Famous Filipino Artist: Lamberto Vera Avellana was born on February 12, 1915 and died April 25, 1991. Lamberto V. Avellana was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Lamberto V. Avellana's films such as Anak Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim. In 1976, Lamberto V. Avellana was named by President Ferdinand Marcos as the very first National Artist of the Philippines for Film. While Lamberto V. Avellana remains an important figure in Filipino cinema, his reputation as a film director has since been eclipsed by the next wave of Filipino film directors who emerged in the 1970s, such as Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.
Lamberto V. Avellana made his film debut with Sakay in 1939, a biopic on the early 20th century Filipino revolutionary Macario Sakay. The film was an immediate sensation, particularly distinguished for its realism atypical of Filipino cinema. The treatment of the subject remains a source of some controversy today. Avellana's Sakay toed the line with the American-fostered perception of Sakay as a mere bandit, different from the current-day appreciation of Sakay as a fighter for Filipino independence. Raymond Red's 1993 film, Sakay hews closer to this modern view of Sakay. Interestingly, Leopoldo Salcedo, who played Sakay in the 1939 Lamberto V. Avellana version, portrayed Sakay's father in the 1993 version in his final film role.
Romeo Tanghal
Famous Filipino Artist: Romeo Tanghal is a famous Filipino comic book artist who has worked primarily as an inker. He became well-known in the industry in the 1980s for his work on DC Comics' The New Teen Titans. The Teen Titans, also known as The New Teen Titans, New Titans, or The Titans, is a DC Comics superhero team. Teen Titans animated television series ran on Cartoon Network from July 2003 to January 2006. Based on the 1980s version of the team but diverging from that continuity in some ways, the series spawned two related comic book titles, Teen Titans Go! and Tiny Titans.
Juan Paolo Aquino
Famous Filipino Photographer: Juan Paolo "Jaypee" Aquino is a famous Filipino film director and photographer. He is considered one of the most prolific directors in Filipino media today, having directed television shows and short films for almost a decade. His trademark, visually arresting images, has re-invented the pace and the look of the different lifestyle magazine shows that he has directed throughout the years in the Philippines.
In 2006, Juan Paolo Aquino started his own personal project and tried his knack for photography. He spent more than five months travelling around Southeast Asia and mainland China to document the wealth of cultures from the different countries in the region. Emotional Core was the name of the project, and is now presently exhibited in Uncut Creative's Web Gallery. Some of his works have also been selected to be a part of the Dazed And Confused European Exhibit Project.
A graduate of the London Film School, Juan Paolo Aquino lived in London for almost four years and worked in a number of international film productions before going back to Manila. Some of his films were exhibited in a number of major short film festivals all through Europe.
In 2006, Juan Paolo Aquino started his own personal project and tried his knack for photography. He spent more than five months travelling around Southeast Asia and mainland China to document the wealth of cultures from the different countries in the region. Emotional Core was the name of the project, and is now presently exhibited in Uncut Creative's Web Gallery. Some of his works have also been selected to be a part of the Dazed And Confused European Exhibit Project.
A graduate of the London Film School, Juan Paolo Aquino lived in London for almost four years and worked in a number of international film productions before going back to Manila. Some of his films were exhibited in a number of major short film festivals all through Europe.
Famous Filipino Artist Fernando Zobel
Fernando Zobel y Montojo who was born on August 27, 1924 and died on June 2, 1984, also known as Fernando Zobel de Ayala y Montojo, Fernando M. Zobel, and Fernando M. Zóbel de Ayala, was a famous Filipino businessman, a famous Filipino modernist painter, and patron of the arts. Fernando Zobel, the son of Enrique Zobel de Ayala (1877-1943) and Fermina Montojo y Torrontegui, he was born in Ermita, Manila, and a member of the prominent Zobel de Ayala family. He graduated from Harvard University in 1949.
Fernando Zobel was one of the greatest Hispano-Filipino artists of his time, but ask laymen and experts alike and it would be evident that little is known of him apart from cursory information on his landmark paintings—or apart from whatever conceptions the lineage of his prominent surname brings.
