Paintings

What is a painting?

     - Painting is a mode of expression and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting),photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature.

Artwork #01:

Spoliarium

by: Juan Luna

Oil on Canvas

History

                 The Spoliarium (often misspelled Spolarium) is a painting by Filipino artist Juan Luna. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884, where it garnered a gold medal. In 1886, it was sold to the Diputación Provincial de Barcelona for 20,000 pesetas.

Artwork #02:

Green Country

by: Edgar Doctor
Oil on Canvas

Abstract / Nature

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Artwork #03

Signa Temporum

by: Joseph T. De Juras

Mixed Media
History

                  Derived from Thomas Carlyle's 1829 book "Signs of the Times", this painting is a wrenching visual diatribe on The Great Tribulation - "a period of time before Rapture, a worldwide experience of hardship, disaster, famine, war, pain and suffering." A balletic dance of death with the central image of two contorted bodies riddled with bullets. The impulse is to duck and cover and not be caught in the crossfire.

Artwork #04

Cariton
by: Rodrigo R. Clapano
Oil on Canvas
Everyday Life


          An ingenious visual painting trick. An unflinching look at the contrast between the privileged rich and the deprived poor, "Cariton" - itself is a word play on luxury car and the grimy pushcart - is social realism on the cutting edge, laced with poisonous sarcasm.




Artwork #05

Behind Paradise Island
by: John Paulo Antido
Oil on Canvas
Everyday Life


          The deceptively ordered topographical landscape wrought with the patient care of an embroiderer. The painting tells a world destroyed by technology and lack of nationality.














Artwork #06

Untitled Painting
by: Unknown Artist
No medium
Distorted / History


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Artwork #07

Raw
by: Roderick Cruz
No Medium
Portrait


          I Find this painting a bit interesting in a way it is presented, because if you look closely to the painting, it is made of small bits of square patches attached all-together.
















Artwork #08

Real Time Connectivity
by: Arturo Sanchez
Mixed Media
Abstract


          This painting is made of a metal spheres attached to the painting itself. i realized the spheres attached has different kinds of images of people embedded in it, i think that's where the word Connectivity steps in.














Artwork #09

Steal-Life
by: Salvador Corpuz Sierra
Acrylic on Canvas
Still Life


          This particular still life has a coldly bizarre because totally unexpected, tableau of objects crammed inside a freezer, alluding to the phenomena of global warming.






Artwork #10

When the world Shook
by: Ricky V. Ambangan
Oil on Canvas
Fantasy


         If you'll observe the painting, it is full of celebrity personas such as The Hulk, Manny Pacquiao and etc.