Danny sillada biography
- Legend of minggan
- Elito V. amangpintor Circa (January 1970) is a Filipino folk painter.Circa was born in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija in the Philippines and began painting at the.
- Elito Villaflor Circa, also known as Amangpintor, is a renowned Filipino folk artist born in 1970 in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija.
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Elito Villaflor Circa (born January 28, 1970), better known as "Amangpintor", is a famous
Filipino painter and internationally known folk artist, who paints using indigenous human hair and
blood fluids with mythologism and mythicalism subject matters. He was the "First Hair and Blood
Painter" of his generation and his signature subject is Legend of Minggan. A father of
Indigenouism Art, upholding and advocating Contemporary Indigenous Philippine Art and also
popularized Hand Painting performances done within 5 to 10 minutes in a canvas of 432 square
inches using the three primary colors.Amangpintor was born to Juan Llagas Circa and Josefina
Salazar Villaflor in the old town of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines on January 28, 1970. He
was the youngest of seven children. His education was funded through a scholarship from World
Vision Foundation under foster parents Cynthia and Leigh Brown from Perth, Australia who
supported his studies through secondary school (awarded Artist of the Year) until he graduated at
the Central Luzon State Universi
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Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture. Along with painting, sculpture, and other decorative art forms, some also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costume as folk art.[1]
Antique folk art is distinguished from traditional art in that while it is collected today based mostly on its artistic merit; it was never intended as a category to be art for art’s sake. Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible "whimsical" antiques.
Characteristically folk art is not influenced by movements in academic or fine art circles, and for the most part, folk art excludes works executed by professional artists and
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Elito Villaflor Circa also known as “AMANGPINTOR”
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