Lesson 2:

TOPIC:
Famous Filipino Painter
BENEDICTO REYES CABRERA--- ‘BENCAB’
• PERSONAL INFORMATION

▪ Birthdate: April 10, 1942.

▪ Born in Malabon, Philippines
▪ His parents: Democrito Cabrera and Isabel
Reyes
▪ He was the youngest of nine children.
BenCab's first exposure and discovery of the arts
happened through his elder Brother Salvador, who
was already an established artist during Bencab's
childhood.

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BENEDICTO REYES CABRERA--- ‘BENCAB’
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENT

▪ National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts

(Painting) in 2006

▪ "Arguably the best-selling painter of his

generation of Filipino artists."

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DAMIAN DOMINGO PERSONAL INFORMATION

▪Date of birth: 1796

▪Birthplace: Tondo, Manila
▪An era-defining artist known mainly
for his delightful costume albums and
brilliant religion paintings

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 AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENT

▪ First Filipino master of the portrait;

Damian Domingo
▪ First Great Filipino Painter
▪ Father of Filipino Painting
▪ Art teacher and director of the FIRST Philippine art
academy.
▪ First Filipino to paint his face
▪ First Filipino painter immersed in the western
techniques of painting.

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Damian Domingo was a
Chinese Filipino painter who was
the first Filipino painter to paint
his self-portrait

The western techniques of painting

adapt by Damian Domingo

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Damian Domingo

•La Sagrada Familia

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EDUARDO MASFERRÉ
▪ (1909–1995) was a Filippino-Catalan
photographer who made important documentary
reports about the lifestyle of the people of the
Philippine Cordillera in the middle of the 20th
century.
• Birthplace: Sagada in the Mountain Province
• Eduardo Masferré is an artist who did the right
thing at the right time for the right reasons
▪ Father of Philippine Photography

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FÉLIX RESURRECCIÓN HIDALGO
Felix R. Hidalgo was the third of
seven children of Eduardo
Resurrection Hidalgo, lawyer, and
Maria Barbara Padilla, entrepreneur.

Hidalgo received a gold medal for

his overall participation at the
Universal Exposition in St Louis,
Missouri in 1904.

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Artworks of Felix Hidalgo

▪“Las Virgenes Cristianas

Expuestas al Populacho” (The
Christian Virgins Exposed to the
Populace)

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 Artworks of Felix Hidalgo
▪ “La Barca de Aqueronte” (The
Boat of Charon),1887

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 Artworks of Felix Hidalgo
▪“Laguna Estigia” (The
Styx)

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 Artworks of Felix Hidalgo

▪Adios al Sol”
(Farewell to, the
Sun)

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 Artworks of Felix Hidalgo

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FERNANDO CUETO AMORSOLO

▪ Birthdate: May 30, 1892

▪ Birthplace: Paco, Manila
▪ One of five brothers, Fernando grew up in
Daet, Camarines Norte, until moving to
Manila upon the death of his father. Before
he passed away, Amorsolo’s father Pedro
had made his wife promise to give Fernando
a proper art education.

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FERNANDO CUETO AMORSOLO

▪From the 1950s onward, Amorsolo

created an average of 10 paintings per
month.

▪His painting was “overflow with

sweetness and optimism”

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Paintings of Fernando Amorsolo
▪ Planting Rice

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Paintings of Fernando Amorsolo
▪ Dalagang-Bukid

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 Sunday Morning

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 JOSE JOYA ▪ Born June 3, 1931 in Manila

▪ -a pioneer modern and abstract artist

▪ -“spearheaded the birth, growth and

flowering of abstract expressionism”

▪ National Artist of the Philippines for

Visual Arts in 2001

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 JOSE JOYA artwork

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JUAN NOVICIO LUNA
▪“Spoliarium” Juan Novicio Luna,
as masterpiece created in 1884.

▪It is one of the prize possessions of

the Philippine National Museum
today.
▪He called his artwork
▪“The Glorification of Genius.”

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 Contemporary Painting of the Filipino

RONALD VENTURA
▪Complex style and symbolic
identity of the Philippines

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 Contemporary Painting of the Filipino

RONALD VENTURA
▪Complex style and symbolic
identity of the Philippines

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 Contemporary Painting of the Filipino

RONALD VENTURA
▪Complex style and symbolic
identity of the Philippines

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 Contemporary Painting of the Filipino

RONALD VENTURA
▪Complex style and symbolic
identity of the Philippines

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Ending!