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September 27, 2016

BSIT-IE

Mr. Aldrin Ballesteros

Filipino Artists and Their works

Juan Luna

Juan Novicio Luna (October 23, 1857 December 7, 1899)

Juan Novicio Luna was Born in the town of Badoc, Ilocos Norte in the northern Philippines, Juan N. Luna was the
third among the seven children of Joaqun Posadas Luna and Laureana Ancheta Novicio-Luna. In 1861, the Luna
family moved to Manila and he went to Ateneo Municipal de Manila where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree.
He excelled in painting and drawing, and was influenced by his brother,Manuel N. Luna, who, according to Filipino
patriot Jos Rizal, was a better painter than Juan himself.
Luna enrolled at Escuela Nautica de Manila (now Philippine Merchant Marine Academy) and became a sailor. He
took drawing lessons under the illustrious painting teacherLorenzo Guerrero of Ermita, Manila. He also enrolled in
the Academy of Fine Arts (Academia de Dibujo y Pintura) in Manila where he was influenced and taught how to
draw by the Spanish artist Agustin Saez. Unfortunately, Luna's vigorous brush strokes displeased his teacher and
Luna was discharged from the academy. However, Guerrero was impressed by his skill and urged Luna to travel to
Cubao to further pursue his work.
He was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He
became one of the first recognized Philippine artists.

Paintings By Juan Luna

Spoliarium

Joven En Un Jardin

Pablo Amorsolo

Pablo Cueto Amorsolo (June 26, 1898 February 21, 1945)

Pablo Amorsolo was born in Daet, Camarines Norte to husband and wife Pedro Amorsolo, as a book keeper and
Bonifacia Cueto. When he was still eight years old, his family moved to Manila. During World War II, Amorsolo was
captured by Filipino troops. He was sentenced and executed by firing squad in the hands of guerillas. He died in this
manner at the Antipolo Rizal in 1945.
Amorsolo was an enthusiast of both classical and modern-day forms of art. During the 1930s, he drew and painted
may editorial illustrations for Philippine magazines such as the Graphic, Tribune, La Vanguardia, Herald, and Manila
Times. He became one of the causes for the rise of the so-called genre art in the Philippines, because he weaved,
through his artistic brush strokes, a wide variety of images that show native and social scenes and scenarios. He
was also a known master of portrait paintings who had the ability to give life to any individual subject. He painted
people from different levels of society and also from varied age brackets, where he was able to present his ability to
understand the characteristics and personalities of his human subjects. He also created works that portray themes
related to Philippine history. Examples of these are the large images of Magellan and the Natives and The
Discovery of the Philippines. The latter was painted in 1944.

Paintings By Pablo Amorsolo

Limpia Botas

Fruit Vendor

Pacita Abad

Pacita Abad (October 5, 1946 December 7, 2004)

Pacita Abad was born in Basco, Batanes, a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines,
between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more than 30-year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to
undertake graduate studies. She exhibited her work in over 200 museums, galleries and other venues, including 75
solo shows, around the world. Abad's work is now in public, corporate and private art collections in over 70
countries. Abad earned a BA in political science at the University of the Philippines in 1967. In 1970, she went to the
United States intending to study law, but instead earned a degree (MA) in Asian History at Lone Mountain College
(University of San Francisco) in 1972 where she supported herself as a seamstress and a typist. Abad studied
painting at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and The Art Students League in New York City. She lived
on 6 different continents and worked in more than 50 countries, including Guatemala, Mexico, India, Afghanistan,
Yemen, Sudan, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and Indonesia. At Corcoran School of Art Pacita studied under
Berthold Schmutzhar and Blaine Larson in which the two professors had helped launch her artistic career. Pacita
then further pursued her studies at The Art Students League in New York where she concentrated on still life
and figurative drawing under John Helicker andRobert Beverly Hale.
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 4,500 artworks.[5] She painted a 55-meter long Alkaff Bridge in Singapore and covered it with 2,350 multicolored
circles, just a few months before she died.

Painting By Pacita Abad

Filipina: A racial identity crisis