Manuel Baldemor is a Filipino painter, sculptor, printmaker, writer and book illustrator.
21 Facts About Manuel Baldemor
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Manuel Baldemor was born on March 26,1947, in Paete, Laguna, Philippines.
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Manuel Baldemor is best known for his paintings on various media that depict scenes in simplified geometric forms with a folk art character.
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Manuel Baldemor's works are known not only in the Philippines but in other countries.
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Manuel Baldemor is an artist-in-residence in Chile, Estonia, France, Israel, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and Portugal.
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Manuel Baldemor's works is known internationally because UNICEF is reproducing his works as greeting cards that are distributed worldwide.
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Manuel Baldemor studied in the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design.
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Manuel Baldemor worked for Mabini Artist to support his financial needs as a student.
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Manuel Baldemor's career started as a painter when he depicted the beauty of his hometown Paete, Laguna through pen-and ink.
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Manuel Baldemor had several works that depicted the Philippines ideal through the use of Folk Modernist treatment.
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Manuel Baldemor won his third gold prize for the annual Art Association of the Philippines competition for his fine prints in the year 1983.
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Manuel Baldemor experimented and tries other media such as, watercolour, acrylic, tempera, oil in canvas, woodcut, ceramics, glass, grass paper and fine prints.
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Manuel Baldemor became known as International Artist and the Most Travelled Artist for travelling for more than 50 countries.
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Manuel Baldemor won his fourth gold prize for sculptor for the Annual Art Association of the Philippines Competition sculpture category in the year 1982.
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Manuel Baldemor's winning piece was "Tribute to the Filipino Farmer" that was shown the in City Gallery at Luneta in 1980, as his tribute to his father, Perfecto S Baldemor.
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Manuel Baldemor is a writer; he is part of the Writers' Guild of the Philippines.
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Manuel Baldemor became a columnist for culture in two major newspaper companies.
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Manuel Baldemor continued his weekly column in the "Art and Culture Section" of "The Philippines Star" from 1997 to 1999.
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Manuel Baldemor showed his skills as a graphic designer by making the souvenir program of XI World Congress of Cardiology in 1991, XXII International Conference on Internal Medicine in 1994, and other commemorative books about the history and cultivation of the Philippines.
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Manuel Baldemor is awarded as one of the "Natatanging Buhay na Anak ng Bayan" in the Celebration of Balik-Paete 2004.
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Manuel Baldemor's works have been chosen and reproduced by UNICEF as a design for their greeting cards for the past 30 years, that generated for at least P35 million sales for the company.