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Essay About Iconolatria

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The moment I received the specification for the reaction paper via UVLe—April 8, Friday—I rushed to the Vargas museum at 1:00 P.M. since my last class for that day was already over. I actually considered Roberto Feleo’s Mito ng Aklasang Basi first but since I had a long free time, I decided to look at Sandra Dans’ Iconolatria as well because the name of the exhibit is somewhat compelling, thus I thought that it would be as good if not better than the formerly mentioned exhibit. Well, I think I was right!

To be honest, I didn’t have much idea about Iconolatria. As I was going upstairs, the first thing that I got to see is a brief background of what Iconolatria really is. As suggested by Sandra Dans, Iconolatria is basically an Italian word …show more content…

According to what I read from the exhibit, sanctification is basically the dampening of the subject’s masculine attitudes. When I saw the pictures of different men wearing flower crowns, it looked a little bit weird for me at first. It has left me dumbfounded for a while because I knew from the moment I saw it that it tells something beyond what my eyes perceive. The media usually maintain the image of a typical Filipino man being siga. Filipino norms dictate that men should have a “strong” demeanor; we associate masculinity with toughness. In my perspective, the artist didn’t subvert the masculinity of the men even with the girly impression it invokes to the viewers but rather, being in the Filipino context, it exposes that both ends of the continuum could actually go together. Due to their girly aura, viewers could possibly judge their sexual preferences at that instant. As viewers, we dwell too much on the “sanctification” or what sets the portraits apart from the others based on how they are presented; we are always after the irregularities of a portrait that’s why our perception gets limited. Nonetheless, we must be able to break out of this automatized way of seeing or perceiving things that we have adapted due to the influx of

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