THE NATIONAL ARTISTS AWARD

 Guillermo Tolentino – UP Oblation

The Order of the National Artists Awards (Orden ng

Gawad Pambangsang Alagad ng Sining) is the
highest national recognition given to Filipino
individuals who have made significant contributions
to the development of Philippine arts; namely,
1. Music,
2. Dance,
 Francisco Mañosa – EDSA Shrine
3. Theater,
4. Visual Arts,
5. Literature,
6. Film and Broadcast Arts,
7. Architecture and Allied Arts.

 It was established under Proclamation No. 1001

 Leandro Locsin – Monastery of the dated April 27, 1972.
Transfiguration in Bukidnon  The award is conferred every three (3) years
through a rigorous deliberation and selection
process.

The order is jointly administered by the National

Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and
conferred by the President of the Philippines upon
recommendation by both institutions.
These achievements are measured in terms of
 “Sa Ugoy ng Duyan”
their;
1. vision,
2. unusual insight,
3. creativity and imagination,
4. technical proficiency of the highest order in
expressing Filipino culture and traditions,
history, way of life, and aspirations.

“When I came back from Spain I did nothing but

paint out in the open, studying the light. Maski sa
Espana kung nagpipinta ako, diyan ako nagpipinta
sa liwanag na liwanag. Wala akong ginawa kundi
mag-observe”
 HIMALA – Ishmael Bernal
Fernando Amorsolo
National Artist For Visual Arts
(May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972)

The first award was conferred posthumously

later that year on Fernando Amorsolo.
HONORS AND PRIVILEGES
 The rank and title of National Artist, as
proclaimed by the president of the
Philippines;
 The National Artist gold-plated medallion
minted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
(BSP) and citation;
 Lifetime emolument and material and
physical benefits comparable in value to
those received by the highest officers of the
land such as:
a. A minimum cash award Two Hundred
Thousand Pesos (P200,000.00), net of
taxes for living awardees and a
minimum cash award of One Hundred
Fifty Thousand Pesos (P150,000.00),
NET OF taxes for posthumous
awardees, payable to legal heir/s;
b. A minimum lifetime personal monthly
stipend Thirty Thousand Pesos
(P30,000.00). The above-mentioned
privileges shall be given effective
January 1, 2013.
c. Life insurance coverage for Awardees
who are still insurable;
d. A State Funeral benefit not exceeding
P500,000.00.
 A place of honor, in line with protocular
precedence, in state functions, national
commemoration ceremonies and all other
cultural presentations.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE
 The National Artist Award Secretariat shall
announce the opening of nomination
through media releases and letters to
qualified organizations.
 Candidates may be nominated under one or
more of the following categories:
a. Dance - choreography, direction, and/or
performance.
b. Music – composition, direction, and/or
performance.
c. Theater – direction, performance and/or
production design.
d. Visual Arts – painting, sculpture,
printmaking, photography, installation
art, mixed media works, illustration,
graphic arts, performance art and/or
imaging.
e. Literature – poetry, fiction, essay,
playwriting, journalism and/or literary
criticism.
f. Film and Broadcast Arts – direction,
writing, production design,
cinematography, editing, camera work,
and/or performance.
g. Architecture, Design and Allied Arts –
architecture design, interior design,
industrial arts design, landscape
architecture and fashion design.
2018 National Artists
Ramon Muzones for literature/ Kidlat Tahimik for
film/ Amella Lapena Bonifacion for theatre/
Francisco Mañosa for architecture/ Resil Mojares
for literature/ Larry Alcala for visual arts/ Ryan
Cayabyab for music
PARANGAL SA MGA PAMBANSANG ALAGAD
NG SINING 2022
Tribute to the 2022 National Artists
 Agnes Locsin – Dance
 Salvacion Lim-Higgins – Design
 Marilou Diaz-Abaya – Film and Broadcast
Arts
 Ricardo “Ricky” Lee - Film and Broadcast
Arts
 Nora Cabaltera Villamayor aka Nora Aunor
– Film and Broadcast Arts
 Gemino Abad - Literature
 Fides Cuyugan-Asensio – Music
 Antonio “Tony” Mabesa - Theater
National Artist Award Controversies
(Name insertion omitted by the President)
 1982: Ferdinand Marcos – Carlos P.
Romulo (for literature)
 1997: Fidel V. Ramos created a new  “Anito” by Arturo Luz (1980) at the
category-historical literature – Carlos Batasang Pambansa Complex.
Quirino
 1999: Joseph Estrada – Ernani Cuenco for
Music
 2003: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo named
writer Alejandro Roces a National Artist for
Literature
 2006: Arroyo conferred the award on the
73 National Artist Awardees
late Senator Francisco “Soc” Rodrigo (for
 Music – 14
writing poetry and translating plays) and
 Dance – 5
sculptor and painter Abdulmari Asia Imao as
 Theater – 8
a form of “political accommodation.”
 Architecture, Design, and Allied Arts – 7
 2009: Arroyo named as National Artists
 Literature – 16
filmmaker Carlo Magno Jose Caparas,
 Visual Arts – 18
theatre stalwart Cecile Guidote-Alvarez,
 Cinema/Film – 8
architect Francisco “Bobby” Mañosa, and
fashion designer Jose “Pitoy” Moreno – all
MUSIC
not part of the shortlist given by the NCCA-
CCP.
ANTONIO MOLINA
26 December 1894 – 29 January 1980
 Monastery of the Transfiguration in
Bukidnon by Leandro Locsin (1990).

 National Artist for Music in 1973

 “COA Monumnt” by Napoleon Abueva
(1977), a masterpiece outside the
Commission on Audit in Quezon City.
 “Inang Bayan” by Vicente Manansala (1975)
at Philippine Heart Center.
 Composer, Conductor, Musical Director
 He was also known as the Claude Debussy
of the Philippines due to this use of
impressionism in music.
 He founded the CEU String Quartet.
 As a member of the faculty of the UP
Conservatory, he had taught many of the
country’s leading musical personalities and
educators like Lucresla Kasilag and Felipe
de Leon.
Contributions:
 Hatinggabi: a serenade for solo violin and
piano accompaniment.
 Anna Maria: a special sarzuela
presentation.
 JOVITA FUENTES
February 15, 1895 – August 7, 1978
 National Artist in Music in 1976.
 Philippines’ first female national artist
 One of the greatest Filipino vocal talents,
Fuentes was also the first Filipino
international star in the world of opera.
Contributions:
 In April 1925, Fuentes made her
international debut as Cio Cio San in
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, stage in Italy’s
Teatro Municipale di Piancenza.
 She founded various music associations
such as Asociacion Musical de Filipinas, the
Bach Society of the Philippines, and the
Artists’ Guild of the Philippines.
HORATA “ ATANG” DELA RAMA
11 January 1902 – 11 July 1911
 National Artist Award for Theater and Music
in 1987
 She was formally honored as the Queen of
Kundiman ad Queen of Sarsuwela.
 Atang firmly believes that the sarsuwela and
the kundiman expresses best the Filipino
soul.
Contributions:
 Sarsuelas like “Dalagang Bukid” – which
became the first full-length Tagalog Film.
 She was a Bodabil performer, an
indigenized form of vaudeville which
featured a hodgepodge of musical numbers,
short-form comedy, and dramatized skits
(even magical acts.)
ANTONIO BUENAVENTURA
May 14 1904 – January 25, 1996
 National Artist Award for Music in 1988
 Filipino composer, conductor, and teacher.
 Music Director of the UST Conservatory of
Music in 1961 and UE School Music of Arts
in 1964.
 Buenaventura’s music was influenced by
different ethnic Philippine folksongs.
Contributions:
 Around 1930, he composed the music of
Pandanggo sa Ilaw which is now commonly
used as accompaniment of the said folk
dance.
 He led the Philippine Constabulary band
and then later the Philippine Army band
which earned him the award of merit for
outstanding contribution to Philippine music
from the Philippine Army in 1976.
LUKRESIA R. KASILAG
August 31, 1918 – August 16, 2008
 National Artist Award for Music in 1989
 Known as “Tita King” and was a member of
“Kasilag Rondalla”
 She was known for incorporating indigenous
Filipino music with Western influences;
Filipino Instruments into orchestral
production.
Contributions:
 Wrote more than 200 compositions, folk
songs, opera and orchestral works.
 She founded the Bayanihan Folk Arts
Center for research and theatrical
presentatins.
 LUCIO SAN PEDRO
February 11, 1913 – March 31, 2002
 National Artist Award for Music in 1991
 A great musician, conductor, and teacher,
and is known as a “romantic nationalist”
 He is known for the glorification of the
Filipino soul in his compositions.
 San Pedro created different types of
musical compositions such as symphonic
music, band, vocal, choral, music-theater,
chamber, movie music.
 He incorporated Philippine folk elements in
his compositions with Western forms and
harmony.
Contributions:
 His famous works include “Uggoy ng Duyan
(1943)”, “Lahing kayumanggi, 1916
(nationalistic symphonic Poem)”, “Simbang
Gabi” and “Sa mahal kong bayan”.
FELIPE DE LEON
May 1, 1912 – December 5, 1992
 National Artist Award for Music in 1997
 He was a composer and conductor of
classical music, and wrote music for the
sarswela.
 Musical Compositions: sonatas, marches,
and concertos.
 Known as a nationalist composer, he sought
to express the Philippines’ cultural identity
through his compositions
Contributions:
 Composed popular Christmas carol “Pasko
Na Naman”, and “Noli Me Tangere” and “El
Filibusterismo”
LEVI CELERIO
April 30, 1910 – April 2, 2002
 National Artist Award for Music and
Literature in 1997
 He is also known for using the leaf as a
musical instrument which led to being
recognized as the “only man who could play
music using a leaf” by the Guinness Book of
Records.
Contributions:
 He wrote more than 4,000 Filipino songs.
 He composed OPM song like “Ikaw”, “Kahit
Konting Pagtingin”, “Saan Ka Man
Naroroon?”, and wrote the lyrics of the
famous Filipino lullaby “Sa Ugoy ng Duyan”.
 He also composed folk songs including
“Ang Pipit”, “Itik-Itik”, and “Waray-waray”
and the famous Christmas carol “Ang Pasko
ay Sumapit”
JOSE M. MACEDA
January 31, 1917 – May 5, 2004
 National Artist Award for Music in 1997
 He is a composer, musicologist, teacher,
performer, pianist, anthropologist and
ethnomusicologist.
 Founded the UP Center for
Ethnomusicologist.
 He wrote papers that enlightened scholar,
both Filipino and foreign, about the nature of
Philippine traditional and ethnic music.
 Maceda Archives received a recognition
from the UNESCO Memory of the World.
Contributions:
 His works include “Pagsamba (1968)”,
“Ugma-ugma (1963)”, “Pagsamba (1968)”,
“Udlot-udlot (1975)”
 ARDREA O. VENERACION FRANCISCO FELICIANO
July 11, 1928 – July 9, 2013 February 19, 1941 – September 19, 2014

