Lesson 5: National Artists and their

contributions to Particular Areas:

Visual Arts
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Let’s pray

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Visual arts

Visual arts are the arts that meet the eye and evoke an emotion through
an expression of skill and
imagination.

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Spoliarium by :
Juan Luna

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“Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that creativity is a
great thing. It’s a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go
down life’s path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.”
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Fernando Amorsolo
- He is known as the
“Grand Old Man of the Philippine Arts”.
- The first National Artist of the country
- His works of art were also notable for reflecting the artistic and
cultural heritage of the Philippines.
- His significant works are Planting Rice, Dalagang Bukid, The
Mestiza, and
Maiden in a Stream, among others.

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Hernando Ocampo
- He is one of the Thirteen Moderns. His works were more
radical and more poetic.
- It was his abstract painting that significantly contributed to the
Philippine modern art.
- He developed a new style of abstract through his use of fierce
and striking colors
- His works proved that abstract and non-traditional style of
painting can also result to nationalistic art.
- His major art works were Genesis, Calvary, Slum Dwellers,
Nude with Cradle and Flower, The Resurrection, Fiesta, etc.

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Benedicto Cabrera
- He is popularly known as BenCab, award winning painter,
master of the Philippine Contemporary art.
- His most popular subject of his painting was “Sabel”, the woman
scavenger roaming the street of his hometown, BenCab was
internationally known and had been exhibiting in Europe, USA,
and Asia.
- In his 40 years of being visual artist he received various award
and the Gawad CCP para sa Sining.

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Carlos “Botong” Francisco

- He is muralist from Angono Rizal. For nearly three decades,
Francisco painted murals showing the historical past of the
Philippines.
- Most of his subjects depict the life in his hometown and
highlight the lives of farmers and fishermen, He is one of the so
called “The Triumvirate”.
- His major works include Blood Compact, The Martyrdom of
Rizal, Bayanihan, Sandugo, Portrait of Purita, First Mass at
Limawasa, The Invasion of Limahong, etc.

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Cesar Legaspi
- He is one of the Thirteen Moderns, who promoted modern arts
in the
country. These artists pioneered Philippine Modernism.
- He was neo-realist whose important contribution to modern art
was his refinement of cubism in the Philippine context
- Some of his major art pieces are The Beggars, The Stairway,
The Ritual, the Survivor, Gadget I and II, Flight, Struggle,
Peace, Bayanihan,
Facade, m Ovary, Idols of the Third Eye, among others.

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Abdulmari Asia Imao
- Visual Artist from Sulu, who articulated the Muslim culture
and art in the
country.
- He preserved and promoted the Philippine indigenous art
through the
use of ethnic themes like the ukkil, Sarimanok, and naga in his
paintings and sculptures.
- His artworks include murals like the industry Brass Mural of
the Philippine National Bank, Industrial Mural of the Central
Bank of the Philippines, and the Mural relief in Film making
painted in the Manila City hall.

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Guillermo Tolentino
- Master sculptor who introduced classical sculpture in the
country.
- Known for creating monuments and bust figures of
Philippine heroes
like Andres Bonifacio and Jose Rizal and Philippine
Presidents like Manuel Quezon and Ramon Magsaysay.
- The one who created the UP Oblation, which became the
representation of the academic freedom of the university.

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Arturo Luz
- He is an Abstractionist known for his minimalist paintings and
sculpture.
- He started doing art at the age 17 without prior training.
- Enrolled to University of Sto. Tomas and took up Fine Arts he
also studied
in US and Europe to further improve his skills in art making.
- His major painting pieces include Procession, Bagong Taon,
Vendor de Flores, Skipping Rope, Candle vendors, Self Portrait,
Night Glows, Grand Finale, and Cyclist Series.

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Fredirico Aguilar Alcuaz

- Known for his gestural abstract expressionistic paintings
using a variety of mediums like acrylic and oil. A sculptor who
produced abstract and figurative sculptor made of materials
like ceramics, paper and mixed media.
- His works include Reveries of Love, Still life with landscape,
Panoramic view of Manila, Tres Marias and Top Room, among
others.

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Napoleon Abueva
- Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture, who made use of
wide range materials in his works like different types of
hardwood, stones and metals.
- He started the trend in mixing different materials, like metal
and stone in making sculpture
- His notable works are Nine Muses, Kaganapan, Station of
the Cross, Sunburst, and The Transfiguration.

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Jeremias Elizalde Navarro
- Known as J. Elizalde Navarro, a painter and sculptor.
- He created both abstract and figurative paintings using
oil and watercolor.
- His figurative paintings were inspired by Balinese Art and
Culture.
- He was popular for his masks, carved in hardwood, with
combined features of human and animal.
- Known for his assemblages wherein combined metals and
found materials to create stunning work of art.

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Jeremias Elizalde Navarro

His remarkable works are I’m sorry Jesus I can’t

attend the Mass, Grand
Prix: Homage to Dodgie Laurel, A flying Contraption
for Mr. Icarus, The
Seasons and All Because of Humpy Dumpy’s Fall.

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Francisco Coching
- Tagged as “Dean of Filipino Illustrations”, popular for his
komiks drawing. Significant features of his works were their
fluid drawing and dramatic storyline.
- Fantasy, love and adventure were the usual themes of his
works.
- His work illustrated gallant men and beautiful ladies and
victory of good
over evil. Among his works are Lapu-lapu, Pedro Penduko,
Hagibis, El Nido, and Maldita

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Victorio Edades

- “Father of Modern Philippine Painting”

- He is one of the “Triumvirate” who introduced modernism in
the Philippine Visual Art.
- Edades shocked many Filipinos on his exhibit due to his non-
conventional style of painting. He deviated from Amorsolo’s
use of happy and bright
colors and used dark and sad hues in his paintings instead.
- The Sketch, Japanese Girl, Mother and Daughter, The
Wrestler, and Poinsettia Girl are among his famous art pieces.

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Ang Kiukok

- Known for 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.
- Some of his famous paintings include Geometric Landscapes,
Pieta and
Seated Figure.

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Jose Joya
- He is an Abstractionist known for his “Gestural Paintings”. He
applied paints in broad brush strokes either by using brushes or
spatula or by directly applying paint from the tube or by splashing
paint into the
canvas.
- Multimedia artist who painted ceramics on such vessels, plates
and titles
- His works are Approaching Storm, Space Transfiguration,
Beethoven
Listening to Blues, City Entering the Edge of Sundown, and
Dimension of Fear, among others.

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Vicente Manansala
- Cubist painter who painted with a wide range of subject
matters from the happy and bountiful rural to poverty-
stricken urban set ups
- He contributed in the modernism of the Philippine Visual
Arts by his style of transparent cubism.
- Worked as an illustrator of the Philippine Herald where
he became
acquainted with Hernando Ocampo, Carlos Francisco, and
Cesar Legaspi
- Among his works include Mother and Child, A cluster
Nipa hut, Nude, Via
Crucis, Market Vendor, and I Believe in God.

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