A Filipino Famous Artist Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero was bonr on January 1917 and died on May 1995. Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero was a very famous Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist.
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero has written well over a hundred plays, 41 of which have been published. Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero unpublished plays have either been broadcast over the radio or staged in various parts of the Philippines.
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero publications include 13 Plays (first published in 1947), 8 Other Plays (1952), 7 More Plays (1962), 12 New Plays (1975), My Favorite 11 Plays (1976), 4 Latest Plays (1980), Retribution and eight other selected plays (1990) and The Guerreros of Ermita (1988).
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero has been the teacher of some of the most famous people in the Performing Arts at present: Behn Cervantes, Celia Diaz-Laurel, Joy Virata, and Joonee Gamboa.
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero has received three national awards: the Rizal Pro-Patria Award in 1961, the Araw ng Maynila Award in 1969, and the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1972.
The U.P. Mobile Theater has been a recipient of two awards when he was its director: The Citizen's Council for Mass Media Trophy (1966) and the Balagtas Award (1969).
In 1997, Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero was posthumously distinguished as a National Artist for Philippine Theatre.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Manuel Ocampo
Another Famous Filipino is Manuel Ocampo. He was born on 1965. Manuel Ocampo is a Famous Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with the secular and serious political narrative with the cartoonish. Manuel Ocampo's work has been included in a number of international surveys, including the 2004 Seville Biennale, 2001 Venice Biennale, the 2001 Berlin Biennale, the 2000 Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, the 1997 Kwangju Biennial, the 1993 Corcoran Biennial, and 1992’s controversial Documenta IX. Manuel Ocampo frequently revisits and makes reference to the art historical canon of political allegorists including Leon Golub, Gericault, Goya, Daumier with allusions to contemporary figures including political satirist R. Crumb Modernist painter Philip Guston. Ocampo’s dark, often disturbing Gothic paintings are attributed with transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art history, purgatory into salvation.
Manuel Ocampo's work was featured in many group shows in the 1990s, including Helter Skelter: LA Art of the 1990s, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1992; Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art at the Asia Society, New York in 1994; American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation at Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo in 1997; Pop Surrealism at the Aldrich Museum of Artin 1998; and Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2000. Manuel Ocampo has exhibited extensively throughout the 1990s, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions through Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 2005, his work was the subject of a large-scale survey at Casa Asia in Barcelona, and Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France.
Manuel Ocampo's has received a number of prestigious grants and awards, including the Giverny Residency (1998), the Rome Prize at the American Academy (1995-96),National Endowment for the Arts (1996), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1995) and Art Matters Inc. (1991).
Manuel Ocampo's work was featured in many group shows in the 1990s, including Helter Skelter: LA Art of the 1990s, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1992; Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art at the Asia Society, New York in 1994; American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation at Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo in 1997; Pop Surrealism at the Aldrich Museum of Artin 1998; and Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2000. Manuel Ocampo has exhibited extensively throughout the 1990s, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions through Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 2005, his work was the subject of a large-scale survey at Casa Asia in Barcelona, and Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France.
Manuel Ocampo's has received a number of prestigious grants and awards, including the Giverny Residency (1998), the Rome Prize at the American Academy (1995-96),National Endowment for the Arts (1996), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1995) and Art Matters Inc. (1991).
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Rey Paz Contreras
One of the most Famous Filipino Artist in the field of sculpture is Rey Paz Contreras. He was born on August 31, 1950. Rey Paz Contreras is a prominent Filipino sculptor working with urban refuse and environmental materials as artistic media. He is inspired by the indigenous Filipino culture and creates visual forms of contemporary images that explore a distinct Filipino aesthetics. He currently has his studio near the railroad tracks in Tondo, Manila, where he conducts his community-based art training to promote a socially-responsive 'people's art' that has developed into the Daambakal Sculptors Collective. Rey Paz Contreras' pioneered the use of travieza or hardwood railroad tracks during the late 70s.
