Pacita Abad

Pacita Abad (1946-2004) was born in Basco, Batanes, a small island in the northernmost part of
the Philippines, between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more-than-thirty-year painting career began
when she journeyed to the United States to undertake graduate studies. After that trip, Pacita
never stopped traveling or painting. She studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art in
Washington D.C. and The Art Students League in New York City, and then started to “paint the
globe”, living on 5 different continents and working in more than 80 countries. Pacita’s extensive
travels to exotic destinations like Guatemala, Mexico, India, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Mali,
Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and Indonesia had a major impact on her life and art, and were
the inspiration for many ideas, techniques and materials in her paintings.

Juan Luna

Juan Luna was a distinguished Filipino painter born to Joaquin Luna and Laurena
Novicio on October 23, 1857 in Badoc, Ilocos Norte. He studied designing at the Academia
de Dibujo Y Pintura at the Ateneo de Manila. He entered Escuella de Bella Artes in Madrid
while he was on travel in Spain in 1877. The famous masterpieces that made Juan Luna a
renowned painter are The Death of Cleopatra, The Blood Compact and The Spolarium. The
Death of Cleopatra made him won the gold medal and was sold for 5000 pesetas in 1881.
Other remarkable works included:

• Ang Mestisa
• Ang Labanan sa Lepanto
• Ang Tagumpay ni Lapu-lapu
• Ang Aliping Bulag
• Ang Espanya sa Pilipinas

Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo

Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo was Filipino painter that sprung during the 19th century. He
was the third son among the seven children of Eduardo Resurrecccion Hidalgo and Maria
Barbara Padilla and was born on February 21, 1853 in Manila. He studied in the University
of Santo Tomas and simultaneously enrolled at the Escuella de Dibujo y Pintura. He
enrolled at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid. The following are
the masterpieces of Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo:
• Flora de Filipinas (Plants of the Philippines) - awarded second place for best cover
design for de Luxe edition.
• La Siesta (Nap in the afternoon) - a piece which was favorably reviewed in La
Ilustracion Espanola y Americana in 1881.
• Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho (The Christian virgins to the Populace)
- garnered the ninth silver medal award by the Exposicion General de Bells Artes in Madrid
in 1884.
• La Barca de Aqueronte (The Boat of Charon) - received a gold medal in the
international exposition in Madrid and was bought for 7500 pesetas by the Spanish
government.
• Laguna Estigia (The Styx)
• El Violinista - was accorded a gold medal at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis,
Missouri.

Victorio C. Edades
Victorio C. Edades became known as the "Father of Modern Philippine Painting"
because of his technique in painting in bold impasto stroke and his advocacy in creative
art. The themes illustrated in Edades' works featured laborers, simple folk and factory
workers and he preferred to use dark and sad colors contrasting to Amorsolo's technique.
He became the Dean of the University of Santo Tomas' Department of Achitecture in the
1930's. He was the one who introduced the liberal arts programs as part of the subjects in
foreign languages and art history that will lead to a degree of Bachelor in Fine Arts and
this made University of Santo Tomas the first Philippine art school. Edades invited Galo B.
Ocampo and Carlos "Botong" Francisco to teach in the university as professor artists. The
three piloted the growth of mural painting in the Philippines and would collectively be
known as the astounding "Triumvirate". When he retired from teaching he was recognized
as an outstanding "visionary, teacher and artist and was conferred honoris causa of
Doctor of Fine Arts. Among his works were:
• The artist and • Mother and
the Model Daughter
• Portrait of the • The Wrestlers
Professor
• Poinsettia Girl
• Japanese Girl

Angono Carlos "Botong" Francisco

The poet of Angono Carlos "Botong" Francisco revived

the forgotten art of mural painting. He was linked with the
"modernist" artist and also turned the rubbish of the
historic past into glowing records of legendary courage of
the ancestors. Francisco's trademark utilizing lush tropical
sense of color and faith in folk values made him known by
the townspeople of Angono. Major works of Carlos "Botong"
Francisco include:
• Portrait of Purita • The Martyrdom of
• The Invasion of Rizal
Limahong • Bayanihan
• Serenade • Magpupukot
• Muslim Betrothal • Fiesta
• Blood Compact • Bayanihan sa Bukid
• First Mass at • Sandugo
Limasawa
 Emmanuel F. Lacaba

Emmanuel Agapito Flores Lacaba was born on December

10, 1948, and died on March 18, 1976), popularly known as Eman
Lacaba, was a famous Filipino writer, poet, essayist, playwright,
fictionist, scriptwriter, songwriter and activist and he is
considered as the only poet warrior of the Philippines.

Emmanuel F. Lacaba has often been compared to the

French poet Arthur Rimbaud, a fact he himself alluded to in one of
his poems, "Open Letters to Filipino Artists", where he told of his
being called "the brown Rimbaud." The comparison stems from
the fact that he was, like Rimbaud, an enfant terrible, a literary
virtuoso at a very young age--he started writing poetry at 14—
and did so like a master even then. The similarity between them
became all the more striking when he lost his life without
reaching his fortieth year--just like Rimbaud.

