WEEK:6

SUBJECT: CPAR

ACTIVITY 1

Guess Who! Arrange the following jumbled letters to know the name of the
person in each picture.

FERNANDO AMORSOLO

NICK JOAWUIN

VICTORIO EDADES
PERFORMANCE TASKS

Vicente Manansala

Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he

studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month

grant by UNESCO to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Banff and Montreal,

Quebec, Canada. In 1950, he received a nine-month scholarship to study at the

École des Beaux-Arts in Paris by the French government.

Manansala's paintings are the best and were celebrated as the best of the

barrio and the city together. His Madonna of the Slums is a portrayal of a mother and

child from the countryside who became urban shanty residents once in the city. In his

Jeepneys, Manansala combined the elements of provincial folk culture with the

congestion issues of the city.

 Manansala developed transparent cubism, wherein the "delicate tones,

shapes, and patterns of figure and environment are masterfully superimposed". A

fine example of Manansala using this "transparent and translucent" technique is his

composition, Kalabaw (Carabao).

Vicente Manansala, a National Artist of the Philippines in Visual Arts, was a

direct influence to his fellow Filipino neo-realists: Malang, Angelito Antonio, Norma

Belleza and Manuel Baldemor. The Honolulu Museum of Art, the Lopez Memorial

Museum (Manila), the Philippine Center (New York City), the Singapore Art Museum

and Holy Angel University (Angeles City, Philippines) are among the public

collections holding work by Vicente Manansala. Holy Angel University recently

opened a section of its museum called The Vicente Manansala Collection, holding

most of the estate left by the artist.

Fernando Amorsolo

Amorsolo was born on May 30, 1892, in Paco, Manila. Don Fabián de la

Rosa, his mother's cousin, was also a Filipino painter. At the age of 13, Amorsolo

became an apprentice to De la Rosa, who would eventually become the advocate

and guide to Amorsolo's painting career. During this time, Amorsolo's mother

embroidered to earn money, while Amorsolo helped by selling water color postcards

to a local bookstore for 10 centavos each. His brother, Pablo Amorsolo, was also a

painter. Amorsolo's first success as a young painter came in 1908, when his painting

Leyendo el periódico took second place at the Bazar Escolta, a contest organized by
the Asociacion Internacional de Artistas. Between 1909 and 1914, he enrolled at the

Art School of the Liceo de Manila.

After graduating from the Liceo, he entered the University of the Philippines'

School of Fine Arts, where De la Rosa worked at the time. During college, Fernando

Amorsolo's primary influences were the Spanish people court painter Diego

Velázquez, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste

Renoir, but mostly his contemporary Spanish masters Joaquín Sorolla Bastida and

Ignacio Zuloaga. Amorsolo's most notable work as a student at the Liceo was his

painting of a young man and a young woman in a garden, which won him the first

prize in the art school exhibition during his graduation year. To make money during

school, Amorsolo joined competitions and did illustrations for various Philippine

publications, including Severino Reyes’ first novel in Tagalog language, Parusa ng

Diyos ("Punishment of God"), Iñigo Ed. Regalado's Madaling Araw ("Dawn"), as well

as illustrations for editions of the Pasion. Amorsolo graduated with medals from the

University of the Philippines in 1914.

After graduating from the University of the Philippines, Amorsolo worked as a

draftsman for the Bureau of Public Works, as a chief artist at the Pacific Commercial

Company, and as a part-time instructor at the University of the Philippines (where he

would work for 38 years). After three years as an instructor and commercial artist,

Amorsolo was given a grant to study at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid,

Spain by Filipino businessman Enrique Zóbel de Ayala. During his seven months in

Spain, Amorsolo sketched at museums and along the streets of Madrid,

experimenting with the use of light and color. Through the Zóbel grant, Amorsolo

was also able to move to New York City, [6] where he encountered postwar

impressionism and cubism, which would be major influences on his work.

Amorsolo set up his own studio upon his return to Manila and painted

prodigiously during the 1920s and the 1930s. His Rice Planting (1922), which

appeared on posters and tourist brochures, became one of the most popular images

of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Beginning in the 1930s, Amorsolo's work

was exhibited widely both in the Philippines and abroad. His bright, optimistic,

pastoral images set the tone for Philippine painting before World War II. Except for

his darker World War II-era paintings, Amorsolo painted quiet and peaceful scenes

throughout his career.

Amorsolo was sought after by influential Filipinos including Luis Araneta,

Antonio Araneta and Jorge B. Vargas. Amorsolo also became the favourite

Philippine artist of United States officials and visitors to the country. Due to his

popularity, Amorsolo had to resort to photographing his works and pasted and

mounted them in an album. Prospective patrons could then choose from this catalog

of his works. Amorsolo did not create exact replicas of his trademark themes; he

recreated the paintings by varying some elements.

His works later appeared on the cover and pages of children textbooks, in

novels, in commercial designs, in cartoons and illustrations for the Philippine

publications such The Independent, Philippine Magazine, Telembang, El

Renacimiento Filipino, and Excelsior. He was the director of the University of the

Philippine's College of Fine Arts from 1938 to 1952.

During the 1950s until his death in 1972, Amorsolo averaged to finishing 10

paintings a month. However, during his later years, diabetes, cataracts, arthritis,

headaches, dizziness and the death of two sons affected the execution of his works.

Amorsolo underwent a cataract operation when he was 70 years old, a surgery that

did not impede him from drawing and painting.

Amorsolo was a close friend of the Philippine sculptor Guillermo Tolentino, the

creator of the Caloocan City monument to the patriot Andrés Bonifacio.

ASSESSMENT: Essay Writing

Choose a statement and make an essay about it.
1. As a student, how will you advocate the art forms from different regions.

As a student, the only way I can advocate the different forms of

arts in different region is to study in order to share my knowledge
about their art or the culture of that region because culture is one of
the art of every regions as well as it shows not only art but also what
kind of region are you promoting. And in that way if you were able to
identify the art of that region you will be able to advocate there art
forms through convincing them what will be the outcome of there
region if they could at lease maintain the art in there place.

And this is my advocate the arts forms from different ewigns as a

students.