Justine Peralta
2AD5 ARTHIST III
8 FILIPINO CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

1. Mauro “Malang” Santos

Mauro Santos started his career as plain “Malang,” illustrator-cartoonist for the Manila Chronicle and creator of two comic-strip characters, Kosme the Cop (Retired) and Chain Gang Charlie. The leap from illustrational art to lightweight genre painting was a felicitous one in his case. The temperas he exhibited at the Philippines Art Gallery in the late 1950s were miniatures blithely illustrating the urban folk, or rather the rustic folk caught up in the hassle of the big city. Quiapo traffic, Chinatown, corner sari-sari stores, calesas, jeepneys, an old turn-of-the-century house-all these and more he did with a miniaturist’s delight in the telling detail and an eye for the amusing and cute.

Woman Vendor, 1989 Mother and Child, 1971

2. Arturo Luz

Arturo Rogerio Luz is a Filipino painter, sculptor, and designer. He has done major artworks and is best known for his linear art and his painting series on street musicians, vendors, cyclists and carnival performers, also for his sculptures using wood, concrete and metal. When he started, he created figurative artworks, but went on to develop abstraction. He was considered as one of the Neo-Realists and the Thirteen Moderns. In 1997 he was named one of the National Artists of the Philippines.

Grey Performance, 1991 Boxes and Shells, 1997

3. Napoleon Abueva

Napoleón Isabelo Veloso Abueva, more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He was awarded National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.

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