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FAMOUS
FOREIGN
PAINTERS
René Magritte
Belgian artist
Description
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist
artist. He became well known for creating a number of
witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting
ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known
for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions
of reality. Wikipedia
Born: 21 November 1898, Lessines, Belgium
Died: 15 August 1967, Schaerbeek, Belgium
On view: The Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of
Chicago, MORE
Periods: Surrealism, Art Deco, Cubism, Post-
Impressionism, Modern art, Dada
Movies: La fidélité des images
Influenced by: André Breton, Sigmund Freud, Jack Boynton
Quotes
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what
we see.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

The Annunciation
he objects in this painting appear to be a
metal sheet with bells, a paper cut-out
and two balusters (Magritte referred to
similar objects in his paintings as
bilboquets, a French stick and ball game).
Their enlargement and conjunction with
the landscape creates a feeling of
incongruity recalling the experience of
dreams. In titling this work The
Annunciation, Magritte may have been
alluding ironically to the hostility towards Catholicism shown by the French
surrealists. But the title also suggests that something is about to happen, an
expectation that is central to the eerie quality of this strange landscape.
Marcel Duchamp
American-French painter
Description
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a
French-American painter, sculptor, chess
player, and writer whose work is associated
with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. He
was careful about his use of the term Dada
and was not directly associated with Dada
groups. Wikipedia
Born: 28 July 1887, Blainville-Crevon, France
Died: 2 October 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine,
France
On view: The Museum of Modern Art, MORE
Periods: Dada, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, MORE
Fields: Painting, Sculpture, Film
Movies: Anemic Cinema, Entr'acte, 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, The Witch's
Cradle
Quotes
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be
commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,

Even (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires,
même), most often called The Large Glass (Le
Grand Verre), is an artwork by Marcel
Duchamp over 9 feet (2.7 m) tall, and freestanding.
Duchamp worked on the piece from 1915 to 1923,
creating two panes of glass with materials such as
lead foil, fuse wire, and dust. It combines chance
procedures, plotted perspective studies, and
laborious craftsmanship. Duchamp's ideas for
the Glass began in 1913, and he made numerous
notes and studies, as well as preliminary works for the
piece. The notes reflect the creation of unique rules
of physics, and myth which describes the work.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
American artist
Description
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American
artist active in the American Gilded Age and based
primarily in the United Kingdom. He was averse to
sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, and a
leading proponent of the credo "art for art's
sake". Wikipedia
Born: 11 July 1834, Lowell, Massachusetts, United
States
Died: 17 July 1903, London, United Kingdom
Periods: Modern

art, Impressionism, Realism, Aestheticism, Symbolism, Tonalism, Japonism

Known for: Painting
Parents: Anna McNeill Whistler, George Washington Whistler
Quotes
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the
amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge

Painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Description
Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge is a
painting by the American artist James McNeill
Whistler, now held in the collections of Tate Britain. It
was painted around 1872–5. This painting is of the
old wooden Battersea Bridge across the River
Thames before it was replaced by the modern
bridge. Wikipedia
Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Dimensions: 68 cm x 51 cm
Location: Tate Britain
Created: 1872–1875
Medium: Oil paint
Genre: Pastoral
Joan Miró
Spanish painter
Description
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter,
sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
A museum dedicated to his work, the
Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his
native city of Barcelona in 1975, and
another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was
established in his adoptive city of Palma de
Mallorca in 1981. Wikipedia
Born: 20 April 1893, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 25 December 1983, Palma, Spain
On view: The Museum of Modern Art, The
Art Institute of Chicago, MORE

Periods: Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism, MORE

Nationality: Spanish
Full name: Joan Miró i Ferrà
Quotes
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning
to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

The Farm
Painting by Joan Miró
Description
The Farm is an oil painting made by Joan Miró
between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del
Camp and winter 1922 in Paris. It is a kind of
inventory of the masia owned by his family
since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del
Camp. Wikipedia
Artist: Joan Miró
Dimensions: 1.24 m x 1.41 m
Period: Naïve art
Created: 1921–1922
Medium: Oil paint
Genre: Pastoral
Andy Warhol
American artist
Description
Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and
producer who was a leading figure in the visual art
movement known as pop art. Wikipedia
Born: 6 August 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United
States
Died: 22 February 1987, New York Hospital, New
York, United States
On view: The Museum of Modern Art, MORE
Periods: Pop art, Abstract expressionism, Modern
art, Naïve art, Contemporary art
Movies: Chelsea Girls, Empire, Lonesome
Cowboys, Blow Job, MORE
TV shows: Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes
Quotes
Art is what you can get away with.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Green Coca-Cola Bottles