Upon entering Harvard in 1946, although he decided to read history and literature, the first thing he did was to buy a box of oil paints. Without any academic training, he decided to paint. Painting was partly the reason why he later stayed on as a bibliographical researcher at the university. Around this time, he met the Boston artists Reed Champion and Jim Pfeufer who helped him launch his career as an artist.
Fernando Zobel was one of the greatest Hispano-Filipino artists of his time, but ask laymen and experts alike and it would be evident that little is known of him apart from cursory information on his landmark paintings—or apart from whatever conceptions the lineage of his prominent surname brings.
Upon entering Harvard in 1946, although he decided to read history and literature, the first thing he did was to buy a box of oil paints. Without any academic training, he decided to paint. Painting was partly the reason why he later stayed on as a bibliographical researcher at the university. Around this time, he met the Boston artists Reed Champion and Jim Pfeufer who helped him launch his career as an artist.
Danny Sillada
Famous Filipino Artists: Danny C. Sillada (born in 1963 -, Cateel, Davao Oriental, Philippines) is a Filipino surrealist painter, poet, musician, philosopher, performance artist, and literary, art & cultural critic from Mindanao. He was a recipient of 2003 "Pasidungog Centennial Awards" for literary and visual arts, a centennial event that was attended by the president of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in his hometown province in Davao Oriental.
As a multi-talented artist, Danny Sillada also writes and publishes poetry and philosophical essays both on print and on-line, composes and performs ethnic songs, hip-hop and ethno-techno music at the local Metro Manila alternative venues. He was described in a research paper submitted to the University of Asia and the Pacific as “the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe. Sillada is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic."
As a multi-talented artist, Danny Sillada also writes and publishes poetry and philosophical essays both on print and on-line, composes and performs ethnic songs, hip-hop and ethno-techno music at the local Metro Manila alternative venues. He was described in a research paper submitted to the University of Asia and the Pacific as “the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe. Sillada is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic."
Jose Rizal
Famous Filipino Artists and National Hero: Jose Rizal's multifacetedness was described by his German friend, Dr. Adolf Meyer, as "stupendous." Documented studies show him to be a polymath with the ability to master various skills and subjects. He was an ophthalmologist, sculptor, painter, educator, farmer, historian, playwright and journalist. Besides poetry and creative writing, he dabbled, with varying degrees of expertise, in architecture, cartography, economics, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, dramatics, martial arts, fencing and pistol shooting. He was also a Freemason, joining Acacia Lodge No. 9 during his time in Spain, he became a Master Mason in 1884.
Jose Rizal's most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. These writings angered both the Spaniards and the hispanicized Filipinos due to their insulting symbolism. They are highly critical of Spanish friars and the atrocities committed in the name of the Church. Rizal's first critic was Ferdinand Blumentritt, a Czech professor and historian whose first reaction was of misgiving. Blumentritt was the grandson of the Imperial Treasurer at Vienna in former Austro-Hungarian Empire and a staunch defender of the Catholic faith. This did not dissuade him however from writing the preface of El Filibusterismo after he had translated Noli me Tangere into German. Noli was published in Berlin (1887) and Fili in Ghent (1891) with funds borrowed largely from Rizal's friends. As Blumentritt had warned, these led to Rizal's prosecution as the inciter of revolution and eventually, to a military trial and execution.
Jose Rizal's most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. These writings angered both the Spaniards and the hispanicized Filipinos due to their insulting symbolism. They are highly critical of Spanish friars and the atrocities committed in the name of the Church. Rizal's first critic was Ferdinand Blumentritt, a Czech professor and historian whose first reaction was of misgiving. Blumentritt was the grandson of the Imperial Treasurer at Vienna in former Austro-Hungarian Empire and a staunch defender of the Catholic faith. This did not dissuade him however from writing the preface of El Filibusterismo after he had translated Noli me Tangere into German. Noli was published in Berlin (1887) and Fili in Ghent (1891) with funds borrowed largely from Rizal's friends. As Blumentritt had warned, these led to Rizal's prosecution as the inciter of revolution and eventually, to a military trial and execution.
Mario Parial
Famous Filipino Artists: Mario Parial is a Multi Awarded Filipino Painter,PrintMaker, Sculptor and Photographer. His works have been sold at Sotheby's.
