Modern Art in the Philippines

Art Before Modernism

Shift from exclusive control of the Catholic Church to an emerging economic class Dominace of Amorsolo School

Fernando Amorsolo, Maiden w/ Lanzones, 1924

Juan Luna
Manifested an incipient modernism in his informal, more personal works

Juan Luna, Ensuenos de Amor, 1886

Victorio Edades
Posed the challenge of Modernism The terrible and the ugly vs. the beautiful and harmonious Quest for national identity in art Influence of Gaugin

The Builders, 1928

The Sketch, 1928

1930-39

Galo Ocampo, Brown Madonna, 1938

The Triumvirate of Modern Art

Victorio Edades Carlos Botong Francisco Galo B. Ocampo

The 13 Moderns
Original 3 + Diosdado Lorenzo Vicente Manansala Cesar Legaspi Anita Magsaysay- Ho Hernando R. Ocampo Ricarte Puruganan

Demetrio Diego Bonifacio Cristobal Jose Pardo Arsenio Capili

Neo Realists
Vicente Manansala, Cesar Legaspi, and Tabuena Developed the style of transparent cubism

1942-49

new creative forces

Art Association Philippines (AAP); Purita Kalaw-Ledesma, 1948 Philippine Art Gallery (PAG); Lydia Villanueva Arguilla, 1951 Contemporary Art Gallery; Manuel Rodriguez Sr., 1954

AAP
Conservative and Modern categories

1950-59

Vicente Manansala, Madonna of the Slums, 1950s

Arturo Luz, Carnival Forms II, 1956

First Exhibition of Non-Objective Art

1953 Curated by Magtanggol Asa, Held at Philippine Art Gallery Featured eleven artists inc: Hernando Ruiz Ocampo, Fernando Zobel, Lee Aguinaldo, and Nena Saguil, Constancio Bernardo, and Jose Joya

David Cortez Medalla

Avant-garde artist Bubble Machine

David Medalla, Bubble Machine

1960-69

Expressionists
Ang Kiukok Jaime de Guzman Danilo Dalena

Ang Kiukok, Still Life with Fish, 1965

Ben Cabrera (BENCAB)

Low-key but intellectually experimental style Images of the Filipino in prints and watercolors Inspired by old turn-of-the-century photographs Subtle, ironic comments on the colonial relationship and the enigma of national identity

Soldiers, (Heroes of the Past),

Genre Paintings
Norma Belleza Angelito Antonio Antonio Austria Mario Parial Manuel Baldemor

Vanishing Scene
Paintings which rendered old churches, landmarks, and ancestral houses, in meticulous detail Pursued by Al Perez and Elmer Gernale Also in Lino Severino but through tonal gradations in monochromatic style

artists who worked in developing their own idioms

Lao Lianben Augusto Albor Mars Galang Glenn Bautista Justin Nuyda Philip Victor

Ethnic themes
Abdulmari Imao (muslim painter and sculptor)

Printmaking
Popularized by Manuel Rodriguez Sr. Philippine Association of Printmakers (PAP) Among these artists were: Virgilio Aviado, Imelda Cajipe- Endaya, Brenda Fajardo, Ofelia Galvezon-Tequi, and Fil de la Cruz

Brenda Fajardo

Notable sculptors
Lamberto Hechenova Virginia Ty- Navarro J. Elizalde Navarro Eduardo Castrillo Solomon Saprid Ramon Orlina

1970-79

Social Realism
Emerged in the mid 70s Kaisahan Social Realist group: Pablo Baens Santos, Edgar Fernandez, Papo de Asis, Orlando Castillo, Antipas Delotavo, Renato Habulan, Neil Doloricon, Al Manrique, and Jose Tence Ruiz

Regional artists
Angono Jose Blanco Vicente Reyes Nemesio Miranda, Jr. Tanay Tam Austria Martin Catolos

Cebu Mendoza brothers Godofredo Teofilo and Sofronio Gamaliel Subang

1980-1990

Themes on women
Imelda Cajipe- Endaya Brenda Fajardo Ofelia Gelvezon- Tequi

Imelda Cajipe-Endaya, Musmos, 1990

Salingpusa Group
Emmanuel Garibay, Antonio Leano, Noel Manalo and Ferdinand Montemayor Formed sanggawa which specialized on socio-political murals The Second Coming

Salingpusa, Karnabal, 1992

Black Artists in Asia (BAA)

Charlie Co, Nunelucio Alvarado, and Norberto Roldan

Charlie Co, Chair Chronicles, 2010

Artists working in indegenous materials

Junyee Santiago Bose Roberto Villanueva

Junyee, Pintado

Installation artists
Junyee Bose Villanueva Alan Rivera

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