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Fernando Cueto Amorsolo

Fernando Amorsolo was one of the most important Filipino painters known for his portraits, landscapes, and mastery of light. He studied at the Liceo de Manila Art School and University of the Philippines, earning medals. Amorsolo painted rural Philippine scenes and illustrations for books, becoming known for his craftsmanship. He was named the first National Artist in Painting after his death in 1972, having produced over 10 paintings per month throughout his career.

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Fernando Cueto Amorsolo

Fernando Amorsolo was one of the most important Filipino painters known for his portraits, landscapes, and mastery of light. He studied at the Liceo de Manila Art School and University of the Philippines, earning medals. Amorsolo painted rural Philippine scenes and illustrations for books, becoming known for his craftsmanship. He was named the first National Artist in Painting after his death in 1972, having produced over 10 paintings per month throughout his career.

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Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972) is one of the most

important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist
and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship
and mastery in the use of light. Born in Paco, Manila, he earned a degree from the
Liceo de Manila Art School in 1909.

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.

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. Two months after being confined at the St.
Luke's Hospital in Manila, Amorsolo died of heart failure at the age of 79 on April 24,
1972 .

Four days after his death, Amorsolo was honoured as the first National Artist in
Painting at the Cultural Center of the Philippines by then President Ferdinand Marcos.
Amorsolo’s Best Artworks

Another powerful postwar creation is The Filipino Family (1952). Nakpil explains the painting
as rich in metaphor, and describes it as one of the most epic works of Amorsolo. “A strong,
sinewy Juan de la Cruz cradles a child, a symbol of our young nation in 1952. It’s been just six
years since the end of World War II and the grant of our independence,” says Nakpil. “Lady
Liberty is his wife, staunchly at his side. Her back is half-turned in a pose that recalls Juan
Luna’s victorious tandem, ‘Espana y Filipinas.’ Three boatmen, no doubt, depicting the
perseverance and discipline that we would need to make our nation bountiful, launch their craft
into a rose-colored, robust future.”

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