Grandier Bella
December 10, 2007
Very nice site.. superb works.. and most especially, I love your essays. Very well written.
I guess artists like you are needed here in the Philippines. The proliferation of "fine artists" here, degree holders at least, can't even draw decently. The modern theory of art is widely espoused in art schools here. Unfortunately, the academic, classical methods of painting are summarily rejected as an "obsolete" style... resulting to graduates who're not fit to be called fine artists. At best, I consider them craftsmen with diplomas.
I just am relieved to find a fellow Filipino who's still interested in realism, and who can also logically defend his stand as well.
Good luck and more power!
Manny G.
April 15, 2007
Hi Vic,
God bless you! Your paintings are great and quiet interesting. As i read your testimony, I was inspired to write you since i learned paintings by a miracle. i was a Cristian missionary in Romania for the past ten years. We live by faith and financial matters are always difficult.It's good in a way because that will really exercise our faith in God. Anyway i had been helping homeless people in Romania and it happened that one of them was the best oil painters in one of the academy of arts school in the country. In short it happened that somebody gave me oil paints and just told me Manny paint!Ha! With the encouragement of the other artist in town i slowly discovered that i could actually paint. Thank you Jesus! After painting for 4 years, we were blessed and sold about 35 paintings in Romania and Switzerland. I'm a filipino married to a Swiss, our son was born in Thailand. We had been working in Romania for 10 years and presently staying here in the Philippines.
OK, anyway just want to drop this message and May God bless you and keep you and make you a blessing. I would like to meet you if you have time.
pray for you,
Manny
Maris
April 4, 2007
......schone schilderijen
Richard Urmenita
March 28, 2007
Vic.
Your work is marvelous. Do you remember when you used to sketch on scratch paper back in 6th grade? You are truly blessed.Rick U.
Tina
January 20, 2007
I really appreciated and loved your works of art... Your website has been a great inspiration to pursue my dreams! Wish your efforts will continuously inspire all Filipino aspiring artists like me...
Connie
May 6, 2006
After browsing at your work of arts and academic achievements, my heart overflowed with happiness because you added to those Filipinos whom we could be proud of. I salute you and your chosen wife on your road to continuous success in life.
Very truly yours,
Connie
Primarily a mental operation and secondarily an organic function, painting is not an inborn but an acquired skill.
As an intellectual activity, painting is essentially a body of practical knowledge that can be comprehended easily by any prepared mind.
Ontologically, the painting skill belongs to the general category of operative habits.
Only the visible is the proper object of painting.
A finished painting is an image, a formal sign that represents its object by being a visual likeness of it.
Emotions are movements of the irascible and concupiscible appetites. Having no visual characteristics, emotions cannot have a proper visual representation.
Ideas are not proper objects of painting. Ideas are abstract and universal whereas the result of any painting activity can only be concrete and singular.
Painting is not a language, strictly speaking, and, therefore, cannot be a fitting vehicle for communication or expression.
Some possible explanations for the neurotic insistence on painting being an expression of ideas and emotions.
Every transient human activity has an exemplary model and for painting the immediate exemplar is an image, an enhanced version of reality, formed in the mind of the artist.
Painting has both objective and subjective ends. Objectively, a painting should be an image of its immediate exemplar.
A painting should be judged on whether it meets its objective end or not, on whether it possesses all the intrinsic perfections proper to it as an image.
First Criterion:Veresimilitude
Second Criterion:Composition
Good likeness and good composition are the two criteria for judging any painting.
Comprehensive summary of the fundamental properties of painting.
The modern conception of art as "anything you want it to be" can have absurd practical and theoretical consequences.
Real definition of art.
Meaning of Beauty and its importance to art.
Beauty is not a category of the mind.
Beauty is not a movement of the appetites.
Something is art only to the extent that it is beautiful.
A painting is art only in so far as it is a beautiful painting.
Anything artificial depends on man only in its becoming or in its being artificial. Everything else depends directly on the other constitutive principles.