Napoleón Abueva
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Napoleón V. Abueva is the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He was also entitled as the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture.
He was born on January 26, 1930 in Tagbilaran, Bohol. His father is Teodoro Abueva, a Bohol congressman and his mother is Purification Veloso, president of the Women’s Auxiliary Service. He graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines. One of his mentors was Guillermo Tolentino, also a national artist, who created the oblation at the university entrance .
Abueva has helped shape the local sculpture scene in the Philippines. Being adept in both academic representational style and modern abstract, he has utilized almost all kinds of materials from hard wood (molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil, kamagong, palm wood and bamboo) to adobe, metal, stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster, coral and brass.
In 1976, he was awarded the status of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos. He was the youngest recipient of the title at age 46.
Some of his major works include Kaganapan (1953), Kiss of Judas (1955), Thirty Pieces of Silver , The Transfiguration, Eternal Garden Memorial Park (1979), UP Gateway (1967), Nine Muses (1994), UP Faculty Center, Sunburst (1994)-Peninsula Manila Hotel, the bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of National Library, and murals in marble at the National Heroes Shrine, Mt. Samat, Bataan.
He was also the one who performed the death mask procedure to the late Fernando Poe Jr. in 2004.
Sources
- [Abueva, the Artist: National Commission on Culture and the Arts]
- [Abueva, The Only Boholano National Artist: Bohol Times]
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