Book Launch - Fabian de la Rosa and His Times

UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana.Net will be launching the book Fabian de la Rosa and His Times, with a short film premiere, at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, 17 January 2007 at the UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum & Filipiniana Research Center, Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.

Fabian de la Rosa (1869-1937) was the first Filipino Dean of the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts. As an artist, he lived and practiced art through the Spanish and American colonial periods in the Philippines - this explains why history is much evident in his works. He was among the last of the generation of artists influenced and taught by Lorenzo Guerrero, Miguel Zaragoza, Simon Flores, Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, among others. As the leading academic painter at the time of social revolution and nationalism in the country, de la Rosa was and continues to be a great influence in Philippine visual arts.

Fabian de la Rosa and His Times will be available at the Vargas Museum Shop and all leading bookstores nationwide. For further details, please call the Vargas Museum at (+632) 928-1927.