Asian Perspective : Faotm
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 03/31/2012 - 9:04 PM
Hello comrades in artistic pursuit, I recently added FEATURED Artist every month in our group ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
For April I will showcase to you PAUL HILARIO of the Philippines.
Also,I will Feature on the home page first row every artist selected for this distinction
-Administrator
*the mask attached will be the unofficial ICON and future award evidence or recognition merit for the FAOT Year!
-Saigon
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Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/27/2012 - 7:56 PM
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/26/2012 - 5:47 AM
Allow me to welcome to ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
and his amazing fine arts:
(The first on his country to use Photo Chemicals On Bromide as Painting medium)
Reflections on my hometown
Reminiscing for what had gone by
as if yesterday still on my eye,
like movie flashing lullaby,
memories remembered with a sigh.
Pictures of youth, rediculed
wanton and unglorified,
with bullies and fear personified ,
delete! I would to be justified.
But why should I? If I will be sinned,
detaching black from gray It has been,
rediscovering the beautiful obscene,
reflecting the childhood I have seen!
Approaching golden introspection,
all of yesteryears imperfections,
recollection without solicitation,
without regret is true affection.
Rediscovering home 'use to know
the place and terrain God had bestow
to my mind it animates and glow
images that the wind can not blow,
-Saigon
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/14/2012 - 2:22 PM
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/12/2012 - 9:56 AM
@LDoc Lito: Thanks for dropping by...
@Maria: thats a beautiful piece..and probably have something to do with jewel fascination that the shape represent - Orb
@.Vindavan : Agrees with you on Yuliiya's adorable Vedan composition
Below is a sure finalist of my short listed favorites... Transcending her prolific creativity to a global windows-
Wanvisa Klawklean
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Posted by: OTIL ROTCOD on 04/08/2012 - 9:46 PM
@Paul Hilario, whoa I was just off air this few days and here you are, having made new art pieces! Just ALL so beautiful kabayan! Always been a great fan of all your works! Astig! And thanks for the advice on the tags about our works, adding filipino,philippines to all my works asap!
@Saigon, great group you just set up. Kabayan supporting you all the way in this one.
Posted by: OTIL ROTCOD on 04/08/2012 - 9:46 PM
@Paul Hilario, whoa I was just off air this few days and here you are, having made new art pieces! Just ALL so beautiful kabayan! Always been a great fan of all your works! Astig! And thanks for the advice on the tags about our works, adding filipino,philippines to all my works asap!
@Saigon, great group you just set up. Kabayan supporting you all the way in this one.
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/07/2012 - 11:39 AM
Posted by: Vrindavan Das on 04/07/2012 - 6:23 AM
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/05/2012 - 11:18 PM
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/04/2012 - 3:37 PM
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/04/2012 - 3:20 PM
Hi Saigon. Jareds Yokte is an amazing artist whose works bring me deep into my subconscious.
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/04/2012 - 2:26 PM
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/04/2012 - 12:47 PM
Pusod
inserting a key into the lock
trying to turn
but jammed
he banged on the heavy door with his fist
and kicked hard at it to no veil
highly frustrated
he broke it with a battering ram
opened the floodgate to his unconscious
in his dream
the fantasy journey to his childhood
searching for mystical source of his existence
reaching his mother's womb
finally trapped inside an egg
unable to go back further
to the very beginning of time
for his infinite past
suddenly waking up
instantly brought back to the future
of his current adulthood
he sweated
profoundly
Thao Chuong
2012-04-04
Posted by: Yuliya Glavnaya on 04/04/2012 - 4:52 AM
Posted by: Tbone Oliver on 04/03/2012 - 7:07 PM
As a western artist I must Have misunderstood Asian perspective .......the Paintings I have entered into your site are not what an asian persives but what a westerner persives as asian .... I will cease submitting my worlks to your site If it pleases you and your eastern counter artist.
Sincerely T-bone
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/03/2012 - 4:16 PM
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/03/2012 - 2:34 PM
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/03/2012 - 2:26 PM
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/02/2012 - 8:53 PM
Agrees with Till!
