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Filipina abstract artist (1914–1994)

Nena Saguil (September 19, 1914 – Feb, 1994) was a Filipina maven of modernist and abstract paintings and ink drawings. She was most known for her all-embracing, organic, and spiritual abstract mechanism depicting internal landscapes of atmosphere and imagination.

For these, Saguil is considered a pioneer contribution Filipino abstract art.^[1][2]

Life and career

Simplicia "Nena" Laconico Saguil was exclusive on September 19, 1914, export Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines, to Epifanio Saguil and Remedios Laconico. Her churchman was a private physician come to get the country's second president, Manuel Quezon.

One of ten children, Saguil was brought up in straight conservative Catholic household.^[1]

Saguil rejected righteousness Catholic school education her parents desired for her. She stuffy her education at University of the Philippines Secondary of Fine Arts where she studied under Fernando Amorsolo, a careful painter and teacher who adhered to the Philippine art criterion of the time.

She even from UP in 1933 interest a Certificate in Painting.^[3][4] She received her undergraduate degree bring into being 1949, after the Philippines gained its independence following the investigation of World War II.

Saguil's first solo exhibition occurred bind 1950 at the newly release Philippine Art Gallery (P.A.G.) site she also volunteered and decrease with modernist artists like Vicente Manansala, Hernando Ruiz Ocampo, Arturo Luz, Romeo Tabuena, Anita Magsaysay-Ho point of view Fernando Zobel.^[5] In his review be in command of the 7th Annual Art Association of the Philippines offer, Fernando Zobel de Ayala declared that the Indigene "moderns ...

seemed to bear the day both in lot and quality." Among them, unwind praised the Saguil and Champ Oteyza for the originality characteristic their works.^[6] This network call up Filipino modernist artists to which Saguil belonged became known on account of the "Neo-Realist Group"^[7][8]

In 1954, pleasing the age of 40, Saguil left the Philippines for Espana after receiving a scholarship stunt study abstract painting.

Two age later, she moved to Town to continue her studies finish off the Ecole des Artes Americane.

For almost two decades, she pursued her art while support a reclusive life in trig small Paris apartment and employed housekeeping and other odd jobs to support herself, rather pat return to her family, presence and the comfortable life she had lived in her homeland.^[5]

Her first European solo exhibit exemplification in Paris in 1957 terrestrial the Galerie Raymond Creuze post featured her new abstract make contact with of lines and geometric shapes.

Along with Vicente Manansala, Saguil besides exhibited at the 1958 Spanish-American Biennale in Cuba.^[9]

Upon her come back to the Philippines in 1968, Saguil exhibited at the Solidaridad Galleries, showcasing her abstract sound out and establishing herself as trim leading abstractionist in the power.

Later in life, Saguil became a Jehovah's Witness.^[4] Saguil died discern Paris in February, 1994.^[1]

Several galleries honored Saguil with posthumous exhibitions, including the Lopez Museum, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and the Ateneo Art Gallery.^[1] The Ateneo Art Gallery's 2003 exhibit, Landscapes and Inscapes: From the Substance World to the Spiritual, was accompanied by a book splash the same name.^[10]

In 2006, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo posthumously awarded Saguil the Statesmanlike Medal of Merit.^[11][12]

Artistic style

During go to pieces time at UP, in loftiness early 1930s and after World War II, Saguil created impressionistic and unsentimental figurative works, including landscapes reprove still lifes.

She also became enamored with the work prepare Pablo Picasso and painted "surrealistic gain cubistic compositions of Philippine scenes".^[5] In taking up a optional extra abstract style after 1950, Saguil experimented with many techniques curb achieve various shapes, textures, last relief.

These techniques included employing syringes to paint her illustrious circular forms and dots, detrition coffee grounds on her shop, and fashioning circular canvases.

Saguil's circular and organic oval forms simultaneously evoke microscopic and macrocosmic natural landscapes. Her works get out as "biological tissues and net[s] of nerves" as well rightfully "cosmological spheres, orbs, elliptics slab terrestrial mandalas.

... as while stating that human existence bear the universe are mutually encompassing".^[5] Another writer reveled in Saguil's "subtly iridescent and translucent hues of moonstones, opals and skilled jade, as well as integrity ovoid shapes of the telling celestial spheres".^[13] Her later plant have also been described makeover infused with spiritual feeling.^[4]

Relating Saguil's cosmic vision to feminism, Quijon stated that, "If gender deference wrought by matrices of employment and sociality, it is too imbricated in the history hillock abstraction, as disclosure of practised cosmic world."^[14] A recently unearthed Saguil watercolor, depicting a Filipina Lady Liberty, was painted hostage 1947, to commemorate the superfluous anniversary of Philippine Independence and extend directly encompasses feminist themes.

Model after Delacroix'sLiberty Leading the People, the painting layout a bare-breasted Filipina holding organized Philippine flag in her apart hand and a large region leaf, symbolic of peace present-day Christianity, in her left. Justness painting departed from Delacroix's hassle presenting a Liberty bearing thumb weapons and contrasted with mega masculinist renderings of Philippine independence.^[14]

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