This document provides information on several notable Filipino modern artists and their works, including Jose Joya, Vicente Silva Manansala, Mauro Malang Santos, Hernando Ruiz Ocampo, Robert Rodrigues Chabet, and Ibarra Dela Rosa. It describes each artist's background, artistic styles and techniques, including abstract expressionism, cubism, cartoons, illustrations, and impressionism. It also mentions some of the artists being awarded as National Artists of the Philippines for their significant contributions to Filipino visual arts.

1. Filipino Modern Artists
and Their Works

3. National Artist, visual arts, 2003. Is a
foremost Filipino abstract painter.
He said “Its useless to try to make out
familiar objects in my paintings”

4. Jose Joya
• was born on June 3, 1931 and died on May
11, 1995.
• He was a Filipino abstract artist and a National
Artist of the Philippines awardee.
• A printmaker, painter, mixed media artist, and
a former dean of the University of the
Philippines College of Fine Arts.
• He is a proponent and follower of Abstract
Expressionism in the Philippines.
• His art composition were characterized by
“dynamic spontaneity” and “quick gestures” of
action painting.

7. Vicente Silva Manansala (January 22, 1910
– August 22, 1981)
• was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator.
• His paintings depict a nation in transition, an
allusion to the new culture brought by the
Americans.
• Manansala together with Fabian de la Rosa are
among the best-selling Philippine artists in the
West.

8. National artist. Visual arts.1981.
Invested in each human figure with inner
fortitude, making each one a stoic figure of
human dignity.

13. Mauro Malang Santos (January 20, 1928 – June 10, 2017)
• commonly known by the mononym Malang,
• a Filipino and award-winning cartoonist, illustrator,
and fine arts painter.

14. His work are regarded as original approach
to figurative painting.

15. Hernando Ruiz Ocampo
• (April 28, 1911 –
December 28, 1978)
• was a Filipino National
Artist in the visual arts.
• he is also fictionist, a
playwright and editor.

18. ROBERT RODRIGUES CHABET
• Was born on march 29, 1937
• Died on April 30, 2013
• He was a Filipino artist and widely acknowledge
as the “father of Philippine Conceptual Art.
• He is a follower of cubism and dadaism which
serve as his guiding principles.

19. National artist. Visual arts,1991
Aimed to de-emphasize a life like
representation with the natural world.
He was interested in how
shapes,values,textures and lines interact with
one another in space rather that capturing a
realistic semblance of nature.

22. IBARRA DELA ROSA
• Was born in 1943 and died in 1998
• He was a Filipino modern and contemporary
painter and a foremost exponent of meticulous
impressionism in the Philippines.
• His subject gives him a basic pattern that allows
him see the effects of different color combinations
– how essentially the same scene could bring out
the same mood, an ever – changing feeling.