Amadeo Y. Manalad history's muralist. /

Guerrero, Amadis Ma.

Amadeo Y. Manalad history's muralist. / Amadis Ma. Guerrero ; preface, Juan T. Gatbanton ; a critical apprecation, Patrick D. Flores ; photography,Raffy Guerrero. - Manila : Kasaysayan Pub., 2003 - 113 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm.

and Manalad's reputation would probably be much larger if more of his lyrical murals had survived. in fact, Manalad may have even influenced Francisco's early work This book by the well-known art historian Amadis Ma. Guerrero redress a historical anomaly: the utter neglect of the painter and muralist Amadeo Y. Manalad, a contemporary - and- peer of the National artists Carlos V. Francisco and Vicente Manansala. It is a modest book, as befits its subject: a diffident and tentative man who might have become as renowned as his friends and rivals, had he not been so self-effacing and unassertive. But Manalad's draftsmanship, in Guerrero's estimation, "was almost equal, if not equal to that of "Botong"


Manalad, Amadeo Y., 1911-1984
Manalad, Amadeo Y., 1911-1984
Mural painting and decoration
Mural painting and decoration
Mural painting and decoration, Filipino