Fernando Amorsolo
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Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, 1892-April 24, 1972) was one of the Philippines' most influential painters.
Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes.
He is best known for his light craftsmanship and mastery of the use of light.
Early life and education
Fernando Amorsolo was born in Paco, Manila, on May 30, 1892. Pedro Amorsolo and Bonifacia Cueto were his parents. His father, who was born in Daet, Camarines Norte, was able to work until his father died when Amorsolo was 11 years old. His parents taught him to read and write Spanish at home while he was attending a public school in Daet.
The family moved to Manila after his father's death, where they stayed with Don Fabián de la Rosa, his mother's cousin, who was also a Filipino painter. Amorsolo began as an apprentice to De la Rosa, who would later become the advocate and tour guide to Amorsolo's painting career. Amorsolo's mother did embroidery to earn money, while Amorsolo assisted by selling water color postcards to a local bookstore for ten cents per person. Pablo Amorsolo, his younger brother, later became a painter.
Amorsolo's first success as a young painter came in 1908, when his drawing Leyendo periódico took second place at the Bazar Escolta festival, which was sponsored by the Asociacion Internacional de Artistas. He attended the Art School of the Liceo de Manila between 1909 and 1914. His most notable work as a student at Liceo was his drawing of a young man and a young woman in a garden, which earned him the first prize in the art school exhibition during his graduation year.
He came from Liceo and attended the University of Fine Arts in the Philippines, where De la Rosa worked at the time. Fernando Amorsolo's key influences during college were Spanish people court painter Diego Velázquez, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, but more specifically his contemporan Spanish masters Joaqun Sorolla and Ignacio Zuloaga. Amorsolo, Severino Reyes' first book in Tagalog language, Parusa ng Diyos ("Punishment of God"), Iigo Ed. Madaling Araw ("Dawn") of Regalado, as well as illustrations for Pasyon's editions. In 1914, Amorsolo received a medal from the University of the Philippines.
Personal life
Amorsolo had 20 children from two marriages as well as a common-law marriage during his lifetime. Salud Tolentino Jorge, with whom he had six children, married him in 1916; Salud died in 1931. He then met and lived with Virginia Guevarra Santos, a common-law wife with three children, including Manuel (who followed in his father's footstep), Jorge and Norma before he met Maria del Carmen, his future wife. Virginia discovered an engagement ring in one of Amorsolo's drawers, prompting her to leave his house with her three children when they were still together; she learned the ring was for Maria.
Fernando del Carmen, a 1935 transplant from Maria del Carmen, gave him eight more children. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo and Luz are two of her daughter's with her. However, Fernando had three more children with Virginia when they were married and Maria was giving birth to his children. His fame was growing as quickly as his brood, and his work was more than adequate to provide for his rather large family. Six of Amorsolo's children became artists themselves.
Career
Amorsolo, a graduate of the University of the Philippines, worked as a draftsman for the Bureau of Public Works as a chief artist and a part-time professor at the University of the Philippines. He taught at the University for 38 years, most recently as the Art Department's chief.
Amorsolo, a Filipino businessman who was studying at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain, was given a grant to study at the Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain. Amorsolo sketched at museums and along the streets of Madrid experimenting with light and color during his seven months in Spain. Amorsolo was also able to travel to New York City, where he encountered postwar impressionism and cubism, which would later influence his work.
On his return to Manila, Amorsolo began to paint in the 1920s and 1930s. Rice Plantation (1922), which appeared on posters and tourist brochures, became one of the Philippines' most popular photographs. Amorsolo's work was widely displayed in the Philippines and abroad beginning in the 1930s.
After influential Filipinos like Luis Araneta, Antonio Araneta, and Jorge B. Vargas, Amorsolo was sought after. Amorsolo had to resort to photographing his works, sticking and mounting them in an album allowing patrons to select from this collection of his works due to his fame. Amorsolo avoided making exact copies of his trademark designs by recreating the paintings in different ways.
His work appeared on the front and pages of children's textbooks, in novels, in commercial styles, in cartoons and illustrations for Philippine newspapers such as The Independent, Philippine Magazine, Telembang, El Renacimiento Filipino, and Excelsior. From 1938 to 1952, he served as the director of the University of Fine Arts of the Philippines.
Amorsolo made ten paintings a month from the 1950s to his death in 1972. However, diabetes, cataract, arthritis, migraines, dizziness, and the deaths of two of his sons both affected his writing during his later years. When he was 70 years old, Amorsolo underwent cataract surgery, but it didn't stop him from drawing and painting.
Amorsolo was a close friend of Philippine sculptor Guillermo Tolentino, the sculptor of Filipino patriot Andrés Bonifacio's monument in Caloocan City.