NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE PHILIPPINES

Who is Fernando Amorsolo?

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 He was born on May 30, 1892 in Paco, Manila

 And he died on April 24, 1972 in Quezon City

 After being confined at the St. Luke’s Hospital in Quezon

City for two months, Amorsolo died of heart failure at the

age of 79.
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 Spouses:
 Salud Tolentino Jorge (1916-1931)
 Maria Del Carmen (1935- ?)
 Education: University of the Philippines, Art School of
the Liceo de Manila.
 Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine
landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship
and mastery in use of light.
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 Amorsolo’s brother, Pablo Amorsolo, was also a painter.
 Don Fabian Dela Rosa, his mother’s cousin was also a Filipino
painter.
 At the age of 13, Amorsolo beacame an apprentice to Dela Rosa,
who would eventually become the advocate and guide to
Amorsolo’s painting career. During this time, Amorsolo’s
mother embroiderd to earn money, while Amorsolo helped by
selling water color postcards to a local bookstore for ten
centavos each.
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 Amorsolo’s first success as a young painter came in
1908, when his painting Leyendo el Periodico took
second place at the Bazaar Escolta, a contest
organized by the Asociacion Internacional de
Artistas.
 Between 1909 and 1914, Amorsolo enrolled at the
Art School of the Liceo de Manila.
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 After graduating from the Liceo, he entered the
University of the Philippines’ School of Fine Arts, where
Dela Rosa worked at the time.
 During college, Fernando Amorsolo’s primary influences
were the Spanish people court painter Diego Velasquez,
John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Claude Monet, but
mostly his contemporary Spanish Masters Joaquin Sorolla
Bastida and Ignacio Zuloaga.
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 Amorsolo’s most notable work 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”), Inigo Ed. Regalado’s
Madaling Araw (“Dawn”), as well as illustrations for edition of
the Pasion.
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 1914- Amorsolo graduated with medals from the
University of the Philippines.

 Fernando Amorsolo’s Top 5 Major Works:

 Babaeng Nagbabasa
 Afternoon Meal of the Workers (Noonday Meal of the
Rice Workers) (1939)
 Assassination of Governor Bustamante
 Bataan
 The Bombing of the Intendencia (1942)
AWARDS OF AMORSOLO
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 1908- 2ND Prize, Bazar Escolta tea and taki
(Asocacion Internacional de Artistas), for Levendo
Periodico.
 1922- 1ST Prize, Commercial Fair in the Manila
Carnival.
 1929- 1ST Prize, New York’s World Fair, for
Afternoon Meal of Rice Workers.
 1940- Outstanding University of the Philippines
Alumnus Award
 1959- Gold Medal, UNESCO National Commission
AWARDS OF AMORSOLO
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 1961- Rizal Pro Patria Award
 1961- Honorary Doctorate in the Humanities, from
the Far Eastern University
 1963- Diploma of Merit from the University of the
Philippines
 1963- Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award,
from the City of Manila
 1963- Republic Cultural Heritage Award
 1972- Gawad CCP para sa Sining, from Cultural
Center of the Philippines
AWARDS OF AMORSOLO
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 1972- Fernando Amorsolo became the first Filipino to
be distinguished as the Philippines’ National Artist
in Painting. He named as the “Grand Old Man of
Philippine Art” during the inauguration of the
Manila Hilton’s Art Center, where his paintings were
exhibited on January 23,1969.
Submitted to: Ms. Rhoda A. Sanchez
Submitted by: Mickaella Aubrey B. Dela
Cruz
Grade 12-ABM