@Vincent; Marvelous piece for a seldom tamed susi oil in masonite. Please consider my group its home. Rest assured you have a pre-approved membership =)
@Maria: Go forth in zest and break a leg! Be back later and lets try to fix that leg however we can. =))
Here's another nominee for FAOTM with less need of introduction amazing - ALFRED ANG!
Posted by: Christine Till on 04/02/2012 - 8:05 PM
Now THAT's an 'Asian Perspective'.
Beautiful work, Vincent.
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/02/2012 - 7:57 PM
magnificent! Yes I am really going now.
@ Viet no need to apologise, I don't think either of us took offence at your heartfelt venom....understandable....now I must go....and get those paints out.
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/02/2012 - 2:19 PM
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/02/2012 - 1:12 PM
Am still up...
Enjoying the aesthetic opium that FAA exudes to the global brotherhood for artist community, artisan and patrons' market place.
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/02/2012 - 12:39 PM
@ Maria and Saigon. My comment about the issue of censorship reflects my past experience and own belief about the existence of bloody practice of thought police nowadays. I didn't have any intention to target you or Maria on this thread. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Have a nice dream in your time zone.
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/02/2012 - 12:35 PM
@ Jojie You have captured different Asian features in your art. Have a nice day.
Description: The fisherwomen of Tabina, Pagadian go to shore to fish in a quaint way. Jojie Alcantara
Sea Harvest
bare feet on wet sand
they pick up ocean harvest
from scattered seaweed
a seagull’s scavenging
on remnants from fishing boats
floated on calm waves
Thao Chuong
2012-04-02
Posted by: Jojie Alcantara on 04/02/2012 - 4:12 AM
@Saigon
I am tempted to say, "quack" (since you spoke of ducks) but my heart is warmed over by the fact that my image merits a mention alongside my favorites of Paul Hilario. Thank you for the poetry and attention.
@Viet
Thank you for your poem on my Angkor Wat image, a glorious past I am trying to capture.
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/02/2012 - 2:34 AM
Agrees with you... but here's the old joke..How do you distinguish a fool entered a cockpit? answer: when someone entered bringing a DUCK!
How do you determined there is a moron among the cockfighting mob? answer when someone have his bet for the DUCK!
My apology for the tasteless analogy. First and foremost.. Mr. Oliver is not of Asian lineage (its ok I opened the door for everyone) but he seems crossing the line
by kept on parading his beautiful art works very odd to what is our eastern views are. So there's the rub..I made the written announcement and even had an email to this person but to no avail he is of his own freewill to determine if his DUCK is worth to be on our cockpit.
Breaking this much ado over duck here's another talent from the group:
Bride in Waiting
On her date coming
She is blossoming in full
form, substance all bliss
-Saigon
April2,2012
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/02/2012 - 2:15 AM
I apologise if I gave a flavour of censorship tot he lovely thread by assuming the asian culture wanted to hold on/not share some of its mysticism. I like that certain cultures if they want can hold onto their roots.....which those cultures that have not experienced first hand can never fully understand. people can accept that even though they want to know more. Does that make sense what i am saying?
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/02/2012 - 1:58 AM
Brother Saigon, I love your free flow of administration. Artists are adults who cannot be considered as children under 12. Even children above 12 year old are not in need of close supervision. Why the hell on earth does it need to sensor artists' freedom of expression? The bad censorship that happened only under Stalin's tight grip and Chairman Mao's bloody control - shouldn't exist today.
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/02/2012 - 1:44 AM
Translation: TIRED. Rice farming is hard and tedious work. You need to walk (backwards when planting) in mud under the scorching sun. One farmer takes a rest while 2 fellow comrades look after him. People forget what it takes to grow rice. We shouldn't waste it. - Paul Hilario
Rice Field
the tropical sun
sends its intense heat on the rice field
burning on their heads
no cool shade for a comfy rest
farmers in rows
water to their knees
walking backward on sticky mud
moving downs ups
non stop
planting rice seedlings rows after rows
into muddy soil
from early morning to sunset
people living in cities
could never imagine
how much sweat it takes from a farmer
for a grain of rice reaching
their dinning table.