 National Artist Award for Music in 1999

 National Artist Award for Music in 2014
 A lyric soprano soloist, accomplished pianist
 Avant Garde composer and conductor for
and accompanist.
band and chorus.
 She is recognized as an authority on choral,
 He founded the Asian Institute for Liturgy
music and performance and has served as
and Music in Quezon City for church
adjudicator in international music
musicians.
competitions.
Contributions:
Contributions:
 He composed hundreds of liturgical pieces,
 Two of her indispensable contributions in
mass settings, hymns, and songs for
culture and arts include the founding of the
worship.
Philippine Madrigal Singers and the
 He was the musical director of the movie
spearheading of the development of the
“Ang Bukas ay Atin” which directed by
Philippine choral music.
Lamberto Avellana.
 She is the founder and first conductor of the
Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music (AILM)
RAMON P. SANTOS
Chorale.
February 25, 1941

ERNANI J. CUENCO
May 10, 1936 – June 11, 1988

 National Artist Awards for Music in 2014

 National Artist Award for Music in 1999
 Composer, film, scorer, musical director and
music teacher
 Pres. Joseph Estrada discovered him and
asked to do the musical scorings of his
movies.
 His works embody a Filipino sense of
musicality that contain the classical sound
of the Kundiman
Contributions:
 His popular and well-loved compositions
are “Gaano Kita Kamahal” and “Bato sa
Buhangin”
 He collaborated with Levi Celerio for the
song “Gaano Kita Kamahal” in the same
movie title.
 A composer, conductor and musicologist,
and currently the country’s foremost
exponent of contemporary Filipino music.
 Contributed greatly to the quest for new
directions in music, taking as basis of non-
Western traditions in the Philippines and
Southeast Asia.
Contributions:
 His works include Ding Ding Nga Diyawa,
Nabasag na Banga
 Has done extensive research on the
gamelan music of Java
 RYAN CAYABYAB
May 4, 1954
 National Artist Award for Music in 2018
 Conductor, composer, arranger, pianist,
singer who is also known as Mr. C
 His works range from commissioned full-
length ballets, theater musicals, choral
pieces, a Mass set to unaccompanied
chorus, and orchestral pieces to commercial
recordings of popular music, film scores and
television specials.
Contributions:
 Composed “We Win as One”, sang by Lea
Salonga
 Rama-Hari; Smokey Mountain; One
Christmas; Larawan: The Musical; Da
Coconut Nut; Kay Ganda Ng Ating Musika;
Kailan; Tuwing Umuulan at Kapiling Ka.
DANCE
FRANCISCA REYES AQUINO
March 9, 1899 – November 21, 1983
 National Artist Award for Dance in 1973
 First National Artist for Dance
 She is acknowledged as the Folk Dance
Pioneer.
 She is the “Mother of Philippine Folk Dance”
and organized the Philippine Folk Dance
Society.
Contributions:
 In her researches, Aquino was able to
gather about 50 basic steps and 200 folk
dances.
 Country’s famous folk dances such as the
Pandanggo sa Ilaw, Tinikling, Cariñosa and
Singkil, all which Reyes-Aquino
documented in her time.
LEONOR OROSA GOQUINGCO
July 34, 1917 – July 15, 2005
 National Artist Award for Dance in 1976
 She was dubbed the “Trailblazer”, “Mother
of Philippine Theater Dance” and “Dean of
Filipino Performing Arts Critics”
 After World War 2, she organized the
Philippine Ballet, where she brought to life
Noli Me Tangere onstage.
Contributions:
 In 1958 she founded the Filipinesca Dance
Company
 Her works include “Vintal, Morolandia”
(choreographed in 1938); Festival in
Maguindanao (depicting a Muslim royal
wedding)
LUCRECIA REYES URTULA
June 29, 1929 – August 4, 1999
 National Artist Award for Dance in 1988
 A choreographer, dance educator and
researcher, who spent almost four decades
in the discovery and study of Philippine folk
and ethnic dances.
 She became part of the Bayanihan
Philippine Dance Company and was also its
choreographer and dance director
Contributions:
 She published books such as Philippine
National Dances; Fundamental Dance
Steps and Music; Philippine Folk Dance
 RAMON OBUSAN
June 16, 1983 – December 21, 2006
 National Artist Award for Dance in 2006
 He was a dancer, choreographer, stage
designer and artistic director who achieved
phenomenal success in Philippine dance
and cultural work.
 He was also acknowledged as a researcher,
archivist and documentary filmmaker who
broadened and deepened the Filipino
understanding of his own cultural life and
expression.
Contributions:
 Obusan founded the Ramon Obusan
Folkloric Group (ROFG)
 His famous works include “Vamos a Belen!
Series” and “Obra Maestra”
ALICE REYES
October 14, 1942
 National Artist Award for Dance in 2014
 She is a multi-talented dancer,
choreographer, artistic director, and founder
of Ballet Philippines.
 The “Mother of Philippine Modern Dance”
Contributions:
 Her biggest contribution to Philippine dance
is the development of a distinctly Filipino
modern idiom.
 Tales of the Manuvu and Rama Hari, which
she worked on with Ryan Cayabyab.
THEATER
LAMBERTO VERA AVELLANA
February 12, 1915 – April 25, 1991
 National Artist Award for Theater and Film
in 1976
 He was a prominent Filipino film director
and stage actor and director and was called
“The Boy Wonder of Philippine Movies” as
early as 1939.
 His reputation has been eclipsed by the
next wave of directors like Brocka and
Bernal.
Contributions:
 He was the first to use the motion picture
camera to establish a point-of-view, a move
that revolutionized the techniques of film
narration.
 His films, Ana Dalita and Badjao attained
internatinal acclaim.
HONORATA “ATANG” DELA RAMA
11 January 1902 – 11 July 1911
 National Artist Award for Theater and Music
in 1987
 She was formally honored as the Queen of
Kundiman and Queen of Sarswela.
Contributions:
 Atang de la Rama’s vocal and acting talents
are responsible for much success of
Original Filipino Sarsuelas like “Dalangang
Bukid” – which became the first full-length
Tagalog Film.
 She was a Bodabil performer, an
indigenized form of vaudeville which
featured a hodgepodge of musical numbers,
 short-form comedy, and dramatic skits DAISY H. AVELLANA
(even magical acts). January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013

