Birth Anniversary of National Artist for Visual Arts
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz
(June 6, 1932- February 2, 2011)
The #NationalMuseumPH celebrates the 90th birth anniversary of National Artist for Visual Arts Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, born #OnThisDay in 1932.
In celebration of his life and art, we feature his painting “Sunset in Intramuros”, an oil on board painting completed in 1979. It depicts an aerial view overlooking the golf course and the Walled City of Intramuros, and the sun, setting over the horizon at the pier in Manila. Alcuaz is known for his Cubist-inspired paintings, but painting landscapes is one of his favorite subjects. He flies to New York to attend events and enjoy the cityscape that inspired him to paint New York’s rooftop and the Central Park and later painted other cities he had visited. In the Philippines, he would paint landscape views of Manila, Makati, Intramuros, Binondo, and the Manila Bay sunset. Alcuaz was well-recognized and has exhibited in leading galleries and museums locally and internationally. He was declared National Artist for Visual Arts in 2009. The painting is part of the Government Service and Insurance System (GSIS) Collection and is currently exhibited alongside his other works at the GSIS North Hallway, Third Floor of the National Museum of Fine Arts. We invite you to view more of his artworks once we re-open.
The National Museum of Fine Arts is temporarily closed until July 4, 2022. Follow this page for more features from the National Fine Arts Collection. While we are closed, here is the link for the 360-degrees virtual tour of the nine select galleries at the National Museum of Fine Arts: https://www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph/nmfa360/HTML5/NMFA360.html
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Text by NMP FAD
Photo by Bengy Toda
