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2011, November 11.  National Stamp Collecting Month

Featuring the Works of H.R. Ocampo, National Artist

Litho Offset.  APO Productions Unit.  Perf. 13 1/4 x 13;  13 x 13 1/4 (Souvenir Sheets)

Se-tenant Blocks of Four, Sheets of 40  (10 x 4);   Souvenir Sheets of 4

Se-tenant Blocks of Four (25,000)

   7p   Homage to Jose Rizal (1976)

   7p   Break of Day (1948)

   7p   Summer in September (1975)

   7p   Mother and Child (1954)

 

 

28p Souvenir Sheets of Four  (5,000)

   7p  Fiesta (1957)

   7p  Abstraction #15, 17 (1976)

   7p  Kasaysayan ng Lahi (1974)

   7p  Abstraction #22, 26 (1976)

 

 

First Day Covers:  Manila

 

      

 

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2011 NATIONAL STAMP COLLECTING MONTH

FEATURING HERNANDO R. OCAMPA, 1991 NATIONAL ARTIST FOR VISIUAL ARTS, BIRTH CENTENARY

 

H. R. Ocampo, Modern Philippine Artist
Posted by Carrie B. Yan

Recognized as a National Artist in Visual Arts in 1991, Hernando R. Ocampo, also known as H. R. Ocampo, was a leading figure in modern Philippine art.  He was a member of the Saturday Group of artists, and was one of the Thirteen Moderns, a group of modernist artists founded in 1938 and led by Victorio C. Edades.  He also formed the triumvirate of neo-realists with Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi.  His artworks were nationalistic and reflected the harsh realities of the country after World War II.  However, many of his works also depicted the beautiful Philippine landscape.

Ocampo was born to Emilio Ocampo and Delfina Ruiz on April 28, 1911 in Santa Cruz, Manila.  He studied law, commerce and creative writing, and first became a writer before he got into the visual arts.  He started working at the Philippine Education Company in 1931, and then went on to work as executive secretary of the National Paper Mills, Inc. in 1935.  He was also in the script department of Palaris Feler and Fernando Poe Productions after the war.

During his career as a writer, he was one of the organizers of the Veronicans, a group of young writers, which Francisco Arcellana, Estrella Alfon, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Manuel Viray and Angel G. de Jesus were a part of.  He was known for his prize-winning fiction “Bakya,” and “Rice and Bullets.”  Ocampo wrote plays for the stage during the Japanese Occupation, and even became the chief scriptwriter and assistant director of the Associated Artists.  He was later assigned by the Japanese to be a censor for the stage and for the Taliba newspaper.  He was also assigned second lieutenant in Straughn’s Guerrillas.  Later, he became an editor for the Manila Sunday Chronicle Magazine, and a producer-director for the Filipino Players Guild in 1958 to 1968.

In the 1950’s, he started taking part in art shows both in the Philippines and abroad.  He participated in exhibitions in Washington, New York, Sao Paolo Biennial, and Tokyo.

Ocampo divided his years as an artist into stages:  Amorsolo period (1929-1934), in which his works were influenced by painter Fernando Amorsolo; proletarian period (1934-1945), in which his works reflected the realities of that time; transitional period (1945-1963), in which his works became more complex and stylized; mutants period (1963-1968), in which his works were inspired by the science fiction film “The Beginning of the End,” which was about strange forms mutated by nuclear explosions; and visual melody period (1968-1978), in which his works attained a richer abstract style.

H. R. Ocampo passed away in Caloocan City on December 28, 1978.

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