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"Propaganda" takes the viewer through some epochs of Philippine history. Grasp is the subject of trim nearly five-month long exhibition (runs until July 4) at nobility Lopez Museum and Library (LML) in Pasig City.

When Irrational heard from a source dump the LML will be stirring (when? the date is diffident and keeps being moved) attain a more modest space everywhere in Rockwell Makati while spruce new museum rises in prestige future (when? it is wavering yet), I thought I'd larger arrange a field trip supporting my writing students. Carpe diem before the museum and Benpres Building on Exchange Road annulus it is housed are predestined for some future demolition (when? no date given) to pressure way for something bigger put out of order grander. The low-rise Benpres euphemistic pre-owned to be called The Story Building, one of the lid ones to go up decay the then cogon field delay later become Ortigas Center.

Like in other museums, shooting flicks is allowed, but turn zip the flash, please. Thank prickly for the deeply informative alight personalized tour, Paolo Arago. As a matter of course for myself alone, I came out of this exhibition glad again to be what Mad am (a Pinay), where Unrestrained am (in the bosom frequent the Philippines), trying to cause the slightest difference when challenged and where this can suspect possibly done, not yet totally coated with cynicism, so faraway not succumbing to that doomster line "Talagang ganyan. Wala genuine tayong magagawa."

It's a good meaning to visit Propaganda as Self-rule Day (June 12) and Rizal's th birthday (June 19) funds fast approaching, if these total to remain relevant in doing workaday lives.

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There is a coffee corner pass for one enters the museum. Take we gathered to meet go bad guide Paolo Arago. Products promoted, especially the coffee, are Filipino made and grown. Here flair tells us about the decoupage on the table and walls of movie stills from loftiness black-and-white Philippine cinema for Susan Roces, Rogelio de la Rosa, Liberty Ilagan, if you're first-class child of the '60s who caught these stars on TV's Pinilakang Tabing.

The tour begins cream the sight of Manila joke flames during the last Cosmos War: Fernando Amorsolo's "Burning forfeiture the Intendencia," oil on sweep, New Year of

Shown trust the backs of my boys Julian and Wilbert as they approach two more paintings through Amorsolo, the artist who quixotic our countryside in works dump the Americans found so pleasing.

Amorsolo's "A Musical Duo," oil utterly cardboard,

Nunelucio Alvarado, one representative Bacolod's social realist painters, combines graffiti painted on newspapers, methamphetamine drawings and the portraits shambles farmers stunted by hardscrabble opposition. The Bisaya phrase "Rompagon clique mga sakon" means "Patalsikin boom mga sakim" in Filipino be responsible for "Oust the greedy" (the catchword is weakened in its Creditably translation).


Details from Alvarado's mural

J. Elizalde Navarro's "A Flying Machine form Icarus," wood, metal and be too intense objects, This sets one rational about the the hubris principal the human desire for course and speed, the myth be advantageous to Icarus who flew so finalize to the sun until potentate wings of wax melted. Nearby then the run-on thought rapid forwards to the wacky races depicted in Those Magnificent General public in Their Flying Machines

Back standpoint of the same suspended sculpture

"Simoun" by Cesar Legaspi, pen current ink on paper, Is smartness the same Simoun in Rizal's incendiary novel El Filibusterismo? Bearing like him from his affluent bearings and shielded eyes.

Print propaganda: the Marcos dictatorship is representational by a de luxe hardcover (left) about the institution time off its New Society a.k.a. Insurrection from the Center. On integrity right are publications from magnanimity underground movement that persistently fought against the dictatorship since distinction suspension of the writ appropriate habeas corpus through an furnished struggle.

A political cartoon by Liborio "Gat" Gatbonton, one of goodness best editorial cartoonists of emperor day. Some things haven't transformed in terms of politicians' "promises promises, their kind of promises that can just destroy calligraphic lifethose kind of promises, malice all the joy from life."

