Famous Filipino

Painters and
Composers
 Famous
Filipino Painters

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Felix Resurrection Hidalgo

(1855- 1913)
 Hidalgo won a silver medal for his entry in
large canvas, Christian Virgins Exposed to the
Populace ( Las Virgence Christianas Expuestas al
Populacho) at the Madrid Exposition of fine art.
 After the 1984 Madrid Exposition, he set up in
Paris to serve a quieter life.
 In Paris, he painted Charon’s Boat and Oedipus
and Antigone.
 Sunrise ( 1985) revealed his ingenuity in painting
landscape and seascape.

 The Artist’s Mother (1888) was one of the two

portraits he did for his mother in Paris.

 Hidalgo returned to Manila in 1912 for a visit but

returned to Paris despite the pleas of his ailing
mother.

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Juan Luna (1857-1899)
 After he won a gold medal in 1984 Madrid
Exposition, Juan Luna moved to Paris and
stayed in an apartment to close to the
Hidalgo’s.
 Before his marriage to Maria de la Paz Pardo de
Tavera he visited The Hague and the seacoast of
Scheveningen.
 The Dream of Love- a sensuous portrait of his sleeping wife Paz,
whom he suspected of infidelity and shot to death in a jealous rage in
1872, and the celebrated Tampuhan , which he painted on his return
to the Philippines.
 Dream
Dreamofof
Love Spoliarium
Love Spoliarium

Tampuhan
Tampuhan
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 The Lady with Guitar was painted shortly
after he was granted pardon by Alfonso
XIII for his involvement in the Philippine
Revolution.

 Upon his return to the Philippines in 1894,

after an absence of 17 years, He painted
House by a Narrow Road, one of the
several views of Marikina.

 He died in Hong Kong at the age of 41.

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 Fernando Amorsolo
(1892 – 1972)
 Fernando Amorsolo was a National Artist
Awardee. In his golden years (1920-1945), he
reaped a various honor.
 He went to Madrid in 1917 to study museum classics after receiving a
scholarship grand from a rich businessman named Enrique Zobel.
 His first portrait upon to return to Manila was that of his wife Salud.
 He exhibited 40 of his genres and landscapes at the Art Center of
New York in 1925.

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  In 1939, he submitted his entry
Afternoon Meal of the Rice Workers at
the New York World’s Fair where he was
acclaimed the best by popular vote.
 Amorsolo was also appointed Director of
the School of Fine Arts of the University
of the Philippines.
 He also did splendid illustration work in
Graphics, Liwayway, Sunday Tribune,
tagalog novels such;
a) Madaling Araw
b) Parusa ng Bayan
 And Posters and Brochures.

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  He painted acclaimed masterpieces like;

3. Antipolo
1. The Blind Man 2. 4.
The BurningBukid
Dalagang of Manila

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 Vicente Manansala
(1910-1981)
 Vicente Manansala was one of the most popular
progressive artist in the country.
 He was a former student of Cubist Fernand Leger and was
respected by his peers because of the intellectual underpinnings
of his art.
 Before his death, he painted Give Me Diary, a glimpse of his kind
of cubism, in which some sides of objects are sharply cut into
curved or angular form to catch to light vibrantly.
 He was given a posthumous recognition as National Artist in 1982.

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Carlos “Botong” V.
Francisco
(1912-1969)
 Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco was one of the best mural artist the
country has ever had. In his paintings, he featured Filipino living in
provincial towns and barrios.
 He shown them working on the field, going about their daily chores,
eating, relaxing, worshipping, plantings he did were not only on
Christian lowlanders but on Muslims and other cultural communities.
 The turning point of Botong’s painting career was winning the first
prize at the First competition of the Art Association of the Philippine
in 1948.
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 His entry was Kaingin.

 Filipino Struggles Through History, a mural

gracing the walls of Manila City Hall, was one
of his major works.

 He stayed permanently in Angono where he

became the first major regional artist.

 In Angono, he refined the style he had made

his own, his personal version of Post-
Impression grafted into the Philippine context.

