The Blanco Family Museum III

The Blanco Family Museum III

Note: The author does not claim to be an expert or even knowledgeable in the world of art, it is only that the Blanco Family and their work has fallen into the author’s liking.

Which Blanco family member created this?

Jose V. Blanco is known in Angono by his folk name “Pitok Bunggan,” he was part of a long line of folk artists that include Nemiranda (did the Edsa Revolution mural at the Edsa Shrine), Perdigon Vocalan, and Juan Senson (a.k.a. Tandang Juancho), a 19th century artist regarded as the town’s Grand Old Man of Art. Blanco’s forefather Pedro Pison was a religious artist in the 19th century, while an uncle on his mother’s side became an artist after retiring from the US Navy. He now as seven children and his wife even, have taken after him to continue the folk art tradition and are now known as the “Blanco Family of Artists”.

*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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