Onib Olmedo

{{Short description|Filipino painter (1937–1996)}}

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| birth_name = Luis Claudio Olmedo

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|7|7}}

| birth_place = Manila, Philippines

| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|9|8|1937|7|7}}

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| education = BS Architecture

| alma_mater = Mapúa Institute of Technology

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| spouse = Bettina Rodriguez Olmedo

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| style = Expressionism

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Onib Olmedo (July 7, 1937 – September 8, 1996) was a Filipino painter. He illustrated The Body Book (1993) by Gilda Cordero-Fernando.{{cite book|last= Mendez Ventura|first=Sylvia|title=A Literary Journey with Gilda Cordero-Fernando|publisher=University of the Philippines Press|year=2005|pages=6|isbn=978-971-542-483-7|url=https://books.google.com/?id=BWdzSUyRYhcC&pg=PA6&dq=Onib+Olmedo|accessdate=2008-09-17}} He created populist art and depicted the marginalized part of the society.{{cite book|last=Friis-Hansen|first=Dana|author2=Alice Guillermo |author3=Jeff Baysa |title=At Home & Abroad|publisher=Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |year=1998|pages=34|isbn=0-939117-15-0|url=https://books.google.com/?id=XqZPAAAAMAAJ&q=Onib+Olmedo&dq=Onib+Olmedo|accessdate=2008-09-17}} In 1970, he decided to shift from is 12-year career in architecture to painting where he became a leading figure in Philippine expressionism.{{cite news|url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/sosy/sosy/view_article.php?article_id=90849|title=The Art of Friendship with Onib Olmedo|last=Herrera|first=Victoria|date=2007-09-27|publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer|accessdate=2008-09-18}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}