Painting by Andy Warhol
Description
Green Coca-Cola Bottles is a 1962 painting by Andy
Warhol that depicts one hundred and twelve
almost identical bottles Coca-Cola bottles. Green
Coca-Cola Bottles took a mainstream item and
converted it into a piece of art. Wikipedia
Artist: Andy Warhol
Medium: Oil on canvas
Created: 1962
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York City
Edward Hopper
American painter
Description
Edward Hopper was an American realist painter
and printmaker. While he is best known for his oil
paintings, he was equally proficient as a
watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in
his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely
calculated renderings reflected his personal
vision of modern American life. Wikipedia
Born: 22 July 1882, Upper Nyack, New York,
United States
Died: 15 May 1967, Washington Square North,
New York, United States
On view: Whitney Museum of American
Art, National Gallery of Art, MORE
Periods: Neoclassicism, Social realism, American
Realism, MORE
Spouse: Josephine Hopper (m. 1924–1967)
Known for: Painting
Quotes
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result
in his personal vision of the world.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas

painting by Edward Hopper that
portrays people in a downtown diner
late at night as viewed through the
diner's large glass window. Also
portrayed are the exteriors of the
urban structures across the street from
the diner. Wikipedia
Artist: Edward Hopper
Dimensions: 84 cm x 1.52 m
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
Building
Created: 1942
Accession No: 1942.51
Periods: Modernism, Social realism
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Description
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French
Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his
career as the leader of the French Romantic
school. Wikipedia
Born: 26 April 1798, Saint-Maurice, France
Died: 13 August 1863, Paris, France
Periods: Romanticism, Romanesque art
Full name: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
Known for: Painting, Lithography
Quotes
What moves those of genius, what inspires their
work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the
idea that what has already been said is still not
enough.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Liberty Leading the People is a

painting by Eugène Delacroix
commemorating the July Revolution of 1830,
which toppled King Charles X of
France. Wikipedia
Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Dimensions: 2.6 m x 3.25 m
Period: Romanticism
Created: 1830
Locations: Louvre Museum (since
2013), Louvre-Lens Museum (2012–
2013), Louvre Museum (1874–2012), Louvre
Museum
Subject: July Revolution, Marianne, French
people
El Greco
Painter
Description
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as
El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and
architect of the Spanish Renaissance. Wikipedia
Born: 1 October 1541, Heraklion, Greece
Died: 7 April 1614, Toledo, Spain
On view: Soumaya Museum, Museo Nacional del
Prado, MORE
Periods: Mannerism, Spanish
Renaissance, Renaissance
Full name: Doménikos Theotokópoulos
Known for: Painting, sculpture and architecture
Nationality: Spanish, Greek

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is a 1586

painting by El Greco, a prominent Renaissance
painter, sculptor, and architect of Greek origin.
Widely considered among his finest works, it
illustrates a popular local legend of his
time. Wikipedia
Artist: El Greco
Dimensions: 4.8 m x 3.6 m
Location: Iglesia de Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain
Medium: Oil paint
Created: 1586–1588
Periods: Mannerism, Spanish Renaissance
Mary Cassatt
American painter
Description
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American
painter and printmaker. She was born in
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, but lived much of
her adult life in France, where she first
befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited
among the Impressionists. Wikipedia
Born: 23 May 1844, Allegheny
Died: 14 June 1926, Château de Beaufresne, Le
Mesnil-Théribus, France
Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, American
Impressionism, Realism, Post-Impressionism
Nationality: American
Known for: Painting
Parents: Katherine Kelso Johnston, Robert
Simpson Cassat

