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THE
MAGIC OF CARVED GLASS
By
Alice G. Guillermo
Internationally
acclaimed for his sculpture in carved glass, Filipino
artist Ramon Orlina continues to |
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reveal
new possibilities in the glass medium. Though trained as an
architect, he did not hesitate to follow his artistic impulses
that drew him to glass which he considers as perfect material
for sculpture. Read
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Into
the Heart Of Glass
By
Eva Laird Smith
Glass
as art is a formidable experience of the tactile, sensory,
and spatial. As an art form the medium takes both literal
and figurative connotations. Glass is
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glass art becomes the embodiment of light harnessed by the artist's
vision into a recognizable shape
that pleases the eye, transports the beholder onto pleasurable
planes, and at other times, mirrors human emotions. Read
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Heart
of Glass
By
Rod Paras-Perez
There
are aspects in Orlina's glass sculptures which lend themselves
to pure form - and contemplation. There |
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allure inherent in glass as a material. But the
ultimate defining factor is how the artist made his work exist
with light. Not simply the light embracing and revealing the
form with glass, but also it penetrates the work. And changes
its form. Read
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The
Allure of Glass
By
Alice Guillermo
Glass
as an artistic medium was brought to public attention
in the Fifties when Steuben Glass invited a number of
Filipino artists to create |
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which were executed in crystal, thus bringing out the possibilities
of the industrial material. It was however, only around
1975 that
an artist, Ramon Orlina, took up the challenge of the medium
and began to work in it consistently. Read
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A
Salute to the Breast
By
Eric Torres
"NING-NING",
Ramon Orlina's exhibition of 30 new works at the Cultural
Center of the Philippines' Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo
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is all about one subject: the female breast. It is bound to
take admirers of the country's only studio-glass sculptor by
surprise. Nothing in the jagged, angular abstractions which
have long been his hallmark prepares one of his current show.
In fact, there's nothing abstract about his current fixation.
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Chiaroscuro
By
Paul B. Zafarrala
Ramon
G. Orlina and glass sculpture have become interlinked
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Philippine art. Not that this young, 44, artist of the highest
caliber had boxed himself
in his blocks of "studio glass", as it were. Far from it. Rather,
he had single-handedly pioneered, on a self-taught basis yet,
in this hitherto untested and challenging medium locally, and
was able to conquer it despite antiquated and crude tools. Read
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