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    Mauro "Malang" Santos is a renowned Filipino painter born in 1928 in Manila. He studied drawing as a child and briefly attended the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts before joining the staff of the Manila Chronicle art department in 1947. Malang was tutored by painter Hernando Ocampo and went on to help establish the Bughouse gallery for cartoonists. He held his first solo exhibit in 1962 and was influenced by Western artists like Klee and Van Gogh as well as Filipino artists such as Manansala. Malang is known for his experimental style that incorporates cubism and abstraction and has received many awards, including the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Gawad para sa Sining

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    Mauro "Malang" Santos is a renowned Filipino painter born in 1928 in Manila. He studied drawing as a child and briefly attended the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts before joining the staff of the Manila Chronicle art department in 1947. Malang was tutored by painter Hernando Ocampo and went on to help establish the Bughouse gallery for cartoonists. He held his first solo exhibit in 1962 and was influenced by Western artists like Klee and Van Gogh as well as Filipino artists such as Manansala. Malang is known for his experimental style that incorporates cubism and abstraction and has received many awards, including the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Gawad para sa Sining

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    Mauro "Malang" Santos is a renowned Filipino painter born in 1928 in Manila. He studied drawing as a child and briefly attended the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts before joining the staff of the Manila Chronicle art department in 1947. Malang was tutored by painter Hernando Ocampo and went on to help establish the Bughouse gallery for cartoonists. He held his first solo exhibit in 1962 and was influenced by Western artists like Klee and Van Gogh as well as Filipino artists such as Manansala. Malang is known for his experimental style that incorporates cubism and abstraction and has received many awards, including the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Gawad para sa Sining

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    MAURO MALANG SANTOS

    Born on January 20, 1928 in Sta. Cruz, Manila and grew up in


    Singalong

    Son of Dan Santos and Juliana Malang

    Married to Mary San Pedro

    Has four children, two of whom are painters-Steve Santos and


    Soler Santos

    At the age of 10 he studied drawing under Teodoro Buenaventura

    Spent one term at the University of the Philippines School of Fine


    Arts

    You dont really have to learn what you feel from books What I
    would have learned at Fine Arts School, I learned in 20 years at the
    Chronicle, thats why I call it Chronicle College. -Malang

    When he was 19 he decided to stop schooling and joined the


    staff of the Manila Chronicle art department under noted
    cartoonist Liborio (Gat) Gatbonton and its supplement This Week
    magazine.

    He was tutored by another self-taught painter from Santa Cruz,


    Manila, Hernando R. Ocampo who at that time was the editor of
    This Week magazine.

    Malang recalls that before Ocampo goes home he would usually


    toss a set of paint to him and say O Malang, magpinta ka.

    Went to Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California for further


    training

    1955 Along with his fellow cartoonist Liborio Gatbonton, Hugo


    Yonzon and Larry Alcala, Malang helped establish Bughouse, a
    gallery specially for cartoonists.

    1957 made his first mural, Barrio Fiesta for the Insular Life
    Building with help from Pepito Blanco, who taught him how to
    mix oil paint.

    1962 Malang had his first one-man exhibit at Lyd Aguillas


    Philippine Art Gallery
    He exhibited small works of pen-and-ink cartoons on white

    backgrounds and it was Manansala who took him aside and advised
    him that his works with look better set against color.

    It was Manansala, along with the influences of favorite Western


    artists like Paul Klee and Vincent van Gogh that helped mold the
    Malang style.

    Para akong embudo. I take this influences and distill what I feel to be
    Malang Anything that is good for me, I accept -Malang

    January 1991 he held a landmark exhibit of 28 works to signal a


    spontaneous plunge into a new abstract phase. For Malang it was
    a tribute to the Creator.

    Malangs sources of inspirations:

    His mother

    Working with print media

    God

    Awards and Recognition

    1963 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines Award

    1963 First Prize for Watercolor at the Art Association of the


    Philippines

    1964 - Artist of the year from the Society of Philippine Illustrators


    and Cartoonists

    1981- Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan from the City of Manila

    1994 Cultural Center of the Philippines Gawad para sa Sining


    for Visual Arts

    From Malang..

    He hopes that the next generation of Filipino artists will seek


    more guidance from Oriental rather than Western painting
    traditions, as he feels his generation has failed to do.

    Style of painting

    Malang belongs to the second generation of modernist painters

    He can also be considered a cubist and an abstract artist

    He likes experimenting in colors

    Kosme 1958, which Malang now presents, is a bit of history, a bit


    of commentary on the current life, a bit of prognostication, a bit
    of whimsy, a bit of day-dreaming, a bit of frustration, a bit of the
    Filipino life of the here and there - but every bit of it is humor
    rendered even more humorous because of Malang's love for the
    Filipino and the understanding of the things they do, the wise as
    well as the foolish, especially the foolish.

    After a couple of months, the character retired from duty, and


    became known as 'Kosme the Cop (retired)

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