When he returned to Manila, Zobel started in having interest in Chinese and Japanese art and took up calligraphy classes until 1960.
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The surgical syringe was the solution which was his trademark in painting.
In interviews, Soriano has credited his uncle Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo, the celebrated modern Spanish painter, as having proded him to become an artist.
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In 1961 artist Fernando Zobel began looking for a suitable location for a museum of abstract art, and in June 1963 his friend, the artist Gustavo Torner, suggested the Hanging Houses of Cuenca as an appropriate site.