It’s fairly straightforward to name the important Filipino painters in the “familiar canon” of Philippine painting when we’re talking about artists born before 1970: Juan Luna (1857-1899), Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972), Anita Magsaysay Ho (1914-2012), Arturo Luz (b. 1926), Ang Kiukok (1931-2005), Benedicto Cabrera or BenCab (b. 1942), Pacita Abad (1946-2004), and Elmer Borlongan (b. 1967). It’s however a little tricky when one attempts to “name” that canon so to speak after painters born in the seventies onward.