13 Facts About Vicente Manansala

Vicente Silva Manansala was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator.

One of the first Abstractionists on the Philippine art scene, Manansala is credited with bridging the gap between the city and the suburbs, between the rural and cosmopolitan ways of life.

Vicente Manansala's paintings depict a nation in transition, an allusion to the new culture brought by the Americans.

Vicente Manansala was a member of the prominent Cruz, Manansala, Lopez family clan.

Vicente Manansala is considered one of the 13 Moderns, a group of modernists associated with Victorio Edades.

Vicente Manansala was born on January 22,1910, in San Roque, Macabebe, Pampanga.

In 1949, Vicente Manansala received a six-month grant from UNESCO to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Banff and Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Vicente Manansala's paintings are the best and were celebrated as the best of the barrio and the city together.

Vicente Manansala's Madonna of the Slums is a portrayal of a mother and child from the countryside who became urban shanty residents once in the city.

Vicente Manansala developed transparent cubism, wherein the "delicate tones, shapes, and patterns of figure and environment are masterfully superimposed".

Vicente Manansala died on August 22,1981, in Manila, Philippines, due to lung cancer.

Vicente Manansala, a National Artist of the Philippines in Visual Arts, was a direct influence to his fellow Filipino neo-realists: Malang, Angelito Antonio, Norma Belleza and Manuel Baldemor.

Holy Angel University recently opened a section of its museum called The Vicente Manansala Collection, holding most of the estate left by the artist.