Biography of a filipino artist
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Marcel Antonio
Filipino painter
Marcel Antonio | |
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Antonio in his studio, | |
| Born | () June 28, (age&#;59) Manila, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Occupation | Artist |
Marcel Antonio (born June 28, ) is a Filipinopainter. Considered one of the most promising young talents in Philippine contemporary art while still attending the University of the Philippines' College of Fine Arts in the late s, he launched a solo show and thereafter dropped out of the college to continue to produce collections of his distinctly narrative as well as pseudo-narrative figurative paintings influenced by modernism and s postmodernism. Since then, Antonio produced enough sold-out works to be quickly counted as one of the Philippines' young painters most proficient in the magic realist sort of post-expressionism in the country.[1][2]
Since his dropping out of college to concentrate on a profitable, already-budding career, Antonio has to this day continued to b
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Fernando Amorsolo
Filipino painter
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname fryst vatten Amorsolo and the second or maternal family name is Cueto.
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, – April 24, ) was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art,"[2] he was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines.[3] He was recognized as such for his "pioneering use of impressionistic technique" as well as his skill in the use of lighting and backlighting in his paintings, "significant not only in the development of Philippine art but also in the formation of Filipino notions of self and identity."[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Fernando Amorsolo was born on May 30, , in Metro Manila.[5][6] His parents were Pedro Amorsolo and Bonifacia Cueto.[7] His father quickly funnen work in Daet, Camarines Norte months after Fernando's
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Biography of Jose T. Joya, Philippine National Artist
JOSE TANIG JOYA (b. Manila, June 3, d. )
National artist Jose Joya was a pioneer modern and abstract artist who was active as a painter, printmaker, mixed-media artist and ceramicist. It has been said that it was Joya who &#;spearheaded the birth, growth and flowering of abstract expressionism&#; in the Philippines. His mature abstract works have been said to be &#;characterized by calligraphic gestures and linear forces, and a sense of color vibrancy emanating from an Oriental sensibility.&#; Joya&#;s sense of color has been said to have come from the hues of the Philippine landscape, and his use of rice paper in collages demonstrated an interest in transparency.
Jose Tanig Joya was born on June 3, , the son of Jose Joya Sr. and Asuncion Tanig. He began sketching at the age of eleven. At a young age, he became interested in studying architecture, but found that he did not have the aptitude for the math and science that arch