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Philippine Contemporary Art in The Modern Era
Philippine Contemporary Art in The Modern Era
CONTEMPORARY ART IN
THE MODERN ERA
Modern Art in the Philippines
Jose T. Joya
Vicente Manansala
Napoleon Abueva
Carlos “Botong” Francisco
Mauro Malang Santos
Hernando R. Ocampo
Prudencio L. Lamarrosa
Jose T. Joya
National Artist, Visual Arts, 2003
Foremost Filipino Abstract painter
He said “ Its useless to try to make out
familiar objects in my paintings”.
How he paints is, “I squeeze my paint tubes
directly throw my paints is calculated
gestures, swirl my loaded brushes, slash my
paint paste with spatula and hurl it on my
canvass in a wild attempt to depict the on-
rushing tempo of the present jet-age
modernity.
Vicente Manansala