10 Famous Filipino Artists

10 FAMOUS FILIPINO ARTISTS

1. Pacit cita Ab Abad 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 ,!!! artworks. "he painted a ##-meter long Alkaff $ridge in "ingapore and covered it with %,&#! multicolored circles. 2. Mart Martin ino o Abe Abell llan ana a artino Abellana ()*)+)*, known as /oy 0inong, was a renowned 1ebuano painter from 1arcar. 2ubbed 0he 2ean of 1ebuano Painters, he was born to an artistic family. His main influence was his father, who was a school principal and a sculptor. artino, along with his four brothers, including renowned sculptor  and composer 2r. 3amon Abellana, were exposed to art early, and they helped their father with his sculptures. 3. Feder Federic ico o Agui Aguila larr Alc Alcua ua 4ederico Aguilar Alcua5 (6une 7, )*&% + 4ebruary %, %!)) was an award winning 4ilipino painter who exhibited extensively 8nternationally and whose work earned him recognition both in the Philippines and abroad.

Alcua5 was conferred the title of /ational Artist for 9isual Arts, Painting, "culpture and ixed edia in %!!*. However, four nominees for the award other than Alcua5 became embroiled in the %!!* /ational Artist of the Philippines 1ontroversy, which led the "upreme 1ourt of the Philippines to temporarily issue a status :uo order  on August %#, %!!*, blocking the conferment of the awards on all seven nominees - despite the fact that no ob;ections were ever raised regarding the conferment o f the award to Alcua5 and two other nominees. !. Fern Fernan ando do A"o A"or# r#ol olo o Amorso Amorsolo lo also also painte painted d a series series of histor historica icall painti paintings ngs on pre-1o pre-1olon lonial ial and "panis "panish h 1oloni5 1oloni5ati ation on events events.. Amorsolo's Amorsolo's aking of the Philippine 4lag, in particular particular,, was widely reproduced.His reproduced.His 0he 4irst $aptism in the Philippines re:uired numerous detailed sketches and colored studies of its elements. 0hese diverse elements were meticulously and carefully set by the artist before being transferred to the final canvas. 4or his pre-colonial and )7th-century depiction of the Philippines, Amorsolo referred to the written accounts of Antonio Pigafetta, other available reading materials, and visual sources He consulted with the Philippine scholars of the time, H. Pardo de 0avera and