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Pop art, mixed-media installations, modern art, figurative art, conceptual art Anton Del Castillo (born in 1976 in Tondo , Manila, Philippines) is a multi-awarded and critically acclaimed Filipino visual artist known for the stunning craftsmanship and meticulous design of his artworks that meditate on critiques of modernism and contemporary ...
He also created albums of illustrations of native costumes. This he did primarily to sell to collectors. Such skills made Domingo one of the most famous and sought-after artists of his time in the Philippines. Domingo is regarded highly in the history of Filipino art and is credited with establishing academic courses in art in the Philippines. [2]
Santiago was born in Irosin, Sorsogon on November 27, 1951. [2] He started his painting career when he entered college in 1971 at age 17 and finished his college education at the University of Santo Tomas College of Architecture and Fine Arts in Manila, with a degree in painting in 1978.
A host of mythological creatures occur in the mythologies from the Philippines. Philippine mythological creatures are the mythological beasts, monsters, and enchanted beings of more than 140 ethnic groups in the Philippines. Each ethnic people has their own unique set of belief systems, which includes the belief in various mythological creatures.
Nemesio Miranda Jr. was born in Angono, Rizal on February 14, 1949. He began drawing at age five and was inspired by Filipino comic books illustration Francisco Coching and later by the Filipino muralist Botong Francisco. At age 15, 1964, he received 1st place in Shankar’s International Competition in Painting on New Delhi, India.
Letras y figuras (Spanish, "letters and figures") is a genre of painting pioneered by José Honorato Lozano during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. The art form is distinguished by the depiction of letters of the alphabet using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called ...
Filimon "Fil" Delacruz (born 1950) is a National artist nominee, visual artist and a master printmaker who specializes in mezzotint prints, a printmaking process used to achieve producing half tones without the use of line or dot based techniques such as hatching, stippling and pointillism.
Like other Filipino realist painters, he retained Amorsolo's influence, particularly in the use of light. [2] While American realism focused on banality, Leynes and other Filipino realists depict romantic scenes in painstaking detail. [1] Right now, the Magic Realism in the Philippines is slightly different. It has a local effect.