Filipino contemporary artists

Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Anita Magsaysay-Ho was a filipino painter best
known as Filipino Asian Modern &
Contemporary painter for her portrayals of
Filipino life and culture usinf realist and post-
cubist art style, frequently portaying groups of
women engaged in labor.

Born on 25th of May 1914 in Manila and died on

5th of May 2012. She studied at the University of
the Philippines’ School of Fine Arts under
Fernando Amorsolo and Fabian de la Rosa, two
classical painters who influenced her first
works. And move to the United States to
study at the Cranbrook Academy in Figure 1: fruit vendors (1953)by Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Michigan.

Her work centered around the central tenets of Modernism, credited with the development of Neo-
Realist painting in her country garnering her inclusion in the Filipino arti st group the Thirteen Moderns of
Philippine Art, which included Victorio Edades, Carlos Francisco, Galo Ocampo and Vicente Manansala. Collectively, these
artists challenged the conservative status-quo of art in the Philippines during the 1950, and she was the only woman
to do so. She recieved signifi cant criti cal acclaim and recogniti on for her work including fi rst prize at
the Philippine Art Associati on in 1952. Her work can be found at Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and
the Ateneo Art Gallery in Manila, Philippines.

Her work was also featured in an exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum. Anita Magsaysay-Ho's work has been
offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $219 USD to $1,787,004 USD, depending on the size
and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is $1,787,004 USD for NAG-IIPON NG
DAYAMI (GLEANERS), sold at Christie's Hong Kong in 2016. Anita Magsaysay-Ho has been featured in articles for
the ArtDaily, the ArtDaily and the ArtDaily.

 Honors:
 2nd prize at The Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition, 1950, for “Five Senses”
 1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1952, for “The Cooks”
 2nd prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1953, for “Fruit Vendors”
 1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1959, for “Mending the Nets”
 1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1960, for “Two Women”
 2nd prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1962, for “Trio”

Source:

http://www.artnet.com/artists/anita-magsaysay-ho/

https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/anita-magsaysay-ho/

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Anita-Magsaysay-Ho/801F986B3E026D78/Biography
https://www.philippineartgallery.com/anita-magsaysay-ho.html

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https://ocula.com/artists/anita-magsaysay-ho/
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/modern-contemporary-southeast-asian-art-hk0584/lot.362.html

Romeo Tabuena

Romeo Tabuena is a Filipino postwar Neorealist painter and

printmaker, included in the "who's who" list of internationally
renowned artists. A painter whose art is rooted in Eastern sensibility,
Philippine-born Romeo V. Tabuena has been a resident of Mexico for
more than four decades. Working with a wide range of
subject matt er and materials, his work primarily features
fi gures pieced together from muted, monochromati c
shapes. His aestheti c is oft en one inspired by Cubism, with
a fractal-like geometric patt erning imposed on
recognizable forms. abuena is best known for his depictions of
Philippine rural landscapes such as farms, carabao, nipa huts in oil
and watercolor media. Often rendered in jewel-toned colors and
interlocking cubist-influenced shapes, his earlier works maintain a
sense of translucency and fluid form while those from his later
Mexican period are more opaque and have a stylized “blocky”
quality.One of his most important works, a mural Figure 2: Hilltown Beat (Man Smoking a Cigar,1979)
ti tled Filipiniana, was commissioned by the Philippine by Romeo Tabuena
Embassy in Washington, D.C. In 2007.

Romeo Tabuena experienced life, education, and culture around the globe, from his birthplace in Southeast Asia to his
residence in Mexico. Born in Iloilo city 22nd of Aug 1921, and died on 15 th of October 2015 in San Miguel de Allende,
Mexico. he studied architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology and a fine arts course, majoring in painting, at the
University of the Philippines. He also studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Academie de la Grande
Chaumiere in Paris. Tabuena decided to settle in Mexico and to make it the base of his painting career. But he has
maintained links with his country through participation in its major art projects, and despite his long residence in Mexico,
he has retained his Philippine citizenship.

Tabuena began his career with several exhibits of drawings and watercolors at the Philippine Art Gallery in 1949. He is
known for his watercolors, at times in a vertical format, influenced by Chinese painting. His near-monochromatic
watercolor landscapes of nipa huts, farmers, and carabaos are done in an exquisite style, with attenuated figures spread
out in large tonal areas suggesting early morning fog. Tabuena’s early work is often grouped with that of other
Philippine Neorealists including Vicente Manansala, HR Ocampo, Cesar Legaspi, Victor Oteyza, Anita Magsaysay-Ho, and
Nena Saguil.

