Carlos Francisco, magpupukot

National Artists, Carlos V. Francisco popularly known as Botong Francisco.

Botong Francisco, was the second Filipino artist to receive the title National
Artist in Painting after Fernando Amorsolo. He is well-known in the art of
mural painting.One of his famous painting is the Magpupukot . Magpupukot means pulling in the net.
The above picture is the actual painting where the mural was probably copied. Painting the lives of the
fishing community was one of Botong’s favourite subjects. Angono, his hometown where he was based,
was a fishing village.
Fernando Amorsolo – Fishing Scene
Artist, Designer, Advocate, and Teacher; John Paul 'Lakan'
Olivares' work is inspired by his travels around the archipelago and
living with different urban, rural and tribal communities. In these travels, he
has searched for the Filipino spirit, which he tries to share in all his
activities. In his paintings, he reflects a soulful connection with the various
traditional indigenous cultures and the sensibilities of the people.
Passionately rooted on Philippine lore, the free spirited artist orients his
audience to his journeys by way of graphic representations of
nationalistic concepts which are simply expressed, yet sincerely
articulated by his meditative art process. Beyond native motifs etched in his art, Olivares conveys
themes that celebrate universal connectedness by his environment, which inspires him to share his own
visions of beauty through his varied works.

Victorio Edades, The Builders

"The Builders" (1928) is one of Victorio Edades' major works that he
exhibited in 1928 during his one-man show. Edades executed this upon
his return to the Philippines from studies in the United States. In his
campaign for modernism, this is one of his paintings that shows his
enhanced knowledge and skill in modern art. This artwork emphasized
linear and structural composition above other pictorial elements,
conveying the essence of men engaged in labor through the contortion of the bodies.

Romeo Villalva Tabuena Campesina Con Dos Carabao

It is a painting created in his station in Mexico, he painted Filipino
landscape by memory, he never left his culture and remained with his Filipino
citizenship. It is a small painting that portrays a peasant woman with her
carabaos (a pack and work animal) a typical scene of the Philippine
lifestyle. The background colors resemble the grass and the ground where the
animals that sometimes seem to be levitating settle.

Hernando Ruiz Ocampo

Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a Filipino artist best known for his abstract
paintings. Following in Modernist traditions, Ocampo’s used bold color palettes and
biomorphic shapes inspired by both his country’s landscape and by science fiction writing.
Born on April 28, 1911 in Manila, Philippines and taught himself to paint. He started his
career as a member of the Saturday Group along with Vicente Silva Manansala and
Cesar Legaspi. Over the course of his career his interest evolved from depictions of workers
to abstract forms. He died on December 28, 1978 in Caloocan, Philippines at the age of 67,
and was posthumously awarded the title of National Artist of the Visual Arts in 1991.
Vicente Manansala
Vicente Manansala was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator, born in
Macabebe, Philippines in 1910 and died of cancer in Manila, Philippines
in 1981. Manansala was the developer of transparent cubism. A fine
example of this “transparent and translucent” technique is his
composition, Kalabaw (Carabao) He is known for fusing the cultures of
the barrio and the city in his paintings.
Victor Oteyza
This piece is being written because I feel I have to: because if I don't, who will? Because
the man I am writing about has done a lot for Philippine radio and should be recognized,
because I like him and because there are many unsung heroes in Philippine broadcasting
who deserve to be recognized. In writing about Victor Sta. Maria Oteyza, broadast’s unsung
hero, I hope I am able to express in whatever small way our thanks to this gentleman. He
certainly left his distinctive mark on me. I first met Vic a few days after I joined J. Walter
Thompson in November of 1958. As part of my orientation tour, I was to spend a week with
the Radio/TV Department as it was called then. I well remember sitting in absolute awe as
this man talked about philosophy. I don't know how we got into the subject but there we
were, enmeshed on the subject. It was obvious that Vic, as he was fondly called by his
peers, had an indepth knowledge of the subject. He was very much at home with Bacon as
he was with Whitehead. What I didn't realize then, but which I learned later, Vic was quite a
philosopher himself.

Ramon Estella
Ramon Estella was a prolific screenwriter and filmmaker who actively made films in
the pre-war era before he decided to pick up the paintbrush in the late 50's. As a
visual artist, he counted as colleagues such prominent modernists as Hernando
Ocampo, Vicente Manansala, Cesar Legaspi, Romeo Tabuena and Victor Oteyza.
Together, they branded themselves as the "Neo-Realists" who converged at the
Philippine Art Gallery of Lyd Arguilla. Estella's style delved into Cubism and
Expressionism, though it is said that he loved to experiment and fuse varying styles.

Cesar Legaspi

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.