Angel nakpil biography
Angel nakpil biography
Architect angel nakpil.
Pensionado Modernists: US-educated Filipino Artists and the Struggle for Independence
Abstract
The history of American modern art has largely excluded the US empire in its narrative and overlooked the massive direct investments in art education by the US government and private institutions during the 20th century.
This essay revisits archival sources on two generations of Filipino pensionados, who were educated during the American colonization of the Philippines (1898-1945) and the immediate postwar period (1946-1964), to reconstruct an artistic genealogy of the impact of US art schools on Philippine art.
It traces how Filipino artists formulated a decentralized and non-hierarchical notion of cultural exchange to reconfigure the aesthetic of the Modernist movements they encountered in the United States into an emancipatory and critical strategy.
Focusing on the lives and works of Victorio Edades (1895-1985), Purita Kalaw Ledesma (1914-2005), Constancio Bernardo (1910-