CPAR
CPAR
Art Masterpiece
Manila. His works of oil and encaustic on canvas have been described
aggregations of reality that not only displaces portraiture as the totemic symbols of power and
status but questions the formation of identity itself as the trap where man cannot go forward". He
has won the Artist Award of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2009. He also trained for
four years at the Philippine High School for the Arts at Mt. Makiling, Los Banos, Laguna, with a
major in Visual Arts. After high school, Jumalon pursued his childhood dream of entering the
College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. He graduated
debris. He takes much from the past and speaks of it in the present, where nostalgia doesn’t
necessarily mean memory as it does an assertion of what remains relevant and real across time.
Jumalon begins with ideas and challenges himself to transform them into a visual form-—the
only one he feels is powerful enough to carry his message. And then Jumalon, apparently, flies
with it. The challenge to him has been the creation of something powerful and interesting. This
beauty can represent the kind of life he sees and lives and knows. Jumalon finds solace in the
urban spaces he occupies, and imagines this space as distinctly pregnant with meaning and ideas
and visual possibilities. Back in his native land, he painted mostly colourful self-portraits.
Whimsical and carefree are the auras that describe his works. Spending his high school life in
Laguna has been still artistically inclined having visual arts as his major. His paintings were done
in subdued earth colours. He was then living in a mountain where his school is located, learning
Winner was fondling for an identity, painting self-portraits. It came to pass, he started
using a layering technique, and drawing faces over faces, an observation perhaps, watching
fellow students with their diverse individuality go under guises just to create that harmony.
According to Residency Unlimited Inc. article that I’ve found and read as well, Winner
Jumalon is one of the most compelling and widely acclaimed Filipino artists of his generation.
He is known for his on-going exploration of personal, cultural and artistic identities, and often
focuses on the relationships between painters, paintings and the art world. Infusing into his
works implicit elements with strong subliminal context, Jumalon’s figurative style emotionally
taps into the viewers’ subconscious. His portraiture is highly detailed, rugged, and brilliantly
questions the formation of identity itself. His use of the human figure bears such powerful
Now, his living alone, playing with wide spaces and abstract figures, graffiti, black
scratches on white background. He sees blunt black and white, anonymous, animosity, bare, his
insight of urbanity. Random and varied images are his confidant to fit and sustain in his
necessary evolution.
I choose to write about him since I love his story on how he strive to be like this or to be
an artist, not just I love his story but I also inspired of his works.
This makes me inspired of his works; it’s full of creativity and passion.
Bibliography
Wikipedia contributors. (2022, March 7). Winner Jumalon. In Wikipedia, The Free
title=Winner_Jumalon&oldid=1075788082
https://residencyunlimited.org/residencies/winner-jumalon/
Samito Jalbuena. (2015, January 13). “Winner Jumalon and the artistic construction of reality”,
artistic-construction-of-reality/
The Life of Winner Jumalon and his Contemporary Philippine
Art Masterpiece
Manila. His works of oil and encaustic on canvas have been described
aggregations of reality that not only displaces portraiture as the totemic symbols of power and
status but questions the formation of identity itself as the trap where man cannot go forward". He
has won the Artist Award of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2009. He also trained for
four years at the Philippine High School for the Arts at Mt. Makiling, Los Banos, Laguna, with a
major in Visual Arts. After high school, Jumalon pursued his childhood dream of entering the
College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. He graduated
debris. He takes much from the past and speaks of it in the present, where nostalgia doesn’t
necessarily mean memory as it does an assertion of what remains relevant and real across time.
Jumalon begins with ideas and challenges himself to transform them into a visual form-—the
only one he feels is powerful enough to carry his message. And then Jumalon, apparently, flies
with it. The challenge to him has been the creation of something powerful and interesting. This
beauty can represent the kind of life he sees and lives and knows. Jumalon finds solace in the
urban spaces he occupies, and imagines this space as distinctly pregnant with meaning and ideas
and visual possibilities. Back in his native land, he painted mostly colourful self-portraits.
Whimsical and carefree are the auras that describe his works. Spending his high school life in
Laguna has been still artistically inclined having visual arts as his major. His paintings were done
in subdued earth colours. He was then living in a mountain where his school is located, learning
Winner was fondling for an identity, painting self-portraits. It came to pass, he started
using a layering technique, and drawing faces over faces, an observation perhaps, watching
fellow students with their diverse individuality go under guises just to create that harmony.
According to Residency Unlimited Inc. article that I’ve found and read as well, Winner
Jumalon is one of the most compelling and widely acclaimed Filipino artists of his generation.
He is known for his on-going exploration of personal, cultural and artistic identities, and often
focuses on the relationships between painters, paintings and the art world. Infusing into his
works implicit elements with strong subliminal context, Jumalon’s figurative style emotionally
taps into the viewers’ subconscious. His portraiture is highly detailed, rugged, and brilliantly
questions the formation of identity itself. His use of the human figure bears such powerful
Now, his living alone, playing with wide spaces and abstract figures, graffiti, black
scratches on white background. He sees blunt black and white, anonymous, animosity, bare, his
insight of urbanity. Random and varied images are his confidant to fit and sustain in his
necessary evolution.
I choose to write about him since I love his story on how he strive to be like this or to be
an artist, not just I love his story but I also inspired of his works.
This makes me inspired of his works; it’s full of creativity and passion.
Bibliography
Wikipedia contributors. (2022, March 7). Winner Jumalon. In Wikipedia, The Free
title=Winner_Jumalon&oldid=1075788082
https://residencyunlimited.org/residencies/winner-jumalon/
Samito Jalbuena. (2015, January 13). “Winner Jumalon and the artistic construction of reality”,
artistic-construction-of-reality/