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A. Most Essential Learning Competency:

• Researches on Various Contemporary Art Forms After going through this module, you are
expected to:
B. Specific Objectives
Cognitive
• Identify various GAMABA (National Living Treasures) . National Artists (Orden ng Gawad
Pambansang Alagad ng Sining) based on their location and artistic field
Affective
• Display appreciation to GAMABA (National Living Treasures) national artists' contribution to his
community and the contemporary arts
Psychomotor
• Create a poem, spoken poetry or song expressing feelings of gratitude and inspiration for
national artists.

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(Orden ng mga Pambansang Alagad ng Sining)

the highest national recognition given to Filipino
individuals who have made significant
contributions to the development of Philippine
arts namely;
Music, Dance, Theater,
Visual Arts, Literature, Film, Broadcast
Arts, and Architecture and Allied Arts.
one of the honors conferred by the Republic of
the Philippines that embodies the nation’s
highest ideals in the humanities and aesthetic
expression through the distinct achievements of
individual citizens.

Filipino citizen
Work has contributed to nation-building
distinctive style and pioneering works impacts succeeding generations of artist;
excellence in the practice of their art form
art form enriches artistic expression or style;
work is prestigious national and international recognition.

LEANDRO V. LOCSIN distinctive architecture reflective of Philippine Art and

National Artist for Architecture, 1990
“the product of two great streams of
culture, the oriental and the occidental… to
produce a new object of profound
harmony.”
largest single work of Locsin
the palace of the Sultan of Brunei,
which has a floor area of 2.2 million
square feet.
Culture
Every Locsin Building is an original, and
identifiable ---- themes of floating volume, the duality of
light and heavy, buoyant and massive running in his
major works.
1955 to 1994: 75 residences 23 public buildings
88 buildings, 48 commercial buildings
11 churches and six major hotels
chapels an airport terminal
building
The CCP Complex --- virtual Locsin Complex with all five
buildings designed by him :
• Cultural Center of the Philippines
• Folk Arts Theater
• Philippine International Convention Center
• Philcite
• The Westin Hotel (now Sofitel Philippine Plaza).

FRANCISCO T. MANOSA
National Artist for Architecture and Allied Arts, 2018
60 years of architecture life, Ar. Bobby Mañosa
designed Filipino.
• 1960s : landmark design of the Sulo Hotel
• 2015 retirement : he courageously and
passionately created original Filipino forms,
spaces with intricate and refined details.
the heart and soul of a Philippine architectural
movement.
developed a legacy of Philippine architecture,
which is essential to our
Filipino identity and at the same time, deeply
appreciated and shared in our world today.

• San Miguel Building, Ortigas Center, Pasig City • Lanao del Norte Provincial Capitol, Tubod, Lanao
(designed with the Mañosa Brothers) del Norte
• Chapel of the Risen Lord, Las Piñas City • Tahanang Pilipino (Coconut Palace), CCP Complex,
• Our Lady of Peace Shrine, EDSA, Quezon City Manila
• World Youth Day Papal Altar, Quirino Grandstand, • Amanpulo Resort, Palawan
Manila, 1995 • Pearl Farm Resort, Samal Island, Davao,
• Metrorail Transit System Stations for LRT 1, circa completed 1994
1980s • La Mesa Watershed Resort and Ecological Park, La
• Quezon Memorial Circle Development Plan Mesa Dam, Quezon City

LINO BROCKA
National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts, 1997
Catalino “Lino” Ortiz Brocka --- director for film
and broadcast arts: “freedom of expression”
social activist spirit ----> 66 films : marginalized
sectors of society — slum- dwellers, prostitutes,
construction workers etc.
directed for theater with equal zeal and served in
organizations that offer alternative visions, like the
Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) and
the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP).
Themes: love, betrayal and redemption,
pestilence and plenty all pointing towards the
recovery and rediscovery of our nation.

