National artists for visual arts

 Fernando C. Amorsolo
 Benedicto “BenCab” Reyes Cabrera
 Victorio C. Edades
 Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco
 Jose T. Joya
 Ang Kiukok
 Cesar Legaspi
 Arturo R. Luz
 Vicente S. Manansala
 J. Navarro Elizalde
 Hernando R. Ocampo

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972) was one of the most important artists
in the history of painting in the Philippines.[2] Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine
landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera (born April 10, 1942), better known as "BenCab",[1] is
a Filipino painter and was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in
2006.[2] He has been noted as "arguably the best-selling painter of his generation of Filipino artists.
Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural painting for many decades and best known
for his historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino modernists along with Galo
Ocampo and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando Amorsolo's romanticism of
Philippine scenes. According to restorer Helmuth Josef Zotter, Francisco's art "is a prime example of
linear painting where lines and contours appear like cutouts."[3]
He was responsible for the discovery of the now famous Angono Petroglyphs in 1965. He was also
involved in Costume Design in Philippine cinema.
Victorio C. Edades (December 23, 1895 – March 7, 1985) was a Filipino painter. He led the
revolutionary Thirteen Moderns, who engaged their classical compatriots in heated debate over the
nature and function of art. He was named a National Artist in 1976.
Arturo Rogerio Luz (born November 20, 1926) is a Philippine National Artist awardee in visual arts.
He is also a known printmaker, sculptor, designer and art administrator. A founding member of the
modern Neo-realist school in Philippine art, he received the National Artist Award, the country's
highest accolade in the arts, in 1997.[1]
Luz has produced art pieces through a disciplined economy of means. His early drawings were
described as "playful linear works" influenced by Paul Klee. His best masterpieces are minimalist,
geometric abstracts, alluding to the modernist "virtues" of competence, order and elegance; and
were further described as evoking universal reality and mirrors an aspiration for an acme of true
Asian modernity.[
Jerry Navarro Elizalde (22 May 1924 – 10 June 1999) was a Philippine artist.[1] He studied in
the University of the Philippines, Manila as a Ramon Roces Publication Scholar in 1947. The
following year he transferred to the University of Santo Tomas, he studied fine arts with a major in
painting. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951. While studying at the university he was also
an art editor for the university newspaper The Varsitarian.[2][3][4] His wife is sculptor Virginia Ty-
Navarro.
Being a young artist, Navarro was very passionate to create a new way of art. He experimented
different kinds of painting using oil, acrylic, watercolor. He also tried making sculpture and mixed
media. He uses the "incision painting" this method is applied on the stop surface by carving out the
artist’s desired pattern on the stone materials and layering paint or plaster on the stone surface.

The visual arts are art forms such

as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, craft
s, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts also
involve aspects of visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts[1] are
the applied arts[2] such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior
design and decorative art.