[Required Entry #4] - Paintings

My Description for “Aleng may Salakot by Jose Joya ”

Noticing those teary eyes situated on the wrinkled face of an obviously old woman made me feel like someone had powerfully punched me in my abdomen with knuckles. Consequently, I witnessed her poverty-stricken conditions when I had seen her poorly dressed with just a piece of dirty yellow cloth for her top, and a filthy green garment stained by mud for the bottom wear as she holds her old wooden “salakot”. She faintly faces the cardinal direction east as she undeniably kneels down the soil. And as the old woman does the kneeling, you can observe the reactions she made. She is like asking a forgiveness to a serious thing and begging to be pardoned. Her shaggy and messy black hair defined many things such as her difficult lifestyles. Aside witnessing her impoverished conditions, you may also feel the tiredness and pain bestowed by her plain face showing no smile.

My Description for “Ravaged Manila by Dominador Castañeda ”

This kind of art would absolutely make an individual speechless. I have never seen an illustration of Manila to be devastated as the art content. You would probably guess that a super-typhoon and a destructive earthquake had occurred to the place at the same time; ravaged it is. A large volume of charcoal-coloured smoke forming up the sky. Several pale dead bodies are visibly scattered in the area like a slaughter-place, so shed of aphotic red blood is distinguishable. Infrastructures were transformed into dark, fined ashes. Most of the people noticeably wear a war-cry faces on them and so the faces of fear. Furthermore, some of them seriously possess injuries. Soldiers, nuns, civilians, workers, et. al are shown in the art to evidently represent that all of the Filipinos back then were greatly affected by the war.