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OCAMPO, GALO B (1913-1983)
OCAMPO, Galo B. b. Santa Rita, Pampanga 16 Oct 1913 d. Virginia, USA 12 Sept 1983. Painter. He
studied at the University of the Philippines and holds the distinction of being the only Filipino to study
heraldry abroad and to hold membership in the International Institute of Genealogy and Heraldry in Madrid.
During WWII, he did intelligence work for the guerrilla movement and became a captain. As his cover, he did
stage backdrops for the Associated Artists group headed by Fernando Poe Sr. In the 1960s, during the
administration of Pres Diosdado Macapagal, Ocampo served as curator of the Presidential Museum of
Malacanang and, subsequently, as director of the National Museum and technical adviser on heraldry in the
president's office. During this time he also taught art at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and at the Far
Eastern University (FEU), where he became head of the Department of Fine Arts in 1971.
Ocampo staged the revolt against academic conservatism in the 1930s together with Victorio Edades and
Carlos (Botong) Francisco. The triumvirate launched a crusade to stimulate artistic development along
modernist lines. In 1934 they created murals-early works in interaction-for the lobbies of the Capitol and State
Theaters, which expressed their new artistic credo and the rising nationalist consciousness at the height of the
Commonwealth era.
Ocampo soon developed his own artistic personality. A key painting of the period was his Brown Madonna,
1938 which indigenized the image of the Virgin Mary. Moro Dancer, and Igorot Dance, were celebrations of
indigenous culture in lively colors and designs. These paintings are characterized by a modernist sense of
design, linear rhythms, and fresh colors.
In the 1950s Ocampo's art was haunted with images of the war he had just lived through. The flagellant
theme, fully brought out in Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), arises from harrowing experiences of the war.
Christ, crowned with thorns and hooded with the flagellant's veil, stands with arms bound together, while in
the skies, warplanes zoom, trailing smoke or releasing a fleet of parachutists. In Shades of Things to Come,
1955, a flagellant lies prostrate, his arms forming a cross on the ground, while shadows of airplanes are
reflected on the sand. These paintings in brown tones convey the feeling of the modern wasteland, littered with
the debris of war.
The flagellant theme would undergo a significant stylistic change in the rnid-1950s with the large painting,
Christ in Flagellant. Here the entire space is filled up with figures, with the hooded Christ on the cross
dominant. The receding space in previous works is now replaced by a vigorous design sectioned as in stained
glass.
The artist was sent to Rome in 1956 by the Archbishop of Manila to train for the work of designing stained
glass for the Manila Cathedral. For the cathedral he did the seals of different Archbishops of Manila as well as
those of Manila, and various images and attributes of-the Virgin Mary in the country. He also did the designs
for the stained-glass windows of Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City, and the sarimanok for the Philamlife
building.
It was only in 1973, at the age of 59 and after his years in government service, that Ocampo held his first
one-person show at Galerie Bleue. For this exhibit he produced a new series entitled Anthropographic
Designs, in which he paid tribute to the Tabon man. His field work with Robert Fox in Palawan inspired him
with images of the early Pilipino: Adam and Eve growing from the ancient stalagmites and reflecting the
ever-changing hues of the mysterious caves.
His 1982 retrospective at the Museum of Philippine Art brought out all his themes, although the "flagellants"
had shifted from their original somber mood to a more positive tone-the hooded figure of Ecce Homo now sits
on a space missile in a lunar landscape. He expanded the ethnic theme to include the ati-atihan where masked
figures cavort in gaudy revelry.
Ocampo's awards from the Art Association of the Philippines are: second prize, Pounding Rice, 1951;
honorable mention, Igorot Dance, 1951; special award, Weary Traveller, 1951; and the first Rotary Golden
Anniversary Award, Bayanihan, 1955. He received the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from the
City of Manila in 1964
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4. Carlos V. Francisco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... was one of the first Filipino modernists along with Galo Ocampo and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando Amorsolo 's romanticism of Philippine scenes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_V._Francisco [Found on Windows Live, Ask.com]
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