A Filipino Famous Artist Manolito Tolentino Mayo was born on December 17, 1954 and died on May 4, 1983. Manolito Tolentino Mayo was locally known as Toto Mayo or Lito Mayo. Manolito Tolentino Mayo was a Philippine artist who won several major competitions while in the University of Santo Tomas, including the 1973 Sculpture and Graphics Awards, 1977 AAP Graphic Arts Competition, and the 1980 Critic's Choice Awards for Graphic Arts.
Manolito Tolentino Mayo early work in college was heavily inspired by Cubism, wood print blocks and sculptures. Mayo established himself in graphic arts, with print plate etching as his major technique. Intaglio, xerographics, and silkscreen processes were also incorporated into his early works. Business Day writer Angel G. De Jesus wrote that Mayo was 'a surrealistic expressionist with a satiric sense of humor.' Manolito Tolentino Mayo was believed to be the very first punk in the Philippines, thru his hairstyle, looks, lifestyle and his artworks. He also actively supported the alternative music in the mid-1970s.
Monolito Tolentino Mayo's subjects and compositions usually embodied magical themes, amulets, animal people, and subconscious wonderings. In his work Pula Puti, he depicted a cockfight scene with roosters having human forms - the two gladiatorial roosters having strong, muscular physiques.
Manolito Mayo was born in Lipa City, Batangas, the eldest son, and second child, of entrepreneur Sebastian Mayo, and Belen Tolentino Mayo. He studied at De La Salle Lipa in high school. Eventually, he enrolled in the University of Santo Tomas where he befriended two of the most talented artists of the 1970s - Fernando Modesto and Omi Velasquez.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Famous Filipino Artist Anastacio Caedo
Famous Filipino Artist: One of the famous Filipino Artist is Anastacio Tanchangco Caedo. He was born on August 14, 1907 and died on May 12, 1990. Anastacio Caedo was one of the Philippines' greatest sculptors. His style of sculpture was classical realist in the tradition of his mentor, Guillermo Tolentino. He produced commissioned representational sculptures mainly monuments of national heroes and successful Filipino politicians, businessmen, and educators. He was born in Macao, China and was brought here at the age of fourteen and stayed in Batangaswith his parents Arsenio Caedo and Genoveva Tanchaoco.
Anastacio Caedo's career as a sculptor began in the year 1925 when he worked with Guillermo E. Tolentino's atelier as student-assistant and protege. He assisted Tolentino in creating most of his landmark commissions like: the UP Oblation; the Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan City; the Rizal Monument in front of the Rizal Provincial Capitol; and the Shaw Monument at Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong to name a few.
In 1951, Anastacio Caedo became a faculty member of the UP School of Fine Arts where he served for 20 years. He was appointed as Head of the Sculpture division of UP Fine Arts from 1957 to the early 1980s. His students and apprentices included Eduardo Castrillo, Abdul Mari Imao, and Ross Arcilla. Caedo's son, Florante Caedo, also learned sculpture from him, and became a noted sculptor in his own right.
Professor Anastacio Caedo is also known as a meticulous portrait sculptor. His clients included Presidents Aguinaldo, Quezon, Osmeña, Quirino, Aquino, and Marcos. He also created several portrait busts of famous movie stars, politicians, and businessmen.
Anastacio Caedo's career as a sculptor began in the year 1925 when he worked with Guillermo E. Tolentino's atelier as student-assistant and protege. He assisted Tolentino in creating most of his landmark commissions like: the UP Oblation; the Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan City; the Rizal Monument in front of the Rizal Provincial Capitol; and the Shaw Monument at Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong to name a few.
In 1951, Anastacio Caedo became a faculty member of the UP School of Fine Arts where he served for 20 years. He was appointed as Head of the Sculpture division of UP Fine Arts from 1957 to the early 1980s. His students and apprentices included Eduardo Castrillo, Abdul Mari Imao, and Ross Arcilla. Caedo's son, Florante Caedo, also learned sculpture from him, and became a noted sculptor in his own right.
Professor Anastacio Caedo is also known as a meticulous portrait sculptor. His clients included Presidents Aguinaldo, Quezon, Osmeña, Quirino, Aquino, and Marcos. He also created several portrait busts of famous movie stars, politicians, and businessmen.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Filipino Famous Artist Augusto Arbizo
Filipino Famous Artist: Augusto Arbizo is a famous Filipino artist in the field of Visual Arts. Augusto Arbizo was born in 1972 at Quezon City, Manila, Philippines. He is a very good visual artist, gallerist, and art curator. Arbizo lives and works in New York City.
Augusto Arbizo studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art, NY, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in painting; he earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The University of Michigan.
Augusto Arbizo work has been exhibited at Bellwether, NY, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY and Roebling Hall Gallery, NY. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, White Columns, NY, and John Connelly Presents, NY among others.
Augusto Arbizo nature inspired paintings move between abstraction and representation, presenting simple organic shapes in bright, vivid colors.
Augusto Arbizo studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art, NY, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in painting; he earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The University of Michigan.
Augusto Arbizo work has been exhibited at Bellwether, NY, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY and Roebling Hall Gallery, NY. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, White Columns, NY, and John Connelly Presents, NY among others.
Augusto Arbizo nature inspired paintings move between abstraction and representation, presenting simple organic shapes in bright, vivid colors.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Pablo Antonio
Pablo Antonio is a famous Filipino artist in the field of Architecture. Pablo S. Antonio as his fullname was born on January 25, 1902 - June 14, 1975. A famous Filipino architect. He is a pioneer of modern Philippine architecture.