Manuel Conde

Filipino Famous Artist Manuel Conde - Manuel Conde was

born on October 9, 1915 and died on August 11, 1985. Manuel
Conde was a Filipino actor, director and producer.

Manuel Conde was born as Manuel Urbano, his son is television

comedian Jun Urbano. Manuel Conde made his first film,
Mahiwagang Biyolin in 1935, and later signed signed a contract
with LVN Pictures, where he made almost three dozen films, both
as an actor and director. As an actor, Manuel Conde also used the
screen name Juan Urbano during the 1930s.

On December 26, 2007, the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP)

announced the winners of the 25th anniversary presentation of
the Luna Award before the actual awards night at the Club
Filipino, San Juan City on December 27. The Lamberto Avellana
Memorial Award will be awarded posthumously to Manuel Conde
and Vic Silayan.

Fabian de la Rosa
Fabian Cueto de la Rosa was born on May 5, 1869 and died on
December 14, 1937. Fabian de la Rosa was a Famous Filipino
painter. He was uncle and mentor to the Philippines' national
artist in painting, Fernando Amorsolo, and to his brother Pablo. He
is regarded as a “master of genre” in Philippine art.

His masterpieces are the following:

 
Women Working in a Pasay Beach, Manila,
Rice Field, 1902 1927
 
Transplanting Rice, Young Filipina, oil on
1904 canvas, 34.2 x 27.9
 cm, 1928 , Paulino
The Death of General Que Collection
Lawton, 1904 
 El kundiman (The
Un recuerdo de la Villa Kundiman), 1930
Borghese (A 
Remembrance of the Riverview of Sta. Ana,
Villa Borghese), 1909 48.2 x 64.5 cm, oil on
 canvas, 1938, UP
Planting Rice, 109.2 x Vargas Museum
190.6 cm, oil on Collection
canvas, 1921, National 
Museum Collection Marikina Road, ca.
 1939
Los Baños, watercolor, 
56.2 x 66.4 cm, 1922, Fishermen's Huts on
UP Vargas Museum Balut Island, Tondo
 
La pintora (Woman View of Santa Ana
Painter), 1926 
 Marikina Valley, oil on
La bordadora (The canvas, 39.3 x 50 cm,
Embroiderer), ca. 1926 undated, UP Vargas
 Museum Collection
Landscape with Dark
Trees, 1927
 Lamberto V. Avellana

Famous Filipino Artist: Lamberto Vera Avellana was born on

February 12, 1915 and died April 25, 1991. Lamberto V. Avellana
was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite
considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war
Filipino film industry, Lamberto V. Avellana's films such as Anak
Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim. In 1976,
Lamberto V. Avellana was named by President Ferdinand Marcos
as the very first National Artist of the Philippines for Film. While
Lamberto V. Avellana remains an important figure in Filipino
cinema, his reputation as a film director has since been eclipsed
by the next wave of Filipino film directors who emerged in the
1970s, such as Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.

Lamberto V. Avellana made his film debut with Sakay in 1939, a

biopic on the early 20th century Filipino revolutionary Macario
Sakay. The film was an immediate sensation, particularly
distinguished for its realism atypical of Filipino cinema. The
treatment of the subject remains a source of some controversy
today. Avellana's Sakay toed the line with the American-fostered
perception of Sakay as a mere bandit, different from the current-
day appreciation of Sakay as a fighter for Filipino independence.
Raymond Red's 1993 film, Sakay hews closer to this modern view
of Sakay. Interestingly, Leopoldo Salcedo, who played Sakay in
the 1939 Lamberto V. Avellana version, portrayed Sakay's father
in the 1993 version in his final film role.

Pol Medina, Jr.

Apolonio "Pol" Medina, Jr. was born April 6, 1960 is a Famous

Filipino Artist or cartoonist best known for creating Pugad Baboy,
a black-and-white comic strip first published in the Philippine
Daily Inquirer on May 18, 1988.

Pol Medina graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1983

with a degree in architecture. In 1985, a year after securing his
professional license, he went to Iraq at the height of the Iran–Iraq
War to work for an Italian construction company. It was at this
juncture that he experienced "the most maddening" two years of
his life.

In 1986, Pol Medina started scripting and drawing characters for a

new cartoon about a community of fatsos and a dog named
Polgas. In 1987, he worked as an architect for a firm in San Juan,
Metro Manila.

In September 1992, Pol Medina co-founded Pugad Baboy, Inc.

with seven other people. The company adopted Ad Astra Per
Aspera for its motto, inspired by Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-
winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Three years later, the
company folded when Pol Medina left in order pursue a career in
the advertising industry. Currently he has another company, Pol
Medina Jr. Novelties, dedicated to merchandise based on the
strip, including compilations.