The natural environment is important as it provides livelihood, food, and building materials. It can also inspire art through its lines, shapes, colors, and spaces. Man-made environments like playgrounds, churches, and parks were built for recreation and productivity. Urban landscapes emphasize cities and elements like buildings and malls, while rural landscapes feature nipa huts, carabaos, and other provincial scenes. Several famous Filipino artists specialized in painting urban and rural landscapes, including Fabian dela Rosa, Fernando Amorsolo, and Carlos "Botong" Francisco.

1. LESSON 3:
OUR NATURAL
AND MAND-MADE
ENVIRONMENT

2. The natural environment is very important because it is
where you get your livelihood, your food, and materials in
your house. So, you have to take good care of them.
But besides the things that the natural environment can
produce, you can also learn from them and get inspiration
from them in order to create a masterpiece.
All the elements that you have learned such as lines,
shapes, space, and color can be found in nature.

3. Man-made Environment are the
structures that were built by people.
Examples are playgrounds, churches,
city halls, jeepneys, monuments, and
parks. This were built for recreation and
making lives run more smoothly.

4. Urban landscapes are environments relating to cities that emphasize
elements such as factories, buildings, and scenes of commercial districts
such as shopping malls and complex centers. If the composition
emphasizes scenes like nipa huts, carabaos, and other elements that are
normally seen in provinces, it is called rural landscape.
There are several Filipino masters who are experts in the field of
urban and rural landscape painting.

5. Urban landscapes are environments relating to cities that emphasize
elements such as factories, buildings, and scenes of commercial districts
such as shopping malls and complex centers. If the composition
emphasizes scenes like nipa huts, carabaos, and other elements that are
normally seen in provinces, it is called rural landscape.
There are several Filipino masters who are experts in the field of
urban and rural landscape painting.

6. 1) Fabian dela Rosa
Fabian dela Rosa greatly
influenced the Philippine genre painting.
He was a classist. Among his famous
genre painting is the “Planting Rice.” It is
a landscape painting with many figures.

7. 2) Fernando Amorsolo was the most
successful and famous artist of 1930’s.
His landscape paintings are
characterized by romantic colors
which appeal to Filipinos and
foreigners as well. “Harvest Time in
Pinaglabanan is one of his famous
landscape paintings.

8. 3) Carlos “Botong” Francisco is a
muralist. He discovered the famous
“Angono Petroglyphs.” Most of his
subjects are drawn from history and
mythology.

9. 4) Vicente Manansala is a Filipino
painter who specializes in the style
called “cubism.” He often incorporates
decorative patterns in gates and
windows found in his compositions.

10. 5) Jose “pitok” Blanco’s work
shows Filipino culture and
tradition in a style called
“realism”. One of his famous
paintings is entitled “Angono
Fisherman Festival” wherein
all characters are real
residents of Angono.

11. 6) Victorio Edades was the leader of
the “Thirteen Moderns.” He is
considered as the “Father of
Modern Art in the Philippines.”
- “The Builders” is a painting
which shows men working in a quarry.

12. 7) Juan Arellano was the Philippine’s
impressionist painter. He is good
in handling colors such as orange
and red.

13. 8) Prudencio Lamarrozo surrealistic
landscape paintings. He was
famous for his Amburayan Queen
Series which shows a protective
mythological spirit who calls for
preservation of ecology.

14. 8) Manuel Baldemor is a Filipino
artist, sculptor, printmaker,
painter, and illustrator. He is also
known for his landscape scences in
simplified geometric forms.