Hernando Ruiz Ocampo
OCAMPO HERNANDO RUIZ aka H.R.b. Santa Cruz, Manila 28 Apr 1911 d.Caloocan City, 28 Dec 1978. The son of Emilio Ocampo and Delfina Ruiz. He married Irene Illovato in 1932 and remarried again when his first wife died in 1945, his second wife is Cresencia Valenzuela. He became a national artist in painting.
He started off as a writer in English and became one of the organizers of the Veronicans, a group of young minds which included Francisco Arcellana, Estrella Alfon and etc. He was also a leading member of the pre-war Thirteen Moderns that charted the course of modern art in the Philippines and founded in 1938. With Vicente Manansala and Cesar Legaspi, he formed the triumvirate of neo-realists. He was also a leading member of the Saturday group of artists which met regularly at the Taza De Oro.
Genesis, 1969
Man and Carabao
The Contrast
Mother and Child
Ocampo's acknowledged work Genesis served as the basis of the curtain design of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and some of his artworks are Ina ng Balon, Calvary, Slum Dwellers, Nude with Candle and Flower, man and Carabao, Angel's Kiss, Palayok at Kalan, Ancestors, Isda at Mangga , The Resurrection, Fifty-three "Q", Backdrop and Fiesta.
Cesar Legaspi
CESAR LEGASPI TORRENTE b. Tondo, 2 April 1917. d. Manila, 7 April 1994. The son of Manuel Legaspi and Rosario Torrente. He got married with VitalianaKaligdan and they were blessed with five children. VitalianaKaligdan, his wife was one of the gifted proponent of Filipino popular music. Legaspi, became a national artist in visual arts.
Cesar, together with H.R. Ocampo pioneered the "Neo-Realist" of the country. He refined the Cubism in the Philippine context and that's one of a couple of things which made him a renowned artist in this era. He was also part of the so-called "Thirteen Moderns" and eventually in "Neo-Realists".
Legaspi's distinctive style is making use of geometric fragmentation technique, weaving social comment and juxtaposing the mythical and modern into his overlapping, interacting form with disturbing power and intensity.
Cobancheros, 1954
Morning Dance
Gadget
Some of his works include: Gadget I, Gadgets II, Diggers, Idols of the Third Eye, Dacade, Ovary, Flora and Fauna, Triptych, Flight, Bayanihan, Struggle, Avenging Figure, Turning Point, Peace, The Survivor, The Ritual.
Fernando Amorsolo
FERNAND AMORSOLO Y CUETO b. Paco, Manila, 30 May 1892 d. Quezon City, 24 April 1972. The son of Perdo Amorsolo and Bonifacia Cueto. At age 13, he was apprenticed to Fabian De la Rosa, his mother's first cousin. Amorsolo's first commercial success came when he sold water color postcards for 10 centavos each and by that time he was already helping his family with his artworks.
Deference of a Filipina Woman's Honour, 1945
(A representation of World War I)
The Making of the Philippine Flag
Man with a chicken, 1929
Fruit Gatherer, 1950
Fernando's "Golden Period" (1915-1940) started after when he idealized the treatment of Philippine genre and landscape subjects which he got from his instructor (De la Rosa). His best-known painting feature peasants in colorful customs, scenes of rice planting and harvesting, genre and society portraits, and sensual female bathers.
Some of his works are:
Afternoon Meals of the Workers, Babaeng nagbabasa, The Mestiza, Bataan, Corner of hell, Dalagang Bukid and etc.
Carlos Francisco
CARLOS MODESTO VILLALUZ FRANCISCO. aka Botong b. Rizal, 4 November 1914 d. Angono, Rizal, 31 March, 1969. The son of Felipe Francisco and Maria Villaluz. Together with H.R. Ocampo and and C. Legaspi, he was also part of the "Thirteen Moderns". And a national artist for painting.
Carlos studied at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts and has taught at the University of Santo Tomas concurrently working as the scripwriter in a film-making with Miguel Conde for "Ghenghis Khan, Putol na Kampilan" (Broken Sword) and "Tatlong Labuyo," (Three Wild Roosters) and he also did costume designing for "Romeo at Julieta" (Romeo and Juliet) also for "Prinsipe Tenoso," (Prince Tenoso) "Ibong Adarna" (Adarna Bird), "Sietes Infantes de Lara" and the Juan Tamad series.
