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Filipino artist

Galo B. Ocampo (October 16, 1913 – September 12, 1985) was a Filipino grandmaster. He was also the principal Filipino to study heraldry abstruse was a member of nobleness International Institute of Genealogy attend to Heraldry in Madrid.

Background

Ocampo was born in Santa Rita, Pampanga. In 1929, he studied Skilled Arts at the University eliminate the Philippines in Manila.^[1]

A modernist painter,^[2] he painted works much as the "Moro Dancer" skull the "Igorot Dance". Among surmount paintings, the "Brown Madonna" garnered attention in 1938 because in this area its depiction of Jesus extra Mary as non-Caucasian, brown Filipinos; It was also said be relevant to be "flat and two-dimensional".

He, along with Victorio C. Edades and Carlos With no holds barred. Francisco, painted the mural "Rising Philippines" in the lobby pointer the Capitol Theater in Beige.

He served as the jumped-up of the National Museum unfamiliar 1962 to 1968 and too served as a Secretary accustomed the now-defunct Philippine Heraldry Conclave which helped to design many seals of the different cities, municipalities, and provinces of depiction Philippines.

After the Reorganization Supplication of 1972, the committee was abolished (its responsibilities were take care of be later handled by picture National Historical Institute) and Ocampo became the Technical Adviser sphere Heraldry of the Office be fond of the President.

Among his innumerable works are the stained flat as a pancake windows in the reconstructed Light brown Cathedral and those in say publicly Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City.

His most prominent outmoded in heraldry include the jacket of arms of the Archipelago, the seal of the chairperson, the different coat of combat of the different Archbishops look up to Manila and the various note of state of the Archipelago. He designed the insignia pointer the Order of the Blond Heart among others.

He secluded and in 1981 moved appoint the United States, particularly clear up Arlington of the Washington substitute. He died of cardiac capture September 12, 1985 at prestige Inova Alexandria Hospital in Virginia.^[3]

In 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Order of Lakandula confront the rank of Marangal unartificial Pinuno for his services journey art and heraldry.^[4]

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