Arturo Luz
Bio
Arturo Luz (1926 – 2021, Philippines) was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer, designer and art administrator at the Design Center of the Philippines (DCP), Metropolitan Museum, (MET) Museum of Philippine Art (MOPA) and his very own “THE LUZ GALLERY” which featured a lot of highly acclaimed artists like Joya, Sanso and Bencab.
He acquired the Philippine’s highest honors as National Artist of the Year for Visual Arts in 1997.
His studies include enrollment in University of Santo Tomas College of Architecture and Fine Arts (1947), California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland (1947), Brooklyn Museum of New York Art School (1949), Academie de la Grande Chaumiere Paris, France (1950) and Instituto de Cultura Hispanica (1954).
Luz has produced art pieces throughout more than 60 years of his craft, described as playful linear works influenced by artist Paul Klee. His best masterpieces are minimalists, geometric abstracts alluding to the modernist virtues of competence, order and elegance. His works exhibits simple linear and geometric forms created from imagination, as characteristic in pieces like Carnival Forms, Cityscapes, Musicians, Acrobats and Desert Architecture.
When asked, he mentioned “ART IS FOR ALL”. It is on this note that the LUZ Family is sharing his legacy through their collection of his famous works.
Arturo Luz (1926 – 2021, Philippines) was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer, designer and art administrator at the Design Center of the Philippines (DCP), Metropolitan Museum, (MET) Museum of Philippine Art (MOPA) and his very own “THE LUZ GALLERY” which featured a lot of highly acclaimed artists like Joya, Sanso and Bencab.
He acquired the Philippine’s highest honors as National Artist of the Year for Visual Arts in 1997.
His studies include enrollment in University of Santo Tomas College of Architecture and Fine Arts (1947), California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland (1947), Brooklyn Museum of New York Art School (1949), Academie de la Grande Chaumiere Paris, France (1950) and Instituto de Cultura Hispanica (1954).
Luz has produced art pieces throughout more than 60 years of his craft, described as playful linear works influenced by artist Paul Klee. His best masterpieces are minimalists, geometric abstracts alluding to the modernist virtues of competence, order and elegance. His works exhibits simple linear and geometric forms created from imagination, as characteristic in pieces like Carnival Forms, Cityscapes, Musicians, Acrobats and Desert Architecture.
When asked, he mentioned “ART IS FOR ALL”. It is on this note that the LUZ Family is sharing his legacy through their collection of his famous works.