The Child's Bath

Painting by Mary Cassatt
Description
The Child's Bath is an 1893 oil painting by
American artist Mary Cassatt. The subject
matter and the overhead perspective were
inspired by Japanese woodblocks. It shows
dignity in motherhood and has a style similar to
that of Degas. The Art Institute of Chicago
acquired the piece in 1910. Wikipedia
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Dimensions: 1 m x 66 cm
Location: Art Institute of Chicago Building
Created: 1893–1893
Medium: Oil paint
Support: Art Canvas
Wassily Kandinsky
Painter
Description
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian
painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally
credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Born in
Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa,
where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school.
He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying
law and economics. Wikipedia
Born: 4 December 1866, Moscow, Russia
Died: 13 December 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
On view: The Museum of Modern Art, MORE
Periods: Abstract art, Expressionism, Post-
Impressionism, MORE
Field: Painting
Parents: Lidia Ivanovna Tikheeva, Vasili
Silverstrovich
Quotes
Colour is a means of exerting direct influence on the soul.
There is no must in art because art is free.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Kandinsky’s Composition VII is

justly considered to be the apex of his
artwork before the First Word War. More
than 30 sketches made in watercolors
and oil paints precede this painting,
and they can serve as “documentary”
proof of this work creation. Surprisingly
that after the painter had finished his
long preliminary work, the composition
itself was created for 4 days only. This
can be proved by photographs taken
between the 25th and the 28th of
November 1913. The main theme, which is an oval form intersected by an irregular
rectangle, is perceived like the center surrounded by the vortex of colors and forms. By
means of records and some works examination art historians defined that
the Composition VII is a combination of several themes namely Resurrection, the
Judgment Day, the Flood and the Garden of Eden. Such combination is expressed as a
symbiosis of pure painting. Format:Portrait
8 FAMOUS
FILIPINO
PAINTERS
Fatima Baquiran
Filipino painter
Description
Fatima Antonio Baquiran is a Filipino
painter best known for her floral still
lifes using an abundance of
impastoed colors with an
Impressionist finish. Wikipedia
Born: 8 March 1971 (age 48 years)
Parents: Norma Belleza, Angelito
Antonio
Siblings: Marcel Antonio

A Jar of Flowers series

Most of Baquiran’s works are still
lifes, particularly featuring a
bouquet of flowers in a jar or vase
placed on a table juxtaposed with
varying elements such as
tabletops, windows, and blankets.
In an interview she stated that this
obsession was inspired by her
mother's green thumb.[3]
Baquiran's painting style has been
described as a cross between
some facets of her favorite
European artists Claude Monet's
and Rembrandt's styles.[1] Her flowers and objects are rendered with vibrant pigments
led by her unique blend of warms and cools. Baquiran, unlike other Filipino artists using
the impasto impressionistic technique, works mostly with acrylic paints to produce her
pieces.[
Simkin de Pio
Filipino painter
Description
Simkin de Pio is a Filipino painter. The
eldest son of renowned Filipino realist
painter Gig de Pio and Fe Esterlina,
his siblings include Las Vegas-based
painter Gig Jr., Domino, Julian, and
Manila-based painter Vincent de
Pio. Wikipedia
Born: 17 March 1976 (age 43 years)

Lost in Thought
Price
$1,420
Dimensions
36.000 x 24.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
Lost In Thought
Artist
Simkin de Pio
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
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CJ Tañedo
Painter
Description
CJ Tañedo is a contemporary painter in the
Philippine art scene. He came from a family
with an artistic background and he once
dreamt of becoming an architect, until he
entered college and discovered that painting is
the career that he wants to pursue. He won
several awards during and after
college. Wikipedia
Born: 9 April 1979 (age 40 years), Makati
Education: Aquinas School, University of Santo
Tomas

