VICTORIO C.

EDADES (December 23, 1895 March 7, - Awards received:

1985) 1961 Pro Patria Award, given during the Rizal
Centennial Celebration
- Father of Modern Philippine 1964 Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award,
Painting from the City of Manila
- Known for using dark somber 1976 National Artist Award in Painting
colors in his paintings 1977 Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris
- His works focused on factory causa in UST
worker, laborers, or other simple
townspeople
Victorio Edades self-portrait
VICENTE MANANSALA (January 22, 1910 August 22,
- Paints distorted human figures in rough, bold 1981)
impasto strokes, and standing tall and singular in
his advocacy and practice of what he believes is - Known for his paintings
creative art depicting realistic themes
- He introduced a degree program offering subjects using an abstract or a cubist
in foreign languages and art history, which would style
later lead to a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. This - The beauty of art is in the
development brought about a first in Philippine process, in the moment of
education since art schools then were mostly doing a particular painting,
vocational schools. closely associating it with the act of making love.
- He was named a National Artist in 1976 - The climax is just when its really finished.
- He was a member of Triumvirate together with - National Artist in Painting in 1982
Carlos Botong Francisco and Galo B. Ocampo, - As a member of the Thirteen Moderns and the neo-
they led the growth of mural painting in the realists, he was at the forefront of the modernist
country movement in the country.
- His works include The Sketch (also known as The - With the issues of national culture and identity in
Artist and the Model), Portrait of the Professor, focus after WWII his works were those of the other
Japanese Girl, Mother and Daughter, The early modernists which reflected the social
Wrestlers and Poinsettia Girl. environment and expressed the native sensibility.
- Major works: - consistently worked in the figurative mode, with
1928 The Sketch, National Museum Collection the exception of a few abstract works
1928 The Builders, Cultural Center of the - developed transparent cubism, wherein the
Philippines Collection
1935 Interaction, with Carlos V. Francisco
"delicate tones, shapes, and patterns of figure and
and Galo B. Ocampo environment are masterfully superimposed"
1976 Demoiselles Davao - Manansala reinterpreted or indigenized cubism as
1979 Kasaysayan, a mural for a Manila bank
he drew his themes from the familiar Filipino
environment.
- Awards received:
Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1963
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from
the City of Manila in 1970
- Works:
Interaction by Edades Reclined Nude by A Cluster of Nipa Hut
The Sketch by
Galo Ocampo and Victorio Edades, 1976 Victorio Edades San Francisco Del Monte
Botong Francisco Charcoal on Paper Banaklaot
I Believe in God
Still Life with Green Guitar
Via Crucis
Whirr
 Nude - utilized fantasy and science fiction as the basis for
Market Venders his works
Madonna of the Slums - a portrayal of a - His art is described to be "abstract compositions of
mother and child from the countryside who biological forms that seemed to oscillate, quiver,
became urban shanty residents once in the inflame and multiply" like mutations.
city. - Played a pivotal role in sustaining the Philippine Art
Gallery, the countrys first
- Works:
Genesis
Slum Dwellers
Ina ng Ibalon
Calvary
Nude with Candle and Flower
Market Venders, 1949 Philippines Mother and Child, 1965
Man and Carabao
Angel's Kiss
Palayok at Kalan
Ancestors
Isda at Mangga
The Resurrection
Fifty-three "Q"
Back drop
Mother and Child, Fiesta
1981 Luksong-Tinik
(Jumping over
Mother and Child
Madonna and the Slums, Thorns), 1973 Easter Sunday
\ 1950 - His works captured the Philippines landscape
using bold colors

HERNANDO R. OCAMPO (April 28, 1911 December 28,

1978)

- Largely known for his abstract

paintings
- A self-taught painter Man and Carabao
- His works feature shapes
Mother and Child,
bounded with curved lines
1970
painted in intense colors Ina at Anak, 1951
- Famously known for his
triumvirate of with neo-realists - Genesis
Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi masterpiece, was
- his works reflected understanding and awareness used as the basis of
of the harsh realities of his country after the Second the design of the
World War and contributed significantly to the rise curtain of the
of the nationalist spirit in the post-war era Cultural Center of
- many of his works depicted lush sceneries and the the Philippines
Genesis, 1969
beautiful Philippine landscapes through his skillful (CCP) Main Theater
use of fierce and bold colors - Awards received:
- credited for inventing a new mode of abstraction Republic Cultural Award in 1965
that exemplifies Philippine flora and fauna, and Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award in 1969
portrays sunshine, stars and rain in fierce Diwa ng Lahi Award in 1976
movement and bold colors. Gawad CCP para sa Sining Award in 1979
CESAR LEGASPI (April 2, 1917 April 7, 1994) Ovary
Flora and Fauna
- Known for utilizing and
Triptych
refining cubism
Flight
- Cubism is a style involves
Bayanihan
breaking parts into
Struggle
geometric shapes
Avenging figure
- A pioneer Neo-Realist of
Turning point
the country
Peace
- remembered for his singular achievement of
The Survivor
refining cubism in the Philippine context
Planters
- he belonged to the so-called Thirteen Moderns
Stairway to Heaven
and later, the Neo-realists
The Ritual
- His distinctive style and daring themes contributed
significantly to the advent and eventual acceptance
of modern art in the Philippines
- He made use of the geometric fragmentation
technique, weaving social comment and
juxtaposing the mythical and modern into his
overlapping, interacting forms with disturbing
power and intensity.
- Awards Received:
Art Association of the Philippines are: fourth
prize, Sick Child, 1948, first prize, Gadgets,
1944; fourth prize, PIanters, 1949; and third
prize, Ritual, 1951
First prize for Stairway to Heaven in the Manila
club Art Exhibition in 1949
Symphony won an honorable mention award in
the Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition in
1950
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinagan award from
the City of Manila in 1972
Gawad CCP para sa Sining award from the
Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1990
National Artist in painting in 1990
- Works:
Man and Woman (Beggars) (1945) - in an
expressionist idiom involving distortion, shows
a couple in rags amidst the skeletons of
buildings which we broken like surrealist
sculpture.
Gadgets (1947) - done in two versions, reflects
the increasing importance of machines in the
post-war industrialization period, as well as
what he perceived was the insidious threat of
human metamorphosing into machine.
Diggers
Idols of the Third Eye
Faade