The youngest awardee to receive The National Artist award.
Napoleon Abueva
Napoleon Abueva's works used varied materials ranging from hardwood to coral and adobe.
the man behind famous artworks such as The Transfiguration at the Eternal Gardens Memorial Park, the Water Buffalo, and the bronze image of teodoro M. Kalaw found in the faced of the National Library.
Napoleon Abueva
Napoleon Abuevas year of conferment
1976
Ang kiukok's year of conferment.
2001
He is one of the most talented and energetic figures who began his flourishing career during 1960.
Ang kiukok
“imbued with nationalist fervor and sociological agenda”
Ang kiukok
Looking at Ang Kiukok's works, you will be captivated by visual intensity and also be overwhelmed by its meaning
Victorio C Edades's Year of conferment?
1976
Who is the Father of modernism in the Philippine art?
Victorio C. Edades
He was recognized as the pioneer of neorealist movement in the country.
Cesar Legaspi
As compared with Amorsolo who liked to used bright and vivid hues, his color’s were dark and gloomy.
Victorio C. Edades
Who was an extraordinary illustrator and cubist painter?
Vicente S. Manansala
NCCA depicted his working class in “rough, bold impasto strokes, and standing tall and singular in his advocacy and practice.”
Victorio C. Edades
A self-taught painter.
Hernando R. Ocampo
He made the famous masterpiece, The Madonna of the Slums which represents a mother and child from the country.
Vicente S. Manansala
He was able to create a masterpiece that “use of the geometric Fragmentation technique, weaving social comment and juxtaposing the mythical and modern into his overlapping, interacting forms with disturbing power and intensity.”
Cesar Legaspi
Most of the subjects found in the works of Edades are Filipino laborers in their everyday situations.
His art is said to have paved the way to the birth of modern art in the Philippines.
Cesar Legaspi
His painting depicted the barrio and the city together and were often characterized as ”visions of reality teetering on thy edge of abstraction."
Vicente S. Manansala
A masterpiece that represents a mother and child from the country.
The Madonna of the Slums
His works are often praised to have “provided an understanding and awareness of the harsh social realities in the country”
Hernando R. Ocampo
In Vicente S. Manansala's other canvasses such as Jeepney and Birdman, he combined the elements of provincial folk culture with the busy streets of the city.
the country’s first national artist, headed as the “ Grand Old Man of Philippine Art”
Fernando Amorsolo
Hernando R. Ocampo's works are often praised to have “provided an understanding and awareness of the harsh social realities in the country”
He used movement and bold colors in his artworks.
Hernando R. Ocampo
Most of Amorsolo’s works depicted the rich rural landscape of the Philippines.
He became famous because of his massive murals and for his outstanding depiction of historical pieces.
Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco
a minimalist and he used geometric abstract that “exemplify an idea of sublime austerity in expression form.”
Arturo “Art” R. Luz
National artist Nick Joaquin described his work as “the rapture of sensualist utterly inlove with the earth , with the Philippine sun", basically someone who was inlove with natural light.
Fernando Amorsolo
Who was a muralist from Agono Rizal.
Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco
He pioneered professionalization of art galleries that “set a prestigious influence over generation of Filipino artist”
Arturo “Art” R. Luz
both a painter and sculptor whose works aside from painting and sculpture, include graphic design, printmaking, and mask- making in hard wood which “merge the human and the animal.
J. Elizalde Navarro
has an ability to turn “fragments of historic past into vivid records of the legendary courage of the ancestors of his race.”
Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco
He pioneered professionalization of art galleries that “ set a prestigious influence over generation of Filipino artist”.
Arturo “Art” R. Luz
He represented the country at the Sao Paolo Biennale in Brazil for Sculpture.
J. Elizalde Navarro
He was named as National Artist for Visual Arts for his countless contributions in Philippine sculpture that are iconic and truly a pride of the Filipino people.
Guillermo E. Tolentino
He initiated abstract expressionism in the country.
Jose T. Joya
Who designed the medals for the Ramon Magsaysay Award and seal of Republic of the Philippines.
Guillermo E. Tolentino
Majority of his works were strongly influenced by the tropical landscapes of country’s beautiful islands.