WILFRIDO MARIA GUERRERO

January 22, 1911 – April 28, 1995

 National Artist Award for Theater in 1999

 National Artist Award for Theater in 1997
 He was a Filipino playwright, director,
teacher and theater artist.
 He is the first Filipino to have a theater
named after him within his lifetime: The
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater of the
University of the Philippines.
Contributions:
 Founder and artistic director of the UP
mobile
 Pioneered the concept of theater campus
tour.
 He wrote well over 100 plays, 41 of which
have been published.
 She was an actor, director and writer, and
known as the First Lady of the Philippine
Theater.
 Elevated legitimate theater and dramatic
asrts to a newlevel of excellence by staging
and performing.
Contributions:
 Her famous works are “A portrait of the
Artist as Filipino”, “Sakay”.
SEVERINO MONTANO
January 3, 1915 – December 2, 1980

 National Artist Award for Theater in 2001

RONALDO S. TINIO
 He was a playwright, director, actor, and
March 5, 1937 – July 7, 1997
theater organizer with an output of one
novel, 150 poems and 50 plays, and was
considered as one of the Titans of
Philippine Theater.
 He was the fourerunner in institutionaliting
“legitimate theater” in the Philippines, and
organized the Arena Theater to bring drama
 National Artist Award for Theater and
to the masses.
Literature in 1997
Contributions:
 He was playwright, thespian, poet, teacher,
 He was also established the Arena Theater
critic translator and stage director; revived
Playwrighting Contest and trained Rnaldo S.
the traditional Filipino drama in Teatro
Tinio.
Pilipino.
 His works include “Sabina”, “Parting at
 He was known for translating Western
Calamba”.
classics, which includes the works of
Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov,
SALVADOR F. BERNAL
Pucchi and Verdi, into Tagalog.
January 7, 1945 – October 26, 2011
Contributions:
 His works include “Larawan – The Musical”,
“Makbet”, “Rama-Har” and movies like
“Sidhi”, “Ang Larawan”, etc.
  National Artist Award for Theater Design in
2003
 “Father of Philippine Stage Design”
 To promote and professionalize theater
design, he organized the PATDAT
(Philippine Association of Theater Design
and Technicians) bin 1995
Contributions:
 He had over 300 production in art, film and
music and was known for using indigenous
and locally availabale materials for his
stages designs, such as bamboo, abaca
frabric, twice-raw hemp, and rattan chain
links
 His famous works include “Sa Bunganga ng
Pating”. “Lapu-Lapu”
AMELIA LAPENA BONFACIO
April 4, 1930
 National Artist Award for Theater in 2018
 She is a Filipino playwright, puppeteer, and
educator known as the “Grande Dame of
Southeast Asian Children’s Theater.”
 Tita Amel started Teatrong Mulat, writing
and producing puppet plays because she
wanted to base the story and the material
on Asian and Filipino tales.
 Teatrong Mulat has placed the Philippines
on the artistic map of the world theater.
Contributions:
 His literary output consists of 20 books, 40
plays, 130 stories, including the famous
“Papet Pasyon” and “Sita and Rama”
FILM AND BROADCAST ARTS
LAMBERTO VERA AVELLANA
February 12, 1915 – April 25, 1991
 National Artist Award for Theater and Film
in 1976
 He was a prominent Filipino film director
and stage actor and director and was called
“The Boy Wonder of Philippine Movies” as
early as 1939
 His reputaton has been eclipsed by the next
wave of directors like Brocka and Bernal
Contributions:
 He was the first to use the motion picture
camera to establish a point-of-view, a move
that revolutionized the techniques of film
narration.
 His films, Anak Dalita and Badjao attained
international acclaim.
GERARDO DE LEON
12 September 1913 – 25 July 1981
 National Artist Award for Cinema or Film in
1982
 He was a Filipino actor-turned-film director.
 He was a medical doctor by profession, but
his ultimate love for film won him over. He
made acting debut in the 1934 film Ang
Dangal nad acted in eight other films before
becoming a director.
Contributions:
 He was nicknamed “Manong”, and became
the most awarded film director in the history
of the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and
Sciences’ (FAMAS) Awards.
 Noli Me Tangere and Filibusterismo are two
of his famous films.
LINO BROCKA
April 3, 1939 – May 22, 1991
 Natinal Artist Award for Cinema or Film in
1997
  He was a radical filmmaker whose socially
conscious films explored the plight of the
marginalized and igroned sectors of Filipno
society.
 In 1983, he founde the organization
Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP).
Contributions:
 He directed landmark films such as
Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (1974),
Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1975),
Insiang (1976), Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim
(1984), and Orapronobis (1989)
 Brocka served as a jury member of the 39th
Cannes Film Festival.
ISHMAEL BERNAL
September 30, 1939 – June 2, 1996
 National Artist Award fot Cinema or Film in
2001
 He was a Filipino film, stage and television
director, actor and screenwriter and was
noted for his melodrams, particularly with
feminist and moral issues.
Contributions:
 Among his notable films are “Pahiram ng
Isang Umaga” (1989), “Broken Marriage”
(1983), “Himala” (1982), “City After Dark”
(1980), and “Nunal sa Tubig” (1976).
 Bernal considered himself a feminist
director and admitted that it was part of his
interest to tackle issues affecting women
(Relasyon, Hinugot sa langit and Working
Girls).
EDDIE S. ROMEO
July 24, 1929 – May 28, 2013
 National Artist Award for Cinema and
Broadcasting in 2003
 He ws in influential Filipino film director, film
producer and screenwriter, considered one
of the finest in the cinema of the Philippines.
Contributions:
 His body of work delved into the history and
politics of the Philippines depicted in his
1976 film Ganito Kami Noon…Paano Kayo
Ngayon?
 His 13-part series Noli Me Tangere brought
Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s novel
to a new generation of viewers.
FERNANDO POE JR.
August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004
 National Artist Award for Cinema in 2006
 His long career as an action film star earned
him the nickname “King of Philippine
Movies” (often shortened to Da King).
 His movie role as the “Pinoy Robin Hood”
and ‘People’s Champion’ in most of his films
have repeatedly been cliched by Filipino
action films for years to come.
Contributions:
 He inspired a generation of television and
movie impersonators, both serious and
comedic.
 He had total of 257 movies.
MANUEL CONDE
October 9, 1915 – August 11, 1985
 Ntional Artist Award for Cinema in 2009
 He was a Filipino actor, director and
producer, and directed about 40 films.
 He used the screen name Juan Urbano
during the 1930s aside from his more
popular screen name.
Contributions:
 “Genghis Khan” was the first Filipino film to
be acclaimed at an international film festival
in Venice in 1952, and his “Juan Tamad
Goes To Congress” is considered the best
Filipino satire ever filmed.
 He is better known as Mr. Shooli in a
television comedy series Mongolian
Barbecue.
KIDLAT TAHIMIK
October 3, 1942
 National Artist Award for Cinema in 2018
 Erioc de Guia is a film director, writer and
actor whose films are commonly associated
with the Third Cinema movement through
their critiques of neocolonialism.
 He is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and
critics as the “Father of Philippine
Independent Cinema”.
Contributions:
 In recent years, Tahimik has become a
nopted installation artist with his works
exhibited in various public spaces in the
Philippines.
 His most acclaimed work is “Perfumed
Night”.
ARCHITECTURE
JUAN NAKPIL
May 26, 1899 – May 7,1986
 National Artist Award for Architecture in
1973
 He was an architect, teacher, civic leader,
civil engineer, was a pioneer and innovator
in Philippine Architecture.
 He was regarded as the Dean of Filipino
Architects.
Contributions:
 He has intergrated strenght, function, and
beauty in the buildings that are the country’s
heritage today.
 Major works include “Quiapo Church”, “UP
Quezon Hall”, and theaters like “Avenue,
Rizal and Capitol”.
PABLO S. ANTONIO
January 25, 1902 – June 14, 1975
 National Artist Award for Architecture in
1976.
 He pioneered modern Philippine
Architecture.
 His design is based on simplicity and clean
structural design, “Function over Elegance”
Conrtributions:
 His design focuses on the maximum use of
natural light and cross ventilation.
 His major wokrs are: Far Eastern University;
Manila Polo Club; Ideal theater; lyric
theater; Galaxy theater
LEANDRO V. LOCSIN
August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994
 National Artist Award for Architecture in
1990
 He was a Filipino architecture, artist, and
interior designer
 His arhitecture was known for his use of
concrete, floating volume and simplistic
design in his various projects.
Contributions:
 His major works are: Largest single work:
Istana Nurul Iman, CCP Complex Cultural
Center of the Philippines Folk Arts Theater.
 ILDEFONSO P. SANTOS  National Artist Award for Architecture in
September 5, 1929 – January 29, 2014 2014
 He studied at International Institute of
Liturgical Art (IILA) in Rome in 1950,
wherehe received a diploma of in liturgical
art and architecture.
Contributions:
 National Artist Award for Architecture in
 His innovation includes a whopping 45
2006
churches and religious centers
 He was the “Father of Philippine Landscape
 The famous “Santo Domingo Church”, “Our
Architecture”.
Lady of Rosary in Tala, Quezon”, “Don
 He pioneered the practice of landscape
Bosco Church, the Covent of the Pink
architecture that has enchanced
Sister”, are among his architectures.
contemporary Filipino life by introducing a
new concept of outdoor shopping with
FRANCISCO MAÑOSA
landscaped walks, fountains and sculptures
February 12,1931 – February 20, 2019
as accents.
Contibutions:
 Among his notable works are CCP complex;
Bantayog ng mga Bayani; Manila Hotel;
San Miguel Corporation Building

RAMON O. VALERA  National Artist Award for Architecture in

August 31, 1912 – May 25, 1972 2018

 He was on of the most influential Filipino
architects of the 20th century, for pioneering
the art of Philippine neo-vernacular
architecture.

