Lucrecia Kasilag: Contributions to the Legacy of a Freedom Fighter
National Artist Tita King Lucrecia R. Kasilag (August 31, 1918 – August 16, 2008) is one of the Philippines’ most renowned National...
Lucrecia Kasilag’s Contributions to Education for Women in the Philippines
Since the passing of Lucrecia Kasilag in 2008, this marks the first of the series of articles dedicated to her. We first discuss the life...
Rameau and Jadin: The Cusp of Classicism in Changing Times
The 1700’s began with the professional dancers dedicating their life to art and competing through producing art for the public’s...
Maynard de Guzman: His Incidence towards Incidental Music and Beyond
An engineer by profession and an imaginative artist at heart, Mr. Maynard De Guzman is truly a talented person to be proud of. As the...
Impressionism: The Movement towards Reality
Impressionism may very well be the first modern movement transcribed for art. Its founders were artists who resented the rigorous system...
Intimacy and Reflection: The Parallelisms of Friedrich and Chopin’s Masterpieces
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich Defining a stylistic archetype of the Romantic period has been found to be...
Romanticism: Musical Emotion Embodied in the Visual Emotion
"Casa de Locos,” or “The Madhouse.” Romanticism was a movement that reacted towards the scientific rationalization of nature. Despite...
Revolutionizing Harmony through Baroque Painting and Music
Vocazione di San Matteo (“The Calling of Saint Matthew”), a painting by Baroque artist Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicts the...
The Beginning of Farewell: Saying Goodbye Through Painting and Music
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer born in Alsergrund, Vienna on January 31, 1797 during the early Romantic era of music. His...
The Expression of Baroque-ness in Music and Beyond
On January 31, 2018, ten-year-old Matthew Villagomez performed a couple of Baroque pieces on the piano for Sir Jonathan Coo’s class on...