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Saturday Volcano Art: Fernando Amorsolo, Planting Rice With Mayon Volcano' (1949)

Fernando Amorsolo's 1949 painting "Planting Rice with Mayon Volcano" depicts farmers planting rice with Mayon Volcano in the background. Amorsolo was committed to depicting Filipino rural life and idealized the relationship between villagers and their environment. The painting shows how the volcano enriches the soil and guards over the villagers and their crops. While the painting celebrates Filipino culture, its aesthetic appreciation requires some level of art education since it may not be fully understood by a general audience. The painting contributes to the sense of sight for Filipinos and humanizes viewers by allowing free judgment and appreciation of art without needing specialized analysis.

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Saturday Volcano Art: Fernando Amorsolo, Planting Rice With Mayon Volcano' (1949)

Fernando Amorsolo's 1949 painting "Planting Rice with Mayon Volcano" depicts farmers planting rice with Mayon Volcano in the background. Amorsolo was committed to depicting Filipino rural life and idealized the relationship between villagers and their environment. The painting shows how the volcano enriches the soil and guards over the villagers and their crops. While the painting celebrates Filipino culture, its aesthetic appreciation requires some level of art education since it may not be fully understood by a general audience. The painting contributes to the sense of sight for Filipinos and humanizes viewers by allowing free judgment and appreciation of art without needing specialized analysis.

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Art Appreciation

Lin Dominic A. Velasco November 26. 2018


BSN – 1A

Saturday Volcano Art: Fernando Amorsolo, ‘Planting Rice


with Mayon Volcano’ (1949)
Amorsolo was committed to two fundamental ideas in his art: first, a classical notion of
idealism, in which artistic truth was found through harmony, balance and beauty, and second a
conservative concept of Filipino national character as rooted in rural communities and the cycles
of village life. The expression of the painting is that the work of Amorsolo is widely focused in
nature. Because his admiration comes from the idea of farmers who are planting rice and it’s also
not a typical painting but it expresses the culture of the Filipino people, how they live back in the
days, how they sacrifice their travail just to fill our empty stomach. It reminds us on how the
importance of farmers in our country. They don’t just plant rice, they also the source of our
foods. Behind them, releasing a peaceful plume of steam, rises the beautifully symmetrical cone
of Mayon stratovolcano. It is the ash erupted by the volcano over its highly-active history that
has made the surrounding landscape fertile, and the tranquil cone appears here to be a beneficial
spirit of the earth standing guardian over the villagers and their crops. The interesting part is that
the volcano also plays a vital role not just on a beautiful scenery but it also helps the rice fields to
enrich the quality of rice. Art is everywhere to us, we depend on the environment and the
environment also depends on us. The painting is very Filipino with respect to the subject matter.
The subject matter itself defines the aesthetic qualities of this painting relating it to the period in
which it is created to appreciate more its overall beauty. It may not be appreciated by a great
number of audiences such as the mass considered as uneducated or unenlightened therefore,
cannot appreciate or critically analyze a painting in an overall assessment of its value and
importance, yet they may appreciate and understand it casually. I think one of primary values of
this painting is simply to contribute to the usage of the sense of sight of the audiences which are
us, the Filipinos, to simply appreciate a work of art that does not need science but to humanize
us, just using free judgment and leaving the more specific details to the experts as a form of
advance studies for Art students. It is truly remarkable that the painting of Amorsolo depicts our
culture because he appreciates the immolation of our farmers and the inspiration that he
dedicated to them.

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