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Manuel Ocampo

Manuel Ocampo (Born 1965) is active/lives in California, New Jersey / Philippines, Spain.  Manuel Ocampo is known for Abstract, surreal religious and political allegory painting.

Manuel Ocampo (born 1965) is a Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque* religious iconography* with secular political narrative. His works draw upon a wide range of art historical references, contain cartoonish elements, and draw inspiration from punk subculture.

Manuel Ocampo was born in the Philippines. He studied fine arts at the University of the Philippines, then moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1980s, where he studied at the California State University. Ocampo has since moved to Seville, Spain.

Ocampo frequently revisits and makes reference to the art historical canon of political allegorists including Leon Golub, Géricault, Goya, Daumier with allusions to contemporary figures including political satirist R. Crumb  and Modernist painter Philip Guston. Ocampo's dark, often disturbing Gothic* paintings are attributed with transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art history, purgatory into salvation. One of his pieces featuring severa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3214 characters.]  Artist bio

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