WINDOW PANE, 2012

Oil on canvas
Painting
183 x 122 cm
CJ Tañedo one of the few painters in the
Philippines who brought the visual techniques
of the renaissance art masters into the modern
scene of the 20th century.[5] His artworks are
mixtures of different discipline in traditional
painting. The paintings made by him are mostly
defined as dark and creepy. His art evolves as
his interests change and as it matures over the
time. Realism is his key factor in his artworks but
he is also a fan
of impressionism, expressionism and symbolism.
His style, though, is figurative art. He prefer the
use of oil paint and acrylic in painting. He uses
the process of Flemish technique in his artworks
and he adopts different ways on how to dry the
layers of his painting quickly. His way of painting
is putting many layers of paint in his artworks. His subjects varies on his different moods
and events
Adrian Evangelista
Filipino painter
Description
Adrian N. Evangelista is a Filipino contemporary painter
and part-time photographer. Adrian is well known for
his realist and surrealist works. He also known for his
portrait photography Wikipedia
Born: 6 September 1989 (age 30 years), Tondo
Education: University of Santo Tomas
Known for: Painting

Rocking batibot chair and painting

by Adrian Evangelista
It’s a tight space that’s expertly managed. Jia’s tasteful
staging and manner of display give the studio a
relaxed and inviting atmosphere. “The main look is very
industrial mixed with eclectic charm,” Jia continues. “I
wanted the space to be a blank canvas so we can
show something different each month. Aside from the
exhibitions, we will also offer art workshops and special
events.”
Janos Delacruz (born November 5, 1985) is a
Filipino painter, illustrator, etcher, and printmaker.
He is noted for his surreal and dreamlike paintings,
illustrations and prints. His style and unique
approach in his artworks which shows intricate
details and variety of colors is what captures the
viewer's attention.
Janos Delacruz was from, and currently lives in,
Muntinlupa City, Philippines. He is the son of Fil
Delacruz, a National Artist Awards nominee for
Visual Arts. He finished his college education at
the University of Santo Tomas where he majored
in Advertising Arts.

Kulo sa Utak
ARTIST
Janos Delacruz
MEDIUM
Oil on Canvas
SIZE
48” x 36” (121.92 x 91.44 cm)
EXHIBITION
SEMIOTICS
"The artwork is about a man overcoming pressure
and finding inspiration from the mundane. As artists,
we are tasked to create works that convey our
philosophy. This artwork tells the story of a man
trying to finish his work amidst the ticking time of
deadline. That in this dire moment, our stress and
muses are our only friend."
Benedicto Ducat
Filipino painter
Description
Benedicto “Bong” Ducat is a Filipino impressionist
painter. He is now teaching at the University of Santo
Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design. He is noted for
his renderings of plants, flowers and nature in droplet-
like brush strokes and bright colors. Wikipedia
Born: 6 May 1957 (age 62 years), Tondo
Period: Impressionism
Education: University of the Philippines Diliman
Known for: Painting

Gabi Leaves
29″ x 35″
Oil on Canvas
–
SN#53195
Roderick Macutay
Filipino artist
Description
Roderick "Derrick" Columnas Macutay is a
Filipino mural artist and contemporary
painter, known for his distinctive subject of
surreal portraits of humans, robots, cyborgs
and android like creatures and his
signature color of monochrome blue
usually with a vibrant accent
color. Wikipedia
Born: 12 September 1971 (age
48 years), Manila
Known for: Painting

Idol
ARTIST Ang Sampung Pangarap Ni
Rizal
LOCATION Pasig City, Philippines
SIZE 24 H x 17 W inches
Oil on Canvas
“Idol” by Roderick Columnas Macutay
Elita. "Amangpintor" Circa
Born
Elito Villaflor Circa

January 28, 1970 (age 49)

Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Nationality
Filipino
Education
No formal education in painting
Known for
Painting
Notable work
Manny Pacquiao Hearted Fist, Pantabangan
History, A Thousand and One Lives, Duterte in
the Center of the Triangle
Movement
Indigenouism
Awards
Folk Artist of the Philippines, Folk Artist of
Pantabangan

Patron(s)
World Vision

Pantabangan, officially the Municipality of Pantabangan, is a 1st class municipality in

the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a
population of 29,925 people.[3]
This is the site of the Pantabangan Dam and Lake.
Located in the northern part of Nueva Ecija, Pantabangan is located at the foot of Mt.
Mabilog below Mt. Dalimanok which are found between Sierra
Madre and Caraballo Mountain ranges. It is home to the Pantabangan–Carranglan
Watershed Forest Reserve.
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz
Filipino painter
Description
Frederico Aguilar Alcuaz was a Filipino painter
who exhibited extensively Internationally and
whose work earned him recognition both in the
Philippines and abroad. Alcuaz was conferred the
title of National Artist for Visual Arts, Painting,
Sculpture and Mixed Media in 2009. Wikipedia
Born: 6 June 1932, Santa Cruz, Manila
Died: 2 February 2011, Manila
Award: National Artist of the Philippines
Education: University of the Philippines, Ateneo
de Manila University, San Beda University
Parents: Encarnacion Alcuaz, Mariano Aguilar

