For Daniel Coquilla, the streets of Metro Manila with a population of 13 million plus, offer a vibrant space to document visually what’s going on, what’s in, and what’s out.
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'Kamao ang Hugis ng Puso' alludes to the essence of Doloricon’s life and work, his passion (puso) being always entangled with a cause and struggle (kamao).
MANILA — Leonilo “Neil” Doloricon, eminent visual artist and social realist, died early Friday morning, July 16, his daughter announced on Facebook.
Doloricon died in a hospital at past three o’clock this morning, his daughter Kat said. He was 63 years old.
The University of the Philippines (UP) Artists’ Circle describes Doloricon as a social realist painter, printmaker, social critic and educator.
At the time of his death, Doloricon was a professor at the UP College of Fine Arts which he served as dean from 1998 to 2001.
From 2017, he served as chairperson of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines and was named the organization’s chairperson emeritus at the end of his term in May this year.