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ART & SOCIETY ; TRUE & FAKE
Art is a reflection of society. How true! Cecile Guidote Alvarez has been selected as National Artist (NA) for 2009. Alvarez is the Executive Director of the NCCA, the institution that screens the NA nominees. She is also the Presidential Adviser on Culture and the Arts, which is directly connected to the Office of the President, the branch of government that confers the award.
If that is not a case of corruption in values, then it would be the materialization of the dictum, “lapdog-ism pays.” That is also an affirmation of the philosophy that the dominant forces in politics and economics dictate trends in culture and arts.
But then, there is the other side of society— poverty, repression, injustice and resistance. It is during times of crises and upheavals that great works of arts and literature were created-- Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, Picasso’s Guernica, Lu Shun’s short stories, Rizal’s Noli and Fili, Luna’s Spolarium, Bonifacio’s Pagibig sa Tinubuang Lupa, Hernandez’s Kung Tuyo na ang Luha Mo Aking Bayan, Brocka’s Bayan Ko, and many more—with themes and messages from the standpoint of the opposition or revolution.
In his book What is Art, Leo Tolstoy (not Imelda Marcos) discussed art in terms of the true, good and beautiful. Roughly suggesting that, what is true is good, and what is good is beautiful. President Arroyo has from the start been branded as “fake.” The time is ripe for making great artworks.###
JLP/1Aug2009
Concerned Artists of the Philippines
Art is a reflection of society. How true! Cecile Guidote Alvarez has been selected as National Artist (NA) for 2009. Alvarez is the Executive Director of the NCCA, the institution that screens the NA nominees. She is also the Presidential Adviser on Culture and the Arts, which is directly connected to the Office of the President, the branch of government that confers the award.
If that is not a case of corruption in values, then it would be the materialization of the dictum, “lapdog-ism pays.” That is also an affirmation of the philosophy that the dominant forces in politics and economics dictate trends in culture and arts.
But then, there is the other side of society— poverty, repression, injustice and resistance. It is during times of crises and upheavals that great works of arts and literature were created-- Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, Picasso’s Guernica, Lu Shun’s short stories, Rizal’s Noli and Fili, Luna’s Spolarium, Bonifacio’s Pagibig sa Tinubuang Lupa, Hernandez’s Kung Tuyo na ang Luha Mo Aking Bayan, Brocka’s Bayan Ko, and many more—with themes and messages from the standpoint of the opposition or revolution.
In his book What is Art, Leo Tolstoy (not Imelda Marcos) discussed art in terms of the true, good and beautiful. Roughly suggesting that, what is true is good, and what is good is beautiful. President Arroyo has from the start been branded as “fake.” The time is ripe for making great artworks.###
JLP/1Aug2009
Concerned Artists of the Philippines