Galerie Stephanie

Founded in 2007, Galerie Stephanie is one of the leading artist-

centered galleries in the Philippines. In its earlier years, the gallery
focused on modernists and more established local artists like National
Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, Juvenal Sanso, Ramon Orlina, Mario
Parial, Angelito Antonio, Michael
Cacnio, Dominic Rubio, and Lydia
Velasco. Aside from holding
exhibitions of more established
artists, the gallery also prides itself
in its development program for
emerging young artists.
Rodel Tapaya
Filipino painter
Description
Rodel Tapaya is a Filipino painter whose
works have gained renown and critical
acclaim by winning in several regional art
contests and exposure in international
exhibitions. Wikipedia
Born: 10 July 1980 (age
39 years), Philippines
Period: Contemporary art
Education: Parsons School of Design
Known for: Painter
Books: Bato-balani

amalgamation of folk narrative and contemporary

At the heart of Rodel Tapaya’s work is his ongoing

amalgamation of folk narrative and contemporary
reality within the framework of memory and history.
Utilizing a range of media — from large acrylic on
canvasses to an exploration of under-glass painting,
traditional crafts, diorama, and drawing — Tapaya
filters his observations of the world through
folktales and pre-colonial historical
research, creating whimsical montages of his
characters. Each work has its origin in Tapaya’s
reflections on a particular time or place that
possesses an enduring resonance, from its
correspondence with the formalistic and
psychological implication of the grid in his earlier
works to protracted ventures which excavate and
interpret myth and folk aesthetics. Inherent in the
work is a tension between objective investigations
of art and the subjectivity of perception and
experience, providing his work with an enigma
that comes from the impossibility to paint a story without revealing inflections
made by the painter’s hand.
Jon Jaylo
Filipino painter
Description
Jon Jaylo is a Filipino surrealist painter, now based in
New York City, USA. Jaylo is also known as "The Enigma"
because of the surrealist nature of his art, inspired by
dreamy and puzzling poetry and stories. Wikipedia
Born: July 1975 (age 44 years), Manila
Education: Far Eastern University

Floating Surreal and Dancing

Product Description
15 in x 20 in, Oil on Canvas
Previous Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery:
Painted Sound from Jan 26th to Feb 28th, 2013
Artist Statement and Biography:
Jon Jaylo’s artworks play around a parallel dream world
in where everything is floating surreal and dancing in a
contained universe inspired by poetry. His technical
depictions are often varying in display and style, as if he
himself is never contented with the present stature of his
works. They are constantly evolving in both idea and
form, gradually maturing together with the artist
himself. Scaling this balance, narrating a massively deep
philosophy of thought through a theatrical rendition of
intensely brilliant colors that seem to amuse its audience
and present a status of intellectual complacency.
Geraldine Javier
Visual artist
Description
Geraldine Javier is a contemporary Filipina Visual
Artist whose work is best known for her work which
blends of painting with various media, and is
"recognized as one of the most celebrated Southeast
Asian artists both in the academic world and in the
art market." Wikipedia
Born: 1970 (age 49 years), Makati
Education: University of the Philippines Diliman

Anti-Catholic

In the art world of the Philippines there were

- and continue to be – several clear and often
opposing tendencies: nostalgic
representations of peasant life, social
realism, conceptual art and works that
though object-encrusted are anti-Catholic.
Geraldine Javier has responded against all
these tendencies to create a complex and
dynamic body of work. Images of rural life
and nature recur in her work, but are far
from reassuringly comfortable. What she
takes from the social realists is a concern
with painting things and people well, but
her position is a more personal one - one
that may be defined more as moral than
political, and as implicit rather than explicit.
An intuitive artist rather than a theoretically
driven one she has nevertheless been
profoundly affected by studying under
conceptual artists.