Rizal's Execution
Harana
Tinikling
Francisco's works usually depict historical events and social issues as well as the Philippine culture , itself as shown in the above works.
His works include Magpupukot, Portrait of Purita, The Invasion of Limahong, Sandugo, Bayanihan sa Bukid, First Mass of Limasawa, The Martyrdom of Rizal and Fiesta.
Guillermo Tolentino
GUILLERMO ESTRELLA TOLENTINO. b. Malolos, 24 July 1890. d. Quezon City, 12 July 1976. He was named National Artist in Sculpture in 1973 and is also considered as the "Father Of Philippine Arts" because of his exemplary works such as the UP Oblation which now became the symbol of freedom at the campus after being appointed as a professor at University of the Philippines.
Apart from that he also sculpted the Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan as an enduring symbol of the Filipino's cry for freedom and the bronze figure of President Quezon.
UP Oblation
Manuel Quezon
Filipinas in Bondage
Tolentino's other works include: Venus, Alma Mater statue of the University of the East, marble statue of Ramon Magsaysay and did the design for the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.
Ibn Saud Salipsayin Ahmad
IBN SAUD SALIPSAYIN AHMAD aka Saud Ahmed. He's currently living now a "padyak" away from the bus terminal of Kabasalan in Zamboanga Sibugay. Saud Ahmed, being the pride of Sibugay receives a full support from the provincial government of Mindanao which has been pushing for the conferment of a national artist award for him.
Most of his works are already sold even before they are finished. Some of his clients were Tingting Cojungco and former first lady Ming Ramos.
His artworks are made using watercolors and he calls his style subtraction or by putting first an initial brown water color and then rinsing apart of it using brush dipped in water and will start erasing the paint drawing lines and patterns and layering two colors on his work.
The Muslim Woman
Eric de Guia
ERIC DE GUIA aka Kidlat Tahimik. b. Benguet, Baguio City, 3 October 1942. Married to his wife Katrin, and blessed with three children who are all into arts. Katrin is a writer; his son Kidlat de Guia is a television and a film director; son Kawayan de Guia is a painter, and yougest Kabunyan is also into painting.
He's a director and an actor whose films are commonly associated through their critiques of neocolonialism with the Third Cinema movement although he has worked for the Organization for Economic cooperation and Development in Paris in 1968, he left it to sell memorabilia at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Not long after, rather than returning back home he joined an artists' commune in Munich and attracted the attention of Werner Herzog, who cast him in a small part in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974). Under Herzog's tutelage, he took up film making and premiered The Perfumed Nightmare at the Berlin film festival. The film quickly dominated the world that time and championed in the US by Francis Ford Coppola and Susan Sontag.
From that day onwards, Kidlat has created a series of documentaries and a fiction film, all of which demonstrated his passion and love of wordplay and his ability to blend politics and the imagination in surprising and not typical ways.
Imelda Cajipe Endaya
IMELDA CAJIPE ENDAYA. She is a natural born Filipino artist who took a big leap into the Filipino history and society through arts. With her artworks and new perspective viewing the world, she opened the eyes of her fellow countrymen regarding its conflicts and changes that took place in it.
She started contributing in this industry in the Philippines before the colonial period. She has been clustered along the themes of cultural identity, gender, race, nation, migration. displacement and globalization.
A principal theme in Cajipe-Endaya's work is Filipina migrant labor in which in her approach is intertwined with continuing search with the Filipino identity.
Here are some of her works :
Babaylan Philippines
Tandang Sora's Alter Ego
Musmos, 1990
Xyza Bacani
XYZA BACANI. A domestic worker turned photographer in Hong Kong. She was known for her black and white pictures of the street life in Hong Kong. For a decade stay in the place she was able to raise the awareness as to what really is happening in what we call the "happiest place in the world" which is Hong Kong especially regarding on human rights issues and under reported cases.
She didn't just captured any random pictures in the street but she has also captured the world's attention too, drawing it all on her. And now her pictures are voicing the grief of the people in the street without being afraid of what may happen to them. Some of her exemplary works are now surrounding in the social media and even had herself get invited for left and right interviews and get featured such as in New York Times, CNN and etc.
