Philippine Contemporary Art

Abstract Art

- A recreation of a subject matters shapes and colors so

that it becomes unrecognizable and non-objective

Cubism

- The breaking down of an object into rectangular or

square cubes through color transparency and overlapping

rendetions

- Purita Villanueva Kalaw-Ledesma was a patron of the arts and

founder of the Art Association of the Philippines (AAP). She is a

businesswoman and an art collector in 1948.

Purita Kalaw Ledesma

In the first art competition of the Art Association of the Philippines

(AAP), six major prizes were won by the modernists. The next three

years of AAP competitions were a repeat of the first competition arousing hostilities from the

conservative group led by Fernando Amorsolo and Tolentino.

The following are the Artists and their contributions of the Philippine Contemporary Art

Vicente Manansala

*Cubism

Balut Vendors

Luksong Taga

Nena Saguil

Rice Pounding

Hernando Ocampo

Mutant Series

Ang Kiukok

Jose Joya

Jose Tanig Joya was born in Manila on June 3, 1931, the son of Jose Joya Sr.

and Asuncion.He graduated from the University of the Philippines (UP) in 1953 with a

bachelor's degree in fine arts, earning the distinction of being the

university's first magna cum laude.

In 1954 to 1955, the Instituto de Cultura Hispanica of the Spanish government

awarded him a painting grant in Madrid. A year later he finished his master's degree in painting under a Fulbright

Smith-Mundt grant. He also received a grant from the John D. Rockefeller III Fund and Ford Foundation to paint in

New York, from 1967 to 1969.

Imelda Cajipe-Endaya

The Good Woman

Manuel Baldemor

Family Calcutta

Benedicto Cabrera

The Huntress

Nunelucio Alvarado

Isda sa Dughan

Edgar Talusa Fernandez

The Present

Napoleon Abueva

In 1976, Napoleon V. Abueva, then 46, was the youngest Filipino to become a National Artist.

Known as the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture, he is a master in both academic

representational style and modern abstract. His works have been executed using almost all kinds of materials, including hard wood like

molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil, kamagong, palm wood and bamboo, adobe, metal, stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster, coral, and brass. He even combines different materials, like wood with metal and stone. 

Under a Pura Villanueva-Kalaw Scholarship, Abueva graduated from the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts in 1953 with a

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture. He received much recognition as early as his college years,

during which he was mentored by Guillermo Tolentino, the first National Artist for Sculpture and creator of the UP Oblation. For three years

in a row (1951-1953), he won first prize and best entry awards in sculpture in the Art Association of the Philippines annual competition. One of his

works from this period is the Kagampan or Kaganapan, which is considered most

representative of his work. He also received recognition in the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ International Sculpture Competition in London, England for The Unknown Political

Prisoner. 

Kagampan UP Oblation

Ramon Orlina’s Undying Love

Pablo Mahinay’s Wood Sculpture

Lamberto Hechanova’s

Man and Woman

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