Amorsolo's Women: Concealed & Revealed

Ayala Museum pays homage to the life and works of the first National Artist with "Amorsolo’s Women: Concealed and Revealed", which runs until March 8, 2009 at the Third Floor Galleries.

Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (1892–1972) became known as the "painter of Philippine sunlight" because his works captured the brilliance of the Philippine sun.

Amorsolo also painted the glow from within — Filipino values, character, and soul. His genre paintings that feature women draw inspiration from the lives of ordinary folk, portraying their industry, integrity and resilience.

As part of the exhibition, a short gallery tour and art activity for children called Amazing Amorsolo will be held on the following Saturdays: November 15 and 29, December 6, 2008, and January 10 and 24, February 14 and 28, and March 7, 2009, at 3 pm.

A special gallery tour of the exhibition, to be conducted by curator Petty Benitez-Johannot, will also be held on Friday, November 7 at 7:15 pm.

Amorsolo’s Women: Concealed and Revealed is part of the series of exhibitions entitled "His Art, Our Heart", a four-month multi-venue initiative that aims to take another look at Amorsolo’s life and works. Also part of the Amorsolo retrospective are the following exhibitions:

• Capturing Anxieties: Amorsolo, His Contemporaries and Pictures of the War at the UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center;

• Tell-Tale: The Artist as Storyteller, Amorsolo as Co-Author at the Lopez Memorial Museum;

• Days of Drawing, Portraits of Passage at the National Art Gallery of the National Museum of the Philippines;

• bayANInanding: The Motherland and the Harvest of Maestro Amorsolo at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila;

• Mukhang Tsinoy: Portraits by Fernando Amorsolo at Yuchengco Museum; and

• SALIW: Rituals in Amorsolo’s Art at the GSIS Museum of Art.

For more information, visit www.amorsoloretro.com -- Reprinted from The Manila Bulletin