Filipino Famous Artist: Augusto Arbizo is a famous Filipino artist in the field of Visual Arts. Augusto Arbizo was born in 1972 at Quezon City, Manila, Philippines. He is a very good visual artist, gallerist, and art curator. Arbizo lives and works in New York City.
Augusto Arbizo studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art, NY, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in painting; he earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The University of Michigan.
Augusto Arbizo work has been exhibited at Bellwether, NY, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY and Roebling Hall Gallery, NY. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, White Columns, NY, and John Connelly Presents, NY among others.
Augusto Arbizo nature inspired paintings move between abstraction and representation, presenting simple organic shapes in bright, vivid colors.
Pablo Antonio
Pablo Antonio is a famous Filipino artist in the field of Architecture. Pablo S. Antonio as his fullname was born on January 25, 1902 - June 14, 1975. A famous Filipino architect. He is a pioneer of modern Philippine architecture.
Pablo Antonio was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1976. He was recognized in some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time.
Pablo Antonio first came into prominence in 1933 with the construction of the Ideal Theater along Avenida Rizal in Manila. Between 1938 to 1950, he designed several buildings on the university campus in the Art Deco style. His work caught the eye of the founder of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Nicanor Reyes, Sr., who was looking to build a school campus that was modern in style. The FEU campus is considered as the largest ensemble of surviving Art Deco architecture in Manila, and in 2005, it received an Honorable Mention citation from the UNESCO for the body's 2005 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.
Pablo Antonio also designed the White Cross Sanitarium (1938) along Santolan Road in San Juan City, and the Manila Polo Club (1950) in Makati City. Pablo Antonio likewise designed the Ramon Roces Publications Building (now Guzman Institute of Electronics) in Soler Street in Manila, the the Capitan Luis Gonzaga Building, and the Boulevard-Alhambra (Bel-Air) apartments in Makati City.
As of 2008, only the Galaxy Theater remains standing, though it is threatened with demolition. Apart from the Ideal Theater, Antonio also designed several other theaters in Manila, including the Life Theater, the Scala Theater, the Lyric Theater, and the Galaxy Theater.
Pablo Antonio was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1976. He was recognized in some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time.
Pablo Antonio first came into prominence in 1933 with the construction of the Ideal Theater along Avenida Rizal in Manila. Between 1938 to 1950, he designed several buildings on the university campus in the Art Deco style. His work caught the eye of the founder of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Nicanor Reyes, Sr., who was looking to build a school campus that was modern in style. The FEU campus is considered as the largest ensemble of surviving Art Deco architecture in Manila, and in 2005, it received an Honorable Mention citation from the UNESCO for the body's 2005 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.
Pablo Antonio also designed the White Cross Sanitarium (1938) along Santolan Road in San Juan City, and the Manila Polo Club (1950) in Makati City. Pablo Antonio likewise designed the Ramon Roces Publications Building (now Guzman Institute of Electronics) in Soler Street in Manila, the the Capitan Luis Gonzaga Building, and the Boulevard-Alhambra (Bel-Air) apartments in Makati City.
As of 2008, only the Galaxy Theater remains standing, though it is threatened with demolition. Apart from the Ideal Theater, Antonio also designed several other theaters in Manila, including the Life Theater, the Scala Theater, the Lyric Theater, and the Galaxy Theater.
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