 National Artist Award for Fashion Design in  “Father of Philippine Neo-vernacular

2006 Architecture”

 Valera isknown to the public as the “High Contributions:

priest of local fashion” and wering garments  “Bobby” Mañoso was known for some of

of his creation would be considered as an today’s iconic landmarks and immortalizing

honor. Bahay Kubo – insipired architectural style

Contributions: and aesthetics in modern architecture.

 He was the man behind the transformations  His works include “EDSA Shrine”; “Coconut

of the traditional four-piece terno into a Palace”; “SanMiguel Corporation”.

single piece with bell sleeves and back

zipper- and the same man who defied LITERATURE

traditionalists (and the old-fashioned) for

doing so. AMADO V. HERNANDEZ
September 13, 1903 – March 24, 1970

JOSE MARIA ZARAGOZA

December 9, 1912 – November 26, 1994

 National Artist Award for Literature in 1973

  Filipino writer, labor leader, freedom fighter
who was known for his criticism of social
injustice in the Philippines
Contibutions:
 He sponsored ordinances aimed at
promoting worker’s rights and freedom.
 Some of his literary works are “Bayang
Malaya”, “Isang Dipang Langit” and “Luha
ng Buwaya”
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997
 National Artist Award for Literature in 1973
 He sis post, writer, critic and was part of the
first generation Filipino English writers.
 He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as
penname, also known for the tartness of his
tongue.
Contributions:
 Villa introduced the reversed consonance
rhyme scheme, including the comma poems
that made full use of the punctuation mark
in an innovative poetic way.
 “Footnote to the youth” is one of his major
literary works.
NICK JOAQUIN
May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004
 National Artist Award for Literature on 1973
 Filipino novelist, poet, playwright, essayist,
and biographer whose works present the
diverse heritage of the Filipino people.
 He was a contributing editor and essayist
under the nom de plum “Quijano de Manila”
(“Manila Old-Timer”).
Contributions:
 He was well known as a historian of the
brief Golden Age of Spain in the Philippines.
 Two of his major literary works are “The
Woman Who Had Two Navels” and “A
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino”
CARLOS P. ROMULO
January 14, 1899 – December 15, 1985
 National Artist Award for Literature in 1982
 He was multifaceted career spanned 50
years of public service as an educator,
soldier, university president, journalist, and
diplomat.
 He was the first Asian president of the
United Nations General Assembly.
Contributions:
 He was the only Asian to win America’s
coveted Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for a
series of articles predicting the outbreak of
World War ll. Romulo in all, wrote and
published 18 books.
 “I walked with Heroes” was one of his major
literary works.
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002
 National Artist Award for Literature in 1990
 He was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist,
critic, journalist and teacher.
 He pioneered the development of the short
story as a lyrical prose-poetic form.
Contributions:
 For him, the pride of fiction is “that it is able
to render truth, that is bale to present
reality”.
  Among his works are “Frankie”, “The Man
Who Would Be Poe” and “Death in a
Factory”
NESTOR VICENTE MADALI GONZALES
September 6, 1915 – November 28, 1999
 National Artist Award for Literature in 1997
 He was one of the most prolific Filipino
authors of literature written in English.
 He was an essayist, poet, fictionist, and
professor and one of the most widely
recognized, anthologized and closely
studied among Filipino writers.
Contributions:
 Among his literary works are “The Novel
Justice: Selected Essays 1968 – 1994” and
“A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories”
CARLOS QUIRION
January 14, 1910 – May 20, 1999
 National Artist Award for Historical
Literature in 1997
 He was biographer, has the distinction of
having written one of the biographies of
Jose Rizal titled The Great Malayan.
 He became the very first Filipino
correspondent for United Press Institute.
Contributions:
 First penned for the 1938 Commonwealth
Biography contest, Carlos Quirino’s The
Great Malayan is sweeping and majestic life
story of the Philippine national patriot, Jose
Rizal.
RONALDO S. TINIO
January 14, 1910 – May 20, 1999
 National Artist Award for Theater and
Literature in 1997
 He was playwright, thespian, poet, teacher,
critic translator and stage director; revived
the traditional Filipino drama in Teatro
Pilipino.
 He was known for translating Western
classics, which includes the works of
Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov,
Pucchi and Verdi, into Tagalog.
Contributions:
 His works include “Larawan – The Musical”,
“Makbet”, “Rama-Har” and movies like
“Sidhi”, “Ang Larawan”, etc.
LEVI CELERIO
April 30, 1910 – April 2, 2002
 National Artist Award for Music and
Literature in 1997
 He is also known for using the leaf as a
musical instrument which led to being
recognized as the “only man who could play
music using a leaf” by the Guinness Book of
Records.
Contributions:
 He wrote more than 4,000 Filipino songs.
 He composed OPM song like “Ikaw”, “Kahit
Konting Pagtingin”, “Saan Ka Man
Naroroon?”, and wrote the lyrics of the
famous Filipino lullaby “Sa Ugoy ng Duyan”.
 He also composed folk songs including
“Ang Pipit”, “Itik-Itik”, and “Waray-waray”
and the famous Christmas carol “Ang Pasko
ay Sumapit”
 EDITH TIEMPO
April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011
Contributions:
 National Artist Award for Literature in 1999
 She is a poet, fictionist, teacher and literary
critic.
 She founded and directed the Silliman
National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete
City, which has produced some of the
country’s best writers.
Contributions:
 Her works include (Novels) “A Blade of
Fern”, “The Native Coast”, and “The Alien
Corn”
F. SIONIL JOSE
December 3, 1924
Contributions:
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2001
 One of the most widely read Filipino writers
in the English language.
 His novels and short stories depict the
social underpinnings of class struggles and
colonialism in Filipino society.
Contributions:
 José's works have been translated into 28
languages, including Korean, Indonesian,
Czech, Russian, Latvían, Ukrainian and
Dutch
 His notable works include the "Rosales
Saga" novels.
VIRGILIO ALMARIO
March 9, 1944
Contributions:
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2003
 Known as Rio Alma, he is a Filipino artist,
poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and
cultural manager.
 He currently serves as the chairman of the
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF).
 Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina (1972),
now considered the first book of literary,
criticism in Filipino is one of his greatest
contributions.
ALEJANDRO ROCES
June 13, 1924 – May 23, 2018
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2003
 He was a Filipino author, essayist and
dramatist
 As the champion of Filipino culture, Roces
brought to public attention the aesthetics of
the country's fiestas.
 He recovered Jose Rizal's manuscripts
when they were stolen from the National
Archives
 Considered as the country's best writer of
comic short stories. He is known for his
widely anthologized "My Brother's Peculiar
Chicken"
DR. BIENVENIDO LUMBERA
April 11, 1932
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2006
 He was a Filipino poet, critic and dramatist.
 He pioneered the creative fusion of fine arts
and popular imagination.
 Written and edited numerous books on
literary history, literary criticism, and film.
  He has collaborated with various National
artists in "Tales of the Manuvu" and "Rama
Hari"
LAZARO FRANCISCO
February 22, 1898 - June 17, 1980
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2009
 "Foremost Filipino novelist of his
generation"
 A Filipino novelist, essayist and playwright,
and he established the Kapatiran ng mga
Alagad ng Wikang Pilipino
Contributions:
 His reputation as the "Master of the Tagalog
Novel" is backed up by numerous awards
received for his meritorious novels and for
his contribution to Philippine literature and
culture in general.
CIRILO F. BAUTISTA
July 9, 1941- May 6, 2018
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2014
 He is a poet, fictionist and essayist.
 He was instrumental in the formation of the
Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Center.
 He was also the founder of the Philippine
Literary Arts Council in 1981, the Iligan
National Writers Workshop in 1993, and the
Baguio Writers Group.
Contributions:
 His works include "Sunlight on Broken
Stones" that received numerous awards.
RAMON MUZONES
March 20, 1913 - August 17, 1992
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2018
 A Hiligaynon poet and a lawyer by
profession, and he authored an
unprecedented 61 completed novels.
 He enriched Hiligaynon literature as it's
highest, and played a great role in refining
Hiligaynon literature with his wide variety of
novels, from comedy to satire and even
feminist.
Contributions:
 His most famous work was the 1946 novel
Margosatubig, the first-ever llonggo
bestseller, which re-wrote the history of
West Visayan fiction.
RESIL MOJARES
September 4, 1933
 National Artist Award for Literature in 2018
 A MULTI-AWARDED Cebuano writer and
the first-ever Cebuano to become a National
Artist.
Contributions:
 He is acknowledged as a leading figure in
the promotion of regional literature and
history.
 Two of his famous works are "House of
Memory" and "Waiting for Mariang
Makiling".
VISUAL ARTS
FERNANDO AMORSOLO
May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1972
 "Grand Old Man of the Philippine Art"
 Lighting is the most prominent element of
Amorsolo's painting. His trademark was the
 backlighting technique which makes the
subjects of his painting seems to glow. The
technique he used is called Chiaroscuro.
 His work of art were also notable for
reflecting the artistic and cultural heritage of
the Philippines.
Contributions:
 Among his famous artworks are
"Bayanihan" and "Dalagang Bukid"
CARLOS V. FRANCISCO
November 4, 1912 - March 31, 1969
Contributions:
 Masterpieces are UP Oblation and
Bonifacio Monument.
 He also designed the gold and bronze
medals for the Ramon Magsaysay Award
and did the seal of the Republic of the
Philippines.
NAPOLEON B. ABUEVA
January 26, 1930 - February 16, 2018