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Mauro Malang Santos
(1928)
Mother and children Fruit Vendor
Alchetron
 Maura Mlang Santos was an illustrator- cartoonist for the
Manila Chronicle and of comic strip, Kosme the Cop
(retired) and Chain Gang Charlie.
 in the 1960’s, he emerge as a serious artist with a knack in
abstract painting.

 His illustration of Ang Kiukok formed the basis of style in its

enumeration of images, rage of warm colors, and evocation of
joyous parochialism.

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 Jose Joya (1931-1995)
 Jose Joya graduated as a Magna Cum Laude at the
University of the Philippines in 1953. He was also a
recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship at the Cranbrook
Academy of Art in 1957.
 By the late 1950’s, he had immersed himself on new idioms of
contemporary art through the print media and regular exhibitions at the
Philippine Art Gallery.

 As his style evolve, he was later identified as serious artist.

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 Cadmium Red Square

 After his return from the Venice Biennale, Joya

painted few works with dramatic lines.

 In the 1960’s, he started to apply paint more

thinly on canvas; the form grew increasingly
geometric with circle as the main motifs.

 Cadmium Red Square and Binhi – both created

in 1971, represented Joya’s shift to decorative
painting – more dramatic in style and the visual
tension visible.

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 Col. Antonio Buenaventura obtained a Teacher’s Diploma in
Composition and Conducting from the University of the
Philippines and later on became a faculty member of the UP
Conservatory of Music.

 In 1937, he was commissioned into the military service and

later became music instructor and band conductor of the PMA
in Baguio City.
 He later on recognized the world famous Philippine
Constabulary Band and appointed as assistant conductor of
Manila Symphony Orchestra.

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 He also organized the UP Junior Orchestra and the UE Student
Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the UP President’s
Committee on Folk Songs and Dances.

 Col. Buenaventura composed short piano pieces, hymns and songs,

pieces for the band, chamber music, chorus and orchestra, music
pieces, and theater music.
 Lucrecia R. Kasilag obtained a Music Teacher’s
Diploma major in Piano from St. Scholastica’s College
in 1939 and Bachelor of Music major in piano from the
Philippine Women’s University in 1949.

 She was a scholarship grantee of Fulbright Foundation at the

Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester in New York,
where she finished a Master of Music degree major in theory
and minor in composition.

 She later became the administrator of Cultural Center of the

Philippines.
 Felipe Padilla de Leon was a composer, conductor,
and former student of Col. Buenaventura at the UP
Conservatory of Music.

 After graduation in 1939, he was appointed assistant instructor at

the UP Department of Science and Composition where he taught
history and music subjects.

 He became a technical assistant on cultural affairs in the Office of

the President of the Philippines.
 He was President of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors,
and Publishers; President of the Pambansang Samahan ng
mga Banda sa Pilipinas and the Diwa ng Nuweba Esiha; trustee
of the Music promotion Foundation of the Philippines; and
director of the SONGFEST Philippines and the Felin Institute of
the Philippines.
 Antonio Molina, born in 1894, was a faculty member
of the UP Conservatory of Music where the taught
harmony, composition, and music history as well as
violoncello.

 He was a conductor in the concert stage of various schools, church

choirs, orchestras, band, and rondallas. He composed the zarzuela
Ate Maria and Hatinggabi.

 Molina was a member of the UP President’s Committee on Filipino

Folksongs of the Conservatory Of Music.
 Aside from a being a soloist and composers, he also received
honors as a conductor of the Monserrat Philharmonic Band, the
Yellow Taxi Orchestra, and Yellow Taxi Rondalla and the operas
Madame Butterfly, La Giaconda, La Fuerza del Destino, and
Cavalleria Rusticana.

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 Lucio D. San Pedro was born in 1913. He
married Gertrudes Diaz with whom he had 5
children.
 Dueing his graduation in Grade VII, played the
Poet and Peasant overture on the banjo.
 He started composing songs in college and conducted the UP ROTC
Band. He was assistant conductor and late, conductor of Musical
Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra and musical presented at the
Metropolitan Theater.

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 He won many prizes for his works.

 He was connected with major conservatories in the country

and wrote sacred and secular vocal music, overtures,
tones, poems, symphonic poems, and quartets.

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