UNP Fine Arts students visit the Living with Nature Center
Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor
Green Tunnel to the Living Room
(Floor-Wall-Ceiling Mural)
"When life becomes unbearable living in a jungle of concrete;
when pressure of work is taking its toll and you may be the next,
don't tarry, reach out for the green tunnel." - avr
Listen to the sea in a conch, dead the creature maybe;
Wash away your worries and anxiety.
For life is real, yet in scenes like these, is but fantasy;
It is how we live that holds the key.
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela
Modern art works by the author: Relief still life in acrylic, palette knife
and hand painting; double-surface aquarium scene in acrylic on glass.
Modern art is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the
past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.
Experimental paintings on glass by the author. Top left, clockwise: Telescopic view of red sun under a huge tree; school of fish (How many fish can you count?); cinders after a brush fire; red seaweeds (Porphyra or gamet Ilk) under a magnifying lens.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
— Berthold Brecht
Expressionism - gateway of Impressionism to Abstract art
Discreet Nature in four views (Left, top, clockwise: Microscopic Volvox; juvenile seaweeds; meadow comes alive after the first rain in May; fungal mycelia on hamburger
Vincent Van Gogh was both an impressionist and an expressionist. At the time, he would have considered himself to be an impressionist. Today, however, Van Gogh is considered one of the pioneers and founders of the expressionism movement.
Keyhole perspective appears to viewers in natural frames.
It has a magnifying, as well as telescopic effect.
Details of wall mural painted by the author. Left, a pair of kalaw or hornbill birds perched across a forest stream; upland landscape showing young hikers
dwarfed by trees.
Conventional or traditional art gives a true picture of Nature as seen by the naked eye, viewed either as landscapes or ecosystems with details and special effects as influenced by the elements, season, and place.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . .
The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
Green Tunnel
Mural and Verse by Dr Abe V Rotor
When life becomes unbearable living in a jungle of concrete;when pressure of work is taking its toll and you may be the next,don't tarry, reach out for the green tunnel;when the air is filled with smog and you hardly can breathe;when crime grips the street, you feel you're no longer safe,don't tarry, reach out for the green tunnel;when you are losing your friends and you feel sad and lonely;when you are no longer enjoying the so-called Good Life,don't tarry, reach out for the green tunnel;when you ponder over the promise of afterlife as a tunnel, too;when there is time on earth to seek its living counterpart,don't tarry, reach out for the green tunnel;when you shall have found your way to this heaven on earth;when and where man once found peace and contentment,look back, but revere this green tunnel.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher~
Exit door from the art gallery.
Country life mural graces the second floor of San Vicente municipal hall.
Students in fine art at the University of Northern Philippines visit
the author's family art gallery, museum and reading center.
Books are the greatest treasure of mankind;
reverence the greatest in heart and mind.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed
by the answers. — James Baldwin
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