Fernando

Amorsolo

Events and Ideas about Fernando

Amorsolo:
• Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto
(May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972)
was one of the most important
artists in the history of painting
in the Philippines.[2] Amorsolo
was a portraitist and painter of
•
Works of Fernando Amorsolo
• 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)
• The Building of Intramuros
• Burning of the Idol
• The Burning of Manila (1946)
• El Ciego (1928)
• The Conversion of the Filipinos (1931)
• Corner of Hell
• Dalagang Bukid (1936)
• Defense of a Filipina Woman’s Honor (1945)
• La destruccion de Manila por los salvajes japoneses (The Destruction of Manila by
the Savage Japanese)
• Early Filipino State Wedding
• Early Sulu Wedding (c. 1955–1960)
• The Explosion (1944)
• The First Baptism in the Philippines (1949)
• The First Mass in the Philippines
• Fruit Gatherer (1950)
• Fruit Pickers Harvesting Under the Mango Tree (1939)
• Maiden in a Stream (1921)
• Making of the Philippine Flag
• Marca Demonio/St. Michael the Archangel (1917)
• The Mestiza (1943)
• My Wife, Salud (1920; lost in World War II)[18]
• One Casualty
• Our Lady of Light (1950)
• Planting Rice (1946)
• Princess Urduja
• The Rape of Manila (1942)
• Rice Planting (1922)
• Sale of Panay
• Sikatuna
• Sunday Morning Going to Town (1958)
 • US Senator Warren Magnuson Oil Portrait (1958)
• Traders
• El violinista (The Violinist)

AWARDS/CITATIONS OF FERNANDO AMORSOLO

• 1908 – 2nd Prize, Bazar Escolta tea and taki (Asocacion Internacional de Artistas), for Levendo
Periodico
• 1922 – 1st Prize, Commercial and Industrial Fair in the Manila Carnival
• 1929 – 1st Prize, New York’s World Fair, for Afternoon Meal of Rice Workers (also known as
Noonday Meal of the Rice Workers)
• 1940 – Outstanding University of the Philippines Alumnus Award
• 1959 – Gold Medal, UNESCO National Commission
• 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 the Cultural Center of the Philippines[11]
• In 1972, Fernando Amorsolo became the first Filipino to be distinguished as the Philippine’s
National Artist in Painting. He was 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.
• Outside the Philippines, his exhibitions were held in Belgium, at the Exposicion de Panama in 1914,
at a one-man show at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City in 1925, and at the National
Museum in Herran on November 6, 1948. During the 1931 Paris Exposition, Amorsolo exhibited one
of his anecdotal paintings, The Conversion of the Filipinos. Amorsolo’s entries at the Exposicion in
Panama were a portrait of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the piece La Muerte de Socrates. At
the 1948 National Museum in Herran, Amorsolo exhibition was sponsored by the Art Association of
the Philippines. In 1950, Amorsolo exhibited two more historical paintings, Faith Among the Ruins
and Baptism of Rajah Humabon at ssthe Missionary Art Exhibit in Rome. In 1979, Fernando
Amorsolo’s legacy as a painter was celebrated through an exhibition of his works at the Art Center
of the Manila Hilton.[7] His art was also featured in a 2007 exhibition in Havana.[19]