Famous Filipino Painters and Composerslausagorre

Famous Filipino Famous Filipino
Painters Composers
• Felix Resurrecion • Col. Antonio
Hidalgo Buenaventura
• Juan Luna
• Lucresia R. Kasilag
• Fernando Amorsolo
• Felipe Padilla de Leon
• Vicente Manansala
• Carlos “Botong” V.
• Antonio Molina
Francisco
• Lucio D. San Pedro
• Mauro Malang Santos
• Jose Joya
Famous Filipino
Painters
Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo (1855-
1913)
• He won a silver medal for his entry in large canvas, Christian

Virgins Exposed to the Populace ( Las Virgenes Cristianas
Expuestas al Populacho) at the Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts.
• In Paris, he painted Charon’s Boat and Oedipus and Antigone.
• His Sunrise (1985) revealed his ingenuity in painting landscape
and seascapes.
• The Artist’s Mother (1888) was one of the two portraits he did
for his mother to Paris.
Juan Luna (1857-1899)
• After he won a gold medal in the 1984 Madrid Exposition, he moved to Paris and
stayed in an apartment close to the hidalgo’s. Before his marriage to Maria de la
Paz de Tavera, he visited The Hague and the seacost of Scheveningen.
• In this place, he wrote two masterpieces: The Dream of Love, a sensuous portrait
of his sleeping wife Paz, whom he suspected of infidelity and shot to death in a
jealous rage in 1872 and the celebrated Tampuhan, which he painted on his return
to the Philippines.
• The Lady with Guitar was painted shortly after he was granted pardon by Alfonso
XIII for his involvement in the Philippine revolution.
• After an absence of 17 years, he painted Houses by a Narrow Road.
• He died in Hong Kong at the age of 41.
Fernando Amorsolo (1892-
1972)
• Fernando Amorsolo was a National Artist Awardee, in his golden years

(1920-1945) he reaped various honors.
• After he went to Madrid in 1917 to study museum classics, his first
portrait upon return to Manila was that of his wife Salud.
• He exhibited 40 of his genres and landscape at the Art Center of New York
in 1925. In 1939, he submitted his entry Afternoon Meal of the Rice
Workers at the New York World’s Fair where he was acclaimed the best by
popular vote.
• Amorsolo was also appointed as Director of the School of Fine Arts of the
University of the Philippines. He also did splendid illustration work in
Graphics, Liwayway, Sunday Tribune, Tagalog novels such as Madaling
Araw and Parusa ng Bayan, and posters and brochures.
• He painted acclaimed masterpieces like The Blind Man, The Burning of
Manila, Antipolo, and Dalagang Bukid, among others.
Vicente Manansala (1910-1981)
• He was one of the most popular progressive artists in the country.

• He was a former student of Cubist Fernand Leger and was respected by
his peers because of the intellectual underpinnings of his art.
• Before his death, he painted Give Me This Diary, a glimpse of his kind of
cubism, in which some sides of objects are sharply cut into curved or
angular form to catch the light vibrantly.
• He was given a posthumous recognition as National Artist in 1982.
Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco (1912-1969)
• He was one of the best mural artists the country has ever had. In his
paintings, he featured Filipinos living in the provincial towns and barrios.
• He also painted vital events in Philippine history. The mural paintings he did
were not only on Christian lowlanders but on Muslims and other cultural
communities as well.
• Returning point of Botong’s painting career was winning the first prize at the
first competition of the Art Association of the Philippines in 1948 for his
entry Kaingin. Filipino Struggle Through History, a mural gracing walls of
Manila City Hall, was one of his major works.
• He stayed permanently in Angono where he became the first major regional
artist. In Angono, he refined the style he had made his own, his personal
version of Post-Impression grafted into the Philippines context.
Mauro Malang Santos (1928)
• He was an illustrator-cartoonist for the Manila Chronicle and creator of

comic strip, Kosme the Cop (Retired) and Chain Gang Chronicle. In the
1960s, he emerged as a serious artist with a knack in abstract painting.
• His illustration of Ang Kuikok formed the basis of a style in its enumeration
of images, range of warm color, and evocation of joyous parochialism.
Jose Joya (1931-1995)
• He is graduated as a Magna Cum Laude at the University of the

