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Overview. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the cultural agency of the Philippine government, has categorized Filipino arts as traditional and non-traditional. Each category has sub-categories. Traditional arts: [ 1] Ethnomedicine – including the arts of hilot and the arts of the albularyo and babaylans [ 3] Folk architecture ...
Fernando Amorsolo. Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972) was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," [2] he was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines. [3] He was recognized as such for his "pioneering use of impressionistic ...
Rey Paz Contreras. Sculpture of mother and child by Contreras made from discarded century-old molave hardwood, texturized stainless steel and other materials indigenous to the Philippines. Rey Paz Contreras (August 31, 1950-March 23, 2021) is a prominent Filipino sculptor working with urban refuse and environmental materials as artistic media.
Ricarte Madamba Puruganan (November 20, 1912 – January 15, 1998) was a Filipino painter. He was born in Dingras, Ilocos Norte. He is the first of six children of Honorio S. Puruganan, a musician, composer, poet and painter, and Victoria M. Puruganan, a school teacher and housewife. Puruganan is regarded as "One of the Thirteen Moderns", a ...
Saguil, Nena (1924–1994) Semper, Gromyko ( born 1985) Sillada, Danny (born 1963) Tabuena, Romeo Villalva (1921–2015) Tapaya, Rodel (born 1980) Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo, Fernando (1924–1984) Cabagay, Meljan Albert (born 1995) Categories: Lists of painters by nationality.
Manuel Baldemor is a Filipino painter, sculptor, printmaker, writer and book illustrator. He was born on March 26, 1947, in Paete, Laguna, Philippines . He is best known for his paintings on various media that depict scenes in simplified geometric forms with a folk art character. Most of his subjects in art are his hometown, its people, their ...
Vicente Silva Manansala (January 22, 1910 – August 22, 1981) was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator. [1] One of the first Abstractionists on the Philippine art scene Vicente Manansala is also credited with bridging the gap between the city and the suburbs, between the rural and cosmopolitan ways of life.
The Progress of Medicine in the Philippines comprises four oil paintings on canvas executed by National Artist Carlos V. Francisco in 1953, which were commissioned for the main entrance hall of the Philippine General Hospital in Manila. The paintings depict the advancement of medicine in the Philippines until the middle of the 20th century. [1]