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    Abdulmari Asia Imao is a Filipino Muslim artist from Sulu province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. He is known for sculptures, paintings and murals that depict Philippine Muslim culture and motifs like the sarimanok, a mythical bird from Maranao art that was a common theme in his works. Imao received several national awards for his contributions to Philippine arts and culture.

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    Abdulmari Asia Imao is a Filipino Muslim artist from Sulu province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. He is known for sculptures, paintings and murals that depict Philippine Muslim culture and motifs like the sarimanok, a mythical bird from Maranao art that was a common theme in his works. Imao received several national awards for his contributions to Philippine arts and culture.

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    Abdulmari Asia Imao is a Filipino Muslim artist from Sulu province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. He is known for sculptures, paintings and murals that depict Philippine Muslim culture and motifs like the sarimanok, a mythical bird from Maranao art that was a common theme in his works. Imao received several national awards for his contributions to Philippine arts and culture.

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    THE

    NATIONAL
    IN
    REGION 15
    ARTIST ARMM
    ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO

    THE WHO?
    • He is a sculptor, painter, photographer, ceramist, documentary filmmaker,
    cultural researcher, writer, and articulator of Philippine Muslim art and culture.
    • Dr. Imao’s works and motifs are deeply rooted in his Muslim upbringing, but
    he also embraced a healthy relationship and respectful dialogue with other
    faiths. His wife, the late Grace Bondoc De Leon was a devout Catholic from
    whom she bore four sons, Toym (Abdulmari Jr.) , Josemari, Sajid, and Kim.
    This strong inter-faith relationship is reflected in his paintings and sculptures
    and the attitude of his children towards art and society.
    • For his contribution to Philippine culture and the arts, he was inducted into the
    Order of National Artists in 2006 and awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit
    in 2005, the Gawad CCP para sa Sining in 1990, and the Gawad Patnubay ng
    Sining by the City of Manila in 1985, and the Ten Outstanding Young Men of
    the Philippines (TOYM) in 1968.
    INDUSTRY HIS ARTWORKS MURAL RELIEF
    BRASS MURAL ON
    FILMMAKING

    The colors that grace the


    works of Imao are bright,
    vivid, and arresting. It is the
    color of festivity and
    celebration, the bluest of the
    Most of the artworks of
    blue, the reddest of the red,
    Imao, used the idea of the greenest of the green and
    Sarimanok. Brass PHILIPPINE NATIONAL so forth. His palette tickles the
    sarimanok on top of a MANILA CITY
    BANK, SAN FERNANDO, LA eyes, each block of color
    HALL
    beautifully carved UNION commanding attention,
    woodenst and, a reminder seducing the senses, yet all
    of the dexterity and elements balancing each other,
    expertise of the artist on a the epitome of harmony and
    wide variety of materials. unity.
    HIS ARTWORKS
    INDUSTRIAL SULU
    MURAL WARRIORS

    After studying his skills in


    abroad, he went back to
    Philippines to built
    monuments of regional
    heroes and large sculptures.

    CENTRAL BANK OF THE


    STATUES OF
    PHILIPPINES, SAN
    PANGLIMAUNAID
    FERNANDO, LA UNION
    AND CAPTAIN
    ABDURAHIM
    IMAO), 6 FT.,
    As one of the skills of Mari is SULU PROVINCIAL
    painting, he also created murals. CAPITOL
    QUESTIONS:

    • What Maranao art did Abdulmari


    Asia Imao got the idea for his
    artwork?
    • In what region and province that
    Imao came from?
    THANK YOU!

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