page_title: Elito Circa
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Elito Circa / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: 2nd time since 2007 - Natatanging Anak ng Pantabangan (Arts and Culture Category: Folk Painter)
context_page_description: Elito Villaflor Circa, better known as "Amangpintor", is a Filipino painter and internationally known folk artist, who paints using indigenous human hair and blood fluids with mythologism and mythicalism subject matters. He was the "First Hair and Blood Painter" of his generation and his signature subject is Legend of Minggan. A father of Indigenouism Art, upholding and advocating Contemporary Indigenous Philippine Art and also popularized Hand Painting performances done within 5 to 10 minutes in a canvas of 432 square inches using the three primary colors.
context_section_description: In 1978 Amangpintor received his first award, winning a Children’s Art Competition sponsored by DZRH radio station using Zimatar  
  and Tagani, popular fantasy Filipino folk heroes being aired on air as an adventure series, as a subject.
  Amangpintor joined CLSU-Artist Club while studying and in 1992 he was recognized by the Central Luzon State University through the College of Arts and Sciences as their first Student Artist. He was given a special Cultural Award upon his graduation in 1993.
  He co-founded the Samahang Makasining (Artist Club), Inc. and served as Board Chairman in National Level for seven years. He is also a tourism Adviser of Pantabangan local Government Unit and the Visual Arts Chairman of Association of Nueva Ecija Artist group project of Provincial Governor's Office. He recently founded Makasining Pinas (a subsidiary group of the Samakang Makasining (Artist Club), Inc) in the different Municipalities and Provinces in the Philippines.
  In 2001, during his reign as a chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Samahang Makasining(Artist Club), Inc., he compiled and popularized all probably never-heard-before traditional games or as he calls it Indigenous Games (Laro ng Lahi in Filipino). In 2007 Amangpintor was recognized by his home town as Pantabangan Folk Painter.
  And in 2008, he started actual hand/finger painting performances with music or band accompaniment, which he termed PintaOke or PintAwit.
  Amangpintor was recognized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) as first Filipino hair and blood painter in 2009 and was featured on NBN TV4 national TV channel with episode called Sining Gising. Amangpintor received the Art and Culture "Gintong Butil" award from CLSU Alumni Association, Inc. in 2010 during the celebration of annual alumni homecoming.
  He has exhibited his works and performed Actual hand painting throughout the Philippines and the other part of the world like Singapore and the United State of America. His works are featured in several art books, High School and University Thesis, International TV, Radio and newspapers  not only in the Philippine but also in the whole world.
caption: 2nd time since 2007 - Arts and Culture Category: Folk Painter
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