They all painted representational images and might have created something like Michelangelo’s work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, God the Father gesturing, “Let there be light” and flying through the firmament. The best-known artists then were the “Conservative” Fernando Amorsolo and “Modernists” Victorio Edades, Carlos Francisco, and Galo Ocampo. Leandro Locsin, “I want to build a Sanctuary of the Filipino Soul, a showcase of Filipino creativity.” Locsin might then have planted the idea of an art work as curtain and of “creation” as encapsulating Mrs. I was not a witness to the creation but I imagine the project’s moving spirit, First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, giving marching orders to Ar. The curtains of the world’s most famous halls are magnificent-Opera Garnier in Paris, Venice’s La Fenice, New York’s Metropolitan at Lincoln Center, La Scala in Milan-are in red or gold, elaborately draped and tasseled but the CCP’s is sui generis. Ocampo, would have been 110 years old last month and would have been gratified that his largest work continues to be in a class of its own. Ocampo, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, CCPĮnter the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanór Abelardo and you’re greeted by a blaze of red, a giant tapestry.
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