Lesson 8 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Interpreted the “Philippine
Light”’
Fernando Amorsolo
We can compare his style with the impressionist painter who also aimed to express the simple beauties of nature and life.
Fernando Amorsolo
19-century portrait artist
Auguste Dominique Ingres.
is a type of color harmony which technically means those colors that are next to each other in the color wheel:
Analogous
Amorsolo’s expertise on
his medium, which is oil, and his sensitivity to light,
He was coined as the master of Philippine light.
Fernando Amorsolo
Because of his excellent style, his paintings never fail to bring back the warmth and idyllic scenes of Philippine provinces and traditions
Fernando Amorsolo
developed his rendition of
transparent cubism technique
Vicente Manansala
Cubism was pioneered jointly by
Pablo Picasso and George Braque,
It uses overlapping and
multi-perspective geometric shapes and forms of the chosen subject to produce depth.
Cubism
The cubist aspect of Manansala has broader facets and planes than original cubism so they bring our larger rhythms and is closer to
Synthetic cubism
its earlier phase, which is
Analytic Cubism
Unlike Amorsolo, Manansala echoes the proletarian painters of the United States. His works were
non-idyllic:
emotions and backgrounds showing evidence of real events happening at his time like poverty and economic depression, and skin tones are not luminous but rather kayumanggi.
non-idyllic:
His style was considered by some critics as the most Filipino
Hernando R. Ocampo
Hernando R. Ocampo’s works are purely
abstraction
What is unique in his works are the abstract compositions of biological forms that are portrayed in bold strokes of colors that seem to oscillate before your eyes.
Hernando R. Ocampo
modernist but Filipino-themed
sculptures
Napoleon Abueva
Characterized by the planar and geometric look of his sculptures, Abueva veered away from the conservatism of his mentor
Guillermo Tolentino (known for sculpting the
University of the Philippine’s
:”Oblation”
Napoleon Abueva
