Filipino Modern Artists Jose T. Joya -National artist, visual arts, 2009 -Foremost Filipino abstract painter -“It’s useless to try to make out familiar objects in my painting.” -How he paints: “I squeeze my paint tubes directly, throw my paints in calculated gestures, swirl swirl my loaded brushes, slash my paint paste with spatula and hurl it on my canvas in a wild attempt to depict the onrushing tempo of the present jet-age modernity.” -Hills of Nikko Vicente Manansala -National artist in painting, 1981 -Country’s pioneer in Cubism -One of the thirteen moderns led by Victorio C. Edades -One of the Big three in the modernist movement along with Cesar Legaspi and H.R. Ocampo -Formed the group of Neo-Realists together with Romeo Tabuena and Anita Magsaysay-Ho -Developed transparent cubism -Works were done mostly in figurative mode, reflecting the society and the local environment -Favored the styles of Picasso and Cezanne -Believed that the true beauty of art lay in the process of creating it -Born in Macabebe, Pampanga on Jan. 22,1910 -2nd of the 8 children of Perfecto Q. Manansala and Engracia Silva -At the age of 15, he studied under painter Ramon Peralta while doing work painting movie posters at a shop in Manila -Entered the UP school of Fine arts in 1926 and graduated in 1930. -Continued his studies under a UNESCO grant at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada in 1949 and under a French government scholarship at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris in 1950. -In 1960, he received a grant from US to study stained glass techniques in NY. -Also trained at the Otis Art Institute in 1967 -Received another grant grant in 1970 from Germany to study at Zurich -Worked as an illustrator for the Phil. Herald and Liwayway and as a layout artist for Photonews and Saturday Evening news magazine in the 1930’s -held his first one-man show at the Manila hotel in 1951and then went to work as a professor at UST school of fine arts from 1951-1958 -died in Makati,1981 -Give us this day our daily Bread Carlos “Botong” Fransisco -Nat’l artist in painting, 1973 -foremost Filipino muralist -developed Filipino imagery drawing inspirations inspirations from the customs and traditions of the people, used the people of Agono, where he lived, as models for his paintings of hero’s legends and characters of our myths -Kalantiao at Lubluban Napoleon Abueva -1967, 46 yrs old, youngest Filipino to become a nat’l artist -father of modern Philippine structure, structure, master in both academic representational representational style and modern abstract -used all kinds of mat’l including hardwood like molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil, kamagong, palm wood and bamboo, adobe, metal, stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster, coral and brass and combines diff. mat’ls like wood with metal and stone -under a Pura Villanueva-Kalaw Villanueva-Kalaw scholarship, scholarship, he graduated from UP school of fine arts in 1953 with a bachelor of fine arts in sculpture. -received much recognition as early as his college years, during which he was mentored by Guillermo Tolentino, the 1st nat’l artist for sculpture and creator of UP Oblation -for 3 yrs in a row(1951-1953) he won 1 st prize and best entry awards in sculpture in the Art Association of the Philippines annual competition -one of his works from this period is the Kagampan or Kaganapan, which he considered most representative representative of his work -also received recognition in the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ International Sculpture Competition in London, England for The Unknown Political Prisoner -1955, finished his master of fine arts at the Cranbook Academy of Art in Michigan as a Fulbright/SmithMundt scholar and later took graduate units in Ceramics at the University of Kansas and Art History at Harvard University -Joined UP as assistant instructor -1978, appointed Dean of the college of fine arts until 1989 -1993, given an honorary doctorate in humanities and was promoted university professor -retired in June 1995 and was given the status of Professor Emeritus in April 2003 -1960-1980, represented Phil. In symposiums and sent as delegate and special guest to various art exhibits and functions abroad -Allegorical Harpoon Mauro Malang Santos -highly original approach to figurative painting -A large plant stands in the midst of the urban landscape. The plant itself spreads out over the entire space. The large leaves with their blade-like edges supported by stems or stalks between petal-like stamen and pistils of the gigantic bloom stand tall against a neutral sky. Hernando R. Ocampo -nat’l artist, visual arts, 1991 -aimed to de-emphasize a life-like representation with the natural world -interested in how shapes, values, textures and lines interact with one another in space rather in capturing a realistic semblance of nature
