CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE ARTS
FROM THE REGIONS
 THE WHO ?

FERNANDO AMORSOLO
BRENDA FAJARDO
 PHILIPPINE
CONTEMPORARY
ARTISTS
LESSON OBJECTIVES:
A. Describe the role of the
Filipino Artists.
B. Clarify the significance of
the Filipino Women Artists
C. Explain the role of PETA as
people's theater
.
THE FILIPINO ARTIST
NICOMEDE
S “NICK”
MARQUEZ
JOAQUIN
 ABOUT NICK JOAQUIN
 was a Filipino writer and journalist best known for
his short stories and novels in the English language.
 He has been considered one of the most important
Filipino writers, along with José Rizal and Claro M.
Recto. Unlike Rizal and Recto, whose works were
written in Spanish, Joaquin's major works were
written in English despite being a native Spanish
speaker.
also become an advocate for what he
believes in. He creates an artistic
controversy, thereby becoming an agent
of change.

Become social critic, exposing the

inequalities of life, the effects of
urbanization, globalization, and
neocolonialism.
FERNANDO
AMORSOLO
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
UNDER THE MANGO TREE (1935) – OIL
ON CANVAS
As a rule, the Filipino
artist’s role is four-fold:
1. The Personal - the artist’s expresses what he
or she feels.
2. The Social – the artist’s expresses what he or
she sees around him or her.
3. The Physical – the artist finds a need to
create something useful but also pleasing to
look at.

Examples are the burnay, or clay pottery, of the

Ilocos region and the banig, or woven mats, of the
Visayas and Mindanao regions.
4. The immaterial - the artist gives form to the
immaterial, the hidden truths of universe and
spiritual force that inhabits the world. Because of
these roles, the artist is able to refine us and
elevate our sense of what is beautiful and sublime.
THE FILIPINA ARTIST
BRENDA
FAJARD
O
• Philippine painter and graphic artist.

• A storyteller, narrating everyday life

of extraordinary events; presenting
cultures in different lights; and
recording and preserving history for
future generations to see.
PAGBABAGO NG DIWA
The world of art has been dominated by men ever since
the beginning of history. In the early years of Philippine
modern art, the 1950s, only a few notable women were
able to find access into this male- dominated enclave:
Anita Magsaysay-Ho and Nena Saguil, both painters;
Lyd Arguilla, the founder of Philippine Art Gallery,
which is the first official meetingplace of artists; and
Purita Kalaw Ledesma, the founder of the Art
Association of the Philippines.
ANITA MAGSAYSAY-HO
- was a Filipino painter best known
for her Social Realist and post-Cubist
portrayals of Filipino life and culture,
notably and frequently portraying
groups of women engaged in labor. Born
on May 25, 1914 in Manila, the
Philippines,Magsaysay-Ho studied
under Fernando Amorsolo at the
University of the Philippines' School of
Fine Arts
• is a pioneer for Filipino abstract art
as seen in her notable works
• Her works often centered around
geometric shapes symbolizing the
universe at large or at a
microscopic level, reflecting her
interest in mysticism. Her portfolio
is often categorized into the Manila
works, which were about her
homeland, and the Paris works,
where she experimented with
cubism, impressionism and
surrealism. NENA SAGUIL
POWER ROOM
(1953)
OIL ON
CANVAS
LANDSCAPE OF THE MIND
(1969)
ILLUMINATION II (1977)
 - Writer and painter
- known as the founder of one of
the first galleries of modern art in
the Philippines.
- She was a Filipino Asian Modern
& Contemporary artist who was
born in 1913.
 - She was a seminal figure in Philippine
Art. She was an artist and a writer, a
curator and cultural worker, a patroness
and collector.

- She was the founder and the first

president of the longest surviving art
organization in the country, the Art
Association of the Philippines (AAP),
established in 1948 after the end of the
Second World War.

- Without her, modern Filipno artists and

PURITA KALAW-LEDESMA
their provocative artwork would have been
forgotten. Meet Purita Kalaw-Ledesma:
 WOMAN ARTISTS HAVE BECOME VISIBLE BECAUSE OF
THE INITIAL STEPS OF THREE WOMEN GRAPHIC
ARTISTS IN THE 1970S AND 1980S

IMELDA CAJIPE-ENDAYA BRENDA V. FAJARDO OFELIA GELVEZON-TEQUI

The three artists have entered the art
scene and changed the landscape from
then on. They have started as printmakers
but later evolved their own genres, except
for France-based Gelvezon-Tequi, who
remained as a printmaker and a painter.
Her works are a series of Philippine
madonnas.
 •A mixed-media
artist,curator, writer,
and organizer.

• Imelda Cajipe-
Endaya is also an
active women’s right
IMELDA CAJIPE-ENDAYA advocate.
- a doctor in Philippine Studies and
Professor Emerita in the University of the
Philippines
- a multi-awarded artist, educator, and
cultural worker.
- Pen and acrylic

FAJARDO AWARDS

2012 Gawad CCP para sa Sining Biswal

CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts in
1999.
Her nationalistic themes; Philippine
folklore,legends, and mythology. BRENDA
FAJARDO
ABSTRACTION
1. What is the role of the Filipino artist
in our country ?
2. Why is that Philippine Contemporary
Artists are significant in our culture?
APPLICATION
INSTRUCTION:
The students will be assigned from
different areas of arts and search about it's
significance and filipino artists who
contributed in that art form.