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Filipina women performing tasks such as cooking, harvesting, and tending to farms and children. The women she paints are seen without anger and are not concerned with gender roles or politics, as the women in her childhood were not. Magsaysay-Ho has revealed that she takes a liking to painting women who are at work in the fields as it shows their true strength. Despite frequently travelling, Magsaysay-Ho consistently painted the Philippines based on her memory. Magsaysay-Ho's favorite medium to paint with was egg tempera as used in her earlier work, but the physical demands forced her to utilize other techniques. So, she would paint by means of oils, acrylics, drawings, and lithographs. Her egg tempera paintings, however, are now some of her most sought-after works of art. In the early 1940s, the influence of her teacher
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work were created. The 1960s brought along more articulate, spaced-out figures and softened tones. A decade later, her work was inspired by
Chinese calligraphy as she created objects found in nature by using ink blots. Finally, in the 1980s Magsaysay-Ho utilized green hues to portray fruits and vegetables that oftentimes resembled women.
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was clearly visible, both in terms of subject and brightness of the paintings. Some call
Magsaysay-Ho the "Female Amorsolo" because, like Fernando, she prefers having women as her subjects of painting. Her work appealed to Social Realism and post-Cubism by painting distortions and semi-abstract faces
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Magsaysay-Ho found inspiration from her childhood and important women in her life. Although she traveled all her life and encountered many different women from different cultures, all of the women in her paintings are of
Filipinas because they are what she is most familiar with. Most of her paintings
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Magsaysay-Ho's work can be distinguished between the decades. In the 1950s, her work was exhibited in The
Philippine Art Association (PAG) and grouped among other notable Neo-Realist artists. This period is when her most notorious work that involved light and dark contrasts of Filipina women hard at
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There she met Robert Ho from Hong Kong who was also a student in New York City. They married in 1947 and moved to China, where Ho's shipping industry company, Magsaysay Inc., began. The couple had five children, and the family moved frequently because of Ho's work. They lived in Brazil, Canada, Hong
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by utilizing more abstract designs and styles rather than realistic approaches. She was the only female member of the "Thirteen
Moderns," a standing group of Filipino modernist artists, and in 1958 was chosen by a panel of experts as one of the six major painters of the country's history. The most
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In 1958, the Manila
Chronicle formed a panel of experts who decided that Magsaysay-Ho is one of the most significant painters to go down in the history of the Philippines. She was soon named one of the "Thirteen Moderns," a group of Filipino modernist artists, and the only woman of the group. In
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Her most famous work includes "Two Women," a painting portraying two
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Kong, New York, Washington, D.C., and Japan to name a few. Over the span of 50 years, this family moved to thirty different houses after living in Manila together for fourteen years. Wherever she lived, Anita had access to a studio, where she spent most of her time painting.
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famous work of Magsaysay-Ho are subject to the beauty of Filipino women dealing with everyday issues. Collections of her artwork can be found in museums around the Philippines.
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stitching a net. All of these won first place at The Philippine Art Association.
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1st prize of The Philippine Art Association (PAG) (1959) for "Mending the Nets"
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