ROMEO V.

TABUENA
GROUP 3
Alinsod, Betito, Esguerra. Casacop, Catapang, Diestro
 Born on August 22, 1921 in Iloilo City
Died on October 15, 2015 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

began his career with several exhibits of drawings and

watercolors at the Philippine Art Gallery in 1949.

1962 - "further elevated the status of Philippine

painting in the world of contemporary art"

served as the official artist and art commissioner from

the Philippines at the Eighth São Paulo Art Biennial in
1965.

Filipiniana- one of his most important works.

Filipino painter & commissioned in 2007, by the Philippine Embassy in
Washington, D.C.
printmaker
REASONS WHY ROMEO TABUENA IS
CONSIDERED AS A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

Mexican masters
His aesthetic is often greatly inspired and
He is known for his influenced Tabuena in
one inspired by Cubism,
watercolors, at times his management of
with a fractal-like
in a vertical format, acrylics and styles. He
geometric patterning synchronized these
influenced by
imposed on influential currents
Chinese painting.
recognizable forms. into his own unique
style. (Galeria Nudo).
 OTHER INFO:

Tabuena’s style sometimes approaches Expressionism,

especially in such a work as Childbirth.

A later series consists of heads done in a

monochromatic style with Cubist influence
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