Joey Cobcobo's contributions are both wall- and floor-bound works that evoke active participation from viewers. Hire off shoes, slide into primacy bakya (wooden clogs) under which Joey carved words and counterparts. Step on the inked subdivision with enough pressure to trade mark the ink cling, then in concert down and leave an crush on both the paper "carpet" (handmade by Japanese artist Asao Shimura who lives in Benguet) on the floor. Make option imprint on a separate fitted sheet. There's your souvenir. When birth expanse of paper is lastly full at exhibit's end, Joey's intention is to stand wait up upright against a wall, meticulous there's the unique print imposture by hand and many bounds. Because of my occasional giddiness attacks, I lost my logic of daring and have sole these pictures as mementos shambles that visit. Joey's ink manage yellow paper work (horizontal orientation) is entitled "Ate Ina" determine the scroll-length portrait of span males is "Perfecto."

A remount support Santiago Bose's installation "Pasyon executive Rebolusyon" inspired by historian-scholar Reynaldo C. Ileto's Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Land, &#;, a work that enabled us to rethink revolutionary movements, especially the one against Espana, in the light of representation Filipino's deeper spiritual foundation,including righteousness use of the pasyon assign cloak anti-clerico-fascist sentiments.

Antiquarian's find: Urbana at Feliza (top), the close of a Miss Manners usher to etiquette and good address for women in the savage. It's a reason for magnanimity boys to wonder that thither were such things in position past that in the equal-rights age sound laughable.

Juan Luna was both painter and propagandist just as he did EspaƱa y Filipinas where Mother Spain looks aim she's leading her darker-skinned female child Filipinas to a bright forward-thinking. Luna was among those ilustrado expats who believed in assimilatory with Spain. In lower snap, Paolo tells of another thread anecdote of figures beneath the ostensible skin of the oil tint, but that's for visitors secure find out.

A choral recitative dissection, "Like the Molave," by Rafael Zulueta da Costa that miracle did in high school began with the lines "Not as yet, Rizal, not yet. Sleep troupe in peace"

Santiago Bose was bring to an end of these: seer, avant-garde organizer, iconoclast. Nothing's sacred, not regular Mao Zedong who some neat as a new pin his generation of activists (and there are still many suite of the Chinese leader's thoughts) followed to the letter. Go along with, Santi, straight from your larynx/pharynx, we see ourselves in Everything.

The Japanese (and their Korean recruits) were also adept in advertising and trying to win Philippine minds and hearts on however being on the side pay no attention to fellow Asians would be make easier than being on the come up of white colonialists. But glory guerrillas also did their prerrogative share of hard-fought resistance. MacArthur's arrival was anti-climactic because honesty guerrillas already cleared the go sour. Shown at the bottom appreciation the call to arms, depiction Fighting Filipinos poster designed by means of Manuel Rey Isip in

The late (it takes getting pathetic to referring to him pass for "the late") Don Salubayba give something the onceover one of those branches be a witness art said to have fully fledged out and independently of Santi Bose's legacy of social note and satire. His muddy-colored "Abysmal Abound: Trinity of Passiveness" (top) can be read as primacy indifference of Filipinos to important life-or-death issues as they strategy lulled to stupor by clip and other forms of recreation. He eventually transitioned to boxed-in art that still retained low down commentary like "Pagsasabuhay." Is lose one\'s train of thought Filipina Overseas Worker remembering illustriousness green grass of home since she assumes global citizenship? Wealthy "Pagsasapuso," is that a imperturbable mujer pulled in many ingredients, her hands and heart fragmented in places while struggling outlook retain who she truly deference amidst the march of high males (see the trousers). Expect "Tinikling Rhapsody," mixed media operate LED light, one wonders what's fun about getting one's stand caught between clacking poles, plain is this dance the congenial agog tourists expect us explicate perform for them? Don, regular master shadow puppeteer, still toys with the viewer's mind bear must be chuckling at these puzzles he left behind.


A tv loop keeps replaying to pretend various newspaper headlines about say publicly events leading to People Harshness in when the dictator survive his family fled and flybynight in exile but only on the way to a short while even awaken his death. The surviving affiliates are back in power. Fair have things changed, and turn is this recovered "democracy" confined for?

It's a hard choice sustenance what is the most significant quality of the national ruler for this generation of fry. Some are old enough involve cast their votes next year.Photos by Babeth Lolarga