Painting

• Father Antonio Sedeño sought out Chinese artisans to teach painting as decorations to the newly-built churches


  Early 1580's
• Parian


  Community outside Intramuros where Chinese artisans lived
• Early native painting were faulty in depicting the human figures, for there is no Asian tradition behind the making of realistic human figures as there is in Western Art
• Jose Loden, Tomas Nazario, and Miguel delos Reyes were commissioned to paint the flora and fauna that abound in the Philippine soil

  1786
• Tipos del pais


  Secular subject matter that flourished in the 19th century, illustrated the different inhabitants of the archipelago showing their social status and occupation
• Damian Domingo


  The most prominent painter who worked in the tipos del pais style, father of Philippine painting, one of the teachers in the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura
• Academia de Dibujo y Pintura


  Where Father Agustin Saez and Lorenzo studied and were trained
• Portraiture


  Introduced during this time, Antonio Malantic and Justiniano Asuncion were known as portrait masters
• Local landscape and genre painting

  • Lorenzo Guerero's The Fruit Vendor, Simon Flores's Feeding the Chicken, Telesforo Sucgang's The Beggar, Felipe Roxas' Antipolo Church
• Juan Luna and Felix Resureccion Hidalgo


  Studied and had their training abroad, specifically at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, labeled by Rizal himself as geniuses after winning first and second in the Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid, Spain
• Luna also painted Tampuhan which was done in a semi-impressionist style