June 2016--Known for his textured abstract paintings, Raul Piedra, still a college student in 1970, staged his first solo exhibition at the University of the East where he featured his paintings of botanicals, landscapes and still lifes of orchids using acrylic and watercolors. He put out another batch...

Porfirio Castañeda on His Tatay, Dominador Castañeda by: Christiane L. de la Paz March 2016–Dominador Castañeda spent his early education at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Quiapo, Manila. In 1924, he graduated at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts (UP SFA) and continued his studies...

March 2016--Dominador Castañeda spent his early education at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Quiapo, Manila. In 1924, he graduated at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts (UP SFA) and continued his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he fell under the influence of the...

February 2016--Alfredo Roces holds a prominent place in the history of Philippine art. He is a painter who started with a figurative style but soon began to amalgamate Expressionism, Fauvism and Impressionism in his paintings. As he move into Abstract Expressionism and assemblage, he also branched out...

January 2016--Alfredo Roces holds a prominent place in the history of Philippine art. He is a painter who started a figurative style but soon began to amalgamate Expressionism, Fauvism and Impressionism in his paintings. As he move into Abstract Expressionism and assemblage, he also branched out in these...

December 2015--Danny Dalena appeared with a bang in the early seventies. He first made his mark with a brilliant and caustic political cartoons and illustrations for the Free Press Philippine Leader which gave new life to editorial cartooning and brought out the exciting potentials of the graphic arts...

November 2015--At the age of six his father presented him a French book of drawing lesson: and the child sat down and did the lessons over and over with crayons. Then his father took him to the School of Fine Arts on R. Hidalgo Street in Quiapo. Yet, the elder Castañeda did not want his son to...

SPAIN June-August 2015--In 1955, Federico Aguilar Alcuaz received a scholarship grant to study at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. His instructor soon noticed that he was very talented. He was asked to leave the university , as “they had nothing more to teach him”....

May 2015--Jaime de Guzman began his fine art studies at the University of Sto Tomas where he majored in Painting. Two years later, he packed his brushes and spent nearly a year traveling and painting in Cebu, Samar and Zamboanga. It was then that he sought out Martino Abellana, mentor to many of the...

April 2015--Nothing much have been recorded lengthily about Severino Lacambra’s life and works except that he was often written in the shadow of his more popular contemporaries, Cesar Buenaventura and Simon Saulog. Lac, as he was called by his artist friends, began his painting career in 1960 painting...

BIO – DATA (as of March 12, 1971) I. Date and Place of Birth: April 28, 1911, Sta. Cruz Manila II. Name of Father: Emilio Ocampo y Salterio III. Name of Mother: Delfina Ruiz y Santos IV. Name of Wives: 1. First Wife: Irene Illorato y Yusay (Deceased) 2. Second Wife: Cresencia Valenzuela

January-February 2015--Efren Zaragoza had his first sighting as a printmaker in 1966 when he joined the First National Graphic Art Competition sponsored by the Art Association of the Philippines. His interest in printmaking was further whetted with the establishment of the Philippine Association of Printmakers...