Fernando C. Amorsolo, the first genre painter given the National Artist award and perhaps - more significantly - the artist ever to rank first in the heart of his countrymen, actually believed, as the traditional classicist painter did, that drawing was the probity of art. Fernando AmorsoloAMORSOLO sketched incessantly. Details like: hands and feet - in gestures and positions as eloquent as his characterization of faces. Or bodies. He made drawing studies of farmers doing their cyclic chores (from planting rice to harvesting) and cityfolk doing daily routines such as cooking, dining or trying to get through the Japanese wartime occupation.