Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 29 July 1890) was a
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching
influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade he produced
over 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings. They
include portraits, self portraits, landscapes, still lives, olive trees,
cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. Critics largely ignored him
until his suicide, aged 37, which followed years of anxiety,
poverty and mental illness.
Born to upper middle class parents, Van Gogh was thoughtful and
intellectual as a child, and deeply religious and keenly aware of
modernist trends in art, music and literature as a young adult.
Although he drew as a child and spent several years in his 20s
working for a firm of art dealers in The Hague, London and Paris,
he spent years drifting in ill health and solitude, not painting until
his late twenties. He spent several years in The Hague, London
and Paris. His first major work was 1885's The Potato Eaters,
which contains few signs of the vivid colorization that
distinguished his later work. In 1886 he moved to Paris and
discovered the French Impressionists. From then his paintings
grew brighter in color as he developed a style that became fully
realized during his stay in Arles in 1888.
Today, Van Gogh's vivid colors, emotive subject matter, and the
romanticism of his short life have led to his position in the public
imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius. His
widespread critical, commercial and popular success began after
his adoption by the early 20th-century German Expressionists and
Fauves. Despite a popular tendency to romanticize his ill health,
art historians see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and
incoherence caused by frequent mental sickness. His posthumous
reputation grew steadily during the 20th century; today he is
remembered and revered as an important but tragic painter.

Fernando Amorsolo
Fernando Amorsolo painted and sketched more than ten thousand
pieces over his lifetime using natural and backlighting techniques. His
most known works are of the dalagang Filipina, landscapes of his
Philippino homeland, portraits and WWII war scenes.
Born in Calle Herran in Paco, Manila, on May 20, 1892, Fernando
Amorsolo began drawing and sketching as a young boy. The family
lived in Daet until the death of his father. At that time his mother
moved the family to the home of her cousin, artist Don Fabian dela
Rosa in Manila. Amorsolo was 13 years old at the time and in order to
help provide for his family, he sold his drawings and began to study art
under dela Rosa.
In 1909, he began studies at the Liceo de Manila and graduated from
the University of the Philippines in 1914. After designing the logo for
Ginebra San Miguel, Amorsolo received a grant to attend the Academia
de San Fernando in Madrid from businessman Enrique Zobel de Ayala in
1916. A major influence in his painting style during this period was
painter Diego Velasquez.
Fernando Amorsolo used family members as subjects for many of his
sketches and paintings. When WWII broke out, Amorsolo continued to
paint from his home in Manila. Instead of painting landscapes with
bright sun filled skies, he did works that portrayed the human suffering
and wartime scenes along with self portraits and the Japanese
occupation soldiers of the time. Many of these paintings were
exhibited in the Malacanang presidential palace in 1948. Following the
war he returned to painting landscape scenes of the countryside and
portraits. He painted oil portraits of all of the Philippine presidents,

revolutionary leader General Emilio Aguina

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INA AT ANAK
Fernando Amorsolo is one of
The Greatest Filipino Painters
of all time. He has done
numerous paintings which has
catched the fancy of many
people. One of his
masterpieces is the painting
"Ina at Anak". If we translate
the title into English, it means
Mother and Child. This painting
shows to us the love between
the mother and child. It shows
to us the bond that exists
between the two. It is often said that nothing encompasses the
love between a mother and a child. From birth, the mother has
paintakingly taken care of her child, giving him food, shelter, and
clothing. From the long hours of labor in the delivery room to the
time the child sets foot in College, the mother is there, supporting
and caring for her child. This painting clearly shows how much a
mother cares for her child. As seen in the painting, the mother
carefully hold her child, making sure that she has a firm hold on
him so that he won't be in any danger. A mother will even go to

the point of sacrificing her own life for the sake of her child. That
is how much a mother loves her child.
Amorsolo manificently depicted the bond between a mother and a
child in this painting.
(power point)
Fernando Cueto Amorsolo 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.
Born: May 30, 1892, Paco, Manila
Died: April 24, 1972, Manila
Field: Painting
Siblings: Pablo Amorsolo
Awards: National Artist of the Philippines
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter
whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In
just over a decade he produced over 2100 artworks, including
around 860 oil paintings.
Born: March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands
Died: July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Influenced: Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse
Influenced by: Claude Monet, Paul Czanne, Rembrandt

Vincent Van Gogh

Fernando Amorsolo