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José Tanig Joya (June 3, 1931 – May 11, 1995) was a Filipino abstract artist and a National Artist of the Philippines awardee. Joya was a printmaker, painter, mixed media artist, and former dean of the University of the Philippines' College of Fine Arts.
National artist Jose Joya was a pioneer modern and abstract artist who was active as a painter, printmaker, mixed-media artist and ceramicist. It has been said that it was Joya who “spearheaded the birth, growth and flowering of abstract expressionism” in the Philippines.
José Joya was a Filipino painter best known for his Abstract Expressionist works which utilized a variety of techniques, including controlled drips, impasto strokes, and transparent layering.
Trained by conservatives like Guillermo Tolentino, Fernando Amorsolo, Dominador Castañeda, and Toribio Herrera, Jose T. Joya nonetheless became immortalized for his tireless championing of Philippine Abstraction.
Born in Manila on June 3, 1931, Jose Joya is considered the pioneer and foremost abstract expressionist painter of the Philippines. His work is “characterized by calligraphic gestures and linear forces, and a sense of color vibrancy emanating from an Oriental sensibility.”
Though highly revered in art circles, the painter José Joya never achieved the status of National Artist—until in 2003, eight years after his death.
Jun 3, 2022 · Today, #NationalMuseumPH celebrates the 91st birth anniversary of National Artist (NA) for Visual Arts and pioneering abstract expressionist Jose Tanig Joya by featuring his 1964 oil painting on wood, “Scented Sheath” from the National Fine Arts Collection (NFAC).
Jose Joya. Order of National Artists. 1931. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines in 1953, and an MFA under a Fulbright Smith-Mundt grant. He pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines.
Aug 31, 2011 · The splendor of Jose T. Joya’s paintings, sketches, lithographs, and ceramic art are appreciated even by Filipinos who were born after 1995, the year the Philippines’ pioneering abstract painter and cutting-edge multimedia artist of his generation died.
Jose Joya was a Filipino abstract mixed media artist who pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines that transcended foreign influences.