Awards: CCP, FAMAS, TOYM, and • “Santiago” (1970) • “Insiang” (1976),

Cannes Film Festival.
• “Wanted: Perfect Mother” (1970), • “Jaguar” (1979)
• “Tubog sa Ginto” (1971), • “Bona” (1980),
• “Stardoom” (1971), • “Macho Dancer” (1989),
• “Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang” (1974), • “Orapronobis” (1989),
• “Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag” (1975), • “Makiusap Ka sa Diyos”
(1991).

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FERNANDO AMORSOLO 1920 -- abroad: developed backlighting technique that

National Artist for Visual Arts 1990 became his trademark
first National Artist : figures, cluster of leaves, a spill of hair, the swell of
“Grand Old Man of Philippine Art” breast, are seen aglow on canvas.
Manila Hilton inaugurated its art center on
January 23, 1969, with his works
(painted on second world
war : idyllic scenes depicting the countryside.
• Maiden in a Stream(1921) - GSIS collection; El representative of one of Amorsolo’s
• Ciego (1928) Central Bank of the Philippines collection favorite themes: maidens in the water.
• Dalagang Bukid (1936) Club Filipino collection
• The Mestiza (1943) National Museum of the Philippines
collection
• Planting Rice (1946)- UCPB collection
• Sunday Morning Going to Town (1958)-Ayala Museum
Collection.

CARLOS "BOTONG" FRANCISCO e.g . City Hall of Manila ---- he turned fragments of the historic
National Artist for Painting 1973 past into vivid records of the legendary courage of the ancestors
the poet of Angono Invariably linked with the “modernist” artists :
revived the forgotten art of mural for nearly Victorio C. Edades
3 decades "The Triumvirate" Galo Ocampo
Carlos “Botong” Francisco,

by the townspeople of Angono ; the hallmark of his art

-unerring eye for composition, the lush tropical sense of
color and abiding faith in the folk values

Harana, 1957 (Bangko Sentral ng

Pilipinas Collection)

GUILLERMO TOLENTINO Appointed as professor at idea of executing a

National Artist for Sculpture 1973 the UP School of Fine Arts where: monument for national heroes
product of revival period in Philippine art struck him

- result: symbol of freedom -in Caloocan : stands as an enduring

at the campus. symbol of the Filipinos’ cry for freedom.

ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO Indigenous ukkil, sarimanok and naga motifs

National Artist for Visual Arts 2006
sculptor, painter, photographer, ceramist,
documentary filmmaker, cultural
researcher, writer, and articulator of
Philippine Muslim art and culture.
His U.P. art education :
Guillermo Tolentino and
Napoleon Abueva (mentors)
large-scale sculptures and monuments of Muslim
and regional heroes and leaders: from Batanes to
Tawi-tawi,
helped develop among cultural
groups trust and confidence
necessary for the building of a
more just and humane society.
Sarimanok Sculpture

VICENTE MANANSALA
National Artist for Painting 1981
visions of reality teetering on the
edge of abstraction
preference for Cezanne and Picasso:
balance of skill and artistry
his talent was revealed through the copies he made of the
Sagrada Familia and his mother’s portrait that he copied from a
photograph.
developed a close association with Hernando R. Ocampo, Cesar
Legaspi, and Carlos Botong Francisco --- master of the human
figure the latter being the first he admired most.

Believes that : the beauty of art is in the process, in the moment of doing
a particular painting, closely associating it with the act of making love.
“The climax is just when it’s really finished.”

Mother and Child, 1967

AMADO V. HERNANDEZ contribution to the development of Tagalog prose is considerable

National Artist for Literature than the “official” style permitted = he stripped Tagalog of its
poet, playwright, and novelist ornate character and wrote in prose closer to the colloquial
practiced: committed art

In his view: the function of the writer is to act as

the conscience of society and to affirm the Written in prison, is the first Filipino socio- political
greatness of the human spirit in the face of novel that exposes the ills of the society as evident in
inequity and oppression. the agrarian problems of the 50s.