Pablo Antonio was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1976. He was recognized in some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time.
Pablo Antonio first came into prominence in 1933 with the construction of the Ideal Theater along Avenida Rizal in Manila. Between 1938 to 1950, he designed several buildings on the university campus in the Art Deco style. His work caught the eye of the founder of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Nicanor Reyes, Sr., who was looking to build a school campus that was modern in style. The FEU campus is considered as the largest ensemble of surviving Art Deco architecture in Manila, and in 2005, it received an Honorable Mention citation from the UNESCO for the body's 2005 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.
Pablo Antonio also designed the White Cross Sanitarium (1938) along Santolan Road in San Juan City, and the Manila Polo Club (1950) in Makati City. Pablo Antonio likewise designed the Ramon Roces Publications Building (now Guzman Institute of Electronics) in Soler Street in Manila, the the Capitan Luis Gonzaga Building, and the Boulevard-Alhambra (Bel-Air) apartments in Makati City.
As of 2008, only the Galaxy Theater remains standing, though it is threatened with demolition. Apart from the Ideal Theater, Antonio also designed several other theaters in Manila, including the Life Theater, the Scala Theater, the Lyric Theater, and the Galaxy Theater.
Pablo Antonio was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1976. He was recognized in some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time.
Pablo Antonio first came into prominence in 1933 with the construction of the Ideal Theater along Avenida Rizal in Manila. Between 1938 to 1950, he designed several buildings on the university campus in the Art Deco style. His work caught the eye of the founder of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Nicanor Reyes, Sr., who was looking to build a school campus that was modern in style. The FEU campus is considered as the largest ensemble of surviving Art Deco architecture in Manila, and in 2005, it received an Honorable Mention citation from the UNESCO for the body's 2005 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.
Pablo Antonio also designed the White Cross Sanitarium (1938) along Santolan Road in San Juan City, and the Manila Polo Club (1950) in Makati City. Pablo Antonio likewise designed the Ramon Roces Publications Building (now Guzman Institute of Electronics) in Soler Street in Manila, the the Capitan Luis Gonzaga Building, and the Boulevard-Alhambra (Bel-Air) apartments in Makati City.
As of 2008, only the Galaxy Theater remains standing, though it is threatened with demolition. Apart from the Ideal Theater, Antonio also designed several other theaters in Manila, including the Life Theater, the Scala Theater, the Lyric Theater, and the Galaxy Theater.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Gilbert Patten
William George Gilbert Patten (October 25, 1866 - January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish.
He was a writer of dime novels. His first published dime novel was The Diamond Sport; or, The Double Face of Bed Rock, published in 1886 by Beadle. He wrote westerns with the pen name Wyoming Bill, but is best known for his sporting stories in the Frank Merriwell series, written as Burt L. Standish. Patten started writing the Merriwell stories in April 1896 for the publsher Street & Smith and produced one each week, at a length of twenty thousand words, for twenty years. The series, which appeared in Tip-Top Weekly, was immensely popular, selling some 135,000 copies a week, and the brothers Frank and Dick Merriwell became icons of All-American sportsmanship, entering the jargon of sports commentators. Patten, however, never received any royalties for them, being paid up to $150 per story as a hack writer. The series was originally inspired by the success of the British Penny Dreadfuls like Jack Harkaway. Gibert Patten also contributed to the Frank Merriwell comic strip from 1928, and supervised the 1934 NBC radio series. In 1893, he hired Edward Stratemeyer as a writer for the Street & Smith publication Good News. From 1927 to 1930, Gilbert Patten would start a new series of Frank Merriwell stories, aided now by a few ghostwriters. In 1930, Patten started his own publication, The Dime Novel, but only one issue appeared. Apart from the Merriwell stories, Patten wrote 75 complete novels and an unknown number of stories. He estimated that he had written 40 million words as an author. In total, some 500 million of his books were in print, making him one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time.
He lived most of his life in Camden, Maine, but moved to California in 1941. He died in Vista, California in 1945.
He was a writer of dime novels. His first published dime novel was The Diamond Sport; or, The Double Face of Bed Rock, published in 1886 by Beadle. He wrote westerns with the pen name Wyoming Bill, but is best known for his sporting stories in the Frank Merriwell series, written as Burt L. Standish. Patten started writing the Merriwell stories in April 1896 for the publsher Street & Smith and produced one each week, at a length of twenty thousand words, for twenty years. The series, which appeared in Tip-Top Weekly, was immensely popular, selling some 135,000 copies a week, and the brothers Frank and Dick Merriwell became icons of All-American sportsmanship, entering the jargon of sports commentators. Patten, however, never received any royalties for them, being paid up to $150 per story as a hack writer. The series was originally inspired by the success of the British Penny Dreadfuls like Jack Harkaway. Gibert Patten also contributed to the Frank Merriwell comic strip from 1928, and supervised the 1934 NBC radio series. In 1893, he hired Edward Stratemeyer as a writer for the Street & Smith publication Good News. From 1927 to 1930, Gilbert Patten would start a new series of Frank Merriwell stories, aided now by a few ghostwriters. In 1930, Patten started his own publication, The Dime Novel, but only one issue appeared. Apart from the Merriwell stories, Patten wrote 75 complete novels and an unknown number of stories. He estimated that he had written 40 million words as an author. In total, some 500 million of his books were in print, making him one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time.
He lived most of his life in Camden, Maine, but moved to California in 1941. He died in Vista, California in 1945.
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