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Is currently located at the south wall of the

main lobby of Palma Hall, flanking at the entrance to the old AS 101 Auditorium. was painted by in 1960.

National Artist

Spanning 14 x 2 meters, it is Manansalas


largest public mural in UP Diliman

depiction of a landscape animated by an array of different motifs culled from many sources, including the artists use of artistic details like the carabao, as well as the depiction of the arts (canvas and easel, statue, and violin) and sciences (compass, heart/brain/eye, and test tube) at the center panel.

Done in a polished painting technique that


preserves the details of the painting

Other works are cubistic ones seen at the


Chapel of Holy Sacrifice which shows a granolithic design pattern that combines abstract shapes in different colors

The figures displayed and central theme of this mural symbolizes human interaction with different kinds of immediate resources and multilevel discipline in the fields of art and sciences. Every objects are metaphors that could lead us into its own visual queues such as the canvas and easel pertaining to fine arts, violin is to music, the hall and the drafting compass is to architecture. And for sciences, the test tube could be for chemistry or biology, the abacus is for mathematics and so on. All these are interrelated to the man's ability to acquire knowledge while inside the academe.

Vicente Silva Manansala January 22, 1910 - August 22, 1981 Born in Macabebe, Pampanga Studied at the UP School of Fine Arts from 1926 1930 National Artist of the Philippines in Visual Arts His works are displayed at the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Lopez Memorial Museum (Manila), the Philippine Center (New York City), the Singapore Art Museum and the Holy Angel University (Angeles City, Philippines).

http://hotmug.blogspot.com/2012/07/uncoveri

ng-manansala.html http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo ns/8/8f/Vicentejf.JPG Caete, Prof. Rueben. Pasyal: Walking Around UP Diliman. Quezon City: Office for Initiatives for Culture and the Arts, 2004. Print.

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