Masonry, Philippines, 1890s |
Vicente Manansala y Silva |
1910 - Future great Filipino cubist painter and illustrator, Vicente Manansala y Silva, is born in Macabebe, Pampanga during the American colonial period; a high school dropout, he would enter the School of Fine arts at the University of the Philippines where he would be handled by famous artists including Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo, Vicente Rivera y Mir and Ramon Peralta; he would work as an illustrator for periodicals before beginning to gain national recognition with his "Pounding Rice" entry that would bag the top prize at a national exhibition; following an art fellowship to Canada and, later, France, he would go on to perfect his craft, including in the field of stain glass and would be credited for developing transparent cubism; his more famous works would make it to postcards included 'daily scenes' of Filipino life, such as “Magbabalot” (1973), “Planting Rice” (1980), “Tiangge” (1980), “Carollers” (1980), “Vendors” (1978), and “Give Us This Day” (1977); Manansala received a number of prestigious awards, including the 1963 Republic Cultural Heritage Award and, posthumously, the National Artist Award in 1981, with his art to be described by President Ferdinand E. Marcos as "uniquely Philippine" while being "as universal as the art of the early titans Luna, Hidalgo, and de la Rosa."
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