White Christmas

When snow is too much, White Christmas is no longer cool.



This was taken after the snowstorm.

Even Santa Claus would not dare visit the house which chimney is covered by snow.

Autumn in Germany

Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer usually in September and ends in December in the northern hemisphere.

Here in the States, leaves begin to turn gold, then brown before they fall to the ground.

The colors however are a delight to see. They are like gold swinging in the trees.
When the sun shineth on them, they glitter and sparkle.

Cooking the Noon Day Meal-Fernando Amorsolo

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Cooking the Noon Day Meal. 1951. Oil on canvas. 24 x 34. The central grouping of lush trees and hills provides an idyllic setting for the workers. The subject was extremely popular, and there are several variants on the theme. In the painting the little girl on the right is added, and the woman's bandana is pink rather than yellow.

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Planting Rice by Fernando Amorsolo

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Planting Rice. 1951. Oil on canvas. 24 x 34. Behind the workers, a farmer with a carabao ploughs. In the background is a cluster of nipa huts. The central grouping of lush trees and hills provides an idyllic setting for the workers

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Planting Rice Painting-Harvesting by Fernando Amorsolo

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Lavandera Painting- by Fernando Amorsolo

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Lavandera

Oil on board
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
Signed lower left and dated 1932, Manila



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Planting Rice Painting-Winnowing by Fernando Amorsolo

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Winnowing, painted in 1950.

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Sunday: Going to Town-by Fernando Amorsolo

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Sunset Painting-by Fernando Amorsolo

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Tinikling Painting- by Fernando Amorsolo

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Ina at Anak Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

This is the Amorsolo's first painting.

This painting shows to us the love between the mother and child. It shows to us the bond that exists between the two. It is often said that nothing encompasses the love between a mother and a child. From birth, the mother has paintakingly taken care of her child, giving him food, shelter, and clothing. From the long hours of labor in the delivery room to the time the child sets foot in College, the mother is there, supporting and caring for her child. This painting clearly shows how much a mother cares for her child. As seen in the painting, the mother carefully hold her child, making sure that she has a firm hold on him so that he won't be in any danger. A mother will even go to the point of sacrificing her own life for the sake of her child. That is how much a mother loves her child.

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Return of the Fishermen by Fernando Amorsolo

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1939. Oil on canvas. 18 x 26. Signed and dated, lower right. Original hand-carved frame made in the Philippines. Provenance: acquired from Amersolo who had painted it at his Manila studio.

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A Lady Picking Vegetables Painting-by Fernando Amorsolo

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This is not the title of the painting. I can not find the title as well as the description. All what we can see is a lady under a trellis picking something.

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Waterfall Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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This is not the title of the painting. It is unidentified and had no title attached to it. Waterfall is the main feature of the painting, thus the descriptive title.


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Women Bathing Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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Title of the painting is not available. So the descriptive title is used in the caption.

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Farmers Going Home from Farm-by Fernando Amorsolo

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Unidentified painting, the title is given is to describe what the painting is all about.

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Women with Fruits Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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The painting has no title so I just put a descriptive title. Its a painting of women
who must be preparing to sell the fruits they harvested in the market.



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The Dance Tinikling Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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Another painting of the dance tinikling.

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Planting Rice-Winnowing Painting-Fernando Amorsolo

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Young Girl by the Stream by Fernando Amorsolo

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Young Girl By a Stream. 1937. Oil on canvas laid onto on board. 20 x 14. New custom gold leaf frame. Signed 'F Amorsolo', inscribed 'Manila' and dated '1937',
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Women Washing Clothes Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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There is no title for this painting. The caption above is just to describe the painting of women washing clothes in a stream.

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Young Lady with Fruits Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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The painting has no specific title. Caption is just to describe the painting about a young layh with fruits.

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Lavandera Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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Carabaos Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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There is no specific title for the painting. The caption is to describe the carabaos being bathed in a stream.