Thao Chuong
2012-04-02
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/02/2012 - 1:09 AM
Brother Viet,
I hate to say that its a form of policing my backyard, censorship really sucks, I didnt not see your post as criticism but rather a view that actually have merits and speak for the others. Probably I am not a good administrator in running the group but I thought I approved what was tastefully apt to the unwritten criterion of our common roots and or advocacy.
To everyone hope you will love this personally selected piece from a FAOTM nominee:
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/02/2012 - 12:49 AM
Good evening Saigon. All works which I have poetically echoed were pulled from the site of your group not those related artists' own websites. Brother, it is NOT a criticism. What I hate the most in my life is censorship and thought police.
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/02/2012 - 12:45 AM
Good Day to you all guys!
Its a frantic Monday on my end...but a "holyday" for most souls.
@Paul: Thanks for being around as my co host for this thread hahaha!,
Postcript: would it be too much if I asked you to carry the disticntive FAOTM icon for a month as your avatar?
@Angel Ortiz: that was beautiful..hope you tag it with our group.
@ Brother VIET: yes I am very aware of the member's strayed perspective than we intend, but I tried to control which one to
approved and not..my guess is you went directly to the artist's gallery and checked their works? On the contrary some of the extreme
taste especially from the land of the rising sun..this kind of "fetisheque" art with sexual visualization are common...but to be honest I am NOT
a fun of this realm.
@maria: thanks for the artsy interactive message with PAUL et al. Re your question, I equally admire artist who give a second look or let them
being lured to the mystique of our region =) ASIAN Perspective is not only for ASIAN views but how others give their own perspective to us thus
become their "own" asian perspective. Its the medium that become the avenue for this thematic subjects that fuse to what is this premise is all about.
COMING UP NEXT: ASIAN PERSPECTIVE FAOTM NOMINEES!
-Saigon
Below is another PAUL's OPUS:
Trans: IF THE GRAIN WILL COME FORWARD (with innuendo)
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/02/2012 - 12:15 AM
QUESTION IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A POEM THAT SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T USUALLY WRITE POEMS...STRIKES UP SUDDENLY...AND POETRY?
PAUL, THE CROPPED VIEW THAT WE SEE HERE ON THE PAGE IS BEAUTIFUL. HAVE YOU DONE ANY AERIAL VIEWS OF COLOURFUL RICE FIELDS?
Posted by: Paul Hilario on 04/01/2012 - 10:37 PM
@ Maria
Thank you again for your replies.
Yes, the jade vine is truly amazing isn't it? It comes in other colors like red and violet but I like the aquamarine/emerald color best.
Thank you for your comments on my painting "Doble Ani". I can read/see that you have a trained eye. Again, this is an environmental painting masquerading as a decorative landscape. :-)
Posted by: Paul Hilario on 04/01/2012 - 10:34 PM
@ Viet
WOW! Thank you very much for the comparison. You see Van Gogh was one of my inspirations in painting. Although, as much as possible I try not to make works similar to his, it is quite interesting to note that his influence does peek thru in my paintings. Thank you for the lovely poem that you attached to my painting. :-)
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/01/2012 - 10:11 PM
@Paul, gorgeous colours and shapes, lots of movement felt in receding lines, of journeys and tales, as well as close up of present, as in birds. Like Viet's commenet on birds feasting, everything benefitting. :)
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/01/2012 - 10:07 PM
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/01/2012 - 10:02 PM
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/01/2012 - 9:35 PM
The Jade Vine is a very unusual shape, very organic and reminds me of chinese slippers and long curling fingernails. :)
Posted by: Paul Hilario on 04/01/2012 - 9:23 PM
@ Angel
Thanks for posting your work. It is beautiful.
@ Viet
Fantastic poetry!
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/01/2012 - 9:15 PM
@ Paul, your welcome, so it is interesting how I felt that it was the ground that seemed so important in this painting! I felt as though you were trying to make the viewer look/focus on more than the wider scene.
@Viet, great poetry as usual....'final destination is a cul-de-sac'....Nice one! Stands on its own.
