This is evident in his more recent masterpieces rendered in the popular art medium.Manansala believed that the true beauty of art lay in the process of creating it. The moment I walked into the guard house at the University’s main entrance, a menacing rain suddenly poured. Otherwise, it could have sold for at least HK$400,000 (or US$51,000).In the last quarter of 2015, a popular art collector (and Friends of Manansala Foundation, Inc. member Cora Lopa) was mortified to know that one of Manansala’s drawings under her possession was actually being offered to one of her friends.
My first encounter with the National Artist Vicente Silva Manansala was in 2015. VICENTE MANANSALA National Artist for Painting (1981) (January 22, 1910 – August 22, 1981) Vicente Manansala‘s paintings are described as visions of reality teetering on the edge of abstraction. A native of Macabebe, Pampanga, he was the first Kapampangan to be declared a National Artist for Visual Arts.During my last vacation, I visited friends at the UST Office for Student Affairs with the intention of visiting some of Manansala’s works at the UST Museum and his murals at the San Martin de Porres Building (Faculty of Medicine). Instead, he further developed his own style in Cubism, which was later called Transparent Cubism.
The huge collection of the National Artist’s sketches and studies at the Museum of Kapampangan Arts is a testament to his distinct workflow.The Manansala Gallery initiated by the Center for Kapampangan Studies at the Holy Angel University contains the artist’s memorabilia, art paraphernalia, and other personal effects originally housed at the Vicente Manansala Historical Shrine (his former studio house in Binangonan, Rizal).
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. The artwork in offer was a fake and the actual piece is still hanging on her den. He was the first Filipino to receive the Two of eight “Parisian Boudoirs” by Vicente Manansala (Paris, 1950-1951).Despite having studied under one of the pillars of Cubism, Manansala never took after his guru nor after Picasso whom he idolized. See more ideas about Filipino art, Philippine art, Historical painting. You have provided me that inspiration.
Manansala’s art exemplified a solution to the problems of the 1950s in terms of the use of modem Western idioms and their local transformations, and in terms of the subject matter and content of art reflective of a people’s identity. Manansala developed a style called transparent cubism, where he masterfully overlaid colors … His trademark Transparent Cubism creates a feeling of flow and movement.
His melding of social commentary with painting had a profound influence on the younger Filipino artists of his generation, such as Angelito Antonio and Manuel Baldemor.