Mario Parial was born on August 13,1944 in Gapan, Nueva Ecija. One of the fourteen children of Fidel Parial and Aurora Torres. He studied grade school at the Pura V Kalaw Elementary School.Graduated in 1958. In 1962 he graduated from the Roosevelt Memorial School in Quezon City where he was the editior of Duplex, the Campus paper. In 1964 he learned printmaking under Manuel Rodriguez Senior, the father of Print Making in the Philippines. In 1967 he began the year with a job with FairAds Inc located in Escolta,Manila. In 1969 he graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising. In 1970 he joined the Faculty of the University of Santo Tomas to teach painting, printmaking and photography. In 1970 he married Carina Claro with whom he has 2 Children, namely, Kristine born in 1971 and Mikel (Also a Painter, Printmaker and Photographer) born in 1972. In the same year he was employed by the Penta Group Advertising as a graphic designer until 1974. He also had a brief stint teaching art at the University of the Philippines.
On the 28th of November 2005, a Set of 4 Stamps and a Souvenir Sheet was issued for the National Stamp Collecting Month. One of the Stamps featured a Print by Mario Parial, a Rubber Cut, titled "BULBS" The Denomination was P6.00 and 140,000 of this were only issued.
Mario Parial was born on August 13,1944 in Gapan, Nueva Ecija. One of the fourteen children of Fidel Parial and Aurora Torres. He studied grade school at the Pura V Kalaw Elementary School.Graduated in 1958. In 1962 he graduated from the Roosevelt Memorial School in Quezon City where he was the editior of Duplex, the Campus paper. In 1964 he learned printmaking under Manuel Rodriguez Senior, the father of Print Making in the Philippines. In 1967 he began the year with a job with FairAds Inc located in Escolta,Manila. In 1969 he graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising. In 1970 he joined the Faculty of the University of Santo Tomas to teach painting, printmaking and photography. In 1970 he married Carina Claro with whom he has 2 Children, namely, Kristine born in 1971 and Mikel (Also a Painter, Printmaker and Photographer) born in 1972. In the same year he was employed by the Penta Group Advertising as a graphic designer until 1974. He also had a brief stint teaching art at the University of the Philippines.
On the 28th of November 2005, a Set of 4 Stamps and a Souvenir Sheet was issued for the National Stamp Collecting Month. One of the Stamps featured a Print by Mario Parial, a Rubber Cut, titled "BULBS" The Denomination was P6.00 and 140,000 of this were only issued.
Alfonso A. Ossorio
Famous Filipino Artists: Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic, Filipino, and Chinese. Between the ages of eight and thirteen, he attended school in England. At age fourteen, he moved to the United States. From 1934 to 1938, he studied fine art at Harvard University and then continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. He became an American citizen in 1933 and served as a medical illustrator in the United States Army during World War II.
Alfonso A. Ossorio’s early work was surrealist. He was an admirer and early collector of the paintings of Jackson Pollock who counted him as a good friend. In the early 1950s, Ossorio was pouring oil and enamel paints onto canvas.
Ossorio was represented alongside Dubuffet and nearly 140 other artists in the Museum of Modern Art's 1961 exhibition The Art of Assemblage, which introduced the practice to a broad public.
Alfonso A. Ossorio’s early work was surrealist. He was an admirer and early collector of the paintings of Jackson Pollock who counted him as a good friend. In the early 1950s, Ossorio was pouring oil and enamel paints onto canvas.
Ossorio was represented alongside Dubuffet and nearly 140 other artists in the Museum of Modern Art's 1961 exhibition The Art of Assemblage, which introduced the practice to a broad public.
Onib Olmedo
Famous Filipino Painters: Onib Olmedo (July 7, 1937, Manila, Philippines - September 8, 1996) was an award-winning expressionist Filipino painter. He illustrated The Body Book (1993) by Gilda Cordero-Fernando. He created populist art and depicted the marginalized part of the society. In 1970, he decided to shift from is 12-year career in architecture to painting where he became a leading figure in Philippine expressionism.
Hernando R. Ocampo
Famous Filipino Artists: Hernando R. Ocampo (April 18, 1911 – December 28, 1978) is a Filipino National Artist in the visual arts. He is also fictionist, a playwright and editor.
Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a leading radical modernist artist in the Philippines. He was a member of the Saturday Group of artists (also known as the Taza de Oro Group), and was one of the pre-war Thirteen Moderns, a group of modernist artists founded by Victorino C. Edades in 1938. Famously known for his triumvirate of with neo-realists Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi, his works reflected the harsh realities of his country after the Second World War. However, many of his works depicted lush sceneries and the beautiful Philippine landscapes through his skillful use of fierce and bold colors.
H. R. Ocampo was credited for inventing a new mode of abstraction that exemplifies Philippine flora and fauna, and portrays sunshine, stars and rain. Using movement and bold colors, Ocampo utilized fantasy and science fiction as the basis for his works. His art is described to be "abstract compositions of biological forms that seemed to oscillate, quiver, inflame and multiply" like mutations. His A Wiping (1974, oil on canvas, 30 inches x 40 inches) is a flat rendition of a style that Ocampo himself revealed to be a representation of "visual melody".
Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a leading radical modernist artist in the Philippines. He was a member of the Saturday Group of artists (also known as the Taza de Oro Group), and was one of the pre-war Thirteen Moderns, a group of modernist artists founded by Victorino C. Edades in 1938. Famously known for his triumvirate of with neo-realists Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi, his works reflected the harsh realities of his country after the Second World War. However, many of his works depicted lush sceneries and the beautiful Philippine landscapes through his skillful use of fierce and bold colors.
H. R. Ocampo was credited for inventing a new mode of abstraction that exemplifies Philippine flora and fauna, and portrays sunshine, stars and rain. Using movement and bold colors, Ocampo utilized fantasy and science fiction as the basis for his works. His art is described to be "abstract compositions of biological forms that seemed to oscillate, quiver, inflame and multiply" like mutations. His A Wiping (1974, oil on canvas, 30 inches x 40 inches) is a flat rendition of a style that Ocampo himself revealed to be a representation of "visual melody".
Maningning Miclat
Famous Filipino Painters: Maningning Miclat was born a Filipino on April 15, 1972 in Beijing, China. She was known for her Chinese bamboo Zen paintings and poetry in three languages: Filipino, Mandarin, and English. In 1987, she published her first book of poems, Wo De Shi, in Mandarin, and held her first solo show of traditional Chinese painting, Maningning: An Exhibit of Chinese Brush Works. She had four more solo shows in her lifetime. Miclat became a Fellow of the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop in 1990 and won an award for a Filipino play there. She also became a Fellow of the Silliman National Writers Workshop. In 1992, she won the Art Association of the Philippines Grand Prize for a painting entitled Trouble in Paradise and her second book of poetry, Voice from the Underworld, was a finalist in the country's 2001 National Book Award.
In 2000, she fell from the seventh floor of the Far Eastern University in Manila where she was teaching at the time. In 2001, the Maningning Foundation was founded in her memory to celebrate the talents of young artists both visual and written.
In 2000, she fell from the seventh floor of the Far Eastern University in Manila where she was teaching at the time. In 2001, the Maningning Foundation was founded in her memory to celebrate the talents of young artists both visual and written.
Jao Mapa
Famous Filipino Painters: Jose Vicente P. Mapa III, who is better known by his screen name Jao Mapa (born 1976), is a popular actor in the Philippines. He is also an accomplished painter known by the name Joao Mapa.
Mostly known as the Pepsi-Cola guy, he started a modeling career in the late 90's and co-hosted shows like Eat Bulaga and ASAP (variety show). His first movie was Pare Ko (1995). In 2000 he decided to take a break from his showbiz career and went back to school to earn his degree in Fine Arts (major in Advertising) from the University of Santo Tomas.
Mostly known as the Pepsi-Cola guy, he started a modeling career in the late 90's and co-hosted shows like Eat Bulaga and ASAP (variety show). His first movie was Pare Ko (1995). In 2000 he decided to take a break from his showbiz career and went back to school to earn his degree in Fine Arts (major in Advertising) from the University of Santo Tomas.
Jose Fadul
Famous Filipino Science Education Specialist: Jose Arabe Fadul is a multi-awarded Filipino science education specialist, educational psychologist, academic, teacher, historian, and author known for his works in psychology and the Rizal Course. In 1995 he was the chair of the Information Science Group of the University of the Philippines National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development[1] when he resigned to work for a private firm dealing with computer services. In 1998 he joined the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde to teach social science courses and by 2005 he was appointed full professor in the said educational institution. Fadul had gone through several life-threatening illnesses such as pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, diffuse toxic goiter but overcame them through medication.
