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Victorio Edades

Victorio Edades was a Filipino painter born in 1895 who was a pioneer of modern art in the Philippines. He studied architecture and painting in the United States, becoming exposed to modern European artists. When he returned to the Philippines in 1928, he found the local art scene to be stagnant, so he held a solo exhibition introducing modern art that shocked viewers. Edades went on to help establish the University of Santo Tomas Department of Architecture and Fine Arts, becoming its director and influencing the development of art education in the Philippines. He is renowned for paintings like "The Builders" that portrayed the hard work of Filipinos.

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Victorio Edades

Victorio Edades was a Filipino painter born in 1895 who was a pioneer of modern art in the Philippines. He studied architecture and painting in the United States, becoming exposed to modern European artists. When he returned to the Philippines in 1928, he found the local art scene to be stagnant, so he held a solo exhibition introducing modern art that shocked viewers. Edades went on to help establish the University of Santo Tomas Department of Architecture and Fine Arts, becoming its director and influencing the development of art education in the Philippines. He is renowned for paintings like "The Builders" that portrayed the hard work of Filipinos.

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LIFE AND WORKS OF

VICTORIO EDADES

LIFE
Born on December 13, 1895 to Hilario and Cecilia Edades.

He was the youngest of ten children (six of whom died of


smallpox).
He grew up in Barrio Bolosan in Dagupan, Pangasinan. His

artistic ability surfaced during his early years. By seventh


grade, his teachers were so impressed with him that he was
dubbed "apprentice teacher" in his art class.

LIFE
He was also an achiever from the very beginning, having

won awards in school debates and writing competitions.


After high school, Edades and his friends traveled to the

United

States.

Before

enrolling

in

Seattle,

Edades

incidentally made a detour to Alaska and experienced


working in a couple of factories.

LIFE
Nonetheless, he moved on to Seattle and enrolled at the

University of Washington where he took up architecture and


later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting.
The significant event that stirred Edades, and made him as

what he is known now, was his encounter with the traveling


exhibition from the New York Armory Hall. This art show
presented

modern

European

artists

such

Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and the Surrealists.

as

Czanne,

LIFE
During his journey to America, he participated in art

competitions, one of which was the Annual Exhibition of


North American Artists. His entry The Sketch (1927) won
second prize. When he returned to the Philippines in 1928,
he saw that the state of art was "practically dead."
Paintings he saw dealt with similar themes and were done in

a limited technique that mostly followed the works of


Fernando Amorsolo, the first Philippine national artist and
the most popular painter of the time. He recognized that
there was no creativity whatsoever, and that the artists of
that time were merely "copying" each other.

So in December, Edades bravely mounted a one-man show

at the Philippine Columbia Club in Ermita to introduce to the


masses what his modern art was all about. He showed thirty
paintings, including those that won acclaim in America.
It was a distinguished exhibit, for the Filipino art circle was

suddenly shaken by what this young man from Pangasinan


had learned from his studies abroad. Viewers and critics
were apparently shocked and not one painting was sold.

Edades

helped organized the University of Sto. Tomas

Department of Architecture in 1930 and was its acting head.


In 1935, he was appointed as Director of the UST College of
Architecture and Fine Arts, which he organized under the wing
of Architecture. He was guided by the existing American
curricula when he made the Fi Painting.
On February 12, 1977, UST conferred on Edades the degree of

Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa.

Edades retired to Davao City with his family. There he taught

for a time at the Philippine Women's College and resumed


his career as an artist. He died on March 7, 1985.
His famous works were "The Sketch", "The Builders",

"Interaction", "Fontainebleau, August 1937", and "The Model


and The Artist".

THE BUILDERS

THE BUILDERS

MESSAGE TO THE AUDIENCE:


THE BUILDERS conveys the essence of men engaged in

labor through the contortion of the bodies. It portrayed


tough, dirty construction workers drenched in grime and
sweat. It simply shows how hardworking the Filipino people
are.

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