Tabuena is also admired for his darkly-toned oil paintings which seem to reflect the “proletarian” concerns. His figures
are often short and squat, with hints of Expressionist distortion and no bright colors to relieve the charged atmosphere.

Tabuena’s style sometimes approaches Expressionism, especially in such a work as Childbirth, in which the pangs of
childbirth are expressed in elongated figures that are dramatically lit. A later series consists of heads done in a
monochromatic style with Cubist influence, their jagged, angular features suggesting years of toil and arduous struggle.
Tabuena has received several honors for his works. He won a second place award in 1949 from the Art Association of the
Philippines for Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) and an honorable mention in 1952 for Black Christ. abuena has participated in
exhibitions and staged solo exhibitions — a 10-year retrospective at the Philippine Art Gallery in Manila (1959), a one-
man show at the International Salon of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1962), and one-man shows in Manila (1973
and 1981) and Mexico City (1975). He was the official Philippine delegate to the Eighth Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil, in
1965. Both the Philippine and Mexican governments have recognized Tabuena’s artistic contributions. The Instituto de
Bellas Artes sponsored a major exhibit of Tabuena’s work in 1995. In 2000, per a cultural agreement between the two
countries, a Millennium Show was held in Tabuena’s honor and in 2007, the Philippines awarded him the Presidential
Merit Award.

 Honors:

 2nd prize from the Art Association of the Philippines for Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) , 1949

 Honorable Mention from the Art Association of the Philippines for Black Christ, 1952

 Millennium Show was held in Tabuena’s honor , 2000

 Philippine Presidential Merit Award, 2007

Source:

https://www.philippineartgallery.com/romeo-tabuena.html

https://www.geringerart.com/artists/romeo-v-tabuena/

https://rogallery.com/Tabuena_Romeo/tabuena-biography.html

http://www.artnet.com/artists/romeo-v-tabuena/

image:

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Hilltown-Beat--Man-Smoking-a-Cigar-/E9BC44EB3EA734F5

http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Romeo_Villalva_Tabuena/10053010/Romeo_Villalva_Tabuena.aspx
Onib Olmedo

Onib Olmedo was a Filipino arti st best known for his expressionisti c fi gurati ve painti ngs. Along
with Solomon Saprid and Ang Kiukok he helped found the Filipino Expressionist movement. He
represented marginalized members of Filipino culture, including prosti tutes and musicians, using the
techniques of Cubism and Expressionism to contort their bodies and faces. . He illustrated The Body
Book (1993) by Gilda Cordero-Fernando. He created populist art and depicted the marginalized part of the society.

Born on July 7, 1937 in Manila, Philippines,he studied architecture in Mapúa Institute of Technology in
Manila he abandoned a career in architecture in 1970 to pursue his passion for
art. In 1970, he decided to shift from his 12-year career in architecture to painting
where he became a leading figure in Philippine expressionism. The arti st died on
September 8, 1996, in Manila, Philippines. Prior to his death Olmedo had
received criti cal acclaim for his work both in his country and abroad, appearing
in exhibiti ons such as the 1992 Cagnes-sur-Mer Internati onal Art
Competi ti on in France.
Figure 3: THE APARTMENT (1992), by Onib Olmedo.
Olmedo always created portraits that are eerie as they are
compelling. Time was when his colors were moody, dark, and often black. In the mid-1990s his colors have brightened up
a little, allowing a little sunlight into the interiors. Just like looking at Francesco Clemente’s equally distorted faces in the
late-90s, one can wallow for days in these mellower faces in domestic settings. The artist adheres to the Expressionist
bent, contorted, and bizarre for a normal person’s understanding of what a portrait is. With hollowed eyes and oblivious
to the viewer’s stares, the subject is caught in his inner world, soul searching in his reverie.

 Some of his famous works sold in auctions:

 woman on two chairs ,1990

 Sti ll Life , 1985

 Musicians , 1994

 Eve , 1989

 Adam , 1989

 Sidewalk Scene , 1974

 Seated Figure , 1974

 The Acti vists , 1985

 Face , 1987

 Woman with Glasses , 1987

 Flower Vendor
  Apartment

 Bionic Syndrome , 2016

Source

http://www.gallerybig.com/gallerybigonib.html

http://www.artnet.com/artists/onib-olmedo/

http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Onib_Olmedo/11058746/Onib_Olmedo.aspx

image:

https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/239427/paintings-with-no-apologies-onib-olmedo-toys-and-other-2016-manilart-wows/

https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/48799/the-onib-ties-daddy-bakit-ang-galing-mong-gumawa-ng-pangit/