As an artist, Rey Paz Contreras is also a pioneering spirit in the development of community-based people's art. He has conducted workshops in the provinces and has organized self-sustaining community craft-based art groups such as Cadaclan Carvers in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, Malasiqui carvers in Pangasinan and more recently the Banglos Art Group in Quezon Province; Rey Paz Contreras has taught woodcarving on other provinces such as Capiz, Rizal and Abra. Rey Paz Contreras has also been supportive of progressive religious organizations, most notable is his partnership with the Missionaries of Jesus (MJ). Some of the more popular public art of Contreras can be found on chapels like Calaruega and Chapel on the Hill in Batulao, Batangas (near Tagaytay); his work in Sagada, Mountain Province is found inside the Episcopalian Church.
As an artist, Rey Paz Contreras is also a pioneering spirit in the development of community-based people's art. He has conducted workshops in the provinces and has organized self-sustaining community craft-based art groups such as Cadaclan Carvers in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, Malasiqui carvers in Pangasinan and more recently the Banglos Art Group in Quezon Province; Rey Paz Contreras has taught woodcarving on other provinces such as Capiz, Rizal and Abra. Rey Paz Contreras has also been supportive of progressive religious organizations, most notable is his partnership with the Missionaries of Jesus (MJ). Some of the more popular public art of Contreras can be found on chapels like Calaruega and Chapel on the Hill in Batulao, Batangas (near Tagaytay); his work in Sagada, Mountain Province is found inside the Episcopalian Church.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Francis Magalona
Francis Magalona is a Famous Filipino Artist known as the Master Rapper of the Philippines. He was bon on October 4, 1964, his parents are Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran, both popular actor and actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Francis Magalona married Pia Arroyo and they got 8 offspring’s: Unna, Nicolo, Francis Jr., Elmo, Arkin, Clara, and actresses Maxene and Saab.
Francis Magalona started as a breakdancer in the 1980s; he was cast in many Filipino movies of that decade, including Bagets 2. Francis likewise gained attention as the resident DJ/rapper in the IBC-13 variety show Loveli'Ness. During 1990, he released the groundbreaking Yo! Album, the first Pinoy rap album in the Philippines that was commercially released. Yo! Album is a big success with songs Mga Kababayan Ko (My Fellow Countrymen), Gotta Let 'Cha Know, Cold Summer Nights and Man From Manila. Followed by FrancisM album in 1992 that makes him one of the most Famous Filipino Artists in the field of music.
Francis Magalona died on March 6, 2009 because of multiple-organ failure caused by leukemia.
Francis Magalona started as a breakdancer in the 1980s; he was cast in many Filipino movies of that decade, including Bagets 2. Francis likewise gained attention as the resident DJ/rapper in the IBC-13 variety show Loveli'Ness. During 1990, he released the groundbreaking Yo! Album, the first Pinoy rap album in the Philippines that was commercially released. Yo! Album is a big success with songs Mga Kababayan Ko (My Fellow Countrymen), Gotta Let 'Cha Know, Cold Summer Nights and Man From Manila. Followed by FrancisM album in 1992 that makes him one of the most Famous Filipino Artists in the field of music.
Francis Magalona died on March 6, 2009 because of multiple-organ failure caused by leukemia.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Joyce E. Bernal
Joyce Bernal or known as Binibining (Miss) Joyce Bernal is a film and television director in the Philippines who started as a film editor for Viva Films in 1994.
Bernal is a single mother to her daughter Liam.
TV Series
2009 Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2008 Dyesebel GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2007 MariMar GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2003 StarStruck GMA Network
2002 Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw GMA Network Christopher de Leon, Richard Gomez, and Alice Dixon
Bernal is a single mother to her daughter Liam.
TV Series
2009 Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2008 Dyesebel GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2007 MariMar GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2003 StarStruck GMA Network
2002 Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw GMA Network Christopher de Leon, Richard Gomez, and Alice Dixon
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