 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1976

 Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture and
the youngest National Artist awardee (46)
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in1973
 Among his early innovations introduced in
 He was a muralist who single-handedly
1951 was what he referred to as "buoyant
revived the art of mural painting in
sculpture" - sculpture meant to be
Philippines.
appreciated from the surface of a placid
 His works depicts the historical past of the
pool.
Philippines; abiding faith of folk values,
Contributions:
folklore, traditional life of Filipinos.
 Among his artworks are "Nine-Muses" and
 He is one of the so-called "The Triumvirate"
"Sunburst".
along with other modernist Galo Ocampo
and Victorio Edades.
VICTORIO C. EDADES
Contributions:
December 23, 1895 - March 7, 1985
 Famous works include "Blood Compact"
and "Bayanihan"

GUILLERMO E. TOLENTINO
July 24 1890 - July 12, 1976

 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1976

 He is the "Father of Modern Filipino
Painting".
 He shocked many Filipinos on his exhibit
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1973
due to his non-conventional style of
 He was the master sculptor who introduces
painting.
classical sculpture in the country.
 He deviated from Amorsolo's use of happy
 He was known for creating monuments and
and bright colors, and instead used dark
bust figures of Philippine Heroes like Andres
and sad hues in his paintings.
Bonifacio and Jose Rizal and Philippine
 Depicted in his works were the hardship in
Presidents like Manuel L. Quezon and
the life of the laborers and low class in the
Ramon Magsaysay.
society.
Contributions:
 Major works include "The Sketch" and
"Builders"
VICENTE S. MANANSALA
January 22, 1910 - August 22, 1981
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1981
 He was a cubist painter who painted with a
wide range of subject matters from the
happy and bountiful rural to poverty-stricken
urban set-ups.
 He contributed in modernism of Philippine
visual arts by his style of transparent
cubism.
 He believes that the beauty of art is in the
process, in the moment of doing a particular
painting.
Contributions:
 "Market Vendor" and "Madonna of the
Slums” are his major works.
CESAR F. LEGASPI
April 2, 1917 - APRIL 7, 1994
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1990
 He is one of the Thirteen Moderns who
promoted modern arts in the country and
was a neo-realist.
 He indigenized cubism and produced
artworks showing local temperaments.
 He was an active member of the Art
Association of the Philippines and was part
of the Neo-Realists.
Contributions:
 Major artworks are "Gadgets II" and
"Women and Children"
HERNANDO R. OCAMPO
April 28, 1911 - December 28, 1978
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1991
 One of the Thirteen Moderns who paved
way to art modernism in the Philippines.
 He developed a new style of abstraction
through his use of fierce and striking colors.
 He proved that the abstract and non-
traditional style of painting can also result to
nationalistic art.
Contributions:
 Major works are "Genesis" and "Slum
Dwellers".
ARTURO R. LUZ
20 November 1926
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1997
 He is an abstractionist known for his
minimalist paintings and sculpture.
 He produced works that elevated Filipino
aesthetic vision to new heights of
sophisticated simplicity.
 By establishing the Luz Gallery, he inspired
and developed a Filipino artistic community
that nurtures impeccable designs.
Contributions:
 Major works are "Bagong Taon" and “Street
Musicians".
J. ELIZALDE NAVARRO
May 22, 1924 - June 10, 1999
  National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 1999 country's landscapes, their kinetic energy,
 He is a painter and a sculptor. and their spontaneity.
 As a painter, he created booth abstract and  He is also a multimedia artist who painted
figure paintings using oil and watercolor. His on ceramics such as vessels, plates, and
figure paintings were inspired by Balinese tiles.
art and culture. Contributions:
 As a sculptor, he was popular to his masks,  Famous artworks are "Hills of Nikko" and
carved in hardwood with combined features "Granadean Arabesque".
of human and animal.
Contributions: BENEDICTO T. CABRERA
 "I'm Sorry Jesus, I Can't Attend Christmas April 10, 1942
This Year" was one of his major works.

ANG KIUKUK
March 1, 1931 - May 9, 2005

 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 2006

 Popularly known as BenCab, is an award
winning painter and printmaker who was
tagged as a master of Philippine

 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 2001 contemporary art, upheld the primacy of

 He was one of the most vital and dynamic drawing over the decorative color.
figures who emerged during the 60s and Contributions:

continues to make an impact up to the  "Mother and Child" and "Sabel" are his

present. major works.

 Angst, anguish, and anger are the glaring

emotions contained in his cubistic works as ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO
these were created in the time of Martial January 14, 1936 – December 16, 2014
Law.
Contributions:
 "Pieta" and "The Last Supper" were his
major works.

JOSE T. JOYA
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 2006
June 3, 1931 - May 11, 1995
 He is a visual artist from Sulu, who
articulated the Muslim culture and art in the
country.
 He preserved and promoted the Philippine
indigenous art through the use of ethnic
themes like the ukkil, sarimanok, and naga

 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 2003 in his paintings and sculptures.

 He is an abstractionist known for his Contributions:

"gestural paintings".  "Monument for the Pursuit of Happiness"

 The prominent elements of his artworks and an unnamed sculpture out Vargas

include their color harmony inspired by the Museum are two of his major works.
 FEDERICO AGUILAR ALCUAZ the character and everyday life in the
January 14, 1936 – December 16, 2014 Philippines.
 In 1991, he promoted the formation of a
group of young children's book illustrators
called Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang
INK).
Contributions:
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 2009  Major works include "Mang Ambo" and
 He was an artist known for his gestural "Kalabog en Bosyo".
abstract expressionistic paintings using a
variety of mediums like acrylic and oil.
 He was also a sculptor who produced “Materials that are familiar, even when used in
abstract and figurative sculpture made of unexpected ways, give us a greater sense of
materials like ceramics, paper and mixed connection to the spaces we inhabit.”
media.
Contributions: Scott Delano – Architect
 "Tres Marias" and "Reveries of Love" are
his major works. DIFFERENT LOCAL MATERIALS USED IN THE
CONTEMPORARY ART CREATION
FRANCISCO V. COCHING
January 29, 1919 – September 1, 1998 Local Materials in the Philippines
Materials
1. Abaca belongs to Banana family.
 Its fiber has a natural luster with color
ranging from pure white to ivory and dark
brown.
Products
 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 2014
 Slippers
 Tagged as the "Dean of Filipino Illustrators",
 Ropes
he was popular for his komiks drawing.
 Twine
 His works illustrated gallant men and
 Hammock
beautiful ladies, and the victory of good over
 Frame
evil.
 Display Jar
Contributions:
 Jars
 Major works include "Pedro Penduko" and
 Chelsea chair
"Lapu-lapu".

LARRY ALCALA
August 18, 1926 – June 24, 2002

 National Artist Award for Visual Arts in 2018

 He was the Dean of Filipino Cartoonists, an
achievement award for his lifetime
dedication to the art of capturing humor in
 Materials
3. Bamboo is used as raw material in creating

Materials many products.

2. Bakbak is the outermost covering or leaf  It is used in construction, textile, musical

sheath of the abaca stalk. instruments, weapon, and many more.

