Showing posts with label Jose Rizal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jose Rizal. Show all posts

Monday, December 30, 2013

What Makes Rizal a Hero?

"Wisdom of intellect" and "Wisdom of the will" could be considered as a vital factors for a Filipino to be called a hero, pointed out the speaker in special occasion.

Erle P. Arbado
Every year, every December 30 is nationally observed by the Filipino people as the death anniversary of Jose Rizal who was killed in the morning of December 30, 1886 by  musketry at the Bagumbayan (now Luneta) after he was found guilty of  rebellion by the Spanish government.

Erle P. Arbado, head of Aralin Panlipunan department of Dona Hortencia Salas Benedicto National High School was the invited speaker, addressing the patriots of La Carlota which is composed of the different sectors like the education, religious, government, students, and civic organization joined the entire nation in commemorating the 117th death anniversary of Rizal in a simple morning rites at the monument of the hero at the public plaza.

As a gratitude of Rizal's heroism, these sectors offered different baskets, bunches of flowers at the foot of Rizal's monument after a short program and cultural presentation of elementary schools and colleges, public and private.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Rizal's Bust: My First Sculpture Art


I've developed my desire in arts particularly in sketching, drawing and painting as I often saw one of our eldest brothers, Manong Jaime, who was doing his pieces in painting Jesus Christ's portrait, drawing person's profile and landscaping in his spare time by just using ordinary enamel paint.

Jose Rizal
Jose Rizal
And I also developed a desire to mold statues of heroes as I happened to see a good sculptor repairing a deformed statue of Andres Bonifacio in La Carlota City plaza before. I was amazed on how he did his work.

I thought for myself, "Could I do it too? How I wish I could sculpt a very good subject or art someday."

Well in the mean time, I took over some unfinished painting of Manong Jaime by doing some coloring and doing some finishing touches to said painting with no direction. I just loved doing it.

Unexpectedly he went home early. I was caught unaware of what I was doing. Worried as I was for I was thinking that he will scold me by intruding his work without his permission. I was wrong. Instead he appreciated me for my initiative and told me that someday if I am really serious about it I could be a good painter.

He gave me some cans of paints of primary colors: red, blue and yellow and gave me tips on how to mix it to come up with different color.

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