The Anthem Philatelist

JOSEPH JOEL CRISTOBAL is a nonconformist artist who started as a professional nomadic music aficionado and landed as a free spirited creative painter.  His love for music brought him to various places away from home, honed his artistic inclinations in beats and tempos, that made the world hear his silence in sweet tones and rhythms.   As he journeyed throughout his own self-discovery, he was fortunate enough to have met a mentor who set his intrinsic aptitude in sketching into motion. Since then, and by virtue of  persistence, unwavering self-belief and dedication, he pursued to paint in the impressionist manner and eventually developed his own style in Cubism. As he metamorphosed from a music artist to a thriving visual artist, his works were viewed and bought through scads of group and solo art exhibits he joined since 1998.   As his way of giving back to society, he gives art workshops to children in his hometown, Tanay, and in some other places in the Philippin...

  Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque . They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear abstract and fragmented. In the Philippines, the best known cubist painter is the National artist from Pampanga,  Vicente Silva Manansala .  He was of the first Abstractionists in the Philippine art scene.  His paintings depict a nation in transition, an allusion to the new culture brought by the Americans. Manansala together with Fabian de la Rosa are among the best-selling Philippine artists in the West.  Most of the other well known Cubist like Jose Joya and Ang Kiukok are from Luzon and Mindanao. Let us now look at the best cubist artists from Cebu . 1. Celso Duazo Pepito - (Spiritual Cubist) He is in the forefront of Cubism in Cebu . A renowned and well-respected cubist, he is o...

   "A new song, a soulful chant or a simple melody hark back to the senses the obscured movements of nature – the frolicking growth of a bud to a flower, the enthusiastic flow of a forgotten river, the murmurs at the thick of the wilderness where two artists as lovers pause to listen to the humming of indiscernible words, as they imagine better worlds spared from the uncertainties of the present precarious times. In “ Honi ug Banika ”, Cebuano artist-couple Celso Pepito and Fe Madrid bring out their works in a wilderness of hope with this exhibition of recent works made during the grueling period of community quarantine. “ Honi ug Banika ” which translates as ‘melody and nature’ is the couples’ way of contemplation, a necessary exercise of creativity and spirituality that lays open a course of redemptive action amidst the impasse of the pandemic ."       Self Mastery 2021   Mixed Media          ...

  An autostereogram is a two-dimensional (2D) image that can create the optical illusion of a three-dimensional (3D) scene. Autostereograms use only one image to accomplish the effect while normal stereograms require two.    The 3D scene in an autostereogram is often unrecognizable until it is viewed properly. One needs to stare at the scene for awhile for the 3D effect to emerge.   Guernsey Post issued a set of 2 stamps featuring design of a dove, a universal symbol of peace, one with a green background 25p stamp, and a blue background 30p stamp. Designed by Keith Bassford, the Autostereogram (a hidden image seen by crossing one's eyes in the correct way) was created by David Burder (UK) and Bob Mannle (USA). The hidden images are large versions of the doves as featured on the patterns i.e. on the 25p stamp the bird is standing, face to your right, while on the 30p stamp it is flying to the left.   Autostereograms can also be found in art. An example is by ren...

The Will to Live 2021, ( Autostereogram )     When we look and appraise a painting by color deficient   Master artist Celso Duazo Pepito , one will immediately come face to face with a brilliantly made work of art.    He was born 54 years ago on the 22nd of November in Daan Bantayan , Cebu . He plunged into the world of art as a young man who showed special skills in lettering . He was surprised when he steps into the halls of the University of the Philippines that the fine arts course was after all about painting. His painting career soon took off soon after college.    There were years of facing struggles hurdling one trial after another. But, like college education, experience is considered as the best teacher. His paintings are known to contain imagery that is brought to life by crisp and clear lines, bold strokes and his usual usage of bright color scheming. But deep within his subjects are personal motives and intentions that come from hi...