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Contemporary Arts

The document discusses 16 important Filipino artists and their contributions to visual arts in the Philippines. It provides brief biographies of each artist as well as some of their most significant works. The artists represented different movements and styles including realism, modernism, abstraction, cubism, and more. Together they helped establish and advance the traditions of painting, sculpture, and other media in Philippine art.

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Contemporary Arts

The document discusses 16 important Filipino artists and their contributions to visual arts in the Philippines. It provides brief biographies of each artist as well as some of their most significant works. The artists represented different movements and styles including realism, modernism, abstraction, cubism, and more. Together they helped establish and advance the traditions of painting, sculpture, and other media in Philippine art.

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Visual arts

- Are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design
crafts, photography, video, filmmaking and architecture.
Artists:
1. Fernando Amorsolo
- “Grand Old man of the Philippine Art”
- Lighting is the most prominent element of Amorsolo’s painting.
- Notable for reflecting the artistic and cultural heritage of the Philippines.
Significant works:
 Planting Rice
 Dalagang Bukid
 The Mestiza
 Maiden in a Stream

2. Hernando Ocampo
- One of the thirteen Moderns, who paved way to art modernism in the Philippines.
- Works are more radical and more poetic showing the kind of society there was after
world war two.
- Developed a new style of abstraction through his use of fierce and striking colors.
Proved that abstract and non-traditional style of painting can also result to
nationalistic art.
Significant works:
 Genesis
 Calvary
 Slum Dwellers
 Nude with
 The Resurrection
 Fiesta

3. Benedicto Cabrera
- Popularly known as BenCab is an award winning painter and printmaker who was
tagged as a master of Philippine contemporary art.
- Was internationally known and had been exhibiting in Europe, USA, and Asia.
- Received various awards and two of these recognitions are the National Artist Award
and the Gawad CCP para sa Sining.
Significant works:
 Sabel -Twins
 Yellow Confetti
 Ego Gesture
 The Oriental Fan

4. Carlos “Botong” Francisco


- He was a muralist from Angono, Rizal.
- His works shows the historical past of the Philippines.
- Depict and highlight the lives of farmers and fisherman.
- One of the so-called “The Triumvirate” along with other modernist Galo Ocampo and
Victiorio Edades.
Significant works:
 The Martyrdom of - The Invasion of
 Bayanihan
 Sandugo
 Portrait of Purita
 First Mass at

5. Cesar Legaspi
- He is one of the Thirteen Moderns who promoted modern arts in the country.
- He was a neo-realist whose important to modern art was his refinement of cubism in
the Philippine context.
- Indigenized cubism and produce artworks showing local temperaments.
Significant works:
 The Beggars - Idols of the Third Eye
 The Stairway -Gadgets
 The Ritual
 Bayanihan

6. Abdulmari Asia Imao


- A visual artist from Sulu, who articulated the Muslim culture and art in the country.
- Preserved and promoted the Philippine indigenous art through the use of ethnic
themes like the ukkil, sarimanok, and naga in his paintings and sculputures.
- Empowered cultural groups to take part in promoting equality.
Significant works:
 Brass Mural of Philippine National Bank
 Mural Relief in Filmmaking
 Sarimanok

7. Guillermo Tolentino
- Was the master sculptor who introduces classical sculpture in the country.
- Was known for creating monument and bust figures of Philippines Heroes.
- Also the one who created the UP Oblation, which became the representation of the
academic freedom of the university.
Significant works:
 Oblation

8. Arturo Luz
- He is an abstractionist known for his minimalist paintings and sculptures which
exude sophisticated simplicity.
- Started doing art at the age of 17 without prior training.
- First art lesson is under Pablo Amorsolo, brother of Fernando Amorsolo.
- Took up Fine Arts at the university of Sto. Tomas
Significant works:
 Procession
 Bagong Taon
 Candle Vendors - Night Glows
9. Frederico Aguilar Alcuas
- The artist known for his gestural abstract expressionistic paintings using variety of
mediums like acrylic and oil.
- Was also a sculptor who produced abstract and figurative sculpture made of
materials like ceramics, paper, and mixed media.
Significant works:
 Reveries of Love - Tap Room
 Still Life with Landscape
 Panoramic View of Manila
 Tres Marias

10. Napoleon Abueva


- Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture, who made use of wide range of materials in
his works like different types of hardwood, stones, and metals.
- Also the sculptor who started the trend in mixing different materials.
Significant works:
 Nine Muses
 Kaganapan
 Station of the Cross
 Sunburst
 The Transfiguration

11. Jeremias Elizalde Navarro


- Popularly known as J. Elizalde Navarro, was a painter and sculptor.
- He created both abstract and figure paintings using oil and watercolor.
- His figure paintings were inspired by Balinese art and culture.
- Popular for his masks, carved in hardwood with combined features of human and
animal.
Significant works:
 I’m Sorry Jesus I can’t Attend the Mass
 Grand Prix: Homage to Dodgie Laurel
 A Flying Contraption for Mr. Icarus
 All Because of Humpty Dumpy’s Fall
 The Seasons
 Passenger on to Central Station, 1957

12. Francisco Coching


- Tagged as “Dean of Filipino Illustrators” popular for his komiks drawing.
- His works illustrated gallant men and beautiful ladies and the victory of good over
evil.
Significant works:
 Pedro Penduko
 Hagibis
 El Indio
 Maldita

13. Victorio Edades


- He is the “Father of Modern Philippine Painting”
- He deviated from Amosolo’s use of happy and bright colors and used dark and sad
hues in his paintings instead.
- Depicted in his works were the hardship in the life of the laborers and the lower class
in society.
Significant works:
 The Sketch
 Japanese Girl
 Mother and Daughter
 The Wrestler
 Poinsettia Girl

14. Ang Kiukok


- Was known for his highly expressionistic works containing powerful meanings.
- Angst, anguish, and anger are the glaring emotions contained in his cubistic works
as these were created in the time of Martial Law.
Significant works:
 Geometric Landscape
 Pieta
 Seated Figure

15. Jose Joya


- He is an abstractionist known for his “gestural paintings”
- The prominent elements of his artworks include their color harmony inspired by the
country’s landscapes, their kinetic energy and their spontaneity.
- Also a multimedia artist who painted on ceramics such as vessels, plates, and tiles.
Significant works:
 Approaching Storm
 Space Transfiguration
 Beethoven Listening to Blues
 City Entering the Edge of Sundown
 Dimension of Fear

16. Vicente Manansala


- A cubist painter who painted with a wide of range of subject matters from the happy
and bountiful rural to poverty-stricken urban set ups.
- Contributed in modernism of Philippine visual arts by his style of transparent cubism.
- He reorganized human forms in transparent planes instead.
Significant works:
 Mother and Child
 A Cluster Nipa Hut
 Nude
 Via Crucis
 Market Vendor
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