@ Saigon, how do you feel about non-asian members contributing poetry tot his thread ? I think there is a a lot to learn as you might be able to point out or ask how we got to a certain understanding about a piece of Asian art, opening the thread up to further discovery of your culture past and present. But maybe you want to keep the mysteries as mysteries. That is not a criticism either. :)
Posted by: Paul Hilario on 04/01/2012 - 9:12 PM
@ Otil
As always, thank you for your support :-)
Salamat Kabayan!
Alam nyo, I've had two Filipinos overseas who has seen my work in FAA and have since bought originals and prints from me. I advise that you use Filipino, Philippines, and Philippine in your image tags if you desire that other Filipinos in other parts of the world to view your work.
Posted by: Paul Hilario on 04/01/2012 - 9:06 PM
@ Maria
Thanks again for your comments! My "SUNFLOWERS" painting is an allude to the women rice farmers in the world. They work in the fields under the glowing sun and in many ways are the most beautiful creatures in the field. They seldom get that distinction and honor because in male dominated society, it is the men who get the praises. This is one of my tribute paintings to the hard working women in the rice fields.
Posted by: Paul Hilario on 04/01/2012 - 8:58 PM
@ Maria
Thank you for taking time to put in your admiring comments and perspective on my painting " The Jade Vine Story". I have not realized how others may perceive my paintings and your thoughts was a breath of fresh air. It was a wonderful description. I created this painting with inspiration coming from a popular location (Flat Rocks) on a dormant volcano. I live at the foothill of this volacano - Mt. Makiling. Near this site is where a rare orchid native to the Philippines was first found. The Jade Vine. If you click on the image you can read my narration and description. This is an environmental painting. It looks like a decorative landscape but if you look at the forest floor you'll see the flowers. The forest floor isn't where it should be found. It grows in 3 feet clusters up in the air. I hope people that see this painting realize the wrong that we do to nature and help save our forests and with that everything that lives within it.
Posted by: Paul Hilario on 04/01/2012 - 8:43 PM
@ Saigon
Thank you very much again for the honor and distinction! As I have said, many artists in Asian Perspective do deserve to be featured. What you do Saigon is a great benefit and fantastic service for other artists who do not even prompt or request you do this for them. You just do it! Again many thanks for the feature and of course the POEMS! Love it. I didn't know you had the gift of words!
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/01/2012 - 7:02 PM
Life in a Slow Pace
walking slowly on
narrow streets
in a poor neighbourhood
garbage strewn
buildings full of colourful laundry
untidily hanged on windows and balconies
she sees happy children running, jiggling
and laughing in seek and hide games
the locals with friendly smiles
in slow pace of
their lively rhythms
she is thinking of her big city
clean and tidy
with streets full of vehicles
extremely noisy
but no human's voice and touch
everything seems always
in a rush
as usual.
Thao Chuong
2012-04-01
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/01/2012 - 6:10 PM
Saigon. I have searched your group and have become aware of an interesting fact that there are group members of Western backgrounds posting their artworks extremely opposite to ASIAN PERSPECTIVE. It's just my observation of the group. Please don't take it as a criticism.
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/01/2012 - 5:58 PM
I think this work with strongly provoking message about beauty of female body is a divorce from Asian Perspective. It' s a very Western thought process that is an alienated concept to Eastern perspective
Extreme Thought Senryu
East
in his lonely heart
he`s dreaming of holding her
in love forever
West
her naked body
bangs on his erotic mind
strong desire for sex
Thao Chuong
2012-04-01
Posted by: Viet Tran on 04/01/2012 - 5:21 PM
This interesting painting reflects more a Westerrn perspective than an Asian one.
Alluring Moment
like a snake in its mating movements
her body twisted in responsive rhythms
as the wet tongue leisurely ploughing up her fine neck
his thrilling fingers slowly
moving up on her thigh
purring like a cat
she`s in deep moans
`n exploded
in burning
hell
Thao Chuong
2012-04-01
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Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 04/01/2012 - 8:28 AM
Thank you guys for dropping by..and Crhistine for the functioning link.
I believe the itme zone has something to do for the delayed reply aside from the fact this post falls on sunday.
