practice and at the medical school, he finds himself going back to his roots and discovers that he could paint.
Physicians turn to the healing power of art and beauty by Alma C. Miclat/Inquirer: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/80265/physicians-turn-to-the-healing-power-of-art-and-beauty
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