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    • Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time
    by: Lilimay Manalo-Castor

    “It is beyond doubt that Professor Tolentino is the first and last master in the representation of the human form in the Philippines.” --- Napoleon V. Abueva


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    May 2011-- Guillermo Estrella Tolentino was born in Malolos, Bulacan on 24 July 1890.  He was the fourth of eight children.  His father was a tailor, whose only artistic trait is the love of playing the guitar.  Guillermo or Memong, as his family called him, inherited this artistic skill.  Moreover, Memong became one of the three best guitar players in the Philippines during his time.


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    Before his formal schooling, he used to mold horses and dogs in clay, out of the materials from the banks of the fishponds in town.  He studied at the Malolos Intermediate School.  From fifth to sixth grade, his teacher was Mrs. H.A. Bordner who also gave him his first instructions in drawing.


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    Shortly, he went to Malolos high school for two years.  Then hearing from his cousin that there is an art school in Manila, he transferred to the Manila high school in Intramuros.  In the afternoons, he attended classes at the School of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines.  He took drawing classes under Vicente Rivera.  Later on, he decided to take lessons in sculpture too, under Vicente Francisco.  Soon, he was more interested in scuplture than in painting.


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    In 1911, while he was still in high school, he made a group of drawing of Rizal, Burgos, Antonio and Juan Luna, Regidor and others.  His Tata Pepe, with whom he was living, succeeded in interesting Severino Reyes to have the drawing lithographed.  It was then published in Liwayway, whose editor was Reyes, under the title Grupo de Filipinos Ilustros.  Although Tolentino never made a centavo out of the drawing,

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    • Philippine National Artist (Fernando Amorsolo, Cesar Lagaspi, Guillermo Tolentino, and Napoleon Abueva)

  • 1. Start to Presentation FERNANDO AMORSOLO CESAR LEGAZPI NAPOLEON ABUEVA GUILLERMO TOLENTINO 12 FILIPINO ARTIST A E S T H E T I C S B U L A C A N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y 1 Lira Lei Ann I. Bondoc Discussant

  • 2. Fernando amorsolo All About Him Name: Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto Born: May 30, 1892 at Paco, Manila Died: April 24, 1972 at Quezon City Wife: Salud Tolentino Jorge (1916-1931) Maria Del Carmen (1935-?) 13 Children “Philippines First National Artist Recognized as “Grand Old Man of Philippine Art”

  • 3. Fernando amorsolo In 1909, he graduated with honors from the Art School of the Liceo De Manila, then enrolled in the UP Diliman College of Fine Arts at the tender age of seventeen where he was mentored by his uncle and prominent Philippine painter, Fabian de la Rosa. In 1916, he graduated with honors and was granted a sponsorship by Spanish businessman Enrique Zóbel de Ayala to study at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain.

  • 4. Fernando amorsolo Returning to Manila, he produced myriad paintings from the 1920s to 1930s. For seven months he sketched at the museums and on the streets of Madrid, experimenting with the use of light and color. He taught at his alma mater (UPDCFA) and served as Director of the school’s art department between 1938 to 1952. 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.

  • 5. Fernando amorsolo During this period, Amorsolo developed the use of light— actually, backlight—which is his greatest contribution to Philippine painting. Characteristically, an Amorsolo painting contains a glow against which the figures are outlined, and at one point of the canvas there is generally a burst of light that highlights the smallest detail. House on a Lake, 19

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    Fernando Amorsolo (detail of a self-portrait) FERNANDO CUETO AMORSOLO (Philippine, b. May 30, 1892 - d. February 26, 1972) Styles: Impressionism, Luminism, Realism Subjects: Philippine genre and historical, nudes, society portraits The paintings of Fernando C. Amorsolo overflow with sweetness and optimism, says art historian Eric Torres. Amorsolo, Torr es asserts, managed to capture on canvas the vibrant tropical Philippine sunlight. A shy man, whose only real genius was in pa inting, Fernando Amorsolo also helped shape and stylize the image of the ideal Filipina. Fernando Amorsolos enormous popularity, both during his lifetime and after, resulted from his luminous and idealized treatme nt of Philippine genre and landscape subjects. His best known paintings feature peasants in colorful costumes, scenes of rice planting and harvesting, genre and society portraits, and sensual female bathers. Amorsolos painterly technique, and his skill in ren dering the figure, is said to have peaked during the era known as his Golden Period between 1915 and 1940. Fernando Amorsolo was born on May 30, 1892 in Paco, Manila to Pedro Amorsolo, a bookkeeper, and his wife Bonifacia Cueto. One of five brothers, Fernando grew up in Daet, Camarines Norte, until moving to Manila upon the death of his father. Before he passed away, Amorsolos father Pedro had made his wife promise to give Fernando a proper art education. The family moved in with his mothers first cousin, Fabian de la Rosa, a genre painter who had been trained at Manilas Escuela de Bellas Artes y Dibujo (School of Fine Arts and Design) and who had also traveled in Europe. In 1905 Fernando Amorsolo, aged 13, was apprenticed to de la Rosa. The young mans first commercial success came when he so ld watercolor postcards for 10 centavos each. In 1908, Amorsolo won the second prize for the painting Levendo Periodico at the Bazar Escolta, a competition sponsored by the Asociacion Internacional de Artistas. The followi

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    Guillermo Estrella Tolentino (1890-1976) represents the National Artist Awards for Sculpture in 1973. He is consider as the “Father of Philippine Arts” because of his great works like the famous “Bonifacio Monument” symbolizing Filipinos cry for freedom located in intersection of EDSA and Rizal Avenue and “The Oblation” in UP signifying academic freedom . 

    Guillermo Tolentino was born in Malolos, Bulacan. He attend School of Fine Arts in University of the Philippines under Vicente Rivera for painting and later for sculpture under Vicente Francisco. Sooner he became more interested in sculpture than painting. He graduated in painting and sculpture in 1915 with prizes in all subjects. 

    Guillermo Estrella Tolentino was born in Malolos, Bulacan on 24 July 1890.  He was the fourth of eight children.  His father was a tailor, whose only artistic trait is the love of playing the guitar.  Guillermo or Memong, as his family called him, inherited this artistic skill.  Moreover, Memong became one of the three best guitar players in the Philippines during his time.

    In 1915 he graduated in Painting and Sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, with prizes in all subjects taken.  However, he decided to stay for another year.  During this time, he rendered the monument of San Miguel de Mayumo representing the Pact of Biak na Bato.  Juan Arellano designed it.

    Tolentino  spent the year 1918 principally in Laguna.  There, he worked with the contractor Tomas Zamora making monuments of Rizal, a mausoleum, and others.  His friends, especially Precioso Palma, urged him to open up a shop of his own.  They even offered him money to enable him to do so.  He would not accept.  When asked why, he quitely answered, “Because I was not yet a scupltor” (Paras-Perez, 1972).

    Soon, he decided to go to America.  In 1919, he arrived in Washington, D.C.  He worked as a waiter in a cafe in Rock Creek Park.  Inspired by President Woodrow Wilso
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