Philippine contemporary art includes styles like abstract art and cubism. Purita Kalaw Ledesma founded the Art Association of the Philippines in 1948 and held competitions that were initially won by modernist artists, angering more conservative artists like Fernando Amorsolo. Key artists mentioned include Vicente Manansala, Balut Vendors by Luksong Taga, and Nena Saguil's Rice Pounding. Sculptors featured are Napoleon Abueva, known as the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture, and Ramon Orlina. The document provides brief biographies of several modern Philippine artists active in the mid-20th century.

1. Philippine
Contemporary
Art

2. Abstract Art
- A recreation of a subject matters shapes
and colors so that it becomes
unrecognizable and non-objective

3. Cubism
- The breaking down of an object into
rectangular or square cubes through color
transparency and overlapping rendetions

4. Purita Kalaw Ledesma
- Purita Villanueva Kalaw-Ledesma was a patron
of the arts and founder of the Art Association of
the Philippines (AAP). She is a businesswoman
and an art collector in 1948.

5. In the first art competition of the Art
Association of the Philippines (AAP), six major
prizes were won by the modernists. The next
three years of AAP competitions were a repeat of
the first competition arousing hostilities from
the conservative group led by Fernando
Amorsolo and Tolentino.

6. The following are the Artists and their
contributions of the Philippine
Contemporary Art
Vicente Manansala
*Cubism

7. Balut Vendors
Luksong Taga

8. Nena Saguil
Rice Pounding

9. Hernando Ocampo
Mutant Series

10. Ang Kiukok

11. Jose Joya

12. Jose Tanig Joya was born in Manila on June
3, 1931, the son of Jose Joya Sr. and Asuncion.
He graduated from the University of the
Philippines (UP) in 1953 with a bachelor's
degree in fine arts, earning the distinction of
being the university's first magna cum laude.

13. In 1954 to 1955, the Instituto de Cultura
Hispanica of the Spanish government awarded
him a painting grant in Madrid. A year later he
finished his master's degree in painting under a
Fulbright Smith-Mundt grant. He also received a
grant from the John D. Rockefeller III Fund and
Ford Foundation to paint in New York, from
1967 to 1969.

15. Imelda Cajipe-Endaya

16. The Good Woman

17. Manuel Baldemor

18. Family Calcutta

19. Benedicto Cabrera

20. The Huntress

21. Nunelucio Alvarado

22. Isda sa Dughan

23. Edgar Talusa Fernandez

24. The Present

25. Napoleon Abueva

26. In 1976, Napoleon V. Abueva, then 46, was the youngest
Filipino to become a National Artist. Known as the Father
of Modern Philippine Sculpture, he is a master in both
academic representational style and modern abstract. His
works have been executed using almost all kinds of
materials, including hard wood like molave, acacia, langka
wood, ipil, kamagong, palm wood and
bamboo, adobe, metal, stainless
steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster, coral, and
brass. He even combines different materials, like wood
with metal and stone.

27. Under a Pura Villanueva-Kalaw Scholarship, Abueva
graduated from the University of the Philippines School of
Fine Arts in 1953 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture.
He received much recognition as early as his college
years, during which he was mentored by Guillermo
Tolentino, the first National Artist for Sculpture and
creator of the UP Oblation. For three years in a row (1951-
1953), he won first prize and best entry awards in sculpture
in the Art Association of the Philippines annual
competition. One of his works from this period is the
Kagampan or Kaganapan, which is considered most
representative of his work. He also received recognition in
the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ International
Sculpture Competition in London, England for The
Unknown Political Prisoner.

28. Kagampan UP Oblation

29. Ramon Orlina’s
Undying Love

30. Pablo Mahinay’s
Wood Sculpture

31. Lamberto Hechanova’s
Man and Woman

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