Landscape with Dark Trees 1922 Oil on wood, 27.

3 x 39 cm Fabian painter professor dean of the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts historian critic self-made scholar-gentleman believed int he civilizing grace of the plastic and graphic arts "a gentleman of the old school" propriety, discipline unimpeachable integrity life and art inextricably one St. Louis Exposition, 1904 Planting Rice, gold medal The Death of General Lawton, silver medal 1908 was sent by a cigar factory as a scholar to Euope Academie Julien, Paris 1928 LOA four months in Paris, then travelled to Munich, Geneva, Rome and Madrid exhibition at the Ateneo de Madrid Europe: style: his original/ previous realism + genteel native sensibility learned from Flores added with the realist school of Courbet unguarded moments quiet strength, simplicity stripped-down look, sober colors, vigorous brushstrokes lacryma rerum: bittersweet planting rice:

dull, humid ache to be endured with stoic patience: truer image of farmwife seen through the eyes of the people who live it new benchmark in philippine art technique too scrupulous, too intellectual to be popular maintained an austere palette offbeat or piquant noet: evoking lyricism or ironic touch prim and proper subjects look casual commonplace look distant and elusive picks out secluded views no attempt to prettify the jagged terrain penchant for orchestrating line, color, tone and space in balance none dominates whole always greater than the sum of its parts La Pintora: minimal strokes on embroidered florid designs on clothing linear and spatial movement figure: finely chiseled, square around the jaw, demure, full-fleshed mouth, often closed morena and not caucasian images sombre colors <<fundamentals of painting consist first and last of good drawing and modulated colors>> genre scenes of Filipino life paris: only improved his style of genre painting succeeded Enrquez as the director of genre painting 1927 relinquished when he became blind in the mid-1930s