Filipino Cartoonist Nonoy Marcelo

Filipino Famous Cartoonist Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo was born on January 22, 1939 and died on October 22, 2002. Nonoy Marcelo was a Filipino cartoonist born in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines. He is an alumnus of the Institute of Arts and Sciences from Far Eastern University, and a former cartoonist in the The Advocate (the official student publication of Far Eastern University), best known for creating the character Ikabod Bubwit ("small rodent" in Tagalog) in the comic strip Ikabod. He also created the comic strips Plain Folks, which appeared in the Daily Mirror during the early 1960s, and Tisoy in 1963 for the Manila Times, which tells about the lifestyle of young Filipinos. His main character, Tisoy (slang for "mestizo"), and cast members such as Aling Otik, Maribubut, Caligula, Tatang, Tikyo and Kinse, soon became established in Philippine pop culture.

In 1985, Nonoy Marcelo was given the Catholic Mass Media Award for print journalism, a category usually given to reporters or columnists. In 1998, Marcelo received the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Centennial Artist Award, the only cartoonist so honored.

Nonoy Marcelo died in Manila on October 22, 2002 at the age of 63 of sepsis due to complications from his diabetes.

Tisoy became a 1977 film directed by Ishmael Bernal, starring Christopher de Leon and Charo Santos.

Ikabod ran from the late 1970s to 2002. It was a satirical strip that re-cast the Philippines as a nation called Dagalandia. The strip humorously depicted the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos, as represented by the tailless Everymouse hero, Ikabod - who became as iconic in his own way as that other popular cartoon rodent, Mickey Mouse. Marcelo often used the strip to caricature political figures from Ferdinand Marcos and Cory Aquino to Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, re-imagining them as mice.

Filipino Abstract Artist Jose T. Joya

Jose T. Joya is a famous Filipino artist who was born on 1931 and died on1995. Jose Joya was a Filipino abstract artist and a National Artist of the Philippines awardee.

Jose T. Joya works were strongly influenced by the tropical landscapes of the Philippine Islands. Among his masterpieces are the Nanking (a collage rendered with Asian calligraphy and forms and patterns resembling rice paddies), the Granadean Arabesque (1958) and Venice Biennial (1964).

Jose Joya was a mixed media artist, printmaker, and a former dean of the University of the Philippines' College of Fine Arts. His canvases were characterized by "dynamic spontaneity" and "quick gestures" of action painting. Joya pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines. He is the creator of compositions that were described as "vigorous compositions" of heavy impastoes, bold brushstrokes, controlled dips, and diagonal swipes".

Filipino Sculptor Eduardo Castrillo

One of the most famous Filipino artist is Eduardo Castrillo. He is a Filipino sculptor that gained several awards. Eduardo Castrillo awards are follows:

Honorable Mention, 18th AAP Annual Sculpture Division, 1967
Major Award (1 of 4) for Death Touch of Joy, 1st National Sculpture Exhibition, 1968
13th Artist Award of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, 1970
Republic Cultural Heritage Award, 1971
Araw ng Maynila Centennial Award, 1971
Ten Outstanding Young Men Award, 1971
Outstanding Makati Resident Award, 1971
Outstanding Sta. Ana Resident Award, 1974
Outstanding Son of Binan Award, Maduro Club, 1980
Outstanding Son of Laguna Award, Laguna Lion's Club, 1981
Adopted Son of Cebu, Charter Day of Cebu, 1996
Green and Gold Artist Award, Far Eastern University, 1998
Most Outstanding Citizen Award of Quezon City, Quezon City Foundation Day 2003

Eduardo De Los Santos Castrillo was born on October 31, 1942. Castrillo was a Republic Cultural Heritage awardee. He is also a jewelry artist and designer.

Filipino Artist Pacita Abad

Pacita Abad (1946-2004) was born in Basco, Batanes, a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines, between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more-than-thirty-year painting career began when she travelled to the United States to undertake graduate studies. She had over 40 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. She also participated in more than 50 group and traveling exhibitions throughout the world. Abad’s work is now in public, corporate and private art collections in over 70 countries.

Her early paintings were primarily figurative socio-political works of people and primitive masks. Another series was large scale paintings of underwater scenes, tropical flowers and animal wildlife. Pacita’s most extensive body of work, however, is her vibrant, colorful abstract work - many very large scale canvases, but also a number of small collages - on a range of materials from canvas and paper to bark cloth, metal, ceramics and glass. Abad created over 5,000 artworks and painted a 55-meter long Alkaff Bridge in Singapore and covered it with 2,350 multicolored circles.

Abad developed a technique of trapunto painting (named after a quilting technique), which entailed stitching and stuffing her painted canvases to give them a three-dimensional, sculptural effect. She then began incorporating into the surface of her paintings materials such as traditional cloth, mirrors, beads, shells, plastic buttons and other objects.