Vicente S. Manansala (January 22, 1910 – August 22, 1981)
Remembering the life and works of National Artist for Painting Vicente S. Manansala on his 41st death anniversary.
Vicente Manansala‘s paintings are described as visions of reality teetering on the edge of abstraction. As a young boy, his talent was revealed through the copies he made of the Sagrada Familia and his mother’s portrait that he copied from a photograph. After finishing the fine arts course at the University of the Philippines, he ran away from home and later found himself at the Philippines Herald as an illustrator.
Vicente Manansala’s paintings are described as visions of reality teetering on the edge of abstraction. Manansala believed that the beauty of art is in the process of doing a particular painting, closely associating it with the act of making love. His distinct contribution to the world of art is transparent cubism which he introduced in the early 1960s, in his ‘Bird Series’.
His notable works include ‘A Cluster of Nipa Hut’, ‘Banaklaot’, ‘Market Vendors’, ‘Madonna of the Slums’, ‘Still Life with Green Guitar’, ‘Via Crucis’, ‘Whirr, and Homage to Pieter de Hooch’s Interior of a Dutch House’.
Read more: https://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/national-artists-of-the-philippines/vicente-manansala/
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