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was "one of the earliest and most consistent exponents of abstract art in the Philippines". She wrote in the CCP Encyclopedia of Art that Bernardo worked in series, "combining geometrism and color research in such work groupings as the Bernardian series, the Rhapsody Square series, and the Wildflower series." Bernardo was a professor of Fine Arts at the UP College of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1978.
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Bernardo was the subject of three major retrospectives; the first one in 1979 at the Museum of Philippine Art, the second, in 2013 at the Ayala Museum during the centenary of his birth and the third, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2014. According to art critic Alice Guillermo, Bernardo
227:, in American-occupied Philippines. He was the son of Pedro Ma. Bernardo and Cecilia Anastacio. He studied at Obando Elementary School from 1920 to 1925. In 1929, he transferred to Manila West, which is now Florentino Torres High School in 215:(December 22, 1913 – August 8, 2003) was a Filipino painter and professor. He is known for making the earliest modern geometric abstract paintings in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. 304: 231:, and finished his secondary education in 1933. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Philippines in 1948. He was a student of Pablo and 573: 91: 568: 278: 450: 423: 513: 470: 578: 247:
who introduced him to innovative color experiments, teaching techniques and geometric abstract painting. He also took classes under
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before the Second World War. He earned a second Bachelor of Fine arts in 1951 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1952 at
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Bauhaus in the Boondocks: The Modernist Lore of Constancio Bernardo
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as a Fulbright Scholar. While at Yale, he was mentored by
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Pioneer of modern Southeast Asian abstract painting
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College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines
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Index

Philippine name
middle name
family name
Anastacio
Bernardo

Obando, Bulacan
Philippine Islands
Filipino
University of the Philippines
Yale University
College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines
www.constanciobernardo.com
Obando, Bulacan
Tondo, Manila
Fernando Amorsolo
University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts
Yale School of Art
Josef Albers
Willem de Kooning
"Constancio Bernardo, the forgotten master"
"Celebrating Constancio Bernardo, foremost abstract artist of the Philippines"
"In the Defiles of Abstraction"


"Into the Light: Constancio Bernardo and Bernardian Synthesis No. 1"
"Philippine Abstract Art"
Bauhaus in the Boondocks: The Modernist Lore of Constancio Bernardo
ISBN
978-1-6671-5911-9

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