Vicente Manansala | |
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![]() Manansala depicted in a 2010 stampsheet | |
Born | Vicente Silva Manansala January 22, 1910 |
Died | August 22, 1981 | (aged 71)
Resting place | Loyola Memorial Park, Marikina |
Nationality | Filipino |
Known for | painter and illustrator |
Movement | Cubism |
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Vicente Silva Manansala (January 22, 1910 – August 22, 1981) was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator. One of the first Abstractionists on the Philippine art scene, Manansala is also credited with bridging the gap between the city and the suburbs, between the rural and cosmopolitan ways of life. His paintings depict a nation in transition, an allusion to the new culture brought by the Americans. Manansala, together with Fabian de la Rosa, are among the best-selling Philippine artists in the West.
He was a member of the prominent Cruz, Manansala, Lopez family clan. He is considered one of the 13 Moderns, a group of modernists associated with Victorio Edades.[1]