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Ifugao Rice Terraces by Fernando Amorsolo

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The title is not available but the scnery is that of the rice farms of Ifugao.

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Biography of Fernando Amorsolo

Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (May 30, 1892 - April 26, 1972) is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines.[1] Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. Born in Paco, Manila, he earned a degree from the Liceo de Manila Art School in 1909.
Fernando Amorsolo was born on May 30, 1892 in Paco, Manila to Pedro Amorsolo, a bookkeeper, and Bonifacia Cueto. Amorsolo spent his childhood in Daet, Camarines Norte, where he studied in a public school and was tutored at home in Spanish reading and writing. After his father’s death, Amorsolo and his family moved to Manila to live with Don Fabian de la Rosa, his mother's cousin and a Philippine painter. At the age of 13, Amorsolo became an apprentice to De la Rosa, who would eventually become the advocate and guide to Amorsolo's painting career. During this time, Amorsolo's mother embroidered to earn money, while Amorsolo helped by selling watercolor postcards to a local bookstore for 10 centavos each. Amorsolo's brother, Pablo, was also a painter.

Amorsolo's first success as a young painter came in 1908, when his painting Levendo Periodico took second place at the Bazar Escolta, a contest organized by the Asociacion Internacional de Artistas. Between 1909 and 1914, Amorsolo enrolled at the Art School of the Liceo de Manila, where he earned honors for his paintings and drawings.

After graduating from the Liceo, he entered the University of the Philippines' School of Fine Arts, where Dela Rosa worked at the time. During college, Fernando Amorsolo's primary influences were the Spanish court painter Diego Velazquez, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Ignacio Zuloaga. Amorsolo's most notable work as a student at the Liceo was his painting of a young man and a young woman in a garden, which won him the first prize in the art school exhibition during his graduation year. To make money during school, Amorsolo joined competitions and did illustrations for various Philippine publications, including Severino Reyes’ first novel in Tagalog, Parusa ng Diyos (God’s Punishment), and Iñigo Ed. Regalado's Madaling Araw (Dawn). He also illustrated for the religious Pasion books. Amorsolo graduated with medals from the University of the Philippines in 1914.


After graduating from the University of the Phillipines, Amorsolo worked as a draftsman for the Bureau of Public Works, as a chief artist at the Pacific Commercial Company, and as a part-time instructor at the University of the Philippines (where he would work for 38 years).[4] After three years as an instructor and commercial artist, Amorsolo was given a grant to study at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain by Filipino businessman Enrique Zobel de Ayala. During his seven months in Spain, Amorsolo sketched at museums and along the streets of Madrid, experimenting with the use of light and color.] Through De Ayala’s grant, Amorsolo was also able to visit New York, where he encountered postwar impressionism and cubism, which would be major influences on his work.

Amorsolo set up his own studio upon his return to Manila and painted prodigiously during the 1920s and the 1930s. His first important painting the 1922 Rice Planting (1922), which appeared on posters and tourist brochures, becoming one of the most popular images of the Commonwealth era. Beginning in the 1930s, Amorsolo's work was exhibited widely both in the Philippines and abroad.[6] His optimistic, pastoral images set the tone for Phillipine painting before World War II. Except for his darker World War II-era paintings, Amorsolo painted quiet and peaceful scenes throughout his career.

Amorsolo was sought after by influential Filipinos including Luis Araneta, Antonio Araneta and Jorge Vargas. Amorsolo also became the favorite Philippine artist of United States officials and visitors in the Philippines. Due to his popularity, Amorsolo had to resort to photographing his works and pasted and mounted them in an album. Prospective patrons could then choose from this catalogue of his works. Amorsolo did not create exact replicas of his trademark themes; he recreated the paintings by varying some elements.

His works later appeared on the cover and pages of children's textbooks, in novels, in commercial designs, in cartoons and illustrations for the Philippine publications such The Independent, Philippine Magazine, Telembang, Renacimiento Filipino, and Excelsior. He was the director of the University of the Philippine’s College of Fine Arts from 1938 to 1952.

