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Mauro Malang Santos: Visual Arts Artist

Mauro Malang Santos was a Filipino visual artist born in 1928 who worked as both a cartoonist and fine arts painter. He learned to draw from a private tutor as a child and later studied at the University of the Philippines, but left school at age 19 to work for a newspaper where he apprenticed under a cartoonist. Santos is renowned for his cartoon series like Kosme the Cop and comics art, as well as his imaginative use of color in paintings such as Tres Marias, Green Virgin, and White Sun.

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Mauro Malang Santos: Visual Arts Artist

Mauro Malang Santos was a Filipino visual artist born in 1928 who worked as both a cartoonist and fine arts painter. He learned to draw from a private tutor as a child and later studied at the University of the Philippines, but left school at age 19 to work for a newspaper where he apprenticed under a cartoonist. Santos is renowned for his cartoon series like Kosme the Cop and comics art, as well as his imaginative use of color in paintings such as Tres Marias, Green Virgin, and White Sun.

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MAURO MALANG

SANTOS
Visual Arts Artist
MAURO MALANG SANTOS
> January 20, 1928 – June 10, 2017
> Malang was the son of Dan Santos and Juliana
Malang.
> He married Mary San Pedro, with whom he has four
children including painters Steve Santos and Soler
Santos
> Malang started learning how to draw from Teodoro
Buenaventura, a private tutor, when he was ten years
old. For one semester, Malang studied at the College of
Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in 1946.
He stopped attending formal school at the age of 19 in
order to work for the art department of the Manila
Chronicle. While with the newspaper, he apprenticed
under cartoonist Liborio "Gat" Gatbonton. During 1972,
Malang attended art classes at the Otis Art Institute in
Los Angeles, California, under a three-month
scholarship

MAURO MALANG SANTOS

Mauro Malang Santos, commonly known by


the mononym Malang, was a Filipino and
award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and fine
arts painter. As a comics artist he is best
known for the series Kosme the Cop, Chain
Gang Charlie and Beelzebub..
MAURO MALANG SANTOS
Tres Marias Green Virgin White sun

MAURO MALANG SANTOS


“ Filipino critics agree that a great deal of
Malang’s painterly charm comes from his
highly imaginative use of color. Critic Cid
Reyes described Malang’s paintings as the
most color-irradiated ever done in the history
of Philippine art.

AN ANALYSIS OF HIS WORKS

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