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From: Manila Bulletin
Date: 20031125
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ART has been variously described through time as silent poetry, surface and symbol, speaking painting, a jealous mistress, and a tender and fragile thing, among others.
Whatever, it is the process that makes an artist great as he dips his brush in his own soul and paints his nature into the canvas of his imagination.
After all, as Anatole France in his The Garden of Ipicurus (1894) wrote, In art, as in life, instinct is enough.
Maybe thats true, particularly in the case of a Filipino artist who paints a landscape all her own, a land Nowhereverywhere (the title of a ...
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