The Blanco Family Museum II
The Blanco Family Museum series is a feature of photos taken from the Bahay Blanco Family Museum at 312 Ibañez St., Angono, Rizal, Philippines. Some known facts about the artist and his family of artists as well accompany these pictures.
Which Blanco family member created these?
Jose “Pitok” Villones Blanco is the father of the Blanco family. He was born March 19, 1932 in Angono, Rizal, in a family of fishermen who thrived on the richness of the Laguna Lake. He entered the School of Fine Arts of the University of Santo Tomas in 1951, when its faculty included the top firebrand modernists of Philippine art-National Artists Victorio Edades, Manansala and Francisco, as well as Galo Ocampo, Antonio Llamas, and Diosdado Lorenzo and graduated from the same school by 1995.
Jose V. Blanco earned numerous awards and completed various commissioned works for Unilab, Sanwa Bank and Tokyo Marine Insurance,PNB San Francisco California, the former First Lady Imelda Marcos, among others. Blanco had likewise established the Blanco Scholarship Grant for ten (10) high school students in 1977 and launched the Blanco Book in 1987. The Rockefeller Foundation of New York in the 1970s acquired his “Pag-ahon ng Pagoda,” a depiction of the fluvial parade highlighting the feast of San Clemente, Angono’s patron saint.
*After a visit to the Blanco Family Museum in Angono, Rizal, it was not this author’s intention to publish the beauty the author experienced there. Mostly the pictures were intended for a private blog, an experience that could be revisited later on. However, after hearing the tragedy that came along with the museum, the author had a sudden urge to share what he had seen and learned that day. It may have been an ordinary visit to ‘the museum” as others may put it but in a way the Blanco Family Museum had its own special mystery to share, not just with the artworks featured there but by the Blanco family themselves. As for the stolen Jose “Pitok” V. Blanco paintings themselves, wherever they may be and whomever has them, I hope they are being recognized for the work of art they truly are because the family who lost a father and a husband twice with the artist gone and his paintings stolen, they are being remembered and revered, the same goes for a nation who lost an artist as well and a heritage too.
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cayod, posted this comment on Sep 6th, 2008
Blanco Art Gallery
Location: 312 Ibañez St., Angono Rizal
Tel No.: (632) 651-0042
Museum Hours: 9-11am, 1-5pm everyday.
Museum tours are guided by curator Rommel Perez.
The Blanco Art School is just across the street.
sally, posted this comment on Oct 2nd, 2008
hindi po ma-contact and telephone number. wala po bang iba?
edwin mateo ; van. bc canada, posted this comment on Oct 13th, 2008
better late than never. I would like to convey my sincerest and deepest condolences to the Blanco family. It is a great loss to the art scene of Angono and our country indeed. But it’s also a great loss of a generous,gracious individual and a great father. I have been to their home on numerous occasions many years ago and I was moved at the gentleness and kindness that Pitok Blanco has for his wife and his children. I was amazed that such a genius could have such humility. I will never forget those brief moments that I shared with your family. Again, my deep condolences and may God keep you and bless you during these hard times.
nancy, posted this comment on Feb 10th, 2009
correction on the number….its 651-0048.:)
olaf s villa-ignacio, posted this comment on Mar 24th, 2009
I have foreign friends from the states that had been here and roaming around the Philippines ans so happened that I remmeber your beautiful family museum as one of the hottest tourist places to visit.. Will you please help me find a better number to contact you because I can’t rally get into the line mentioned
We would like to visit the museum by tommorow afternoon ( March 25, 2009 ) y telephone number is 2134462 / 2899167.
I’m a former batch mate of Joy Blanco from Angono Private High School Angono, Rizal.. maraming salamat po.. sana po ay makatanggap ako ng taag ngayon araw.
Gayle simeon, posted this comment on Mar 25th, 2009
Pwede po bang malaman kung ilan ang Harana paintings na ginawa ni Sir Jose Blanco? Kasi po meron ding Harana paintings yung ibang painters, gusto ko lang po sana ma-validate na wala pong series yung Harana painting by Jose Blanco.
Salamat po. Ang inyong kasagutan ay likas na makakatulong sa aking kaalaman.
kayle, posted this comment on Apr 1st, 2009
gusto ko lng po sana malaman kung ang mga painting na “Bagong Pa-asa” at “Angono Town Fiesta” ni JOse Blanco ay nasa Blanco Museum…Maaari po kaya naming mapicturan ang mga painting para sa ginagawa naming libro? marami pong salamat.
Pia Palacios - Alcantara, posted this comment on May 27th, 2009
It is a great privelege to learn oil painting from Ms. Joy and her bro this summer here in University of Batangas in Batangas City.
Thank you for coming to our place.
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gerald, posted this comment on Sep 3rd, 2008
any contact number for blanco museum in philippines?