Occupation sculptor Spouse Sergia Abueva Role Artist | Name Napoleon Abueva Children Amihan, Mulawin, Duero | |
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Parents Teodoro Abueva, Purificacion Veloso Education University of the Philippines, Harvard University Died February 16, 2018 (aged 88) Quezon City, Philippines Similar Guillermo Tolentino, Abdulmari Imao, Victorio Edades Awards Order of National Artists of the Philippines Nationality Filipino | ||
Xiaotime napoleon abueva pt 2 ama ng modernong paglilok sa ph bilang pampublikong alagad ng sining
Napoleón Isabelo Veloso Abueva (January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, was a Filipino artist. He was a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He was awarded National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.
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- Xiaotime napoleon abueva pt 2 ama ng modernong paglilok sa ph bilang pampublikong alagad ng sining
- Napoleon abueva philippine book of records
- Biography and career
- Exhibits
- Cultural Missions
- Awards
- References
Napoleon abueva philippine book of records
Biography and career
Napoleon Abueva, nicknamed Billy, was born on January 26, 1930 in Tagbilaran, Bohol to Teodoro Abueva, a Bohol congressman and Purificacion (Nena) Veloso, president of the Women’s Auxiliary Service.
Abueva had six other brothers and sisters: Teodoro (Teddy -deceased ), Jr.; Purificacion (Neny -deceased), married to Atty. Ramon Binamira (dec.) of Tagbilaran City; Jose Abueva (Pepe), former president of the University of the Philippines; Amelia Martinez (Inday), now living in Chicago; Teresita (Ching) Floro, now living in Sydney, Australia; and Antonio (Tony), a landscape artist.
He assumed the name Napoleon at the age of six, when as a student at the St. Joseph Academy in Tagbilaran, one of the nuns first called him Napoleon after Napoleon Bonaparte. The name stuck, and ever since, Abueva references the quote from Napoleon: "If I weren’t a conqueror, I would wish to be a sculptor."
At U.P, one of his mentors was Guillermo Tolentino, also a national artist, who created the oblation at the university entrance . Tolentino later relegated to him the task of replicating the sculpture for the Campus of U.P. Los Banos.
In 1976, He was honored with the National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts title by then-President Ferdinand Marcos, becoming the youngest ever recipient of this accolade at the age of 46.
Some of his major works include Kaganapan (1953), Kiss of Judas (1955), Thirty Pieces of Silver, The Transfiguration, Eternal Gardens Memorial Park (1979), UP Gateway (1967), Nine Muses (1994), UP Faculty Center, Sunburst (1994)-Peninsula Manila Hotel. His Sandugo or Blood Compact shrine in Bohol, Tagbilaran City is a landmark at the site of the first international treaty of friendship between Spaniards and Filipinos.
His son, Mulawin Abueva performed the death mask procedure of opposition leader Ninoy Aquino in 1983 while the elder Abueva made the death mask of Fernando Poe, Jr. in 2004. Both masks are now displayed at the Center for Kapampangan Studies, Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac. Incidentally, he also made a death mask of Cardinal Sin.
He was married to Cherry Abueva, a psychiatrist, and had three children, Amihan, Mulawin, and Duero. Before his stroke, he used to teach at the Industrial Design department of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts.
Exhibits
He had made exhibits of his work in Cebu Plaza, University of Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Vermont, U.S..