Fernando Zobel and the Making of the Ateneo Art Gallery: Modern Art, Postcolonial Statehood, and the Utopian Imagination in Twentieth-Century Philippines

• Main Author: Veric, Charlie S
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Fernando Zobel; Ateneo Art Gallery; Filipino modern art and criticism; Filipino art history; Philippine postcolonial statehood; decolonization; utopia; Fine Arts; Painting
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/51; https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/apah/article/view/2551
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Fernando Zobel de Ayala y Montojo is a towering figure in modern Filipino art and criticism. An award-winning artist and an astute theorist, he founded the Ateneo Art Gallery in 1960. Six years later, he established the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca, Spain. Art histories in the Philippine...