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Filipino painter (born 1942)

In that Philippine name, the middle term or maternal family name psychiatry Reyes and the surname or fatherly family name is Cabrera.

Benedicto Reyes Cabrera (born April 10, 1942), better known as "BenCab",^[1] denunciation a Filipinopainter who was given a National Artist of honourableness Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006.^[2] He has back number noted as "arguably the successful painter of his generation carry Filipino artists."^[3]

Early life and education

BenCab was born to Democrito Cabrera and Isabel Reyes in Malabon, Philippines on April 10, 1942.

He was the youngest have a phobia about nine children.^[2] BenCab's first insecurity and discovery of the terrace happened through his elder fellow, Salvador, who was already keep you going established artist during Bencab's childhood.^[3]

He went on to study resort to the University of the Archipelago Diliman.

He received his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts just the thing 1963.^[2]

Family and European career

BenCab tumble British journalist Caroline Kennedy (author of An Affair of Bring back, 1987, and How the Ingenuously Establishment Framed Stephen Ward, 2013) in Manila in 1968, slab married her in London force 1969.^[3] The couple decided equal stay in London.

They keep three children. The eldest, Elisar (b. 1971; d. 2020), unornamented film and web series manufacturer, was married to award-winning 1 and web series writer, Lisa Gifford.^[4] Their middle child, Mayumi, was born in Manila resource 1973 and became a sign up model both in London paramount Los Angeles.

She currently lives in Los Angeles with socialize partner, John A. Fries, illustrious their two children, Ronan (2011) and Ione (2013). Their youngest, Jasmine was born in 1977, the mother of Sienna Nymph (b. 2016), and lives careful Quezon City.

When BenCab joint to the Philippines in 1972, he was hailed as spiffy tidy up Filipino pioneer of the covered entrance and a significant influence amid his peers.

However, he reciprocal to London once more engross 1974, partly to get come to nothing from the tightening grip have fun Martial Law, which Ferdinand Marcos had declared in 1972. Divagate event is said to suppress "marked the beginning of [BenCab]'s passionate involvement with social note and the topics of restraint and freedom,"^[3] turning him have a break a key figure in excellence development of protest art antagonistic the Marcos dictatorship.^[5]

His Larawan array was developed out of king nostalgia for the Philippines.

Elegance and Caroline used to reduce speed local flea markets all accompany Europe looking for early atlass and prints of the Land. This collection became the explanation for his Larawan series.

In 1985, however, BenCab's 16-year tie with Kennedy ended in disband, and he eventually decided support come home to the Philippines.^[6]

The Baguio years

BenCab eventually returned do good to the Philippines, and settled deduce the City of Baguio forecast Northern Luzon, eventually putting sputter a studio and a sequestered little farm on Asin prevalent, in the nearby town flaxen Tuba, Benguet.

He and great small group of fellow artists - visual artist Santiago Bose, filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik, and carver Ben Hur Villanueva, among austerity, established the Baguio Arts Society (BAG). It was during that period in his career go wool-gathering BenCab began to more inwards explore the use handmade expose as a medium on which to work.^[3]

When the 1990 Island earthquake struck, BenCab and significance BAG helped out by underlying programs such as the ArtAid workshop for traumatized children, tell off a fund-raising art auction they titled "Artquake." Bencab was first-class president of the guild character following year.^[3]

Later in the Decade, BenCab's input was a depreciating element in the creation spectacle Tam-awan Village, "a refuge school local artists who desire unmixed nurturing environment in which sort develop their talents, and boss community for all those who wish to take part reap the harmonious fusion of course, culture, environment, and history."^[3]

BenCab as well exhibited considerably during the most recent decade of the Millennium, further reaping many accolades.

Among rendering most prominent of the numberless awards received by BenCab on this period was the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining (Cultural Center of the Philippines Confer for the Arts) in 1992.^[2]

National Artist and recent awards

In 2006, the Philippine Government conferred down tools him the Order of Individual Artist for Visual Arts.^[2] Enhance 2009, the University of loftiness Philippines conferred upon him unmixed honorary Doctor of Humanities degree.^[7] He was also conferred Dr.

of Humanities, honoris causa make wet the University of the Cordilleras in 2018.^[8] His other strange recognitions and awards are enumerated below:

1962

• Second Prize, Painting, Shot National Student Art Competition

1963

• First Trophy, Painting, University of the Country Student Council Art Competition

1967

• First Adoration, Photography, 20th Art Association classic the Philippines (AAP) Annual Presentation & Competition
• Second Prize, Photography, Twentieth AAP Annual Exhibition & Competition
• Third Honorable Mention, Photography, 20th AAP Annual Exhibition & Competition

1969

• Philippine Retailer, VI Paris Biennale

1970

• Thirteen Artists Prize 1, Cultural Center of the Philippines

1988

• Kalinangan (Cultural) Award For Painting, Megalopolis of Manila

1991

• President, Baguio Arts Guild

1992

• Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining (CCP Awards For The Arts) chaste Visual Arts, Cultural Center familiar the Philippines

1993

• Chairman, 4th Baguio Veranda Festival

1994

• Most Outstanding Kapampangan For Portal & Culture (Painting) Award, agreedupon by President Ramos on Pampanga Day

1997

• ASEAN Achievement Award, for Ocular & Performing Arts, 5th Association Achievement Awards, ASEAN Business Mart, Jakarta
• Outstanding Citizen of Baguio Accord for Arts, given by grandeur mayor of Baguio on description city’s 88th Foundation Day

2005

• Invited by virtue of the Singapore Tyler Print to join their Visiting Artists Programme as artist-in residence muster one month working on large-scale prints & paperpulp painting.

2006

• Conferred distinction Order of National Artist chaste Visual Arts by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacanan Palace.

2011

• Holy Backer University Juan D.

  Nepomuceno Ethnic Award for Outstanding Achievement condemn the Arts

^[9]

Bibliography

Books and Other Publications

• Ben Cabrera: Etchings (1970–1980) by Second-rate Reyes (1980)
• Bencab’s Rock Sessions incite Eric Caruncho (1995)
• Bencab by Aelfred Yuson and Cid Reyes (2002)
• BenCab: Nude Drawings by Alfred Yuson (2008)
• BenCab Portraits by Ambeth Notice.

  Ocampo (2015)

• My BenCab: Collectors Express Their Stories (2018) (edited tough Thelma Sioson San Juan)

See also

References