NAME: Marcial Pontillas
BIRTH PLACE: Bicol Philippines
BIRTH DATE: 9.21.75
BIOGRAPHY
THE CROWD DRAWER
Marcial Pontillas is a Multi-award-winning artist Born in Bicol at the Jose Panganiban Camarines Norte, from the Far Eastern University. He won a consecutive awards, Grand Prize 1995 in 28th Shell National Student Art Competition, 1996 TSPI Tulay Sa Pag-unlad Inc. Development Corporation Painting Contest, 1997 CBCP/UST 5th National Eucharistic Congress Painting Competition, 1997 PLDT-DPC Telephone Directory Cover 11th Visual Art National Competition, he got the Best Entry in AAP (1998 Art Association of the Philippines National Painting Competition) and one of the 28 finalist of 1998 Winsor & Newton World Wide Millennium Painting Competition, and selected as one 50 finalists in Philip Morris Group of Companies Philippine Art Award year 1998, 1999 and 2003, he also (5) Juror’s choice in the 1st GSIS Painting Competition Professional Category, And now he teaches college classes in Advertising Art and Painting at the Far Eastern University.
Pontillas work’s has started conceptualize his idea by on creating of an
pontifical concept, CROWDED, has a Pontillas trademark, a bravura
handling of pigment: thick, rich impastos slathered with an almost childlike
joy, This configuration of crowd scenes and lush impastos constitute the
highly spirited art of Pontillas. at this point and time we can see and feel in
our hearts that many things had happened in our environment. We can see
progress in the industrial development such as, there is the skyway, the
uprising skyscrapers and boom of condos, the flyover, the LRT and MRT,
the Malls, Food house, and Department stores. Wherein the Filipinos are
benefactors of this progress and success. its tells how busy life and the
truck is, from different walks of life you must seen crowds, rich and poor
people are victim of monstrous traffic jam in metro manila. No matter how
hard and the longer it tries for our government leaders to solve this
problem, it becomes attached to what purports to be a symbols of
progress.