 It is a flat thick durable sheath as twine or Products

braided.  Kubing

 The strong brown fiber is used to make  Bungkaka

furniture.  Tongatong

Products  Angklung

 Mat  Pateteg

 Boxes  Gabbang

 Display Jar
 Cecillia dining table
 Arm Chair
 Materials
5. Buri is extracted from the matured leaves of
the buri palm.
 The fiber is durable and resistant to
moisture.
Products
 Hats
 Bags
 Baskets
 Memorabillia Boxes
 Perfume Tray
 Other woven products

Materials
4. Buntal is cylindrically shaped fibers.
 The supple ivory starnds are quite durable,
pliable, and have good dyeing qualities.
Products
 Bags
 Desk accessories (pen holders, file trays)
 Wallets
 Place mats
 Lampshades
 Window blinds
 Materials
7. Coir is the fibrous material surrounding the
fruit of a coconut tree.
Products
 Indoor or outdoor
 Fiber carpets
 Wall covering
Materials
 Doormat
6. Raffia is a fiber extracted from unopened
 Geo Textile
buri leaf in 3 stages.
 It is loom woven into fabrics ore used as
wall coverings, upholstery material, folding
doors and window hangings, and many
others
Products
 Hats
 Placemats
 Shoes
 Slippers
 Boxes
 Portfolio
 Ladies Bags
 Circular

Materials
8. Nito is a plant belonging to the fern family
that grows abundantly in the hinterlands of
Mindanao.
Products
 Baskets
 Bread Trays
 Picture frames
 Lampshade
 Decorate Jars
 Products
 Baskets
 Picture frames
 Furniture and other novelty items
 Zoya lounge chair
 Valencia queen size bed
 Rest divan

Materials
9. Pandan is a tropical plant in the Pandanus
(screwpine) genus.
 It is processed and transformed into splints
that are being used as raw materials.
Products
 Baskets
 Hats
 Picture frames
 Bags Materials
11. Tikiw is a large, erect, and aquatic or
marshy herb plant.
 It is found in central Luzon and in many
parts of Mindanao.
 It abounds in fresh water swamps, and in
newly opened rice land at low altitudes.
Products
 Baskets
 Hampers with lids
 Bags
 Rugs
 Carpets
 Placemats
 Jar
 Other decorative items

Materials
10. Rattan belongs to the palm family.
 There are different types of rattan palms,
such as high or low climbs, single stemmed
or clustered rattan species.
  One Town Product (OTOP) is a promotional
program of the government of the

Materials Philippines.

12. Tikog belongs to sea grasses.  OTOP aims to promote goods and products

 It is a native reed plant used as a raw of Filipino towns, cities, and regions, and

material for mat weaving. provides funding for small businesses.

Products
 Baskets
 Hampers with lids
 Bags
 Rugs
 Carpets
 Placemats
 Jar
 Other decorative items

Mediums and Techniques

What is medium?
 Medium is defined as the material, or the
substance out of which a work is made.
 Through these materials, the artists express
and communicate feelings and ideas.

The MEDIUM also defines the nature of the art

form as follows:
 Sculptor – uses metal, wood, stone, clay,
and glass.
 Architect - uses wood, bamboo, bricks,
stone, concrete and various building
materials.
 Painter – uses pigments ( e g., watercolor,
oil, tempera, textile paint, acrylic, ink, etc. )
on a usually flat ground ( wood, canvas,
paper, stone wall such as in cave paintings.)
 Printmaker – uses ink printed or transferred
on a surface ( wood, metal plates, or silk
 screen ) that is keeping with duplicating or Digital Arts
reproducing process.
 Musician – uses sound and instruments
(including the human voice), while the
dancer uses the body.
 Theater artist – integrates all the arts and
uses the stage, production design,
performance elements, and script to enable
the visual, musical, dance and other
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aspects to come together as a whole work.
Decollage
 Photographer and filmmaker – use the
camera to record the outside world.
 Writer pf a novel, poetry, nonfiction and
fiction – uses words
 Designer, the performance artist, and the
installation artist combine – use of the range
of materials above.

Artistic Skills and Techniques to Contemporary Arts Friend May King

Creations Print Making
What is technique?
 Technique is the manner in which artists
use and manipulate materials to achieve the
desires formal effect, and communicate the
desired concept, or meaning, according to
his or her personal style (modern,
Neoclassic, etc.)
 Technique involves tools and technology,
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ranging from the most traditional (for
Frottage
example carving, silkscreen, analog
photography, and filmmaking) to the most
contemporary (digital photography, digital
filmmaking, music production, industrial
design, and robotics).

Collage

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Montage

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Trap Onto
Trapunto
Day Calk Oh Main Yeah
Decalco Mania
Day Coo Pazh
Decoupage
1. Collage
- A piece of art made by sticking various
different materials such as photographs
and pieces of paper or fabric onto a
backing.
- Collage may include magazines and
newspaper clippings, ribbons, paints,
bits of colored or handmade papers,
photographs and other found objects,
glued to a piece of paper or canvas.
2. Decollage
- Opposite of collage; Instead of an image
is being built up all or parts of existing
images, it is created by cutting, treating
away or otherwise removing piece of an
original image.
The French word “Decollage” in English means “To
Take – Off” or “To become Unglued” or “To become
unstuck”, Example of decollage include cut-up
technique. Similar technique is the lacerated
poster, a poster in which one has been placed over
another
or others, and the top poster or posters have been
ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the
poster or posters underneath.
3. Digital Arts
- It is an artistic work or practice that uses
digital technology as an essential part of
the creative or presentation process.
- Digital Art is placed under the larger
umbrella term new media art.
- After some resistance, the impact of digital
technology has transformed activities such
as paintings, drawing, sculpture, and
music/sound art, while new form such as
net art.
4. Print Making
- It is the process of making artworks by
painting, normally in the paper.
- Prints are created by transforming ink from
a matrix or through a prepared screen to a
sheet of paper or other material. Common
types of matrices include metal plates,
usually copper or zinc, or polymer plates for
engraving or etching.
5. Decalcomania
- It is the process of applying gouache to
paper or glass then transferring a reversal
 of that image onto canvas or other flat
materials.
6. Decoupage
- It is done by adhering cut outs of paper
and then coating these with one or more
coats or transparent coating of varnish.
7. Frottage
- It is the technique of rubbing with crayon
9. Land art
on a piece of paper which has been placed
- Earth works or earth arts is an art
over an object or an image.
movement in which landscape and the work
8. Montage
of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art
- It is used for photography or film where a
form that is created in nature, using natural
pictorial image is juxtaposed or placed
materials such as soil, rock (bed rock,
overlapping to make another picture or
bolders, stones), organic media (logs,
design.
branches, leaves), and water which
introduced materials such as concrete,
metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.
An example of land art
9. Trapunto
- It is a technique where the canvasses are
padded, sewn, and often filled with sequins,
beads, buttons, shells and other things.

Pacita Abad
 She uses tiny mirrors, bits of glass,
swatches precious textile, and other things
that she picks up from her travels and
journeys.

Contemporary Art Movements and Styles

8. Graffiti Art Sculpture is not placed in the landscape rather, the

- Writing or drawings scribbled, landscape is the means of their creation. Often

scratched, or sprayed illicity on a wall or earth moving equipment is involved. The works

other surface in a public place. frequently exist in the open located well away from

- Graffiti may express underlying social civilization, left to change and erode under natural

and political messages, and a whole conditions.

genre of artistic expression is based

spray paint graffiti styles.
- An example of this is the Singapore art
Bridge just beside the Oxford Hotel
where the writer stayed in their visit to
Singapore. It is said to be painted by a
Batanes-born artist 10. Mixed Media
- It refers to the artwork in the making of
which more than one medium has been
employed.
- It refers to a work of visual art that
 combines various traditionally distinct visual
art media.
- Many effects can be achieved by using
mixed media. Found objects can also be
used depending on the artist to attain a wide
range of self expression.

WHAT TECHNIQUES ARE USED TO MAKE Julian Jumalon Medium: Butterfly Wings
CONTEMPORARY ARTWORK?

1. MINIMALISM
 One of the artistic movements that has been
most relevant throughout the contemporary
art movement is minimalism.
2. FOUND OBJECTS
 Taking something that people view as
useless, and then using it in a unique way in
order to make artwork is one of the most Naty Garcia Lozano Medium: Print-ad tear sheets
important movements that currently exist in
contemporary artwork.
3. LARGE-SCALE ART
 Over the past forty years, large scale art,
and art that includes the environment has
come into its own as one of the most
important movements within contemporary
art.

Mediums and Techniques, the Filipino way! Zorro David Medium: Matchsticks

Here are 13 artists who have found their calling in

art, but have done so with unusual materials and
Edd Aragon Medium: Invisible paint, light
one-of-a-kind techniques.