Philippines in 1953. He was also a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship
at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957. By the late 1950s, he had
immersed himself on new idioms of contemporary art through the print
media and regular exhibitions at the Philippine Art Gallery.
• His style evolved, he was later identified as a serious artist. After his
return from the Venice Biennale, Joya painted a few vibrant works with
dramatic contrasts of color and dynamic lines. In the 1960, he started to
apply paint more thinly on canvas; the form grew increasingly geometric
with circles as the main motifs.
FAMOUS
FILIPINO
COMPOSERS
Col. Antonio Buenaventura (1904-1996)
In 1973, he was commissioned into the military service and later

became music instructor and band conductor of the PMA in Baguio
City.
Col. Antonio Buenaventura obtained a Teacher’s Diploma in
Composition and Conducting from the University of the
Philippines and later on became a faculty member of the UP
Conservatory of Music. He later on reorganized the world famous
Philippine Constabulary Band and appointed as assistant conductor
of Manila Symphony Orchestra. He also organized the UP Junior
Orchestra and the UE Student Symphony Orchestra and was a
member of the UP President’s Committee on Folk Songs and
Dances.
Col. Antonio Buenaventura composed short piano pieces, hymns
and songs, pieces for the band, chamber music, chorus and
orchestra, music pieces, and theater music.
Lucresia R. Kasilag ( 1917-2008)
Lucresia R. Kasilag obtained a Music Teacher’s Diploma major in

Piano from ST. Scholastica’s College in 1939 and a Bachelor of
Music major in piano from the Philippine Women’s University in
1949. She was a scholarship grantee of the Fulbright Foundation at
the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester in New York,
where she finished a Master of Music degree major in theory and
minor in composition. She later became the administrator of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Felipe Padilla de Leon (1912-1992)
He was a composer, conductor, and a former student of Col. Antonio

Buenaventura at the UP Conservatory of Music. After graduation in
1939, he as appointed assistant instructor at the UP Department of
Science and Composition where he taught history and music
subjects.
He became a technical assistant on cultural affairs in the Office of the

President of the Philippines. He was President of the Filipino Society
of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; President of the
Pambansang Samahan ng mga Banda sa Pilipinas and the Diwa ng
Nuweba Esiha; trustee of the Music Promotion Foundation of the
Philippines; and director of the SONGFEST Philippins and the Felin
Institute of the Philippines.
Antonio Molina (1894- 1980)
He was born in 1894, was a faculty member of the UP Conservatory

of the Music where he taught harmony, compositions, and music
history as well as violoncello. He was a conductor in the concert stage
of various schools, church choirs, orchestras, bands, and rondallas. He
composed the zarzuela Ate Maria and Hatinggabi. Molina was a
member of the UP President’s Committee on Filipino Folksongs and
Dnaces and Secretary of the Conservatory of Music.
Aside from a being soloist and composer, he also received honors as a

conductor of the Monserrat Philharmonic Band, the Yellow Taxi
Orchestra, and Yellow Taxi Rondalla and the operas Madame
Butterfly, La Giaconda, La Fuerza del Destino, and Cavalleria
Rusticana.
Lucio D. San Pedro (1912-2002)
He was born in 1913. He marriedGertudes Diaz with whom he had 5

children. During his graduation in Grade VII, he played the Poet and
Peasant Overture on the banjo. He started composing songs in
college and conducted the UP ROTC Band. He was assistant
conductor and later, conductor of the Musical Philippines
Philharmonic Orchestra and a musical presented at the Metropolitan
Theatre. He won many prizes for his works. He was connected with
major conservatories in the country and wrote sacred and secular
vocal music, overtures, tones, poems, symphonic poems, and
quarters.

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Famous Filipino Famous Filipino

• He won a silver medal for his entry in large canvas, Christian

• Fernando Amorsolo was a National Artist Awardee, in his golden years

• He was one of the most popular progressive artists in the country.

• He was an illustrator-cartoonist for the Manila Chronicle and creator of

• He is graduated as a Magna Cum Laude at the University of the

In 1973, he was commissioned into the military service and later

Lucresia R. Kasilag obtained a Music Teacher’s Diploma major in

He was a composer, conductor, and a former student of Col. Antonio

He became a technical assistant on cultural affairs in the Office of the

He was born in 1894, was a faculty member of the UP Conservatory

Aside from a being soloist and composer, he also received honors as a

He was born in 1913. He marriedGertudes Diaz with whom he had 5

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