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    Filipino Ness

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    Jeff Rey Casiño Dalubatan
    Filipino artworks have long incorporated Western influences and techniques due to colonization, raising questions about whether they truly capture Filipino identity and culture. Leo Benasa emphasized that accurately depicting everyday Filipino life and surroundings in an unidealized way comes closest to capturing the Filipino soul. For a Filipino artwork to have "Filipino-ness", it should portray its Filipino subjects and culture truthfully, as seen in Amorsolo's paintings of rural Philippine landscapes and people going about their daily lives. Ultimately, accurately reflecting the diverse yet unified spirit of Filipino society and traditions is what makes an artwork truly Filipino.

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    Filipino Ness

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    Filipino artworks have long incorporated Western influences and techniques due to colonization, raising questions about whether they truly capture Filipino identity and culture. Leo Benasa emphasized that accurately depicting everyday Filipino life and surroundings in an unidealized way comes closest to capturing the Filipino soul. For a Filipino artwork to have "Filipino-ness", it should portray its Filipino subjects and culture truthfully, as seen in Amorsolo's paintings of rural Philippine landscapes and people going about their daily lives. Ultimately, accurately reflecting the diverse yet unified spirit of Filipino society and traditions is what makes an artwork truly Filipino.

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    How Filipino is Philippine Art?

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    FILIPINO-NESS

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    Filipino artworks have long incorporated Western influences and techniques due to colonization, raising questions about whether they truly capture Filipino identity and culture. Leo Benasa emphasized that accurately depicting everyday Filipino life and surroundings in an unidealized way comes closest to capturing the Filipino soul. For a Filipino artwork to have "Filipino-ness", it should portray its Filipino subjects and culture truthfully, as seen in Amorsolo's paintings of rural Philippine landscapes and people going about their daily lives. Ultimately, accurately reflecting the diverse yet unified spirit of Filipino society and traditions is what makes an artwork truly Filipino.

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    Filipino Ness

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    Jeff Rey Casiño Dalubatan
    Filipino artworks have long incorporated Western influences and techniques due to colonization, raising questions about whether they truly capture Filipino identity and culture. Leo Benasa emphasized that accurately depicting everyday Filipino life and surroundings in an unidealized way comes closest to capturing the Filipino soul. For a Filipino artwork to have "Filipino-ness", it should portray its Filipino subjects and culture truthfully, as seen in Amorsolo's paintings of rural Philippine landscapes and people going about their daily lives. Ultimately, accurately reflecting the diverse yet unified spirit of Filipino society and traditions is what makes an artwork truly Filipino.

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    by jeff rey dalubatan

    Since elementary, we knew the names Fernando Amorsolo,


    Botong Francisco, Hernando Ocampo, and even Juan Luna. These
    Filipino artists, local or national, have done numbers of artworks
    being featured in national and international setting. But how can we
    identify or determine the “Filipino-ness”, according to Leo Benasa,
    of a Filipino art work? How Filipino is Philippine art?

    Western influences and techniques, perhaps due to


    colonization, have been used in the making of famous Filipino art
    works which has drawn criticism into whether Philippine art is
    original or not. National and cultural identity has been an issue since
    the 1950’s.

    Genre – impressionism, expressionism, surrealism,


    minimalism, and many more – used to be a major consideration in
    determining the “Filipino-ness” of an art work. Leo Benasa did
    emphasize that the “depiction of scenes of everyday life and the
    surroundings without idealizing them was closest in spirit to
    the Filipino soul and native soil”, quoted from the Philippine Daily
    Express on January 1979.

    When a Filipino artist paints a farmer in the fields or, perhaps,


    writes about a fisherman casting nets, the subject is Filipino but the
    medium of expression should portray the subject as true to what is
    in reality. Amorsolo’s paintings, for example, depicts rural lands in
    the Philippines, as well as vegetation and nature, and includes
    scenes of men and women in portrayed as hardworking with smiles
    on their faces or showing Filipino culture and tradition.

    So, what makes Philippine art Filipino? The reflection of a


    society with diverse cultural influences and traditions expressing the
    spirit of the Filipino adheres to the “Filipino-ness” of an art work.
    Simply, essence matters most.

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