INTRODUCTION of the AMERICAN CULTURE in

ARTS

FOREWORDS The 1896 Philippine Revolution paved the way to the country’s
independence from Spain. However, it became a short-lived liberty when the
Americans became the country’s new invaders. From one colonizer to another –
after more than three centuries of Spanish rule, the Americans came. They set out
to conquer the Filipinos through education and governance – the public school
system and a system of government.

IN THE FIELD OF ARTS With the arrival of the new colonial power came a
shift in art patronage – from the native ilustrados to the Americans. The new
patrons, including the tourists and foreign investors, favored landscapes, still life,
and genre themes that show the beauty of the land and its people. Portraits were
still favored by the public officials, usually depicting them in dignified poses.
There from, the American Colonization brought high influence to the major
Filipino art forms: paintings, sculptures and architectures.

PAINTING
Here goes the timeline of the Philippine paintings under American colonization.

(1869 – 1937) was the first painter of note

for the 20th century. He was noted for his
realistic portraits, genre, and landscapes in
subdued colors.
Don Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto was a Filipino
painter. He was the uncle and mentor to the
Philippines' national artist in painting,
Fernando Amorsolo, and to his brother
Pablo. He is regarded as a "master of genre"
in Philippine art.
 SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS OF
Don Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto

Planting Rice Remembrance of the Villa Borghese

 Young Filipina
Work of art

(1892 – 1972). His paintings, bursting with

yellow-orange and golden sunlight, captured
the Philippine landscape in all its glory.
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was a portraitist
and painter of rural Philippine landscapes.
Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of
Philippine Art," he was the first-ever to be
recognized as a National Artist of the
Philippines.

Fernando Cueto Amorsolo

SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS

OF
Dalagang Bukid 1958 Making of the Philippine Flag
By Fernando Amorsolo By Fernando Amorsolo

Jorge Pineda (1879 - 1946) was active/lived in

Philippines. Jorge Pineda is known for Figure,
Philippine genre painting, illustration. Jorge
Pineda was considered the leading illustrator of
his time, which he owed to having been
mentored by Teodoro Buenaventura.

Jorge Pineda

SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS

OF
Jorge Pineda
 Sungkaan Las Buyeras

Ireneo L. Miranda (1896-1964) belonged to the

classical realist school that promoted the classical
canons of beauty, harmony, and proportion from
the 1920s to the 1940s. While his contemporaries
worked primarily with oil, Miranda mastered the
watercolor medium. He was also an illustrator and
cartoonist.

Ireneo L. Miranda

SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS

OF

Tausug Princess PORTRAIT OF A

LADY
 1904 - 1967. Dominador Castañeda was a
Filipino Asian Modern & Contemporary
painter who was born in 1904. Dominador
Castañeda's work has been offered at auction
multiple times, with realized prices ranging
from 136 USD to 14,562 USD, depending on
the size and medium of the artwork. Well
know for landscapes rendered in cool tone of
white and blue.

Dominador Castañeda

SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS

OF
Dominador Castañeda

The doomed family Death march

 Pablo Cueto Amorsolo was a Filipino painter.
He was the younger brother of the Philippine
National Artist Fernando Amorsolo.
In the 1920’s, several young painters were
starting to question the Amorsolo school style
that became the standard for painting.

Pablo Cueto Amorsolo

SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS

OF

Fruit Vendor Limpia Botas

Victorio Candido Edades was a Filipino painter. He
led the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns, who
engaged their classical compatriots in heated
debate over the nature and function of art. He was
named a National Artist in 1976. The history names
Victorio Edades as “the father of Modern
Philippine art".

Victorio Candido Edades

 The radical implications of Conceptualism – that anything can be art and that an
artist need not have physically constructed a work to have created it – are why it
remains so fertile, and undoubtedly, controversial nowadays

CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO, (1913 –

1969), Angono-based painter, depicted
Philippine history in his “History of Manila”
mural at the Manila City Hall. His trademark
fluid lines and brilliant colors filled up the
entire pictorial space of the mural, defying the
rules of linear perspective set by the local
academy.
SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS OF
CARLOS “BOTONG” CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO
FRANCISCO

First Mass in the Philippines

 Galo B. Ocampo was a Philippine artist. He was also the
first Filipino to study heraldry and was a member of the
International Institute of Genealogy and Heraldry in
Madrid. Ocampo was born in Santa Rita, Pampanga. In
1929, he studied Fine Arts at the University of the
Philippines in Manila.

