NATIONAL ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES

National Artist Award (NAA) – Bestows the highest form of recognition to Filipino artists for
their significant contributions in the arts and letters.

The roster has included 66 awardees from seven disciplinal areas, namely:
(1) architecture, design and allied arts (2) film and broadcast arts (3) visual arts (4) literature
(5) dance (6) music (7) theater

Works of National artists in public spaces

Oblation – A sculptural work by the classically trained sculptor Guillermo Tolentino (awarded
1973). Depicting a male nude with arms outstretched as a gesture of sacrifice and freedom.
Genghis Khan – Told the epic adventure of a Mongolian conqueror by Manuel Conde (awarded
2009) an actor, film maker and producer worked with Carlos V. Francisco (Awarded 1973).
Tales of the Manuvu – A pop-rock opera performed at the CCP in 1985 recounting the origins of
the Manobo people by Bienvenido Lumbera national artist for literature (awarded 2006) and
Alice Reyes National artist for dance (awarded 2006)
A Portrait of the artist as Filipino (1950) – wrote by the poet, novelist, and playwright National
Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin (awarded 1976). The story revolved around a painting of the
same title, dedicated by a crippled artist to his two unmarried daughters, Candida and Paula.

SUPPORT SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND INITIATIVES ACROSS THE REGIONS

Support systems provide the environment for facilitating production and the circulation or
distribution of art. It affects the way art is produced, encountered, and valued.
Latter Support Systems – creates a public for art by initiating events and activities that are not
necessarily about money exchange.
Newer Support Systems – ensure that artworks become more accessible to the so-called art
world and the broader public.
Support Systems of Arts
1. Institutions
Educational Institutions – offer formal artistic training and grant degrees upon completion of
an academic program at the tertiary or post-graduate level.
Academe – is an extensive training ground for artists, curators, scholar-critics, and other
practitioners in the arts.
2. Organizations and collectives
Collectives and Artist organizations - Composed of individuals who share similar or related
practices. They are committed to experiment and develop their particular forms.
Organizations – emphasize their regional affiliation. Their material is configured toward
promoting the rights of “marginalized sectors and their struggle for social justice.”

3. Media – Television, radio, social media, and print media like magazines and newspapers
are platforms that disseminate artistic efforts and shape people’s attitude toward art.
4. Alternative platforms
Artist exposure and training can be enhanced beyond the art school through residences.
Artist Residences – based on a program supported by foundations, cultural organizations, or
private entities. Here the artist spends period of time in a studio or community where he/she
will develop an art project, like an exhibition or a performance.
Foundations and corporations – tend to acquire works of art to build up their corporate
collection.

Museums – traditionally based on a collection of objects to preserve heritage for the

enjoyment and education of present and future generations.
Sungdu-an – a series of cross-regional efforts that began in 1996 comprising of traveling
exhibitions, consultations, and curatorial workshops.
Galleries – provide representations for artist, exhibiting their works and transacting with
patrons or “clients” on their behalf.
Art Fairs – short-term events where several galleries exhibit and sell art in one large venue, like
park, or inside a mall or even a parking area converted into fairgrounds.
Contests and awards – encourage artists to create new work, keep pursuing their practice, and
recognize outstanding artistic achievements based on a certain criterion.
MEDIUMS AND TECHNIQUES
Classifications of Art
1.) Musical Arts – include music, poetry and dance accompanied by music.
2.) Practical arts – have immediate use for everyday and business life such as (design,
architecture, and furniture)
3.) Environmental arts – occupy space and change its meaning and function depending on
their categories including (architecture, sculpture, and site-specific works such as
installations and public art.)
4.) Pictorial works – include (painting, drawing, graphics, and stage and production design
– lighting, dress, props, and set)
5.) Narrative – include (drama, novel, fiction, nonfiction, music and dance)

Dime a Dozen - element of an exhibition (2007) qt the Lopez Museum, monitors were provided
so that visitors could interact with Rizal through an account. The idea was to make Rizal more
accessible and less intimidating with the use of electronic technology.
Secret garden 2 – by Mark Salvatus’ (2010). It is an example of a site-specific work, which refers
to works in which location or space is crucial to the artist intended meaning and experience of
the work by the audience.
Untitled mirrors – by Maria Taniguchi, she uses the traditional medium of acrylic on canvas and
the traditional modern style of abstraction.
Echo studies – it is deceptively simple; all we see up close are grids of brick that are almost
invisible from afar. It is at the same time, a painting, and a sculptural object that interacts with
the environment of the museum.
Waiting – (a “fake” real, a simulation that is not actually “real” but simulated or copied) of a
terminal waiting room. The installation combines the environmental, the dramatic and the
narrative, with viewers weaving their own stories into the space travel, caught in-between
mobility and immobility.
Anonymous Animals – consisted of a conceptual performance piece by Dumaguete based
artists who posed as excavators of strange animals they formed out of terracotta sourced from
outlying areas.
Fauna – the inspiration is in book form; anonymous animals is also exhibited virtually.