CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPPINE ARTS
FROM THE REGIONS
Quarter 2 Week 4 Module 4 LESSON
2
ARTISTS FROM
PANGASINAN
1. VICTORIO EDADES
•On December 23, 1895,
• "Father of Modern Art in the Philippines"
•National Artist in 1976,
•born in Dagupan, Pangasinan.
•University of Washington in
Seattle, taking up architecture and
later earned a Master of Fine Arts
in Painting.
•he attended a travel art exhibition in
the U.S., featuring modern European
artists such as Cezanne, Matisse,
Picasso and the Surrealists.
•1928, conducted a one-man exhibit in
Ermita, with his 30 paintings, including
those which won acclaim in America. His
Builders is considered a masterpiece.
•1930, dean of the Department of
Architecture, University of Santos
Tomas (UST), where he stayed for
three full decades.
•he introduced a liberal arts program
that offered subjects as art history and
foreign languages that will lead to a
Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.
Among Edades' major works were:
• The Sketch, National Museum Collection, 1928;
• The Builders, 1928; Cultural Center of the Philippines
Collection, 1928;
• Interaction, with Carlos V. Francisco and Galo B.
Ocampo, 1935;
• Demoiselles Davao, 1976;
• Kasaysayan, a mural for a Manila bank, 1979.
His other achievements included:
• Pro Patria Award during the Rizal Centennial
Celebration in 1961;
• Araw ng Maynila Award in Painting in 1964;
• National Artist Award in Painting in 1976;
• Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa in
UST, 1977.
•He died on March 7, 1985 at the
age of 89. He was married to Jean
Garrott, an American who taught
English and drama at the
University of the Philippines.
•Friends of Victorio
C. Edades
Carlos "Botong" Francisco
Carlos "Botong" Francisco
•NATIONAL ARTIST, VISUAL ARTS
•Carlos V. Francisco (November 4, 1912 –
March 31, 1969), popularly known as
Botong, was a muralist from Angono,
Rizal.
Carlos "Botong" Francisco
• Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural
painting for many decades and best known for his
historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino
modernists along with Galo Ocampo
• and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando
Amorsolo's romanticism of Philippine scenes.
Galo B. Ocampo
Galo B. Ocampo (1913–1985)
• was a Filipino painter known for rejecting academic tradition and
embracing Western modernism. He worked as a curator for the
Presidential Museum at Malacañang Palace and was later appointed
director of the National Museum. Ocampo graduated from the School of
Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines. He later taught at the
University of Santo Tomas and, in 1971, he led the Department of Fine
Arts at Far Eastern University. Stylistically, his paintings showcase the
influence of Cubism, Surrealism, and Expressionism on his works
2. Juan S.P. Hidalgo, Jr.
2. Juan S.P. Hidalgo, Jr.
•award-winning Ilokano fictionist, essayist,
poet, translator and editor died from old
age complications on October 23, 2020 at
their family residence in Tomana, Rosales,
Pangasinan. He was 84.
•Hidalgo, who in 1961 joined the weekly
Ilokano language magazine Bannawag, as
Literary Editor, retired after 37 years as
Managing Editor in 1998.
•Founder of GUMIL Filipinas in 1968.
•He served as GUMIL’s Secretary General from
1976 to 1982 and as either Director or Adviser
in succeeding years.
•He was a regular lecturer or panelist of the
GUMIL annual literary seminars, including the
Pasnaan, the literary workshop for young
Ilokano writers.
•His awards included the Gawad
Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from the
Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas
(UMPIL), the Gawad CCP Pambansang
Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan, and Pedro
Bucaneg Awards for Ilokano Literature
from GUMIL Filipinas.
•Considered by his peers as a “prodigy in
Ilokano literature,” Hidalgo published in
1969 the now classic Ilokano anthology,
“Bituen ti Rosales ken Dadduma Pay a
Sarita” (“Star of Rosales and Other
Stories”), a collection of 20 selected short
stories.
• As editor and translator, he published anthologies of
selected Ilokano short stories and translated a
number of novels and short stories written in
German or Japanese into Ilokano.
• His work also appeared in various anthologies of
fiction and poetry written in Ilokano and translated
in Filipino, English, Bahasa-Indonesia and
Niponggo.
3. Cal Sobrepeña Calusa
[Link] Sobrepeña Calusa
•Felipe Sobrepeña Calusa
•born May 1, 1940, in
Pangasinan, Philippines) is a
Filipino comics artist.
Early life
• Sobrepeña was born in 1940 in Pangasinan, the only
child of Rufino Calusa and Teofila Sobrepeña. His
mother died during World War II when he was a
year old and his father was always working in the
woods because of the war, so he was left in the care
of aunts and relatives.
• After the war, his father began a job as a messenger at a
post office in Manila, and took him to live there.
Sobrepeña spent most of his teenage life at the Quezon
City High School in Kamuning, Quezon City. After high
school, he took up Fine Arts at the University of the
Philippines in Diliman. While in college, he also worked
as an illustrator at a local bookstore, providing the
drawings for textbooks used in elementary and high
schools.
Comic art
•After graduating from college, he got a small job at a local publishing
company, drawing the characters of Francisco Balagtas' novel Florante at
Laura. He then applied as an illustrator at several comic book publishers
including Graphic Arts Services, Inc. (GASI), Atlas Publication, Islas
Filipinas Publishing Company and ACE Publication, working in the
industry for many years. He was given an award for "Best Komiks
Illustrator" for his illustrations on the cover of Lovelife Komiks.
•Among his works were Karpov, Darmo Kandado, Vertud and Children's
Bible sa Wikang Filipino.