Alvaro Jimenez Medium: Dried leaves from various

Adelaida Paterno Medium: Human Hair
plants plants
Elito Circa Villaflor Medium: Human Blood
Environmental Watercolorists Medium: Dirty water
pigments pigments
 Toti Cerda
 John Carlo Vargas
 Kean Barrameda
 Fred Failano
 Allan Clerigo
 Van Isunza
 Luigi Almuena

Jay Dalupang Medium: The human body  Renee Ysabelle Jose

 John Ed De Vera

Gregory Raymond Halili Medium: Shells

Andre Manguba Medium: Pasta, Ketchup

GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN

- Gawad sa Manlilikhang Bayan or the National

Living Treasures Award
Sunshine Plata Medium: Coffee - Institutionalized through Republic Act No. 7355 in
April 1992

Difference between NA and GAMABA

 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan – given to
an artist who has high-level skill of a
traditional art uniquely Filipino and is
passed on and widely practiced by the
present generation.
Ralvin C. Dizon Medium: Ballpoint pen
  National Artists Award - highest national  Master of “Burnay Making”
recognition given to Filipinos who made  In 1998, he was one of the 100 Filipino
huge contributions to Philippine arts like artists given the Centennial Award, a once-
music, dance, theatre, etc. in-a-lifetime recognition for local artists. The
National Commission for Culture and Arts
declared him as a National Folk Artist.
Burnay Pottery

The highest policy-making and coordinating body

for culture and the arts of the State

 Searches for the finest traditional artists of

the land
 Adopts a program that will ensure the
transfer of their skills to others
 Undertakes measures to promote a genuine
appreciation of traditional craft and art
 Instills pride among our people about the
skill of the Manlilikhang Bayan.

Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan

 First awarded in 1993 to three outstanding
artists in music and poetry
 Has its roots in the 1988 National Folk
Artists Award organized by the Rotary Club
of Makati-Ayala
Mr. Fidel Go

 A Filipino- Chinese Artist, 81 yrs old

Qualifications WEAVING
 He/she/group is an inhabitant of an
indigenous/traditional cultural community
anywhere in the Philippines that has
preserved indigenous customs, beliefs,
rituals and traditions and/or has syncretized
whatever external elements that have
influenced it.
 He/she/group must have engaged in a folk
art tradition that has been in existence and
documented for at least fifty (50) years.
 He/she/group must have consistently
performed or produced over a significant
period, works of superior and distinctive
quality.
 He/she/group must possess a mastery of
tools and materials needed by the art, and
must have an established reputation in the
art as master and maker of works of
extraordinary technical quality. Literature and Performing Arts

 He/she/group must have passed on and/or

will pass on to other members of the
community their skills in the folk art for
which the community is traditionally known.

What are the incentives received by the awardee?

A Manlilikha ng Bayan awardee receives:
 Especially designed gold medallion,
 An initial grant of P200,000 and
 P50,000 monthly stipend for life.
 P750,000 hospitalization and medical
benefits
 A state funeral
 A place of honor

Gawad sa Manlilikhang Bayan

a. Folk architecture
b. Maritime transport – Groups
c. Weaving – 8 PLASTIC ARTS
d. Carving - art forms that involve modeling or molding,
e. Performing arts such as sculpture and ceramics, or art
6 involving the representation of solid objects
f. Literature
g. Graphic and plastic arts – 2 with three-dimensional effects.
h. Ornament – 1 Nominee
i. Textile or fiber art
j. Pottery
  She was able to pass on all her techniques
to her granddaughters and students.
 Lang Dulay shared that her mother
taught her to weave.
Inabal Weaving (Abaca)

Tinalak Weaving (Abaca)

 A Tagabawa Bagobo of Bansalan, Davao

del Sur
 She was awarded for fully demonstrating
the creative and expressive aspects of the
 A T'boli of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato.
Bagobo abaca ikat weaving called inabal at
 Was awarded for weaving the abaca ikat
a time when such art is threatened with
cloth called "TINALAK“.
extinction.
 She has produced creations which remain
 Salinta Monon started learning weaving
faithful to the T'boli tradition as manifested
traditional Bagobo textiles from her mother
in the complexity of her design, fineness of
at the age of 12.
workmanship and quality of finish.
 Her family is among the remaining Bagobo
weavers in the community.
 She and her sister are the only remaining
Bagobo weavers in her community.
 Salinta has built a solid reputation for the
quality of her work and the intricacies of her
designs.

 t’nalak, a distinctive abaca cloth that  She was able to teach young wives in her
traditionally comes in three colors: deep community the art of weaving

reddish brown, black, and white.  And despite the increasing pressures of

 It is believed that designs for the t’nalak are modern society, Bagobo women are still
borne from the weaver’s dreams, and that interested in learning the art.

they are not allowed to weave unless they  All her life she has woven continuously,
have already dreamed of the design. through her marriage and six pregnancies,
 The T'bolis are known for their use of abaca and even after her husband’s death 20
fibers in textile weaving. years ago.

 Lang Dulay continued this tradition and  Inabal is a traditional textile made from

preserved the culture of their community abaca.

through patterns of crocodiles, butterflies,
flowers, mountains, and streams and of
Lake Sebu in her works.
 Lang Dulay started weaving when she was
12 years old.
Pis Siyabit Weaving (Cotton or Silk) Mat Weaving (Pandand)

 Of Ungos Matata, Tandubas, Tawi – Tawi

 Is recognized as the master mat weaver
among the Sama Indigenous community of
Ungos Matata.
 Her colorful mats with their complex
 Of barangay Parang, Jolo Island, Sulu
geometric patterns exhibits her precise
Province
sense of design, proportion and symmetry
 Has preserved the art of pis syabit weaving
and sensitivity to color.
 It is difficult art of tapestry weaving that
 Her mats are known for their complex
creates the traditional squares used by the
geometric patterns, proportion, and unique
Tausug for ornamentation.
combination of colors.
 Despite the conflict in Jolo, Sawabi’s
 Her functional and artistic creations take up
dedication to her art enhanced the
to three months to make.
preservation of traditional Tausug designs.
 It’s interesting to note that, the art of mat
 Darhata Sawabi is one of the master
weaving is handed down the matrilateral
weavers in the island of Jolo.
line, as men in the Sama culture do not take
 Like most women in their tribe, she has
up the craft.
learned from her mother the art of weaving
 So, the whole process, from harvesting and
the pis syabit, the traditional cloth tapestry
stripping down the pandan leaves to the
worn as head cover by the Tausug of Jolo.
actual execution of the design, is exclusive
 Her family had a hard life as farmers, thus
to women.
weaving was her only possible source of
 By the way, they prefer thorny pandan
income for her not to be dependent on her
leaves because they are sturdier and
nieces and nephews since she was never
stronger.
married.
 It is a long and tedious process, and
 Anyway, because of her talent, she became
requires much patience and stamina.
self-sufficient and her remarkable
 It also requires an eye for detail, an
proficiency with the art of weaving and the
accurate color instinct, and a genius for
intricacy of her designs allowed her to price
applied mathematics.
her creations a little higher than others.
 First, she removes the thorns using a small
 And even her own community of weavers
knife.
recognizes her expertise in the craft,
 Then, she strips the leaves with a stripper to
because of her bold contrasting colors,
make long and even strips.
evenness of her weave and her faithfulness
 These strips are sun-dried, then pressed
to traditional designs.
beneath a large log.
 She then dyes the strips by boiling them for
a few minutes in hot water mixed with
commercial dye.
Inabal Weaving (Cotton)  The designs reflect power, social status,
and self-expression.
 The skill of Apuh Ambalang is incomparable
because she is able to bring forth all
designs and actualize all textile categories
typical to the Yakan. Yakan is an indigenous
Muslim tribe in Basilan.
 Her outputs are cross-stitch-like and
embroidery-like embellishments. Yakan
textiles are often mistakenly described as
 Even though Magdalena is already 98 years
‘embroidered’ especially by people who are
old, her eyesight still holds true and she still
not familiar with the production process.
takes care of arranging the threads on the
 The word ‘tennun’ in Yakan generally
loom.
means woven cloth, and used in making the
 Magdalena has taught herself the traditional
Yakan dress.
patterns of binakol, inuritan (geometric
 And Traditionally, they used pineapple and
design), kusikos (spiral forms similar to
abaca
oranges), and sinan-sabong (flowers).
 Yakan weaving uses bright, bold and often
 She has learned the art of weaving from her
contrasting colours in big symmetrical
aunt and started harnessing her innate skills
patterns.
at the age of 16.
 In Yakan weaving, most of the animal and
 She may be in her late 80s but she still
plant motifs are realistically represented in
manages to arrange threads on the loom,
textiles.
which is the hardest task in textile weaving.
 Even though Magdalena is already 88 years
old, her eyesight still holds true and she still
takes care of arranging the threads on the
loom.
 Weavers agree that in weaving,
ARRANGING the threads on the LOOM is
the hardest task of all.
 The slightest miscalculation can result in a
misaligned design that doesn’t reveal itself
until it’s too late.
 Today, Magdalena has two students: her
cousin’s daughter-in-law, who moved to
Magdalena’s community after marrying into
Magdalena’s family; and her sister-in-law, Weaving (B’laan igem)
who learned how to weave relatively late, at Estelita Tumandan Bantilan (2016)
the age of 38.

