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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Cristobal Espina Awards
Since the primary objective of participating in art contests is to win, it brings out the best in every artist.
And the wonderful thing after seeing the winning entries is that it gives us an idea what the artists are made of, and essentially what they’ve got to show.
Competitions are a proving ground of anyone aspiring to be the best of the best. The recently-concluded Cristobal B.C. Espina on-the-spot painting contest of the University of San Carlos (USC) brought to the limelight a new crop of the most promising of budding artists in the College of Architecture and Fine Arts (Cafa).
The annual school-based competition is now on it’s sixth year and pays tribute to the school's first architecture chairman Arch. Cristobal Espina, who designed and built the engineering building at USC’s Talamban campus.
Cristobal is the father of Arch. Maxwell Espina, the present dean of Cafa.
The yearly event, exclusive to USC students, seeks to train the eye and the hand, as well as to instill among students the value of painting actual outdoor scenes.
Theme for this year is the new Cafa building that is perched on the hills of Talamban, incorporating the surrounding landscape.
The result? A perspective painting of the edifice in different angles, a far cry from the linear architectural layouts. The board of judges was composed of six art educators/instructors, namely Kimsoy Yap, Adeste Deguilmo, Celso Pepito, Jojo Sagayno, Jorge Lao and Luther Galicano who are all respected and accomplished contemporary artists.
The winning works were displayed in Ayala center over the weekend. Grabbing the top prize was Gil Balbuena Jr. who did a frontal rendition of the building. Placing second was Phoebe Gayle Cruz, the only rose among the winners. Francis Ryan Gonzales garnered the third prize. Winning studes received certificates and cash prizes.
Five finalists given minor prizes were Jay Rommel Labra, Junnelry Tudtud, James Kagahastian, Paul Manatad and Jhuniel Inocando. All winners and finalists are majoring in painting, except for Labra who comes from advertising. From this fresh crop we look at the future of local painters as products of the school, and by their dexterity affords us the feeling that tomorrow is safe, secure and this new batch of painters will further the well-guarded living tradition of Cebuano art’s high technical standard.
It also goes to show that their teachers have prepared them well. However, in a school noted for the atelier approach in teaching the classical style, there were no surprises. It was expected that the judges choose those entries that came very close to naturalism, or the style that replicates nature.
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