The archipelago where develop creative thinking Have you ever thought about what you would like to do with brushes and colors? There are those who think that painting is a means of expressing emotions; other people feel, and no experience is needed to paint. Usually, easy watercolor paints are diluted with water on a specific paper; trying it you will …

The Filipino animator who made it big in Hollywood From his point of view, being an animated film designer is no different than being an action film designer. Having children too, he knows how to juggle the responsibilities of having a family and professional one. As a father of four, when he returns to the Philippines, he regularly visits the …

It can be me; it can be you If you asked him something about him, he would tell you that since 2017 he has lived taking photographs in the United States. Photographer born in Pandacan in 1992 and based in San Francisco (California), Geloy Concepcion https://www.geloyconcepcion.com/ knew the chaos of Manila from a very young age, when he started making …

Bright colors prints and the attention to detail He is a Filipino Designer achieved international success. The originality of his clothes was proposed in a pink photo shoot for Cycle 17. He excels in all fabrics, especially if they are eco-friendly. It is no coincidence, in fact, that he earned the title of Eco Designer at the Global Green 2012 …

The injustices of the Filipino natives, in the Tagalog language Born in April 1788, Francisco Balagtas https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/francisco-balagtas/m030402?hl=en was a Tagalog-speaking scholar during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. Considered the Prince of Tagalog poets because of his masterpiece Florante at Laura, to go to school in exchange for domestic service, when he was young, he went to a distant …

Lively music for adventurous melodies After indie soloist Kian Ransom returned from California to the Philippines in 2013, he had the idea of teaming up with a high school drummer friend and three fine arts students, forming the band The Ransom Collective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Fi0mGnX70 with them. For their 20-year-olds and enthusiastic fans, it’s a young band that helps keep them young. …

When sunlight becomes an additional color Four days after his death, he was awarded at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. In his paintings, you can easily grasp the presence of figures outlined against a bright light. Considered together with Juan Luna and Fernando Zóbel among the protagonists of the Philippine pictorial scene, the portraitist and painter of rural landscapes …

Warm and quiet Rome, where you can be fascinated by the unexpected Our trip to Rome smells of the typical delicacies of a trattoria in Trastevere – da Enzo al 29 https://www.daenzoal29.com/ in Via dei Vascellari – but to taste its typical Roman dishes you can’t book: queue and wait, however, you will receive the most agreeable of olfactory rewards. …

A brilliant cartoonist, between the sixties and seventies In the early 1960s, he was influenced by the American cartoonist Don Martin. Born in Rome in 1935, Tiberio Colantuoni https://www.lucianobottaro.it/la-biografia/tiberio-colantuoni/ studied at the School of Ceramic Art in Civita Castellana, then devoting himself briefly to the activity of a ceramic painter. In 1953, after meeting the designer Jacovitti – who taught …

Photographic atmospheres, between mannerism and symbolism In her photographic works you find flesh and blood that dance creatively, on the verge of collapse. The artist, human rights activist and traveler, Ilaria Facci https://it.ilariafacciart.com/ was born in Rome in 1982. After suffering from retinoblastoma and losing her left eye, she moved to Buenos Aires with my mother and sister. In 2000 …