Hallmark greeting cards and Philippine stamps have featured his paintings. The most senior in the group at 49, he has never lost his fresh heart, a characteristic clearly apparent in his art, where he portrays children having fun and adults enjoying the good life.Īs his “happy paintings” always show people with heartfelt smiles, the style has become his signature, marking him as “The Smile Painter.” His portraits of former Presidents Joseph Estrada and Gloria Arroyo, as well as Fernando Poe, Jr., show the public figures all wearing dignified smiles.įeatured on television and in print media, Hipolito and his paintings have also appeared in the art books Different Faces of Mother & Child, Structural Art by Philippine Artists, Flora and Fauna in Philippines Art and Green Art, An Environmental Advocacy. In 2008, Hipolito joined award-winning visual artists Camille de la Rosa, Orly Ypon and Bernardo Maac in the joint exhibit Varied Palettes at the Art Center of SM Megamall. With excellent artistry, good public relations and persistence, his break came in small measures until his Composite Realism style caught the eye of Carlos Arellano of the Social Security System for their “optimism and joy of life” and gave him commissions. It was no easy task as sometimes they ended up using their paintings to shield them from the elements. At the same time, he started to develop a market by vending his paintings accompanied by his youngest son Alvin. As he was a relative newcomer in the Philippine art scene, Hipolito had to operate an eatery from culinary skills learned in Singapore and his savings as an overseas Filipino worker. Through Hipolito’s paintings, usually family and friends in bonding, conjuring the good life, either moving a house in bayanihan spirit or rejoicing in a fiesta, they turn into variations of a single motif, that is, happy Filipinos in various poses of a delighted observance of the Filipino heritage: our bravery, our spirituality, our responsibility, our generosity, our pride, our beauty, resiliently and more importantly, our smile.īut that was not an easy start. Working in the multi-cultural mode that combined genre painting, portrait, still life, landscape and animal painting, he came up with contemporary anecdotal works of rural Romanticism. Unafraid to experiment, he synergized all his influences and knowledge to evolve the self-developed style, a take off from hyperrealism. After working as an art director in Saudi Arabia until 1996, he proceeded to develop his well-accepted, distinctive style that he called Composite Realism, which blends painting with production design, photography and digital art. Bato: The Gen.Woven deep into the art of Dante Hipolito is a 25-year backstory.Īs a Freemason of Pintong Bato Lodge #51 of Bacoor, Cavite, Hipolito’s leap of imagination started when he was hired as artist by Basic/Foot Cone and Belding Advertising in 1990."Netizens react on the trailer of Bato dela Rosa movie". " 'Pelikula lang?' Directors, critics hit 'Bato' movie". "Comelec warns Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa over biopic". ^ a b Crisostomo, Sheila (January 30, 2019)."Robin Padilla is 'Bato' Dela Rosa in upcoming biopic". ^ Madarang, Catalina Ricci (January 4, 2019).Philippine Manila Standard Publishing, Inc. "Robin, Sharon type gawing bida sa movie ng ex-PNP chief". " Tatlong Henerasyon ng Sipag at Tiyaga", a television episode about the family of Cynthia Villar, a candidate for the 2019 senate election." Steak", a television episode about Christopher "Bong" Go, a candidate for the 2019 senate election.The Commission on Elections has warned that dela Rosa could be disqualified if the film is still being aired in Philippine cinemas on Februor the official start of the campaign period for national candidates. Controversy īato has caused controversy for being released at the time dela Rosa was a candidate for the 2019 Philippine Senate election. Release īato premiered at the SM Megamall in Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong on January 30, 2019, with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in attendance. He also has expressed his preference to have the film focus on his biography rather than his romance with his wife in particular. In early December 2018, Ronald dela Rosa expressed his desire for Robin Padilla and Sharon Cuneta to respectively play him and his wife Nancy if ever a film is made about him.
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