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Ang Kiukok was an influential Filipino painter known for his expressionist style that fused elements of cubism, surrealism, and expressionism. He studied under Vicente Manansala and his early works depicted scenes from everyday life. After traveling to New York in 1965, his style became more vivid and expressionist, depicting themes of agony and madness. Throughout his career, Kiukok received numerous awards and recognition for his works. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Philippine art.

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Ang Kiukok was an influential Filipino painter known for his expressionist style that fused elements of cubism, surrealism, and expressionism. He studied under Vicente Manansala and his early works depicted scenes from everyday life. After traveling to New York in 1965, his style became more vivid and expressionist, depicting themes of agony and madness. Throughout his career, Kiukok received numerous awards and recognition for his works. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Philippine art.

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ANG KIUKOK

PRESENTOR’S:

CHRISTIAN MAPILI

BRONZE NATHANIEL PADSOYAN


BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST
“ ANG KIUKOK ”
Ang Kiukok, an ethnic Chinese painter who studied under
Vincente Manansala, attained prominence for an.
• Expressionist style that fused Cubist, Surrealist and
Expressionist aspects into a unique personal aesthetic.
BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST
“ANG KIUKOK”
• Kiukok has been called “one of the most dynamic figures in
contemporary Philippine arts.” It has also been said that he
“opened eyes with his violent Cubist paintings of fighting cocks,
stray dogs and tormented lovers,” and that his Expresionist
works “sustained a hard-edged evocation of fortitude and
indignation in a hostile setting of screaming men, crucifixions
and junk.”
• As a young man, Kiukok did comical sketches and also studied
Chinese ink and brush painting methods. His first traditional
brush paintings were influenced by those of the Chinese master
Qi Baishi. Kiukok also copied movie ads from newspapers
while tending his father’s sari-sari store, a business that he was
expected to someday run.
• Against his father’s wishes, Kiukok began his formal art studies at Manila’s University of
Santa Tomas from 1952 to 1954. At Santa Tomas, Vicente Manansala was his primary
mentor, and also became a lifelong friend. Kiukok also studied with other prominent
professors including Victorio Edades, Diosdado Lorenzo, Jose Garcia Llamas, Carlos
“Botong” Francisco, Galo Ocampo, Virginia Ty, and sculptor Francesco Monti. At the
conclusion of his studies, Kiukok taught art in a school of overseas Chinese for five
years.
• Kiukok’s first formal recongntion came in the form of a third prize award in the Shell
National Students Art Competition for Calesa in 1953. Then, st the urging of Vicente
Manansala, Kiukpk launched his first one-man show at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in
1954. After that he earned numerous awards from the Art Association of the Philippines
for his works: Honorable Mention, “Still Life” (1951), First Prize, “The Bird” (1959),
Third Prize, “Still Life in Red” (1963), Second Prize, “Fish” (1963), and Second Prize on
“Geometric Still-Life Fish” (1963).
• The turning point of his career as an artist came in 1965 when he and the late Vicente
Manansala traveled to New York. There, he was surprised at the urban squalor and
alienation he found, and also influenced by American abstract art. Upon his return to the
Philippines, his style took a turn towards a new vivid Expressionist that including themes
of agony, sorrow and madness. The difficulty of these themes caused a temporary loss of
interest on the part of art dealers and collectors.
• In 1976 Kiukok received the Patmabay ng Kilinangan Award from the City of Manila. In
1978 he as given an “Outstanding Alumnus” award by the University of Santo Tomas. In
1980 his painting “Modern Angst” was a finalist in the Mobil Art Awards. In 1990, he
was featured with Onib Olmedo, and Solomon Saprid in a show entitled Three Figurative
Expressionists held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP.)
• During the Marcos Regime, and the period of martial law in the
Philippines, Kiukok returned to painting violent and gruesome imagery
that some interpreted as a commentary on the political atmosphere of the
era. Once, when asked about the anger in his art he replied “Look around
you. So much anger, ugliness. And also madness.”
• Towards the end of his life Ang Kiukok became internationally known, and his works
appeared in exhibits in Manila, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, as well as in the Netherlands,
Canada and the United States. His works are displayed in various collections, such as the
Philippine National Museum, the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Cultural Center of the
Philippines and the National Historical Commission in Taipei. Over time, his art
gradually lost its harsh edge and he near the end of his life he created paintings of clowns
and richly dressed harlequins juggling and clowning. In 2001 President Gloria
Macapaganal-Arroyo named him a National Artist for visual arts.
• Ang Kiukok died of prostate cancer at the age of 74 in Quezon
City, Philippines. He was survived by his wife, Mary de Jesus
and four children.
DOG Catch of the day
Thinking man
Cockerel
Fish clown
Grave of Kiukok at the libingan of
the bayani
ANG KIUKOK’S MAJOR ARTWORKS INCLUDE:

• 1962 – Pieta, which won him the bronze medal in the 1 st International Art Exhibition in Saigon

• 1969 – Geometric Landscape

• 1972 – Last Supper

• 1974 – Cockfight

• 1976 – Crucifixion

• 1979 – Seated Figure, which was auctioned at Sotheby’s, Singapore


• 1987 – Mother and Child
AWARDS AND CITATIONS:

• 1961 – Outstanding Overseas Chinese in Art Award

• 1976 – Outstanding Citizen, awarded by the City of Manila

• 1978 – UST Outstanding Alumnus Award

• 1978 – Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, from the City of Manila

• 1980 – Mobil Art Award


• 2002 – Jose Rizal Award for Excellence, from The Manila Times and the Kaisa
Foundation

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