Painting

• Art Association of the Philippines and Philippine Art Gallery established

  1950s
• It was during the post-war period that neo-realist paintings were produced
• Paintings classified as neo-realist


  • Sari Manok
  • Nude with Candle Flower (1948) of Hernando Ocampo
  • Wash Lines
  • Mujer (1956) of Romeo Tabuena
  • Ecce Homo (1953) of Galo Ocampo
• Most prominent artists during this period

  • Vicente Manansala
  • Carlos Francisco
• Paintings by Vicente Manansala

  • Madonna of the Slums (1950)
  • Jeepneys (1951)
• Paintings by Carlos Francisco

  • Sungka Players
• Artists began ramifying and refining modernist tendencies

  Late 1950s and early 1960s
• Paintings by artists refining modernist tendencies

  • The Cyclists (1959) by Arturo Rogerio Luz
  • Cityscape (1963) by Arturo Rogerio Luz
  • Violent Flowers (1958) by Federico Aguilar Alcuaz
  • Linear 6 (1965) by Lee Aguinaldo
• Prominent artist during this period

  • Anita Magsaysay-Ho with her painting Sheaves (1958)
• Painting by Ang Kiukok


  • Crucifix V (1969)
• International art movements like minimalism, hard and soft-edgism, color schoolism, abstract expressionism, and constructivism can be reflected in the works of Filipino artists during the middle of 1960s and into the 1970s
• Paintings reflecting international art movements

  • Blue Widow (1965) by Roberto Chabet
  • Homage to My Country (1968) by Jaime de Guzman
  • No Time for Love (1970) by Mars Galang
  • Bilo-bilo (1971) by Manuel Baldemor
• Because of the influences of international art movements, there have been artists who begun to question the Filipino in arts
• Carmen Guerrero Nakpil has already described Philippine painting with wanton cosmopolitanism that may have resulted to the hybridization of such form of art as well as that of the Philippine culture

  As early as the 1950s
• Post-war or modern artists who continued to search for a Filipino identity in painting

  • Manuel Baldemor
  • Benedicto Cabrera
  • Angelito Antonio
  • Abdulmari Imao
• These artists sought the exploration of indigenous motifs