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Subject's popular name (February 24, 1972 – TBA) can be a lead-in to the subject's real, formal, or extended name. Describe the subject's nationality and profession(s) in which the subject is most notable. Provide a description of the subject's major contributions in the immediately relevant field(s) of notable expertise.

Early Life and Education
He was born on a leap day, February 29, 1972 in Tondo General Hospital. He is the fifth son of Danilo and Maria de Jesus. Together with his parents, 3 sisters, and 5 brothers, they lived in the slums of Tondo, Manila.

Despite their family's financial difficulty, he excelled in his studies and finished his elementary education at Mababang Paaralan ng Tondo as the Class Valedictorian and continued his high school at Tondo Science High School where he was awarded as the Class Salutatorian. Since he was a kid, he has expressed his passion for the arts and wanted to pursue it as his college degree. However, his father advised him to take up a "more realistic" course for arts cannot provide for their family. In 1989, he passed the UPCAT and studied Bachelor of Science in Biology in University of the Philippines Diliman where he graduated in 1993 as a Cum Laude.

When he was 17, the discovery that his mother was raped by a Martial Law soldier back in 1971 with him as the product of that incident took him by storm. Due to his rage, he began to engage and join in rallies in his campus, and later became a member of ANAKBAYAN. Since his adolescent years, he was a well-known activist for human rights and has been vocal on his opposition to the Martial Law.

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Political Artworks
He was initially recognized through his artworks[n], which often reflected the Philippines’ political and justice systems. His works aimed to serve as a call to action towards “opening the eyes of the Filipino people towards the injustices presented by the ruling class”.

In a typical painting, de Jesus used paint as a medium, and used shadows to highlight human anatomical structures in his paintings.

Installation Art
In the early 2000s, Jean LLouide ventured into the field of installation art. Still sticking true to his purpose of calling the Filipino to action, he created installation art based on Filipino society. Similar to his paintings, shadows and shadings were utilized in highlighting anatomical features, and dull colours were used to express the distress of his subjects.

Career and Influence
He was one of the most distinguished practitioners of mural painting for many decades and was best known for his protest pieces. He was one of the first Filipino modernists who broke away from Fernando Amorsolo's romanticism of Philippine scenes and one of the brave artists who focused on enlightening others about the violence that permeated Filipino civic life.

At a young age, his Father's staunch activism against the Marcos regime in the 1970s influenced him to make artworks, his father was desperate for uninhibited freedom, and many artists went underground to fight for change, and by knowing this, he became inspired and eager to make his own move with art as his weapon.

At the age of 22, he did a mural on a street in EDSA where he chose the location that have the highest commuter and pedestrian density and made sure that the effect of the mural painting is immediate, his works reflect the importance of space and how the displacement of ordinary objects can alter their meaning.

His artworks stand as constant reminders of the will of the people, their strength to overcome hindrances to their human rights and overthrow those who set them. The looming fear of one's rights being forcibly taken away by the very government that is supposed to help them, will remain very relevant in times when the fundamental right to life is threatened.

For him the common denominator of his art movements was rooted in the people’s dissatisfaction with the government and their struggle to achieve radical change and to let us not forget what he said, “I will continue to use art to show the lives of the people wronged by the system.”.

His fruitful career has spanned five decades, where his paintings, sculptures, and sketches have been exhibited across Asia, Europe, and the US.

Published works
If any, list the works organized by date of publication. See Charles Darwin for example.

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
(If any)