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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE
ARTS
“THE ART PROTIS OF

FEDERICO AGUILAR ALCUAZ:
AN EXHIBITION OF HIS FABRIC
WORK FROM THE GSIS
COLLECTION”
Ynigo Escano
BA Organizational Communication
Abstraction & Modernism
 “seamless interconnection of
colored wool fleeces.”
 Attaching fleece fabric onto a
foundation fabric
 Art Protis is a textile and
collage technique. It is a
method that allows for free-
form art. It was created by a
team in the Wool Research
Institute of Czechoslovakia in
the nineteen sixties. It was
easy and quick to produce.
Art Protis is a method that can
be used in fashion and
creating wall art
Artist/s featured & artist’s background
 Federico Aguilar Alcuaz was born on June 6, 1932 in Santa Cruz, Manila.
According to the National Museum of Fine Arts,in the 1950s, he studied fine
arts in the University of the Philippines Diliman under the guidance of
Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino while pursuing a law degree in
Ateneo de Manila on Padre Faura Street. He is recognized for his abstract
and modernist artworks. According to federicoaguilaralcuaz.com, he
gained recognition due to his victories in several art competitions such as the
1953 UP Art Competition and the 1954 Shell Art Competition. In 1955, he
was able to obtain a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to study in Madrid’s Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
after earning an Associate of Arts degree in San Beda University.
 He was awarded the French Order of Genius in 1964. He was proclaimed
a National Artist for Visual Arts in 2009 and was given the Presidential
Medal of Merit by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2007.
Artworks featured
FEDERICO AGUILAR ALCUAZ
FEDERICO AGUILAR ALCUAZ (1932-2011) National Artist for Visual Arts (2009)
(1932-2011) National Artist for Visual Arts (2009)
Green Earth
1970, Manila
Reencuentro U
Pressed dyed wool
1980, Barcelona
Produced in the Art Protis textile factory, Brno, Czechoslovakia
Pressed dyed wool (now Czech Republic)
Produced in the Art Protis textile factory, Brno, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
"Show Window"
1980, Barcelona
Pressed Dyed Wool
Produced in the Art Protis textile factory, Brno,
Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
"Show Window" is reminiscent of Aguilar

Alcuaz's cubist-inspired paintings only this time, it
is of large scale and made of Art Protis textile.
"Show Window" does not realistically depict
anything The artwork is composed of large
defined shapes with blurred edges and lines. The
prominent and obvious shapes used are curved
rectangles and triangles. The colors used are
yellow, black, white and green. The muted
greens and yellows are analogous to each other
on the color wheel, adding to the harmony of the
artwork's color palette. These colors give the
artwork a vibrant tone rather than a warm or
cool tone. Aguilar Alcuaz uses these 4 simple
colors but applies color gradience in several
parts of the artwork. Much of the yellows and
whites fade to black. There is an asymmetrical
balance of elements in the artwork. There is no
particularly dominant element in the artwork
because of the liveliness to be found in each
corner of the piece. The artwork uses several
repeating patterns with no particular rhythm. The
top portion of the artwork uses patterns of
horizontal and vertical lines on blocks of white,
while a pattern of gradient yellow and black
rectangles is prominent on the bottom.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE
ARTS
"SOCIAL AND POLITICAL

COMMENTARY AFTER THE
1970S"
Ynigo Escano
BA Organizational Communication
Theme
The gallery features artworks that

are commentaries on the
Philippines' social and political
climate during and after the
nineteen seventies. A prominent
theme of the gallery is bondage. It
discusses The scenes represented by
some featured artworks include
martial law desaparecidos,
overseas Filipino workers leaving
their families behind and everyday
Filipino workers working for
bourgeois compradors.
Pablo Baens Santos (Born 1943)

COMPRADOR
1978
Oil on canvas
Papo de Asis (1949-2005)

THIRD WORLD
1983
Oil on canvas
Artists featured and background
 Edgar Talusan Fernandez was  Orlando Castillo was a Filipino

born in 1955. He earned a painter born in 1947. The
degree in advertising in 1975 at subjects of most of his paintings
the Philippine Women's University are Filipino cultural scenes, such
from the College of Music and as fishermen and mother-and-
Fine Arts. He is known for realistic son. According to the account of
representational art and a previous martial law detainee
abstraction. He is a decorated named Butch Dalisay (My past as
watercolorist and recipient of the a printmaker, 2018), Orlando
Cultural Center of the Philippines' Castillo was arrested for alleged
"13 Artists Award" in 1990 military subversion. According to
(Hiraya Gallery, n.d.). Jennifer Hasso (Social Protest in
Art, n.d.), Castillo was one of the
founding members of the
Concerned Artists of the
Philippines.
Artworks Featured
Edgar Talusan Fernandez Orlando Castillo
"Bihag" "Justice Under Martial Law"
1985 1980
Oil on Canvas Pastel on Paper
Edgar Talusan Fernandez
"Travel Immigree, Kalutasan"
1981
Acrylic on canvas
"Kalutasan" is a Filipino word that means solution. The

painting depicts a mother hesitant to leave her country
and family behind for the sake of earning more in a
foreign country. It depicts the Philippine economic
staple of Overseas Filipino Workers. The painting uses
a one-point perspective. Lines stretch from the center
outward to the corners of the painting to show depth.
The perspective of the staircase denotes the painting's
upward direction. The painter used dark values of
warm colors and smooth flat textures. The painting has
a symmetrical balance of elements. Not much of the
elements of the painting contrast each other because
of the heavy use of a dark red hue. There is not much
alternation or variation in the artwork. It is a very still
and solemn scene. The largest and most dominant
parts of the painting are the long and tall walls that
lead to the mother's point of departure. The
intimidating hallway dominates the painting, much like
how the mother's predicament and it consequences are
intimidating. The unity of the painting’s elements is
evident because of the point-of-view, colors used and
symmetry.

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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE

“THE ART PROTIS OF

"Show Window" is reminiscent of Aguilar

"SOCIAL AND POLITICAL

The gallery features artworks that

Pablo Baens Santos (Born 1943)

Papo de Asis (1949-2005)

 Edgar Talusan Fernandez was  Orlando Castillo was a Filipino

"Kalutasan" is a Filipino word that means solution. The

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