Sculpture

• Sculpture


  Used to commemorate Filipino heroes
• Monuments for heroes


  • Rizal
  • Bonifacio
• Filipino sculptors during American period

  • Guillermo Tolentino
  • Graciano Nepomuceno
• Americans ordered monuments of Jose Rizal in all plazas in the country

  1903
• Prototype of Rizal monuments built by Swiss national

  1913
• Rizal monuments


  • Stiff, formal, awkward, mass-produced cement figures
• Guillermo Tolentino's view


  No distortions in sculpture
• Tolentino's works


  • Bonifacio monument in Caloocan
  • Sanduguan
  • Oblation at University of the Philippines
• Classicism in Tolentino's works

  • Realistic and detailed molding of human figures
  • Controlled tension characterizing revolutionary figure of Bonifacio
• Guillermo Tolentino: 'Who can fall in love with their abstractions?'
• Tolentino's influence


  Set the ground for classical sculpture in the country
• Bonifacio Monument by Tolentino


  • Classicism seen in self-contained figure
  • Restraint radiates tension and energy
  • Figures of Katipunero and folks more romantic in emotionalism
  • Realist's concern in observed detail
  • Underlying nationalism gives enduring spirit
• Tolentino school sculptors


  • Anastacio Caedo and his Florante
• Nepomuceno's subjects


  Characters from Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, made of wood
• Nepomuceno


  Known in genre sculpture