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Arturo Luz

Arturo Roderio Luz (Born 1926) is active/lives in California, New York / Philippines.  Arturo Luz is known for Geometric, minimal linear painting and sculpture, printmaker, teachier.

Arturo Rogerio Luz, born November 20, 1926, became a Philippine National Artist awardee in visual arts. Born in Manila, he is also a known printmaker, sculptor, designer and art administrator. He was a founding member of the modern Neo-realist* school in Philippine art, and received the National Artist Award, the country's highest accolade in the arts, in 1997.

He studied painting at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila and also studied in the United States and Paris.  He entered the Philippine art scene during the 1950s and had his first solo exhibition in 1951. His early work was figurative*, but he later moved towards abstraction*.

Luz has produced art pieces through a disciplined economy of means. His early drawings were described as "playful linear works" influenced by Paul Klee. His best masterpieces are minimalist*, geometric abstracts, alluding to the modernist "virtues" of competence, order and elegance; and were further described as evoking universal rea   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8426 characters.]  Artist bio

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