Vicente S. Manansala - from Macabebe, Pampanga
- born on January 22,1910 and died in August 1981
- proclaimed National Artist in Painting (1982)
- was a newsboy and bootblack in Intramuros
- Earle creativity : designing kites and making charcoal sketches
- (15 y/o) studied under the turn-of-the-century painter Ramos Peralta while doing signboards for painting shop.
- entered the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts (1926)
- graduated (1930)
- member of the Thirteen Moderns and the neorealists, and also at the forefront of the modernist movement in the country.
* WORKS
- consistently worked in the figurative mode (w/ exception of a few abstract works)
- painted an innovative mother and child
* subjects : jeepneys, barong-barong, cockfighters, families gathering for a modest meal and Quiapo women vendors of various goods
- Madonna of the Slums
- 1950
* reflected poverty in postwar Manila
*ASPECT
> Cubist aspect - Manansala's work rests largely on the geometric faceting of forms and in the shifting and overlapping of planes. His facets and planes are broader than the original cubism as they bring out larger rhythms.
* He work and developed the style of transparent cubism which was generally shared by his fellow neorialists Cesar Legaspi and Romeo Tabuena.
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