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Filipino artist

Galo B. Ocampo (October 16, 1913 – September 12, 1985) was a Filipino artist. He was also the first Filipino to study heraldry and was a member of the International Institute of Genealogy and Heraldry in Madrid.

Background

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

A modernist painter,^[2] he painted works such as the "Moro Dancer" and the "Igorot Dance".

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Among his paintings, the "Brown Madonna" garnered attention in 1938 because of its depiction of Jesus and Mary as non-Caucasian, brown Filipinos; It was also said to be "flat and two-dimensional". He, along with Victorio C. Edades and Carlos V.

Francisco, painted the mural "Rising Philippines" in the lobby of the Capitol Theater in Manila.

He served as the director of the National Museum from 1962 to 1968 and also served as a Secretary of the now-defunct Philippine Heraldry Committee which help