Manuel Baldemor
| Manuel Baldemor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Manuel D. Baldemor March 26, 1947 (Age (2016):75) Paete, Laguna, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Known for | Painting |
Manuel Baldemor is a Filipino painter, sculptor, printmaker, writer and book illustrator. He was born on March 26, 1947 in Paete, Laguna, Philippines.
He is best known for his paintings on various media that depict scenes in simplified geometric forms with a folk art character. Most of his subjects in art are his hometown, its people, their everyday activities, and their celebrations.
His works are known not only in the Philippines but also in other countries. He is an artist-in-residence in Chile, Estonia, France, Israel, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and Portugal. His works is known internationally because UNICEF is reproducing his works as greeting cards that are distributed worldwide.
Manuel Baldemor studied in the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design. He worked for Mabini Artist to support his financial needs as a student. He did academic plates for his classmates.
In his senior year, he worked as a layout artist an editorial cartoonist for the Philippine Graphic. This started his career in publication.
His career started as a painter when he depicted the beauty of his hometown Paete, Laguna through pen-and ink. His mural work "Paete I" won the grand prize on Art Association of the Philippines Art Competition and Exhibition in 1972. The next year, his mural work "Paete II" won the same prize. His consecutive wins make way for him to become a representative of the Philippines for XIV International Art Exhibition in Paris in 1973. The art critic, Leonides Benesa, hails him as "The Folk Artist".
In the 1970s he developed his own brand of art that had fused his rural memories. He had several works that depicted the Philippines ideal through the use of Folk Modernist treatment. His first exhibit "The Graphic of Manuel D. Baldemor" at the Hidalgo Gallery in 1972 marked the debut of his career.
He won his third gold prize for the annual Art Association of the Philippines competition for his fine prints in the year 1983. He experimented and tries other media such as, watercolour, acrylic, tempera, oil in canvas, woodcut, ceramics, glass, grass paper and fine prints.
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