1. Victorio Edades led the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns, who engaged their classical compatriots in heated debate over the nature and function of art.
17 Facts About Victorio Edades
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Victorio Edades argued that art can be more than representation of reality, it can be representation of reality as seen through the mind and emotions of the artist.
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Victorio Edades was born on December 23,1895, to Hilario and Cecilia Edades.
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Victorio Edades was the youngest of ten children.
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Victorio Edades grew up in Barrio Bolosan in Dagupan, Pangasinan.
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Victorio Edades was an achiever from the very beginning, having won awards in school debates and writing competitions.
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The significant event that stirred Victorio Edades, and made him as what he is known now, was his encounter with the traveling exhibition from the New York Armory Hall.
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Victorio Edades's growing appreciation to what he saw veered him away from the conservative academic art and Realistic schools and thus he began to paint in the modern manner.
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Victorio Edades recognized that there was no creativity whatsoever, and that the artists of that time were merely "copying" each other.
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Victorio Edades showed thirty paintings, including those that won acclaim in America.
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Victorio Edades helped organized the University of Santo Tomas Department of Architecture in 1930 and was its acting head.
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Victorio Edades was guided by the existing American curricula when he made the Fi Painting.
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Victorio Edades died on March 7,1985, in Davao City, Philippines.
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Victorio Edades portrayed tough, dirty construction laborers and simple folk wrestling in dung and dust.
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Victorio Edades did murals for prominent individuals and institutions.
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From Cezanne, Victorio Edades grew more interested in the style of Utamaro of Japan and other artists whose charm is in color rather than solidity.
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Victorio Edades's defiance to what the Conservatives structured as 'art' was a conscious call for real artistic expression.