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Ang Kiukok was a Filipino painter of Chinese descent who was named a National Artist for Visual Arts. He was born in 1931 in Davao City to Chinese immigrant parents. Kiukok began drawing at a young age and trained in Chinese arts with a focus on brush and ink. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas where he was mentored by Vicente Manansala. Throughout his career, Kiukok earned numerous awards and honors for his paintings, which fused cubist, surrealist, and expressionist concepts. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Philippine art.

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Ang Kiukok was a Filipino painter of Chinese descent who was named a National Artist for Visual Arts. He was born in 1931 in Davao City to Chinese immigrant parents. Kiukok began drawing at a young age and trained in Chinese arts with a focus on brush and ink. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas where he was mentored by Vicente Manansala. Throughout his career, Kiukok earned numerous awards and honors for his paintings, which fused cubist, surrealist, and expressionist concepts. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Philippine art.

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Ang Kiukok

Ang Kiukok was a Filipino painter of Chinese descent and was a National Artist
for Visual Arts. Ang Kiukok, Philippine National Artist and master Filipino painter who
attained prominence for his distinct fusion of cubist, surrealist, and expressionist
concepts and undoubtedly one of the most dynamic figures in contemporary Philippine
arts was a Dabawenyo.

Born on March 1, 1931 in Davao City, Philippines, Ang Kiukok was the only son
among a brood of five daughters of Chinese immigrants from Fukien, Vicente Ang and
Chin Lim. His father wanted to name him Hua Shing, meaning "Chinese-born", but
decided to look for another name when he learned that his cousin's son had been given
the same name. Anxious about China's fate against the invading Manchurians at that
time, his father named him Kiukok, meaning "Save the Country".

Kiukok's artistry began at an early age. Even before he reached his teen years,
he began drawing images of people using styles that were commonly seen in
magazines and comics. Later, he trained in Chinese arts with  particular focus in brush
and ink. In 1952, he entered the University of Santo Tomas in Manila and studied Fine
Arts until 1954 under fellow National Artist Vicente Manansala who become a lifelong
friend and mentor. Victorio Edades, Diosdado Lorenzo, Jose Garcia Llamas, Carlos
"Botong" Francisco, Galo Ocampo, Virginia Ty, and Italian sculptor Francesco Monti
were his professors. Thereafter, he taught art in a school for children of overseas
Chinese for five years.
Through the urging of his mentor Vicente Manansala, he launched his first one-
man show at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in 1954. Since then, he has had many
other solo exhibits throughout his career and earned a string of distinguished major
awards along the way: a bronze medal at the First International Art Exhibition in Saigon
in 1962, third prize in the Shell National Students Art Competition for Calesa in 1953,
and won several 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).
In 1961 he was awarded Outstanding Overseas Chinese in Art, and was
conferred Outstanding Citizen by the City of Manila in 1976. He won the Patnubay ng
Sining at Kalinangan Award in 1976 from the City of Manila, and was also given an
Outstanding Alumnus Award by the University of Santo Tomas that same year. He was
also awarded when one of his works became a finalist in the Mobil Art Awards in 1980.
In 1990, he was featured in an art exhibit called Three Figurative Expressionists held
at the Cultural Center of the Philippines along with masters, Onib Olmedo and Solomon
Saprid.

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