"Quiapo"

Elmer Misa Borlongan

Quiapo
Quiapo Church is a 1933 replacement of an older
structure destroyed by fire. One of Manila's best-
known landmarks, Quiapo is the home of the
Black Nazarene, an image of Christ believed to
be miraculous. The life-size statue, carved from
ebony, was first brought to Quiapo in 1767.

"Old Downtown of Manila"

Quiapo is home to the Quiapo Church, where the
feast of the Black Nazarene is held with millions
of people attending annually. Quiapo has also
made a name for itself as a place for
marketplace bargain hunting.

Plaza Miranda,
the heart of the Quiapo district, is a town square named
after Jose Sandino y Miranda, who served as secretary
of the treasury of the Philippines from 1853 to 1863.[2] It
is located in front of the Quiapo Church, and has
become a popular site for political rallies. On August 21,
1971, while the Liberal Party held its miting de avance in
the plaza, a bomb exploded, killing nine and injuring
almost 100 civilians.

Elmer Misa Borlongan

Elmer Misa Borlongan (born January 7, 1967) is a
prominent contemporary Filipino painter best
known for his distinctive use of figurative
expressionism.

He rose to prominence as a recipient of the

Cultural Center of the Philippines' Thirteen Artist
Awards in 1994, and his works have since become
one of the most widely exhibited and most
sought-after at auctions among Southeast Asian
artists.

Borlongan was born at 7:25 AM on January 7, 1967, at De Ocampo

Memorial Medical Center in Santa Mesa, Manila to chemist Pascual
Garcia Borlongan of Calumpit

Elmer Misa Borlongan is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter best

known for his distinctive use of figurative expressionism.
 "Quiapo" painting

Elmer Borlongonan used oil on canvas in his Quiapo painting.

Borlongan's artistic bent was encouraged early on by his father, a
chemist, and his mother, a pharmacist. An aunt referred him to
Fernando Sena, a painter and art educator whose own work was
influenced by the impressionists and the cubists, and Borlongan
entered his tutelage when he was still in the sixth grade.

Quiapo is known as a Miraculous Church for Filipinos and even to

foreign people who visited the church. It's very inspiring and uplifting.

Because of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo it portrays filipino culture.

The Black Nazarene feast is traditionally celebrated

with a grand procession called Traslacion, where
millions of devotees would jostle their way to touch the
carriage carrying the venerated statue as they believe
doing so could bring healing, answer prayers, or lead
to miracles.

Quiapo art help educate people and create pleasant environment.

Art influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and
translating experiences across space and time. It also allows people
from different cultures and different times to communicate with each
other via images, sounds and stories. Art is often a vehicle for social
change.