Cesar Legaspi was a 20th-century Filipino painter best known for his Cubist -inspired

works. Consistently tackling issues of social injustice and the plight of the working classes,
Legaspi rendered his paintings using undulating, geometric stylizations of forms. He
worked both representationally and abstractly over the course of his career, shifting
between more traditional representations of the human figure to more Modernist visual
languages. Born on April 2, 1917 in Manila, Philippines, he studied commercial art at the
University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts before studying in Madrid and then under
the French painter Henri Bernard Goetz at the Academie Ranson in Paris. Today.
Legaspi’s works are in the collection of the National Museum of the Philippines in Manila.
The artist died on April 7, 1994 in Manila, Philippines.

-tree planting, morning dance, blue nude

Ang Kiukok was a Filipino painter known for his expressive, Cubist-like works. He often
chose dynamic or disturbing subject matter, frequently depicting rabid dogs, crucifixions,
and screaming figures in an abstracted geometric style. Born on March 1, 1931 in Davao
City, the Philippines, Kiukok gained both critical and commercial success in his home
country throughout the 1960s. Some of his most gruesome paintings were made during the
rule of Ferdinand Marcos, who held the Phillipines under martial law throughout the 1970s.
Kiukok was awarded the title of National A rtist by his home country in 2001, and continued
to exhibit with success until his death on May 9, 2005 in Quezon City, the Philippines.

-tablescape, christ, stations of the cross

The Bird (1959, First Prize), Still Life in Red (1963, Third Prize), Fish ( 1963, Second
Prize), and Geometric Still -Life Fish (1963, Second Prize).

Mauro (Malang) Santos , commonly known as just Malang, is a Filipino cartoonist and
illustrator. He was born on January 20, 1928, in Santa Cruz, the Philippine Islands and, at
the age of 19, dropped out of formal education in order to begin working in the art
department of the Manila Chronicle. There, he apprenticed under Liborio "Gat" Gatbonton,
eventually creating the popular comic strip Kosme, the Cop, Retired for which he best
known. In 1955, Malang co -founded a gallery dedicated to cartooning known as Bughouse.
He was named “Artist of the Year” in 1964 by the Society of Philippine Illustrators and
Cartoonists, and in 1981, the City of Manila honored him with the Guide of Arts and
Culture award. In later years, his previously illustrative work moved towards abstraction,
but he remains best remembered for his vividly colored depictions of women in traditional
dress carrying baskets of fruit and rice winnowers.

-mother and child, woman vendor, tsismis, flower vendor

Vicente Silva Manansala was a Filipino artist known for his Cubist paintings and prints.
Through his depictions of contemporary Filipino life, Manansala addressed issues of
intimacy, poverty, and culture. His melding of soc ial commentary with painting had a
profound influence on the younger Filipino artists of his generation, such as Angelito
Antonio and Manuel Baldemor. Born on January 22, 1919 in Macabebe, Philippines, he
studied at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Art until 1930. He later received
a UNESCO fellowship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The artist died on
August 22, 1981 in Manila, Philippines. His works are in the collections of the Honolulu
Museum of Art, the Philippine Center in New York, and the Lopez Memorial Museum in
Manila.

-trees, ang pulubi, pounding rice

Benedicto Cabrera is considered the preeminent Filipino painter of his generation.

Primarily figurative, Cabrera’s work often depicts woman and occasionally men wrapped
in swirling, bundled fabrics and capes. He was born on April 10, 1942 in Malabon,
Philippines, and studied at the University of the Phillippines. In 1963, he won first prize for
his oil painting of a talipapa, or market, in a student competition, and was hired soon after
by the national paper as its Sunday illustrator. Cabre ra’s first exhibition of oil and acrylic
paintings was held at the Indigo Gallery in Mabini in 1965, and has since shown work in
New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, and notably London, where has lived on and off for
much of his professional career. In 200 6, the Philippine Government conferred upon him
the Order of National Artist for Visual Arts.

-girl with chrysanthemum, sabel , dodong

Carlos “Botong” Francisco

Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural painting for many decades and
best known for his historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino modernists along with
Galo Ocampo and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando Amorsolo's
romanticism of Philippine scenes. According to restorer Helmuth Josef Zotter, Francisco's
art "is a prime example of linear painting where lines and contours appear like cutouts.”

He was responsible for the discovery of the now famous Angono Petroglyphs in 1965. He
was also involved in Costume Design in Philippine cinema.

His great works include p ortrayals of the Blood Compact, First Mass at Limasawa, The
Martyrdom of Rizal, Bayanihan, Magpupukot, Fiesta, Bayanihan sa Bukid, Sandugo,
Portrait of Purita, The Invasion of Limahong, Serenade, and Muslim Betrothal. Some of his
murals have suffered big d amage over the years. The "Pageant of Commerce" emerged
from several years of restoration in 2000.

His murals, The Progress of Medicine in the Philippines, was restored for the 3rd time in
2007 and is currently residing in the National Art Gallery of the Philippines. A high -quality
replica of the mural is also located at its previous location at the lobby of the Philippine
General Hospital.

-the nose flute, bugon and aliguyon, the virgin of antipolo