Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor painting

[legionnaire]

Took this photo of a nice painting at the office of the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
next to the AFP Museum, Camp Aguinaldo.

Forgot to find out what was the tile and name of the painter.

[VeeVee]

Looks good. How big is it?

[RayAdillO]

I don't like it. I mean just look at it......a "depiction of a WW2 pacific jungle campaign with a Napoleonic-Civil War style firing line? Cannons booming like it came from a scene from the battle for Austerlitz? If we didn't know any better, I'd say the U.S. and Philippine flags were enemies of each other (another suspected "marxist" artist doing his subliminal subterfuge?).... and the Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Association paid good money for this piece of junk?

About the only more or less accurate thing here is the death march (again, as usual). That's all people ever know about it, so that's just one of the themes they'll get right. Well there's that "Pearl Harbor" scene which I believe was supposed to represent corregidor. About the only thing going for it is that train pulling cattle cars filled with prisoners, owing to the fact that they managed to preserve one of these cars or at least one that looked like them.

[legionnaire]

I see what you're describing are very interesting and quite true depictions. Yes there is still an important need for a more proper painting of the Battling bastards of Bataan and Corregidor.

This country is forever doomed to always emphasize and pathetically focus on the "death March" as the only momment in WWII Philippines that ever happened.

It is sad there is no genuine classical painter that exist to day in the Philippines that I know of who could do justice to these heroes.

One friend of mine who had the classical talent moved to Spain. And he painted classical religious paintings for the Catholic churches in Manila. Who pay poorly.

Philip