Gyle Aldrich B.

Molina Stem-D

NATIONAL ARTISTS AND THEIR ARTPIECE

Architecture:
 Leondro V. Locsin/Church of the Holy
Sacrifice - Years before the construction of the
present Church of the Holy Sacrifice was
finished in December 20, 1955, there stood an
old sawali-bamboo building on its grounds, a
chapel of U.S. Army detachment, later turned
into a stable. Fr. John Patrick Delaney, S.J.,
then already U.P. chaplain when the old
campus moved from Manila to Diliman in
1949, saw its possibilities and with the help of
volunteers, had the crumbling facility repaired and
converted into a little brown chapel. To the U.P. Diliman Catholics, it was their house of
God and place of worship.

 I.P Santos/Nayong Pilipino - Imelda handpicked Ildefonso P. Santos to design the

landscape architectural plan of the park. The concept was to represent the Philippines
“through architectural and cultural
displays, an aviary, aquarium,
fishing lagoon, and a diverse
plant collection.” It was
essentially a showcase of the
best of the Philippines all
located within one specific area.
Dance:
 Ramon Obusan/Noon po sa Amin – A detail-
accurate, well-researched vignettes of Philippine
history set to stage by Anthropologist turned
artistic director-choreographer Ramon A. Obusan
commencing from the precolonial period up to the
time the Philippines joined the United Nations.

 Lucrecia Reyes Aquino/Singkil - A folk dance of the Philippines that has its origins in
the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, a
Mindanao Muslim ethnolinguistic
group. The dance is widely recognized
today as the royal dance of a prince and
a princess weaving in and out of
crisscrossed bamboo poles clapped in
syncopated rhythm.

Film:
 Lino Brocka/Insiang - It is the first Philippine film to be shown at the Cannes Film
Festival, and to use Tondo as a shooting location. The film's
rights were transferred to the Film Development Council of the
Philippines in 2015 by producer Ruby Tiong Tan for the council's
discussion with Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, about its
restoration.
  Gerardo de Leon/Noli me Tangere - The film was released on
June 16, 1961, timed with the centenary of Rizal's birth. Noli Me
Tángere won five FAMAS Awards, including Best Picture and Best
Director. The film is now considered a classic in Philippine cinema.

Literature:
 Lazaro Francisco/Binhi at Bunga - Published in Liwayway in 1925 and won 3rd price
in the 1st Liwayway Novel writing contest in 1926.
Adapted for the stage by the "Samahang Sarsuela Gabrie,"
of Manila. Published in book form in 1927.

 Bienvenido Lumbera/Noli me Tangere: The Musical – A

Filipino musical based on José
Rizal's novel of the same
name, with music by Ryan
Cayabyab and libretto by
Bienvenido Lumbera.
Directed by Nonon Padilla,
the musical premiered in
1995 at the Cultural Center
of the Philippines (CCP) in
Manila.

Music:
 Antonio J. Molina/Malikmata - Compositions like
MALIKMATA have "some passages with very impressionistic
chords similar to Debussy with an exotic flavor" mixed with
Antonio’s own brand of romanticism.
  Felipe Padilla de Leon/Noli me Tangere: Opera -- The opera
was closely based on a novel by José Rizal by the same name.
The opera was sung entirely in Tagalog and is considered as the
first full-length Filipino opera.

Theater:
 Daisy Avellana/A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino -
Known also as "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino: An
Elegy in Three Scenes" is a literary play written in
English by Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick
Joaquin in 1950. It was described as Joaquin's “most
popular play," as the "most important Filipino play in
English," and as “probably the best-known Filipino
play.”

 Rolando S. Tinio/Ang Larawan - Ang Larawan,

internationally released as The Portrait, is a 2017 Philippine
musical film directed by Loy Arcenas. Based on the 1997 stage
play, Larawan which in turn was based on the 1950 literary play A
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino by National Artist Nick Joaquin,
the film takes place in 1941 just before World War II in a mansion
in Manila.
Visual Arts:
 Fernando C. Amorsolo/Planting Rice - It
reflects the arrival of the Americans in the
Philippines and the idealism of the artist to
the Philippine society. The painting reflected
the people's desire to escape from a
complicated reality into simplicity

 Guillermo E. Tolentino/Bonifacio
Monument - Andrés Bonifacio Monument,
commonly known simply as Bonifacio Monument or
Monumento, is a memorial monument in Caloocan,
Philippines which was designed by National Artist
Guillermo Tolentino to commemorate the Philippine
revolutionary Andrés Bonifacio, the founder and Supremo
of the Katipunan, who fought for independence from the
politically and socially ruthless colonial rule by Spain.