PHILIPPINE ART IN THE

MODERN ERA

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.

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.

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.

Some Philippine Artists

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

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 onrushing tempo of the present jet-age
modernity.

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.

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.

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.

Mauro Malang Santos

He shows highly original approach to

figurative paintings.
A large plant stands in the midst of the
urban landscape.

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.

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.

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.

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.