Fadul currently lives in Manila with his wife and daughter, striving to "live Jesus in his heart."
Fadul currently lives in Manila with his wife and daughter, striving to "live Jesus in his heart."
Luis Eduardo Aute
Famous Filipino Artists: Luis Eduardo Aute (born Manila, September 13, 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer-songwriter, film director, painter and poet.
Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila, capital of the Philippines, on September 13, 1943. His father, Catalan (born in Catalonia, Spain), had been working in that country since 1919, in a tobacco company and was married with a Filipina, descendent of the Spanish burguesy. In his childhood, Aute studied in De La Salle School, where he learned English and Tagalog, which is used with his family. Since very early shows great ability as painter and drawer; another childhood passion is the cinema, specially since his parents gave him a 8 mm camera, which will serve him to home made small movies with his friends.
At 8 years old, he travels to Spain for the first time. In Madrid, with Hotel Avenida Orchestra, sings for first time in public, interpreting the song Las hojas muertas (The Dead Leaves). At 9 watches "On the Waterfront", movie that had a notorious influence in him and made him to write in English his first poems. Another influence at that age is the movie Niagara, where he discovered the erotism and sensuality of Marilyn Monroe.
Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila, capital of the Philippines, on September 13, 1943. His father, Catalan (born in Catalonia, Spain), had been working in that country since 1919, in a tobacco company and was married with a Filipina, descendent of the Spanish burguesy. In his childhood, Aute studied in De La Salle School, where he learned English and Tagalog, which is used with his family. Since very early shows great ability as painter and drawer; another childhood passion is the cinema, specially since his parents gave him a 8 mm camera, which will serve him to home made small movies with his friends.
At 8 years old, he travels to Spain for the first time. In Madrid, with Hotel Avenida Orchestra, sings for first time in public, interpreting the song Las hojas muertas (The Dead Leaves). At 9 watches "On the Waterfront", movie that had a notorious influence in him and made him to write in English his first poems. Another influence at that age is the movie Niagara, where he discovered the erotism and sensuality of Marilyn Monroe.
Pacita Abad
Famous Filipino Painters: Pacita Abad (1946-2004) was born in Basco, Batanes, a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines, between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more-than-thirty-year painting career began when she travelled to the United States to undertake graduate studies. She had over 40 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. She also participated in more than 50 group and traveling exhibitions throughout the world. Abad’s work is now in public, corporate and private art collections in over 70 countries.
Her early paintings were primarily figurative socio-political works of people and primitive masks. Another series was large scale paintings of underwater scenes, tropical flowers and animal wildlife. Pacita’s most extensive body of work, however, is her vibrant, colorful abstract work - many very large scale canvases, but also a number of small collages - on a range of materials from canvas and paper to bark cloth, metal, ceramics and glass. Abad created over 5,000 artworks and painted a 55-meter long Alkaff Bridge in Singapore and covered it with 2,350 multicolored circles.
Abad developed a technique of trapunto painting (named after a quilting technique), which entailed stitching and stuffing her painted canvases to give them a three-dimensional, sculptural effect. She then began incorporating into the surface of her paintings materials such as traditional cloth, mirrors, beads, shells, plastic buttons and other objects.
Her early paintings were primarily figurative socio-political works of people and primitive masks. Another series was large scale paintings of underwater scenes, tropical flowers and animal wildlife. Pacita’s most extensive body of work, however, is her vibrant, colorful abstract work - many very large scale canvases, but also a number of small collages - on a range of materials from canvas and paper to bark cloth, metal, ceramics and glass. Abad created over 5,000 artworks and painted a 55-meter long Alkaff Bridge in Singapore and covered it with 2,350 multicolored circles.
Abad developed a technique of trapunto painting (named after a quilting technique), which entailed stitching and stuffing her painted canvases to give them a three-dimensional, sculptural effect. She then began incorporating into the surface of her paintings materials such as traditional cloth, mirrors, beads, shells, plastic buttons and other objects.
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