VICTORIO C.
EDADES (December 23, 1895 March 7, - Awards received:
1985)
- Father of Modern Philippine
Painting
- Known for using dark somber
colors in his paintings
- His works focused on factory
worker, laborers, or other simple
townspeople
Victorio Edades self-portrait
- Paints distorted human figures in rough, bold
impasto strokes, and standing tall and singular in
his advocacy and practice of what he believes is
creative art
- He introduced a degree program offering subjects
in foreign languages and art history, which would
later lead to a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. This
development brought about a first in Philippine
education since art schools then were mostly
vocational schools.
- He was named a National Artist in 1976
- He was a member of Triumvirate together with
Carlos Botong Francisco and Galo B. Ocampo,
they led the growth of mural painting in the
country
- His works include The Sketch (also known as The
Artist and the Model), Portrait of the Professor,
Japanese Girl, Mother and Daughter, The
Wrestlers and Poinsettia Girl.
- Major works:
1928 The Sketch, National Museum Collection
1928 The Builders, Cultural Center of the
Philippines Collection
1935 Interaction, with Carlos V. Francisco
and Galo B. Ocampo
1976 Demoiselles Davao
1979 Kasaysayan, a mural for a Manila bank
Interaction by Edades Reclined Nude by
The Sketch by
Galo Ocampo and Victorio Edades, 1976 Victorio Edades
Botong Francisco Charcoal on Paper
1961 Pro Patria Award, given during the Rizal
Centennial Celebration
1964 Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award,
from the City of Manila
1976 National Artist Award in Painting
1977 Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris
causa in UST
VICENTE MANANSALA (January 22, 1910 August 22,
1981)
- Known for his paintings
depicting realistic themes
using an abstract or a cubist
style
- The beauty of art is in the
process, in the moment of
doing a particular painting,
closely associating it with the act of making love.
- The climax is just when its really finished.
- National Artist in Painting in 1982
- As a member of the Thirteen Moderns and the neo-
realists, he was at the forefront of the modernist
movement in the country.
- With the issues of national culture and identity in
focus after WWII his works were those of the other
early modernists which reflected the social
environment and expressed the native sensibility.
- consistently worked in the figurative mode, with
the exception of a few abstract works
- developed transparent cubism, wherein the
"delicate tones, shapes, and patterns of figure and
environment are masterfully superimposed"
- Manansala reinterpreted or indigenized cubism as
he drew his themes from the familiar Filipino
environment.
- Awards received:
Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1963
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from
the City of Manila in 1970
- Works:
A Cluster of Nipa Hut
San Francisco Del Monte
Banaklaot
I Believe in God
Still Life with Green Guitar
Via Crucis
Whirr
 Nude - utilized fantasy and science fiction as the basis for
Market Venders his works
Madonna of the Slums - a portrayal of a - His art is described to be "abstract compositions of
mother and child from the countryside who biological forms that seemed to oscillate, quiver,
became urban shanty residents once in the inflame and multiply" like mutations.
city. - Played a pivotal role in sustaining the Philippine Art
Gallery, the countrys first
- Works:
Genesis
Slum Dwellers
Ina ng Ibalon
Calvary
Nude with Candle and Flower
Market Venders, 1949 Philippines Mother and Child, 1965
Man and Carabao
Angel's Kiss
Palayok at Kalan
Ancestors
Isda at Mangga
The Resurrection
Fifty-three "Q"
Back drop
Mother and Child, Fiesta
1981 Luksong-Tinik
(Jumping over
Mother and Child
Madonna and the Slums, Thorns), 1973 Easter Sunday
\ 1950 - His works captured the Philippines landscape
using bold colors

HERNANDO R. OCAMPO (April 28, 1911 December 28,

1978)

- Largely known for his abstract

paintings
- A self-taught painter Man and Carabao
- His works feature shapes
Mother and Child,
bounded with curved lines
1970
painted in intense colors Ina at Anak, 1951
- Famously known for his
triumvirate of with neo-realists - Genesis
Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi masterpiece, was
- his works reflected understanding and awareness used as the basis of
of the harsh realities of his country after the Second the design of the
World War and contributed significantly to the rise curtain of the
of the nationalist spirit in the post-war era Cultural Center of
- many of his works depicted lush sceneries and the the Philippines
Genesis, 1969
beautiful Philippine landscapes through his skillful (CCP) Main Theater
use of fierce and bold colors - Awards received:
- credited for inventing a new mode of abstraction Republic Cultural Award in 1965
that exemplifies Philippine flora and fauna, and Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award in 1969
portrays sunshine, stars and rain in fierce Diwa ng Lahi Award in 1976
movement and bold colors. Gawad CCP para sa Sining Award in 1979
CESAR LEGASPI (April 2, 1917 April 7, 1994) Ovary
Flora and Fauna
- Known for utilizing and
Triptych
refining cubism
Flight
- Cubism is a style involves
Bayanihan
breaking parts into
Struggle
geometric shapes
Avenging figure
- A pioneer Neo-Realist of
Turning point
the country
Peace
- remembered for his singular achievement of
The Survivor
refining cubism in the Philippine context
Planters
- he belonged to the so-called Thirteen Moderns
Stairway to Heaven
and later, the Neo-realists
The Ritual
- His distinctive style and daring themes contributed
significantly to the advent and eventual acceptance
of modern art in the Philippines
- He made use of the geometric fragmentation
technique, weaving social comment and
juxtaposing the mythical and modern into his
overlapping, interacting forms with disturbing
power and intensity.
- Awards Received:
Art Association of the Philippines are: fourth
prize, Sick Child, 1948, first prize, Gadgets,
1944; fourth prize, PIanters, 1949; and third
prize, Ritual, 1951
First prize for Stairway to Heaven in the Manila
club Art Exhibition in 1949
Symphony won an honorable mention award in
the Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition in
1950
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinagan award from
the City of Manila in 1972
Gawad CCP para sa Sining award from the
Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1990
National Artist in painting in 1990
- Works:
Man and Woman (Beggars) (1945) - in an
expressionist idiom involving distortion, shows
a couple in rags amidst the skeletons of
buildings which we broken like surrealist
sculpture.
Gadgets (1947) - done in two versions, reflects
the increasing importance of machines in the
post-war industrialization period, as well as
what he perceived was the insidious threat of
human metamorphosing into machine.
Diggers
Idols of the Third Eye
Faade