Pelagia mendoza biography channel

Filipino women artists started contributing to Philippine art when the Philippines was still a colonial province of Spain (–).^[1] They have continued to participate as art creators after World War II through modern times by either following the traditional way of making art or by departing from such tradition by embracing modernism and other modes of expressing themselves through art.

Pelagia mendoza biography channel

Spanish era (–)

Sculpting

The first Filipino woman to achieve a level of prominence in the art world, while the Philippines was under the management of Spain, was sculptor Pelagia Mendoza y Gotianquin ().

The first female student at the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura (Academy of Drawing and Painting), Mendoza studied sculpting under the mentorship of Agustin Saez and Lorenzo Rocha. Her bust of Christopher Columbus won an award during the quattrocentenial celebration of the Discovery of the Americas.^[1]

Painting

In the field of painting in the