PHILIPPINE ART IN THE MODERN ERA

1
PHILIPPINE ART IN THE MODERN ERA
2
Modern Art in the Philippines

• It has evolved into wide variety of expressions
  and medium turning the country into a situation
  of creative upheavals.
• It is a search for a new.
• It is doing what no one has done before.

3
Modern Art in the Philippines

• The modern Filipino has more freedom to explore
  on his own.
• The most interesting works of our contemporary
  artist show his love for country and evolving
  culture.
• His style is from cross-cultural exposures in the
  Eastern and Western world yet he has not
  forgotten his Filipino roots.

4
Modern Art in the Philippines

• The forms maybe universal but the content is
  local.
• Many artist use color for their emotional rather
  than intellectual values.

5
Some Philippine Artists

• Jose T. Joya
• Vicente Manansala
• Napoleon Abueva
• Carlos Botong Francisco
• Mauro Malang Santos
• Hernando R. Ocampo
• Prudencio L. Lamarrosa

6
Jose T. Joya

• National Artist, Visual Arts, 2003
• Foremost Filipino Abstract painter
• He said Its useless to try to make out familiar
  objects in my paintings.
• How he paints is, I squeeze my paint tubes
  directly throw my paints is calculated gestures,
  swirl my loaded brushes, slash my paint paste
  with spatula and hurl it on my canvass in a wild
  attempt to depict the on-rushing tempo of the
  present jet-age modernity.

7
Vicente Manansala

• National Artist, Visual Arts, 1981
• Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
• He invested each human figure with inner
  fortitude, making each one a stoic figure of
  human dignity.

8
Napoleon Abueva

• National Artist, Sculpture, 1976
• Foremost modern sculptor today
• He produced towering abstract in metal , steel
  and wood.
• Allegorical Harpoon
• Its memorable, swivel piece pegged to its
  rifle-shaped horizontal torso, impresses with its
  elegant but enigmatic appearance.

9
Carlos Botong Francisco

• National Artist, Sculpture, 1973
• Foremost Filipino Muralist
• He contributed towards developing a Filipino
  imagery drawing inspiration from customs and
  traditions of the people.
• He used the people of Angono, where he lived, as
  models for his paintings of heroes and legends
  and characters of our myths.

10
Mauro Malang Santos

• He shows highly original approach to figurative
  paintings.
• A large plant stands in the midst of the urban
  landscape.

11
Hernando R. Ocampo

• National Artist, Visual Arts, 1991
• As a neorealist, he aimed to de-emphasize a
  life-like representation with the natural world.
• He was interested in how shapes, values, textures
  and lines interact with the one another in space
  rather than in capturing a realistic semblance of
  nature.

12
Prudencio L. Lamarrosa

• Amburayan Princess is an example of Lamarrosas
  intellectual approach to paintings.
• He is different from the artist of his generation
  because of his intellectual detachment amid all
  the-ill effects of technology on the world
  environment.

13
Roberto Rodriguez Chabet

• Shanghai is only work that does not have a drop
  of paint on the surface.
• It is an assemblage.
• His guiding principles are traceable to cubism
  and dadaism.
• From cubism has come the emphasis on art as
  concept rather than skill.
• From Dadaism has come the delight in ready-made
  objects as part of the artistic activity.

14
Ibarra de la Rosa

• Intramuros creates a symphony of colors.
• The subject gives him the basic pattern that
  allows him to see the effect of different color
  combinations-how essentially the same scene could
  bring out a different mood, an ever changing
  feeling.