Paintings for sale from Angono artists’
A collection of paintings by Angono artists are sold for about P 1,600 to P 1,900 at an upscale part of Quezon City during lunch and dinner time.
Lunch hour crowds were enticed to buy one of those paintings which depicts life in the Philippine countryside.
A painting by Federico Mendoza, a protege of multi-awarded artist Mauro Malang Santos, shows how farmers live and what they do during harvest time in rural areas of the country.
The paintings are sold by out-of-school youths (OSYs) all throughout the week infront of Tramway Restaurant along Timog Avenue, Barangay South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City.
The OSY introduced themselves as Alexander Santos and Eric Alurao, both from Angono, Rizal. They make both ends meet by selling paintings made by members of the Neo-Angono artists such as Malang and Mendoza, a low profile artist.
Self-taught painter Malang was born on 1928 in Sta. Cruz, Manila. A recipient of the 1994 Cultural Center of the Philippines Gawad for the Visual Arts, he belongs to the second generation of modernists.
Malang attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California, for training in art design in 1965.
Malang has a staggering resumé of group and solo shows and continues to exhibit a number of works.
Since the 1960s, he has joined exhibitions abroad, such as those in London, Munich, Rome, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has also participated in several art festivals including those held in Bali, Indonesia in 1987 and Bahrain in 1981.
In 1997, Malang’s retrospective exhibition was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.
Angono, Rizal is home to many of the country’s great artists. It is a quiet little town an hour away from Manila.
Angono lies between Laguna Lake and the foothills of the Sierra Madre, some 30 kilometers from Manila, a town whose folk hero, the late National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco, was a benign hippie and the most famous Filipino muralist.
Botong Francisco was one of the leaders of the modern art movement in the Philippines. He reveled in and recorded Philippine history, legends, small-town folkways and small-town sights.
The presence of two art groups, the Angono Artists Association and the Angono Ateliers Association serves to inspire young and emerging visual artists, ensuring the continuity of this town’s artistic heritage.(PNA Features)