Galo B. Ocampo

A modernist painter, he painted works such as the "Moro Dancer" and the "Igorot
Dance". Among his paintings, the "Brown Madonna" garnered attention in 1938
because of its depiction of Jesus and Mary as non-Caucasian, brown Filipinos; It was
also said to be "flat and two-dimensional".

DIOSDADO LORENZO (1906 – 1984), In 1935, he had

an exhibition of works with “moderate distortions” at the
Philippine Columbian Club. His choice of subject matter
was conservative – landscapes, nipa huts, and women.
But Lorenzo discarded the idealized style of Amorsolo.

SOME FAMOUS ART WORKS OF

DIOSDADO LORENZO DIOSDADO LORENZO

Mother and Child Barrio Scene with Carabaos, 1966

BRIDGEWAY TO MODERNISM Lorenzo, a graduate of the U.P. School of
Fine Arts, continued to paint traditional subjects done in the modernist style of
strong, vigorous brushstrokes, using bright oranges and greens. Surprisingly, some
of his works were sold. The public now was slowly starting to accept
MODERNISM.

SCULPTURE

GUILLERMO TOLENTINO (1890-1976)

Trained in the classical style in Rome, Tolentino’s
masterpieces include the Oblation in the
University of the Philippines and the Bonifacio
Monument in Caloocan.

HIS BEST-KNOWN WORKS INCLUDE

GUILLERMO TOLENTINO

The Oblation is a concrete statue by

Philippine National Artist Guillermo
Tolentino which serves as the iconic
symbol of the University of the
Philippines. It depicts a man facing
upward with arms outstretched,
symbolizing selfless offering of oneself
to his union.
 ANASTACIO CAEDO Anastacio Tanchauco Caedo (14 August
1907 – 12 May 1990). His style of sculpture was classical realist
in the tradition of his mentor, Guillermo Tolentino.He produced
numerous commissioned representati onal sculptures mainly
monuments of national heroes and successful Filipino
politicians, businessmen, and educators. Caedo is also notable
for having refused the honor of being awarded a National Artist
of the Philippines

ANASTACIO

HIS BEST-KNOWN WORKS INCLUDE

ANASTACIO CAEDO

Two sculptures flank the steps leading to the museum

entrance. First is Rajah Sulayman, attributed to
Anastacio Caedo and which once used to guard the
Vargas residence, a concrete cast interpretation of the
leader of sixteenth-century Manila. The other is Pio
Abad’s figurative sculpture, Malakas at Maganda. The
sculpture is based on the eponymous sculpture by
Anastacio Caedo, which is part of the Vargas
collection; Caedo’s sculpture is a trophy presented to
Mr Vargas, who won the Sports Leadership Award of
the Year in 1974.
 NAPOLEON ABUEVA Abueva goes against the
standards, set by his teacher, Guillermo Tolentino.
Working with a variety of materials and techniques,
Abueva integrated the sculptural and functional
qualities in his works. He produced highly stylized,
simplified, and eventually abstract works under the
influence of Moore and Brancusi. His works
sometimes contain elements of eroticism, fun, wit,
and playfulness.

HIS BEST-KNOWN WORKS

INCLUDE

The Nine Muses ABUEVA’S WORKS His Kaganapan

shows a woman in the height of her
Found in UP Diliman’s Hardin ng mga
pregnancy. He did away with the traditional,
Diwata, Abueva’s “Siyam na Diwata ng
idealized, voluptuous muse of classicism and
Sining” represents the 9 muses:
replaced it with the beauty of a woman
architecture, dance, film, literature, music,
bearing a child.
painting, photography, sculpture, and
theater.