The Anthem Philatelist

  Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque . They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear abstract and fragmented. In the Philippines, the best known cubist painter is the National artist from Pampanga ,  Vicente Silva Manansala .  He was of the first Abstractionists in the Philippine art scene.  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.  Most of the other well known Cubist like Jose Joya and Ang Kiukok are from Luzon and Mindanao. Let us now look at the best cubist artists from Cebu . 1. Celso Duazo Pepito - (Spiritual Cubist) He is in the forefront of Cubism in Cebu . A renowned and well-respected cubist, he is ...

  I ask google for the top 10 students of Martino Abellana, who have achieved absolute mastery and carry his legacy forward as pillars of Cebuano and Philippine visual arts.  These are his answers: Romulo Galicano Arguably the most globally renowned protégé and nephew of Abellana. A true master of representational painting, landscape art, and academic portraiture, Galicano has won top accolades from prestigious bodies like the Portrait Sociey of the Philippines. Sofronio Y. Mendoza (SYM) The visionary founder of the influential Dimasalang Art Group . Mendoza took Abellana’s structural discipline and translated it into a groundbreaking movement that bridged traditional representation with early Filipino modernism. Jose "Kimsoy" Yap Jr. Celebrated as one of the country's finest master watercolorists. Yap absorbed Abellana's intensive seasonal training in Cebu before refining his expertise at the prestigious National Academy of Design in New York.   Celso Duazo Pepito ...