Malabon, officially the City of Malabon, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 380,522 people.
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.
Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca, also known as Felipe G. Calderon was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and intellectual, known as the "Father of the Malolos Constitution".
Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmán, or Juan M. Arellano, was a Filipino architect, best known for Manila's Metropolitan Theater (1935), Legislative Building, the Manila Central Post Office Building (1926), the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex (1934), the Central Student Church, the old Jaro Municipal Hall (1934) and the old Iloilo City Hall (1935) in Iloilo, the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol (1936), the Cebu Provincial Capitol (1937), the Bank of the Philippine Islands Cebu Main Branch (1940), Misamis Occidental Provincial Capitol Building (1935), Cotabato Municipal Hall (1940) and the Jones Bridge during the pre-war era.
Arellano University (AU) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university located in Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1938 as a law school by Florentino Cayco, Sr., the first Filipino Undersecretary of Public Instruction. The university was named after Cayetano Arellano, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. It operates seven campuses located throughout Metro Manila and the Main Campus is located along Legarda Street, Sampaloc, Manila. The Arellano University School of Law is autonomous and managed by the Arellano Law Foundation. Its athletic team, the Arellano University Chiefs, is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 2009.
Arturo Rogerio Luz was a Filipino visual artist. He was also a known printmaker, sculptor, designer and art administrator.
Mario Parial was a multi-awarded Filipino painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His works have been sold at Sotheby's.
Frederico Aguilar Alcuaz was a Filipino painter who exhibited extensively Internationally and whose work earned him recognition both in the Philippines and abroad.
Pablo Cueto Amorsolo was a Filipino painter. He was the younger brother of the Philippine National Artist Fernando Amorsolo.
Mauro Malang Santos, commonly known by the mononym Malang, was a Filipino and award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and fine arts painter. As a comics artist he is best known for the series Kosme the Cop, Chain Gang Charlie and Beelzebub.
Arellano University operates seven campuses in Metro Manila.
Damián Domingo y Gabor was the father of Philippine painting. Domingo established the official Philippine art academy in his residence in Tondo in 1821.
Benedicto “Bong” Ducat is a Filipino impressionist painter. He is now teaching at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design. He is noted for his renderings of plants, flowers and nature in droplet-like brush strokes and bright colors. In college, Ducat won the University of Santo Tomas Benavides Civic Award.
Pinggot Zulueta is a Filipino visual artist and photojournalist. In 1982, he attained his Fine Arts degree Major in Painting from the University of Santo Tomas. He further studied at the UP College of Fine Arts as well as Advanced Course on News Photography and Pictorial Layout conducted by the International Institute of Journalism, Berlin held in Manila in 1996. While at UST, he served as Staff Artist of the university's official student publication, The Varsitarian. Later, he worked as a Political Cartoonist at Midweek magazine and later at Abante. Since 1983, he had joined fellow artists in group exhibitions in art galleries in Manila, New Zealand and Australia. Mr. Zulueta is currently a Lifestyle Photographer in the Philippines’ leading national newspaper; Manila Bulletin.
Elmer Misa Borlongan is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter best known for his distinctive use of figurative expressionism.
Danilo Palomer Santiago is a Full-time Filipino Eclectic painter, professor and Department Chair of University of Santo Tomas - College of Fine Arts and Design (UST-CFAD), Painting Department. His murals are displayed at the Malacaňang Palace, UST Main Building - Faculty of Civil Law and Veterans Memoraila Medical Center and whose works won awards in various art competitions. He was born in Sorsogon, Philippines and now lives in Manila.
Arcadio Arellano was a notable architect who was considered a pioneer during his time. He built famous edifices and the residential buildings of the elite. In all his works, he departed from American and European designs and instead incorporated Filipino native plants and motifs.
Wilfredo Beltran Alicdan is a Filipino figurative artist. His works are distinguished by their quaint and geometric folk representations, populated by rounded stylized figures usually engaged in traditional and rural activities.
Constancio Bernardo was a Filipino painter and professor. He is known for making the earliest modern geometric abstract paintings in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.