• Bayang Malaya, Isang Dipang Langit, Luha ng Buwaya,

• Amado V. Hernandez: Tudla at Tudling: Katipunan ng mga Nalathalang Tula
1921-1970,
• Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas at Iba Pang Kuwento ni Amado V. Hernandez
• Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol at Iba Pang Akda ni Amado V. Hernandez.

CARLOS P. ROMULO
National Artist for Literature 1982
spanned 50 years of public service as an
educator, soldier, university president,
journalist, and diplomat
• The United (novel)
• I Walked with Heroes (autobiography)
• I Saw the Fall of the Philippines
• Mother America
• I See the Philippines Rise (war-time
memoirs)
the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly,
then Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later
minister of foreign affairs.
was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a
publisher at 32
First Asian to win America’s coveted Pulitzer Prize in Journalism
for a series of articles predicting the outbreak of World War II.
wrote and published 18 books

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first actress in the very first locally produced

HONORATA "ATANG" DELA RAMA
National Artist for Theater and Music 1987
Queen of Kundiman in 1979 - age of 74
singing the same song (“Nabasag na Banga”) as a
15-year old girl in the sarsuela Dalagang Bukid.
believes that sarswela and kundiman express
best the Filipino soul,
Filipino film when she essayed the same role in the
sarsuela’s film version.
At 7, she casted at Spanish zarzuelas such as
Mascota, Sueño de un Vals, and Marina.
Pangarap ni Rosa as her most rewarding and
satisfying role that she played with realism,

FRANCISCA REYES AQUINO

Artist for Dance 1973
Folk Dance Pioneer
• Philippine National Dances (1946)
• Gymnastics for Girls (1947)
• Fundamental Dance Steps and
Music(1948)
• Foreign Folk Dances (1949)
• Dances for all Occasion (1950)
• Playground Demonstration (1951)
• Philippine Folk Dances Volumes I to VI.
1920s ; began her research about folk dances in remote barrios in
Central and Northern Luzon ----- resulted into a 1926 thesis
titled “Philippine Folk Dances and Games," for teachers and
instructors
1940s; supervisor of physical education at the Bureau of Education
and adapted teaching of folk dancing as a medium for awareness
of cultural heritage.
1954; received the Republic Award of Merit : “outstanding
contribution toward the advancement of Filipino culture”,

LEVI CELERIO translated and rearranged: his scholarship at the Academy of

National Artist for Literature and
Music, 1997
prolific lyricist and composer
for decades.
“O Maliwanag Na Buwan” (Iloko) Music in Manila---- enabled to join
“Ako ay May Singsing” (Pampango) the Manila Symphony Orchestra,
“Alibangbang” (Visaya) becoming its youngest member.
Guinness Book of World Records as the only person who was able to
make music using just a leaf.
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines
by writing for local movies
Enriched 2 generations ; treasury of more than 4,000 songs

Republic Act No. 7355. The National Commission for

Culture and the Arts (NCCA),
- highest policy-making and coordinating body for
culture and the arts of the State was tasked with
the administration and implementation of the
award.

• inhabitant of an indigenous/traditional cultural

community
• engaged in a folk art tradition that has been in existence
for at least 50 years
• consistently performed or produced over a significant
period, with superior works
• a mastery of tools and materials needed by the art
• will pass on to other members of the community
their skills in the folk art

reaching excellence in playing the kwintangan, an instrument

UWANG AHADAS Musician typically played by a woman.
Yakan musical instruments Instrument: made up of logs arranged beneath a tree near a
rice field,---- calling abundant grains and rice growth.
Awarded in 2000

MAGDALENA GAMAYO Taught herself traditional patterns, such as kusikus (whirlwind),

Textile Weaver marurup (Milky Way), and sinan paddak ti pusa (cat’s
Yakan musical instruments pawprint), building on the more common inuritan (geometric
design) and sinan- sabong (flowers).
Awarded in 2012
Binakol - her woven cloth, continues to draw praise and awe for its above-
average thread count and uniform weave.

EDUARDO MUTUC
Metalsmith and Artist
Yakan musical instruments

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