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Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: a Classic of His Time Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time by: Lilimay Manalo-Castor “It is beyond doubt that Professor Tolentino is the first and last master in the representation of the human form in the Philippines.” --- Napoleon V. Abueva The Lady (Teodora Valenzuela Tiglao) Guillermo Estrella Tolentino was born in Malolos, Bulacan on 24 July 1890. He was the fourth of eight children. His http://www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/104/guillermo-estrella-tolentino-a-classic-of-his-time Copyright ArtesdelasFilipinas.com. All Rights Reserved Page 1/9 Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time father was a tailor, whose only artistic trait is the love of playing the guitar. Guillermo or Memong, as his family called him, inherited this artistic skill. Moreover, Memong became one of the three best guitar players in the Philippines during his time. Pasig City Museum Before his formal schooling, he used to mold horses and dogs in clay, out of the materials from the banks of the fishponds in town. He studied at the Malolos Intermediate School. From fifth to sixth grade, his teacher was Mrs. H.A. Bordner who also gave him his first instructions in drawing. Pasig City Museum Shortly, he went to Malolos high school for two years. Then hearing from his cousin that there is an art school in Manila, he transferred to the Manila high school in Intramuros. In the afternoons, he attended classes at the School of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines. He took drawing classes under Vicente Rivera. Later on, he decided to take lessons in sculpture too, under Vicente Francisco. Soon, he was more interested in scuplture than in painting. http://www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/104/guillermo-estrella-tolentino-a-classic-of-his-time Copyright ArtesdelasFilipinas.com. All Rights Reserved Page 2/9 Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time Pasig City Museum In 1911, while he was still in high school, he made a group of drawing of Rizal, Burgos, Antonio and Juan Luna, Regidor and others. His Tata Pepe, with whom he was living, succeeded in interesting Severino Reyes to have the drawing lithographed. It was then published in Liwayway, whose editor was Reyes, under the title Grupo de Filipinos Ilustros. Although Tolentino never made a centavo out of the drawing, he was pleased to see his work in people’s homes everywhere. Pasig City Museum While studying at the School of Fine Arts, he supported himself by doing works for various marmolerias in Manila. In 1914, he did his first important work for architect Juan Arellano. The figure is that of a woman praying against a cross for the tomb of the Palma family in Cementerio del Norte. The same year, he executed the relief figures designed by Arellano on the facade of Casino Español on Taft Avenue. http://www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/104/guillermo-estrella-tolentino-a-classic-of-his-time Copyright ArtesdelasFilipinas.com. All Rights Reserved Page 3/9 Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time In 1915, he graduated in Painting and Sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, with prizes in all subjects taken. However, he decided to stay for another year. During this time, he rendered the monument of San Miguel de Mayumo representing the Pact of Biak na Bato. Juan Arellano designed it. Tolentino spent the year 1918 principally in Laguna. There, he worked with the contractor Tomas Zamora making monuments of Rizal, a mausoleum, and others. His friends, especially Precioso Palma, urged him to open up a shop of his own. They even offered him money to enable him to do so. He would not accept. When asked why, he quitely answered, “Because I was not yet a scupltor” (Paras-Perez, 1972). Soon, he decided to go to America. In 1919, he arrived in Washington, D.C. He worked as a waiter in a cafe in Rock Creek Park. Inspired by President Woodrow Wilson’s work for peace, he created a small statue symbolizing “peace” – hoping someday he may be able to present it to the President. He confided this to the manager who later spoke of the http://www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/104/guillermo-estrella-tolentino-a-classic-of-his-time Copyright ArtesdelasFilipinas.com. All Rights Reserved Page 4/9 Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time matter to the private secretary of Mrs. Wilson, who used to frequent the cafe. Shortly, Tolentino secured an audience with President Wilson at the White House, marking the turning point in the beginning of his carrer. With $300 savings, he went to New York to further his studies. Some months after he arrived in New York, he received a letter from Bernard Baruch, an American