Biography of napoleon abueva national artist

Napoleon Isabelo Veloso-Abueva (born January 26, ), more popularly known as Napoleon Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the &#;Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture&#;. He is the first and only Boholano given the distinction as National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.

Napoleon Abueva, nicknamed Billy, was born on January 26, in Tagbilaran, Bohol to Teodoro Abueva, a Bohol congressman and Purification Veloso, president of the Women&#;s Auxiliary Service.

His father was a friend and contemporary of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas and Ambassador Narciso Ramos. He was a member of the Provincial Board, and later became the Provincial Governor of Bohol. He ended his career as a Congressman in Both of Abueva&#;s parents died serving their country.

Abueva has six other brothers and sisters: Teodoro, Jr., now based in New York, USA; Purificacion, married to Atty.

Napoleon abueva paintings Napoleon Abueva. In addition, located near the gate of the Abueva Ancestral Home in Duero , Bohol is the Grave Site of their parents which Abueva also designed with freestanding decorative Consunji columns encircling the area. Download as PDF Printable version. Toggle the table of contents.

Ramon Binamira of Tagbilaran City; Jose Abueva, former president of the University of the Philippines; Amelia Martinez, now living in Chicago; Teresita Floro, now living in Sydney, Australia; and Antonio, a landscape artist who met a tragic fate aboard Princess of the Orient; his body has not been found.

A home-grown talent, he was given a break in when he won the Pura Villanueva-Kalaw Scholarship.

He then took up a Bachelor&#;s degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines where he graduated in This was followed by a Fulbright-Smith Mundt Scholarship in , after which he got a foreign Students Scholarship at the University of Kansas (). At the same time, he won another scholarship at the Instituto de Allende in Mexico City which he did not avail due to conflict in schedule.

It was also in that he finished his Masters in Fine Arts at the Cranbook Academy of Arts, USA. In , he attended Harvard University for another scholarship grant.

At U.P, one of his mentors was Guillermo Tolentino, also a national artist, who created the oblation at the university entrance.

Abueva has helped shape the local sculpture scene in the Philippines.

Biography of napoleon abueva national artist Billy, as he is fondly called, became National Artist for Sculpture in at the age of Today is his 93rd birth anniversary! Samat, Bataan. Pambansang Alagad ng Sining ng Pilipinas.

Being adept in both academic representational style and modern abstract, he has utilized almost all kinds of materials from hard wood (molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil, kamagong, palm wood and bamboo) to adobe, metal, stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster, coral and brass.

In , he was awarded the status of National Artist of the Philippines by then President Ferdinand Marcos.

He was the youngest recipient of the title at age

Some of his major works include Kaganapan (), Kiss of Judas (), Thirty Pieces of Silver, The Transfiguration, Eternal Gardens Memorial Park (), UP Gateway (), Nine Muses (), UP Faculty Center, Sunburst ()-Peninsula Manila Hotel, the bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of National Library, and murals in marble at the National Heroes Shrine, Mt.

Samat, Bataan. One masterpiece he dedicates to the Boholanos is the Sandugo or Blood Compact shrine in Bool, Tagbilaran City, a landmark at the site of the first international treaty of friendship between Spaniards and Filipinos. This is now a tourist attraction in Bohol province. This shrine is an expression of Abueva&#;s awareness of his roots, and a manifestation of his artistic talents.

Abueva also performed the death mask procedure of the late Fernando Poe Jr.

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