Buluran, Ma. Carmela Francez D.

B136 TTH 2:30-4:00 ART APP

Filipino Artists

1. Fernando Amorsolo

Biography:
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was one of the most
important artists in the history of painting in the
Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of
rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for
his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.

Famous works:

Making of the Philippine Flag Planting Rice

Noonday meal of the workers

2. Benedicto Cabrera

Biography:

Benedicto Cabrera, better known as BenCab, is

considered the preeminent Filipino painter of
his generation. Primarily figurative, Cabrera’s
work often depicts woman and occasionally
men wrapped in swirling, bundled fabrics
and capes. He was born on April 10, 1942 in
Malabon, Philippines, and studied at the
University of the Phillippines. In 1963, he won
first prize for his oil painting of a talipapa, or
market, in a student competition, and was hired
soon after by the national paper as its Sunday
illustrator. Cabrera’s first exhibition of oil and
acrylic paintings was held at the Indigo Gallery
in Mabini in 1965, and has since shown work in New York, Los Angeles,
Paris, Tokyo, and notably London, where has lived on and off for much
of his professional career. In 2006, the Philippine Government
conferred upon him the Order of National Artist for Visual Arts.

Famous works:

Sabel in Blue Mysterious Woman Portrait of Caroline

3. Pacita Abad

Biography:

Pacita Abad was a Modern painter born in

Basco, Batanes, Philippines. She studied
painting at the Corcoran School of Art, in
Washington D.C., and at The Art Students
League, in New York, NY. Upon finishing art
school, she travelled the world painting,
visiting more than 80 countries. Abad’s
travels had a significant impact on her life
and art. She was very inventive and
experimental with her painting, and her
style changed continuously throughout her
career, which began in the 1970s. Her
earliest paintings were mostly Figurative
and social or political, covering subjects
like hunger. Her work then expanded to
include naturalist subject matter, inspired
by the places she saw on her travels to exotic locations. This colorful
work of vibrant patterns segued into her most well-known practice as
an Abstract painter. Abad rejected the idea that painting was elitist,
and she was continuously inspired by the indigenous materials and
techniques she came into contact with during her travels. The
inspiration for Abad’s work is largely drawn from her personal
experiences, and she describes herself as a painter who paints “from
the guts.” In the years leading up to her death, Abad worked on a series
of paintings called Obsession.

Famous works:

Cocoon Endless Blues Patchworking the world

4. Anita Magsaysay-Ho

Biography:
Anita Magsaysay-Ho was often hailed as
the greatest woman Filipino
painter. While she had a distinctive
subject matter, celebrating the Filipino
woman-mostly peasants-at work,
Magsaysay-Ho’s painting styles evolved
over time, from bold brushwork and
strong contrasts of dark and light tones
to softening and graceful, almost
choreographed lines, to a whole new
style influenced by Chinese calligraphy
and finally a “Green Period” where
many of the figures seemed to resemble
fruits and plants themselves with solid,
highly refined, bold colours.

Famous works:

Tinapa Vendors The Family Three Women

5. Arturo Luz

Biography:
Arturo Luz is a Filipino printmaker, sculptor,
designer, and founding member of the modern
Neo-Realist school in Philippine art. Influenced
by Modernist painters such as Paul Klee, he has
worked in a variety of styles and techniques in
varying degrees of abstraction to create playful
geometric figures and forms. He was born on
November 20, 1926 in Manila, Republic of the
Phillipines and went on to study at the School of
Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas in
Manila, the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum
in New York, and at the Académie Grade
Chaumière in Paris. In 1976, Luz became
founding director of the Metropolitan Museum
of Manila, a position he held until 1986. His
international shows include the Philippine
Cultural Exhibition held in New York in 1953, Arte de America y España
in 1963, the 11th São Paolo Biennial in 1971, the Tokyo International
Print Biennial in 1974, and the 8th British International Print Biennale
in 1984. In 1997, he was named the National Artist in Visual Arts by the
government of his home country.

Famous work:

Candle Vendors Cities of the past

Bagong Taon

Filipino Artisans

1. Wynn Wynn Ong

Biography:
While raised in Manila, Wynn Wynn Ong was
born in Burma, home of the best sapphire,
ruby, and jade mines in the world. Her
meticulous, handcrafted designs are a
testament to her dedication to find beauty in
the ordinary and the obscure. Favoring stones
in their organic, untouched states and
incorporating materials not often associated
with jewelry, Wynn Wynn does not hesitate
to combine unexpected elements such as
acrylic and glass with diamonds, rubies and
gold. While some stones fire her imagination enough to visualize a piece on the
spot, the designer has been known to dwell upon the perfect design for her
one-of-a-kind pieces for days, months, even years.

Famous works:
 2. Tina Maristela-Ocampo

Biography:
Tina started in the industry not as a designer
but as a model. She, along with fellow models,
would help professionalize the modeling
industry in the Philippines through the
founding of the Professional Models
Association of the Philippines (PMAP),
which has already benefited today’s
generation of models. It was after her modeling
career that Tina turned to being an
entrepreneur and designer. With great
attention to detail, and getting inspiration from books and practically anything
around her, Tina has become the designer behind handbags that celebrities such
as Halle Berry, Lucy Liu and Eva Longoria have carried with them on the red
carpet. The feature in Vogue was perhaps the break Tina needed, as it opened
doors to international partnerships that have allowed her to set up stores in the
US, Europe and Asia.

Famous works:
3. Kenneth Cobonpue

Biography:
Kenneth Cobonpue, born in 1968, is an
industrial designer who has earned renown
worldwide for his signature furniture designs,
using natural materials such as rattan,
bamboo, abaca, and buri. He pursued
furniture production studies in Italy and
Germany. He returned to Cebu with mastery
in technical design.

Famous works:
4. Anne Marie Saguil

Biography:

A Filipina-American designer travelling

between the Philippine islands and the United
States, Saguil shares her passion for
craftsmanship and slow fashion through
designs that use hand embroidered techniques
and indigenous hand woven materials. Fusing
modern design and local artistry, we create
current handcrafted pieces with the aim of
providing viable sustainable livelihoods. Anne
Marie graduated from the University of
California, Davis with a degree in Apparel and
Textiles. She uses this knowledge for her
fashion labels AMARIE and Violet Vine. Both
brands’ designs have Filipino touches to them.

Famous works:
5. Mich Dulce

Biography:
Mich Dulce is a Filipina fashion designer, milliner,
corsetiere, feminist activist, actress, artist
and vocalist of bands Death By Tampon, Us-2
Evil-0 and The Male Gaze. She graduated from the
Poveda Learning Center in Quezon City, and
attended the Ateneo de Manila University where
she earned a college degree in Bachelor of Arts in
Interdisciplinary Studies: Management and
Communications Track. She worked with
professional designers like Jessica Ogden, Marjan
Pejoski and Cecile Zamora. After college she
attended a series of short Courses at the London
College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design both in London.

Famous works:
References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Amorsolo
http://www.artnet.com/artists/benedicto-cabrera/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/pacita-abad/
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Anita-Magsaysay-Ho/801F986B3E026D78/
Artworks
https://ocula.com/artists/anita-magsaysay-ho/
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https://ph.asiatatler.com/society/10-filipinas-who-have-made-a-mark-on-the-p
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