millionaire. Baruch said that he saw the Peace statue made by Tolentino and he was willing to grant him scholarship. Thereupon, he enrolled at the Ecole de Beaux Arts for advanced courses in scuplture. While studying, he worked as messenger and assistant to American scupltor Gutzon Borglum, earning $11 a week. In 1921, he finished his course at the Ecole de Beaux Arts with monetary, medal, and diploma awards. That same year, he left for Europe. Tolentino stayed in London for a week, visiting museums and art galleries. He went on to Paris and stayed there for anothe week. Then, he moved to Rome where he spent the next three and a half years. There he entered the Regge Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti di Roma. http://www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/104/guillermo-estrella-tolentino-a-classic-of-his-time Copyright ArtesdelasFilipinas.com. All Rights Reserved Page 5/9 Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time After a year, the money he had been able to save in New York ran out. He wrote to Jaime de Veyra, Resident Commissioner in Washington, to say that he was having difficulty finding a job in Rome. De Veyra wrote to his friends in the Philippines; some of the Manila newspapers took the matter up, and about Php 800 was raised for Tolentino. Giovanni Lammoglia, head of the Italian colony in Manila, also pensioned him for one year. In Rome, he created the Saluto Romano and won the second prize in a sculptural competition for his study of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In 15 October 1923, he graduated from the Regge Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti di Roma with highest honor – Licenziato del Corso Superiore Librero di Scultura. He also held a one-man exhibition in Rome after he graduated. In 1925, he sailed for home. He took a homebound boat belonging to the Campana Tabacalera de Filipinas travelling from Barcelona. The vessel offered him second class passage for free. He opened his studio in Manila on January 24. In 1926, University of the Philippines President Rafael Palma appointed him instructor in sculpture at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. http://www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/104/guillermo-estrella-tolentino-a-classic-of-his-time Copyright ArtesdelasFilipinas.com. All Rights Reserved Page 6/9 Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time On 9 August 1930, a jury, created to select the best design honoring the Supremo of the Katipunan, met. The designs were entered under pseudonyms. The winning entry was under the pseudonym of Batang Elias – Tolentino was Batang Elias. He won the design for the Bonifacio Monument and was granted a commission for its installation. He completed the figures for the monument in 1932. Then, he sent the figures to Italy for bronze casting. In 1933, he completed the Bonifacio Monument. Tolentino worked on the Oblation at about the same time he did the Bonifacio Monument. He made the Oblation an amalgam of the solid physique of Anastacio Caedo, his sculptor/assistant, and the height and proportion of Virgilio Raymundo, Caedo’s brother-in-law. http://www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/104/guillermo-estrella-tolentino-a-classic-of-his-timeUP President Rafael Palma commissioned the monument. In 1935, the Oblation was unveiled on its original site in the Copyright ArtesdelasFilipinas.com. All Rights Reserved Page 7/9 Artes de las Filipinas Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time Padre Faura Quadrangle at U.P. Manila. It was later transferred to U.P. Diliman in 1949. Today, the Oblation becomes the symbol of academic freedom in U.P. On 25 October 1935, the U.P. Alumni Association announced its plan to construct an arch to commemorate the inaguration of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. They requested Tolentino to prepare the design and the maquette. It did not take long for Tolentino to produce a maquette. President Quezon and the National Assembly approved the design. The cost of the monument was set at about Php 500,000. Funds were short but on 15 November 1938, Mrs. Aurora Quezon laid the first trowel-full of cement on the monument’s foundation. The Commonwealth Triumphal Arch was supposed to be placed at the intersection of Padre Burgos and Taft Avenue in front of the Legislative Building. Unfortunately, the war got in the way and the triumphal arch was never built. On 23 July 1951 during the absence of Fernando Amorsolo, Tolentino was appointed Acting Director of the School of Fine Arts. On 4 August 1953, he was appointed Director. After twenty-nine years of service to the University, Tolentino returned to private practice in 1955. Following his retirement, the U.P. Board of Regents named him Professor Emeritus.
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