During the 1950s until his death in 1972, Amorsolo averaged to finishing 10 paintings a month. However, during his later years, diabetes, cataracts, arthritis, headaches, dizziness and the death of two sons affected the execution of his works. Amorsolo underwent a cataract operation when he was 70 years old, a surgery that did not impede him from drawing and painting.Two months after being confined at the St. Luke’s Hospital in Manila, Amorsolo died of heart failure on April 24, 1972 at the age of 79.

Four days after his death, Amorsolo was conferred as the First Philippine National Artist in Painting at the Cultural Center of the Philippines by Ferdinand E. Marcos.


During his lifetime, Amorsolo was married twice and had 14 children. In 1916, he married Salud Jorge, with whom he had six children. After Jorge’s death in 1931, Amorsolo married Maria del Carmen Zaragoza, with whom he had eight more children. Among her daughters are Sylvia Amorsolo Lazo and Luz Amorsolo. Five of Amorsolo’s children became painters themselves. Amorsolo was a close friend to the Philippine sculptor Guillermo Tolentino, the creator of the Caloocan City monument for Philippine hero Andres Bonifacio.

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Lady by the Cooking Fire by Fernando Amorsolo

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Lady with Flowers by Fernando Amorsolo

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Considered as masterpiece by Fernando Amorsolo, this painting of a lady with flowers had been used as covers for magazines.


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A Painting of a Stream by Fernando Amorsolo

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There is no title for this painting so the caption above is just to describe what this painting about.

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Cooking the meal Painting by fernando Amorsolo

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Another ainting showing a family cooking their meal outside their home.



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Planting Rice Painting by Fernando Amorsolo

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Another painting about planting rice.

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Elephants-Africa

Elephants



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Elephant

Elephant


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Elephants




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Giraffe-Africa

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Leopards-Africa

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Lion-Africa

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Trees

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Turkey

The domesticated turkey is a large poultry bird raised for food. The modern domesticated turkey descends from the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), one of the two species of turkey (genus Meleagris); however, in the past the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) was also domesticated. Despite the name, turkeys have no relation to the country of Turkey and are native to North America.

The turkey is reared throughout temperate parts of the world, and is a popular form of poultry, partially because industrialised farming has made it very cheap for the amount of meat it produces. The female domesticated turkey is referred to as a hen and the chick as a poult. In the United States, the male is referred to as a tom, whilst in Europe, the male is a stag. The average lifespan for a domesticated turkey is ten years.

The great majority of domesticated turkeys have white feathers, although brown or bronze-feathered varieties are also raised. The fleshy protuberance attached to the underside of the beak is known as a "wattle".

Owl

The Owls are an order of birds of prey. Most are solitary, and nocturnal, with some exceptions (e.g. the Burrowing Owl). They are classified in the order Strigiformes, in which there are over 200 extant species. Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish.

Penguins

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. The number of penguin species is debated. Depending on which authority is followed, penguin biodiversity varies between 17 and 20 living species, all in the subfamily Spheniscinae. Some sources consider the White-flippered Penguin a separate Eudyptula species, while others treat it as a subspecies of the Little Penguin the actual situation seems to be more complicated. Similarly, it is still unclear whether the Royal Penguin is merely a color morph of the Macaroni penguin.

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Long Hair 1

This must have been several years of growing the hair.

Art in Sand - Sandcastle -Creation

Instead of castles which are normally the favorites of the people, the theme used is Creation.

Art Work-Metal Art-Beetle

Fine work of art. Beetle made from metal.

Art in Sand - Sandcastle -Village

Instead of sandcastle, the creator made a village.

Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are mostly phytophagous in food habit, with some species being entomophagous. Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered pests in agriculture.

Art Work - Plant Scuplture-Head

Amazing Sculpture of Head of an Indian Chief?

Art Work - Plant Scuplture-Buddha

Beautiful plant sculpture of Buddha.