CONTEMPORARY ARTS subject, was Award: National Artist of
Amorsolo's attempt the Philippines
Arts to depict Filipina
beauty as opposed José Joya was a
- is the expressions of
to the typical Maria Filipino painter best
one's feelings through
Clara image known for his
creating out of their
commonly Abstract
imagination.
associated with local Expressionist works
Contemporary Arts women.
- is art made today by The Making of the
Philippine Flag by Abstract art - purity,
living artists. As such, it
Fernando Amorsolo. simplicity
reflects the complex
issues that shape our The famous artist in Expressionism – emotions
diverse, global, and the Philippines
rapidly changing world. behind this painting His most notable
is Fernando painting from 1958,
Amorsolo. The called Granadean
Making of the Arabesque, is a large
THE 7 CONTEMPORARY FINE
Philippine Flag is one scale yellow hued
ART DISCIPLINES
of the most famous mural that features
1.) Painting paintings in the clusters of sand and
2.) Sculpture Philippines. impasto. It can be
3.) Architecture It is believed that viewed at the
4.) Poetry Fernando Amorsolo Ateneo Art Gallery in
5.) Music made this painting to Manila.
6.) Literature show the citizens of Impasto is a
7.) Dance the Philippines of technique used in
how the Philippine painting, where paint
flag was made and to is laid on an area of
THE MOST FAMOUS remind them the the surface thickly,
FILIPINO ARTISTS AND THEIR traditions and usually thick enough
MASTERWORKS customs that we did that the brush or
not realize it painting-knife strokes
1.) Fernando Cueto becomes faded. This are visible.
Amorsolo painting also shows GRANADEAN
- was a portraitist and how powerful and ARABESQUE and
painter of rural talented women in DIMENSIONS OF
Philippine landscapes. our country are. FEAR
Nicknamed the "Grand
Old Man of Philippine
Art," he was the first- 2.) José T. Joya 3.) Pacita Barsana Abad
ever to be recognized as - was a Filipino abstract - was an Ivatan and
a National Artist of the artist and a National Philippine painter. She
Philippines. Artist of the Philippines was born in Basco,
Born: May 30, 1892, Paco, awardee. Joya was a Batanes, a small island
Manila printmaker, painter, in the northernmost
mixed media artist, and part of the Philippines,
Died: April 24, 1972, Quezon a former dean of the between Luzon and
City University of the Taiwan. Her more than
Philippines' College of 30-year painting career
Full name: Fernando Cueto
Fine Arts. He pioneered began when she
Amorsolo
abstract expressionism traveled to the United
The "Dalagang in the Philippines. States to undertake
Filipina" is one of graduate studies.
Born: June 3, 1931,
Fernando Amorsolo's
Manila Born: October 5, 1946, Basco
best-known
paintings. The Died: May 11, 1995, Died: December 7, 2004,
painting, or rather its Manila Singapore
I am thrilled to Born: March 1, 1931, Davao - was a symbol of
have been given City dislocation, despair,
the opportunity to and isolation — the
Died: May 9, 2005, Quezon
transform the personification of
City human dignity
Alkaff Bridge into
a new colorful Fishermen at Sea threatened by
outdoor sculpture, - The depiction of the circumstance.
that I call the fishermen as they
"Painted Bridge". collect their haul from
My hope is that the ocean may be a 6.) Eric Oteyza de Guia
when people look reference to the artist's - better known as Kidlat
at the fifty-five personal journey, and Tahimik, is a film
colors and playful spiritual awakening. In director, writer and
circle designs the painting men and actor whose films are
adorning the fish are locked in an commonly associated
Bridge, they will eternal conflict with the Third Cinema
smile and enjoy between ignorance and movement through
experiencing art as enlightenment, with the their critiques of
a part of their daily fish representing the neocolonialism.
life. The "Painted latter.
Bridge" is my gift Born: October 3, 1942,
to the people of Baguio
ANGER FIGURE,
Singapore FIGHTING
Kidlat Tahimik is
Filipina: A racial identity FIGURES and one of the most
crisis CRUCIFIXION acclaimed
Philippine
- They represent the filmmakers, a
opposing racial strains 5.) Benedicto Reyes laureate of the
that make the modern- Cabrera “Plaridel
day Filipina confused - better known as honorarium for
who she is behind the "BenCab", is a Filipino Independent
color of her skin. painter and was Cinema”, whom
- Filipina: A racial Identity awarded National many of his
Crisis focuses on two Artist of the Philippines colleagues and
women: the fair- for Visual Arts in 2006. film critics call the
skinned Maria Isabel, - He is more popularly “father of
who has been affected known is widely hailed Philippine
by Spaniards, and the as a master of independent
brown- complexioned contemporary cinema”
Liwayway Etnika, who Philippine art. Kidlat Tahimik
is from one of the - which means “silent
indigenous Malay Born: April 10, 1942, lightning”
tribes distributed Malabon
PERFUMED
throughout the NIGHTMARE 1977
Crisis in Humanity
country's villages.
- In Bencab's work, the
phenomenon was used
as a sublime statement 7.) Agnes Arellano
4.) Ang Kiukok against the era of - is a Philippine
- was a Filipino painter resurgent fascism and sculptor known for her
of Chinese descent and brazen historical surrealistic sculptural
was a National Artist for revisionism. In 2017, groupings.
Visual Arts. the artist joined
- Kiukok was awarded the Karapatan: Artists Born: November 21, 1949
title of National Artist Stand for Human Rights Carcass-Cornucopia
by his home country in with the artwork in - is part of the Myths of
2001 hand Creation and
Sabel Destruction I inscape.
This work shows how
from death and
destruction, life can
come forth. It depicts
the rather morbid scene
of a hooved female
carcass hung up and
split open, while from
her torn body emerges
an infant.
8.) Roberto "Bobby"
Rodríguez Chabet
- was an artist from the
Philippines and widely
acknowledged as the
father of Philippine
conceptual art.
- Father of Conceptual
Art in the Philippines
Born: March 29, 1937,
Manila
Died: April 30, 2013, Santa
Mesa, Manila
Full name: Roberto
Rodriguez
9.) Napoleon "Billy"
Veloso Abueva
- was known as the
"Father of Modern
Philippine Sculpture"
Through Proclamation
No. 1539. He was
proclaimed National
Artist for Sculpture in
1976 when he was 46,
making him the
youngest recipient of
the award to date.
The white Memorial
Cross stands as a
remembrance to the
soldiers who fought
and lost their lives in
the Battle of Bataan.
