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Art Lovers: Amorsolo's Masterpieces

Fernando Amorsolo was a renowned Filipino painter born in 1892. He apprenticed with other artists as a young man and studied in Manila and Madrid. Amorsolo is renowned for painting over 10,000 pieces focused on idealized rural Philippine scenes in a realistic style featuring bright tropical sunlight. Some of his most famous works include "The Planting Rice", which depicted rice farming in a peaceful manner, and "Antipolo Fiesta", capturing a rural celebration with food, dancers, and a church in the background. His painting "Sunset: Return of the Fishermen" portrayed the end of a calm day with fishermen docking their boat as the sun set over a mountain landscape.

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Art Lovers: Amorsolo's Masterpieces

Fernando Amorsolo was a renowned Filipino painter born in 1892. He apprenticed with other artists as a young man and studied in Manila and Madrid. Amorsolo is renowned for painting over 10,000 pieces focused on idealized rural Philippine scenes in a realistic style featuring bright tropical sunlight. Some of his most famous works include "The Planting Rice", which depicted rice farming in a peaceful manner, and "Antipolo Fiesta", capturing a rural celebration with food, dancers, and a church in the background. His painting "Sunset: Return of the Fishermen" portrayed the end of a calm day with fishermen docking their boat as the sun set over a mountain landscape.

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RICHARD NICKO L. MARCELO

FERNANDO AMORSOLO
Fernando Amorsolo was born May 30, 1892, in the Paco

district of Manila. At 13 he was apprenticed to the noted Philippine artist Fabian de la Rosa, his mother's first cousin. In 1909 Amorsolo enrolled at the Liceo de Manila and then attended the fine-arts school at the University of the Philippines, graduating in 1914. After working three years as a commercial artist and part-time instructor at the university, he studied at the Escuela de San Fernando in Madrid. For seven months he sketched at the museums and on the streets of Madrid, experimenting with the use of light and color. That winter he went to New York and discovered the works of the postwar impressionists and cubists, who became the major influence on his works. On his return to Manila, he set up his own studio.

Amorsolo, who died in 1972, is said to have painted more than

10,000 pieces. He continued to paint even in his late 70s, despite arthritis in his hands. Even his late works feature the classic Amorsolo tropical sunlight. He said he hated "sad and gloomy" paintings, and he executed only one painting in which rain appears.

THE PLANTING RICE


One of the most famous work of National artist

Fernando Amorsolo

It was an ideal picture of provincial life like most of his

paintings.

The genre that was used in this painting is realism as

the artist painted the details as to how it might look like in real life.

Its visual weight is light because the colors used

were mostly neutral in nature.

dark colors were used minimally to produce a feeling

of calm and peace.

Though rice planting is definitely hard work, the

painting made it look like a simple work and fine day to be out.

ANTIPOLO FIESTA
Portrays a rural scene where a group of people are

shown celebrating a fiesta in Antipolo.

The main focus is on a pair of dancers in the field

surrounded by celebrators both young and old.

Abundant food is presented in basketfuls of

assorted fruits on the benches and on the ground, as well as the traditional roasted pig or lechon being prepared by two men.

Nearby is a house with huge windows from where

dwellers watch the partygoers.

At the background is a huge church, a symbolic town structure.

A vast number of townsmen complete the essence of a fiesta.

SUNSET: RETURN OF THE FISHERMEN

The portrait shows the sun is going down and t it's time to call it a day for the fishermen.

A large palm tree sways slightly on the far left of the canvas, with one branch of leaves browning from the dry heat.

A small boat is docking by the shore and three figures of fishermen.

The horizon in the far distance is a spectacular sunset.

There is a shadow of a mountain that is hazily covered by a pale fog.

The reflection of the clouds on the water is equally as majestic and the pale ripple of the water tells it's been a rather calm and usual day

There are nipa huts to the right of the frame that are also reflected in the water and another boat that is unoccupied that is just beached by the shore.

The reflection of the clouds and intense horizon on the waters surface gives a sense of calmness and serenity.

The whole picture makes the viewer feel going back to nature and to simplicity which is really what God has intended for us.

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