Category Archives: Proud to be Pinoy!
We enjoyed our breakfast at Escolta ( Manila Peninsula Hotel ) ! We arrive already at the tail end of breakfast which ends at 10:30 am and transitions into brunch which is even heavier than what you will see here. Heart2Heart likes Escolta because it promotes our very own country, it’s Filipino inspired!
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Heart2Heart loves promos like these!! PROUD TO BE PINOY!! I have already all 6 designs of the notebooks!! 🙂
PINOY CREATIVITY!
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Last May 21, I visited Rustan’s Makati and saw a Bulacan Festival ongoing. Heart2Heart loves Filipiniana festivals featuring products from our country. My Lola Glecy always made sure we patronize products from OUR VERY OWN. She created that department to showcase Filipino items. And Rustan’s always has the best display and execution in putting the items together and developing them into beautiful creations
During the festival, there were food booths also so I bought a few items to patronize them
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Today I pay tribute to my all time idol, my late grandmother, Lola Glecy. She is one of the pioneers in Philippine retailing. She has met many great retailers, world leaders and many other great personalities from all over the world and she impressed them all!! She is a woman ahead of her time, a woman with impeccable taste and a remarkable person that makes us Filipinos proud for she proved how a woman and a Filipina can achieve great things!!
To everyone at work, she is known to us as GRT. You can ask all the old timers at Rustan’s department store who have encountered GRT and they will always have an inspiring or touching moment in their lives from GRT. We all admire her and try to follow her….which is very difficult..because no one will ever be like her. Though she is not physically with us anymore, she is very much alive in our hearts and in our everyday life.
Beautiful interpretations through art
by one of the Greatest Filipino Artists – Fernando Amorsolo
and by world renowned Betsy Westendorp
I found this photo in my files but cannot read the artist
Previous Entry: Remembering Lola Glecy June 3, 2007
Thanks to our friend, Hetty, for inviting us to come over and see the exhibit of her husband, Paulino! We remember very well many years ago when we visited his home to see his beautiful collection or art and antiques! And now this beautiful exhibit! You cannot imagine the value of the paintings – both its financial worth and the worth of its history and beauty!!!! This in itself is an accomplishment and a legacy of Paulino to Philippine Art and for our country.
You will have to be there to believe it and see the actual paintings. I am featuring all 80 works ( which is probably not even half his collection ) of art but it is still different to actually view them yourself. I would say this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to view this collection and as Vita, the owner of Finale Gallery, told me, she said that she is happy that it is Paulino who owns these works of art because he is very generous in lending his paintings for others to see and appreciate in a public setting. So do come over as it is still showing til the end of the month.
And this Saturday, March 20, Learn more about the early Filipino Moderns with Juvenal Sanso, Mark Justiniani and Patrick Flores at 4:00 pm at the gallery.
These are the broad strokes of the sequence of modernism that the Que corpus embodies that complement those earlier mentioned: second-wave stalwarts Anita Magsaysay-Ho,
Nena Saguil,
Manuel Rodriguez,
Ricarte Puruganan,
and Ang Kiukok;
the neorealist originals H. R. Ocampo,
Vicente Manansala,
Cesar Legaspi,
Romeo Tabuena,
Ramon Estella,
and Victor Oteyza;
the Filipino émigré artists Venancio Igarta
and Macario Vitalis;
and the harbingers of abstraction Fernando Zóbel,
Arturo Luz,
Constancio Bernardo,
Jose Joya,
Lee Aguinaldo,
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz,
and J. Elizalde Navarro.
When probed more keenly, it would reveal idiosyncrasies, too: the surrealism of the early Juvenal Sanso,
the unique imagery of Alfonso Ossorio,
and the lesser- known attempts of sensitive, sensible practitioners like Lyd Arguilla,
Cenon Rivera,
Jesus Ayco,
Jose Pardo,
Hugo Yonzon, Jr.,
Rod. Paras-Perez,
Rodolfo Ragodon,
and Helen Guerrero Roces.
The afterglow of the neorealist flare may also be discerned in the folksy aspirations of Mauro Malang Santos.
Finally, we may want to ask about the delineation of time: Why posit the fifties as the height and limit of modernism? It may be argued that this decade signifies the defining moment of the tendency: the First Neo-Realist Art Exhibition in 1950, the First Exhibition of Non-Objective Art in 1953, the walk-out of the conservatives at Art Association of the Philippines (AAP) salon in 1955, the replacement of the conservative/modern categories at the APP with “contemporary Philippine painting” a year later, and the First Southeast Asian exhibition held in Manila in 1957. It may also be proposed that the fifties was witness to the incipient expression and later the fullness of the modern tradition, before it was to wither in the face of its own institutionalization and, in some instances, its descent into kitsch.
Aside from the art works, this collection also brings to light the significance of the Paulino Que collection, which is one of the most indispensable in private auspices and could rival the combined treasures of public institutions of modern art collection such as the National Museum, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Ateneo Art Gallery, and the Vargas Museum. Featuring 36 artists and 80 works, it promises to be an event in itself, a rare occasion in which a private collection becomes public discourse as students, scholars, and supporters of Philippine art gain access to it and hopefully engage it with the same discernment that went into its shaping.
The exhibition will run from March 6 to 31, 2010 at Finale Art File, Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound, (enter Gate 1), 2241 Pasong Tamo, Makati City. We welcome student tours. Should you request a guided tour, please call us at 813 2310 or email us finale@pldtdsl.net. Admission is free. We are open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm.
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Congratulations to Starbucks Philippines, to Mom and Quito and the rest of the Store development team!!
Again, a winner among Starbucks stores form all over the world. The Philippines is champion again! STARBUCKS LIPA store.
Photos by Alexis Vintayen
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We recently came from our friend’s house to once again drool over the beautiful art collection they have. Around 13 years ago, we met them and they introduced us to Philippine Art and we immediately had an instant appreciation for it.
My personal favorite is Anita Magsaysay-Ho, aside from the many stories from Mom about how wonderful a person she is, she is a great artist! I have not seen as many works of hers in one place, As we all know, it is very difficult to acquire her works
She even made portraits of their two sons! Wow!
A diptyque – and again one of the sons is in the painting- the little boy on the ground
This is my most favorite of them all which is specially displayed in the master bedroom 🙂
A 1978 Manansala which is absolutely beautiful!
Mauro Malang- Santos, another of our favorites
Soler San Pedro Santos, son of Malang
Arturo Luz
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