Here's another art piece of Paul :
Permit me to echo a poem in our language and forgive me for the abridged english translation
Sino ang bida
Isang katanungan medyo pang estupido ang dating
Sa halos banal nitong kaanyuan
Nitong nagbibigkis sa hapag kainan
Ulam o sinabawan ay mapanglaw
Pag dimo sinabayan ng pillak na kanin
Kayat magbunyi sa totoong bidang pagpugayan
Pagpagparangal sa tunay nitong kahalagahan
Bigas na butil, yaman ng lupang hnirang
Trans.
Who is the star?
A question with stupid connotation
Transgressing its divine form
for what that binds our dining table
soups or viand are lousy boring
Without silver consummate pairing
A celebration with our table's superstar
Honoring its actual pedestal
The grain of rice, wealth of our chosen land
-Saigon
@otil roctof: mabuhay ka doc, sumagot naman sa akin si kabayan Paul!
Posted by: Christine Till on 04/01/2012 - 2:40 AM
This one works ... ;-)
Asian Perspective
It's a very nice group !
Posted by: OTIL ROTCOD on 04/01/2012 - 2:23 AM
Christine is right the link of your group doesnt work. Since I know Paul I would sure like to give him support as your featured artist.
Posted by: Christine Till on 04/01/2012 - 2:18 AM
Glad I got aware of your group :-)
It's just sad that the link you provided in your initial post doesn't work.
Posted by: Maria Disley on 04/01/2012 - 2:04 AM
Clever sunflower hats! And view across the rice fields, like an ocean. look fwd to viewing his perspective. :)
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 03/31/2012 - 10:44 PM
@Maria,
From the paraded works on his gallery his theme are mainly into the daily scene of our local (Philippines) life crossboarding the mundane and satire but with obvious focus on what he loves- rice :asian staple food.
I am tempted to put my poetic insight but i surmise its for another thread to showcase...mean time am inviting Paul Hilario to grace this page with his own perspective.
-Saigon
Posted by: Maria Disley on 03/31/2012 - 10:33 PM
What a fluent and inspiring foreward to this artist's work Saigon! I'm very curious about the messages within the work. The richness is instant, not just of colour and style but whatever underground existence makes this scene so vibrant. The leaning trees are very suggestive of movement in the roots somewhere, its as though the whole forested area is about to fall inward and all of the branches entwine with each other, not collapsing but uniting. to eventually form a circular/ tunnel view Wow!
Posted by: SAIGON De Manila on 03/31/2012 - 9:36 PM
Thank you Vivian,
Please visit the group homepage we welcome artist that renders asian theme and its picturesque, rich, and unique subjects too The mask is from my son's graduation ball I did two (2) weeks ago to exemplify speed and grace in him.
Paul on the other hand is based on the south province of Manila, where he shared the famous birthplace of Philippines National hero's Jose Rizal.
Googling his profile he is connected with the International Rice Research INstitute (IRRI). As Riceworld curator.
On His FAA Biogrpahy:
Paul is an up-and-coming artist in the Philippines.
Paul has been making art as young as 4 years old. At that early age he knew that he could draw if his life depended on it.
It is only recently, however, that he decided to give art a serious professional chance as a career.
He creates art from 3AM to 630AM and transforms into a museum curator from 8AM to 5PM weekdays.
Most of the time, he paints using inspirations from the ordinary (such as burnt rice) to awe-inspiring things and events (like festivals) in this world.
His subjects can be anything under the sun but most of his works are drawn towards cultural and environmental themes with both sometimes curiously intersecting in one canvas. Although it may not be too obvious, his art contains hidden messages stories, and lessons in them.
Paul prefers to use a lot of bright colors and high contrast. His style is eclectic. He mix and matches impressionism with pop, low brow, cubism and fauvism. His work is generally identified between impressionism, pop and naif art.
-Saigon
Below is one of his art work:
Posted by: Vivian ANDERSON on 03/31/2012 - 9:25 PM
Congratulations on this improvement for your group, Saigon....you are really good to 'do' so much for your members.
I really love the mask as your icon....it is just stunning.
Good luck to you all.
PS: Is Australia considered part of Asia for this group? lol......