Ambalang Ausalin (2016)

Weaving – Yakan Tennun (Pineapple and Abaca)

 Estelita’s entire body is her “loom.”

 B’laan (Tribe in Mindanao) Igem – (mat)
from Pandan leaves
  Like all mat weavers, Estelita’s entire body
is her “loom.” (machine used in weaving)
 Meaning, she uses parts of body as her
loom, like her toes are curled to hold the
unwoven strips
 Despite the difficulty level, she kept her mat
weaving.
 Bantilan persisted where other women
could not because her husband Tuwada
was atypically supportive.
 And apart from that, Estelita also carried on
because mats were her gifts of choice to
people she cherished.
 She never wanted to monetize her mats.
Lyrical Poems and Playing Accompanying
Instruments; Epic Chanting and Storytelling
Ikat Weaving (Abaca)
Yabing Masalon Dulo (2016)
 Dulo is one of the two master designers left
of the Blaan mabal tabih.
 Fu Yabing Dulo is one of the two master
designers left of the Blaan mabal tabih – the
art of ikat weaving.
 By the way, Tabih is the term for the
finished hand woven cloth and it also refers
to the traditional Blaan tubular skirt.
 Unlike other traditional spinners, Blaan
weavers do not even have a spinning
wheel.
 The strands of the abaca fiber are joined
together by hand – patiently, with the same
patience it takes to weave a tabih.
 Fu Yabing is not only an artist. She belongs
to the old school.
 She tells her grandniece that she cannot
bear to see commercial looms added to the
tabih weaving process, seen done by a
young Blaan weaver during the exhibit at
SM General Santos.
 Tabih is a Blaan word for the finished hand
woven cloth members of the tribe wear as
traditional tubular skirts for women and
pants or short trousers for men.
 Vibrant, beautiful traditional weaving
 ABACA
 A Pala’wan of Brookes Point, Palawan
 He was awarded for his exemplary skills in
basal or gong music ensemble
 He was also recognized for his versatility as
musician, poet epic chanter and storyteller
of the kulila/ and bagit traditions of
Pala’wan.
 Masino Intaray has mastered the traditions
of his people—the Palawan, Batak, and
Tagbanwa in the highlands of southern
Palawan.
 He was a skilled and proficient player of the
basal (gong), aroding (mouth harp), and
babarak (ring flute).
 He was also well-versed in kulilal (songs)
and bagit (vocal music), according to the
National Commission for Culture and the
Arts (NCCA).
 He is skillful in basal (gong music
ensemble), kulilal (lyrical poem expressing
passionate love sang with the
accompaniment of the kusyapi), and bagit
(instrumental music depicting nature).
Playing the Kudyapi  He was also recognized for his persistence
to create and nurture a greater
consciousness and appreciation of Kalinga
culture among the Kalinga themselves and
beyond their borders.
 Alonzo Saclag has worked for the
preservation of Kalinga culture. (80 YEARS
OLD)
 He lobbied that the abandoned Capitol
Building be turned into a museum,

 A Magindanao of Mama sa pano.  He also lobbied that schools implement the

Magguindanao. practice of donning the Kalinga costume for

 He was awarded for his outstanding artistry important events,

and dedication to his chosen instrument the  And that traditional Kalinga music should be

Maguindanao kutyapi. broadcasted alongside contemporary music

 Kutyapi is a two-stringed plucked lute, in the local radio station.

regarded as one of the most technically  He also formed the Kalinga Budong Dance

demanding and difficult to master among Troupe to guarantee that his knowledge in

Filipino traditional instruments. the performing arts is passed on to others\

 Samaon Sulaiman is a master in the use of

the kulintang and kutyapi of the
Maguindanaons.
 His extensive repertoire of dinaladay,
linapu, minuna, and binalig has
demonstrated not only his own skills but
their culture. Chanting the Sugidanon Epic of the Panay
 The Magindanao kutyapi is one of the most Bukidnon
technically demanding and difficult to
master among Filipino traditional
instruments, which is one reason why the
younger generation is not too keen to learn
it.

Playing Kalinga musical instruments; Dance  A Panay-Bukidnon of Calinog, Ilolo was

patterns and movements associated with rituals awarded for his mastery of chanting the
sugidanon, the epic tradition of Central
Panay.
 He ceaselessly worked for the
documentation of the epics of his people
painstakingly piecing together the elements
of his oral tradition nearly lost.
 (83 YEARS OLD) Federico Caballero, a
 A Kalinga of Lumbuangan, Kalinga was Panay-Bukidnon from the mountains of
awarded for his mastery of the Kalinga Central Panay, has worked hard to
dance and the performing arts. document the oral literature of his people.
  He was awarded for his mastery of chanting
the sugidanon, the epic tradition of central
panay
 He has preserved the epics (10) that use a
language (Kiniray-a) that has long been
dead by working together with scholars,
artists, and advocates of culture.
 His own love for his people’s folklore began
when he was a small child.
 His mother would lull his brothers and sister
to sleep, chanting an episode while swaying
the hammock.
 Sometimes it was his great-great-
grandmother who would chant the epics.
What is Sugidanon chanting?
Sugidanon (Epic Chanting) has been a long time
favorite way of spending leisure time among the
innermost villages of rugged Central Panay. Its
listeners gradually waned with the arrival of
transistor radios in the late 1960's – 70's and their
exposure to modern sound technology, thereafter,
in the lowland.
Playing Yakan Musical Instruments
 A Yakan of Lamitan, Basilan was awarded
for his dexterity in playing Yakan musical
instruments such as the kwitntangan kayu,
tuntungan aming others.
 He has a deep knowledge of the aesthetic
possibilities and social contexts of those
instruments.
 In spite of the dimming of his eyesight, he
has devoted his life to the teaching of Yakan
musical traditions.
 Uwang Ahadas has made it his life's work to
preserve and promote Yakan culture
through the traditional music and
instruments of his tribe.
 He has mastered tha gabbang, the agung,
the kwintangan kayu, and others.
 Dexterity – skill in performing tasks,
especially with the hands.
Silver Plating of Religious and Secular Art
 A Kapampangan from Central Luzon is
recognized for reviving the Spanish colorial-
era craft of Plateria.
 This self-taught master craftsman found his
calling in producing religious and secular art
in silver, bronze and wood.
 In doing so, and in his pursuit of perfection
for himself and his apprentices, he assures
the continuity of this rich tradition.
 Eduardo Mutuc dedicated his life in
sculpting retablos, mirrors, altars, and
carosas from silver, bronze, and wood.
 Some of his works can exceed 40 feet while
the others feature smaller size and delicate
craftsmanship.
Gourd Casque Making
  gourd – a fleshy, typically large fruit with a
hard skin, some varieties of which are
edible.
 Casque - a helmet.
 Teofilo learned how to make gourd casques
and weave baskets from his grandfather at
the age of 16.
 Since he learned the craft, he never
stopped experimenting with other designs.
 He previously used nito (vine trimmings) to
decorate the headgear and then used with
other materials such as bamboo
 He is a farmer in the town of San Quintin in
Abra, better known for tending a plot of land
filled with enlarged upo or gourd.
 November - planting month
 March to May - harvest month - he would
transform the harvest into durable hats to
protect people from the heat of the sun.
 The upo is hollowed out, polished and
varnish (strengthens the organic material to
make it weather resistant).
 In recent years, he initiated training for
students in San Quintin National High
School to pass the knowledge of tabungaw
hat making, inspiring the youth to value the
traidition and to ensure its upkeep.
Whang-od Oggay
 The last mambabatok of her generation
 Nominee for Gamaba Awards for Ornament
on October 21, 2017
 Started her tattoo works at the age of 15
from her father. Now, she’s 102 years old.
 She has been tattooing headhunters and
women of the indigenous people of Butbut
in Buscalan, Kalinga.
The Production Process and The Changing
Environment
 The traditional artists' mode of production
continues to be affected with the dynamics
of change.
 Environmental degradation ushered in by
calamities, modernization, and capitalistic
endeavors displace the indigenous peoples
from their ancestral land.
 Their homeplace is considered of
paramount importance because this is
where resources are gathered and shared,
and where culture is performed.
 The following factors affect the traditional
artist's production process:
1. Tourism - Dances and rituals are staged for an
external audience rather than for the community's
observance of tradition.
 Art forms native to the community tend to
diminish in quality.
 Land areas are converted into sites for
tourist consumption.
 Ecological domains become more
susceptible to damage with the combined
forces of natural disasters and tourist
mobility.
 Dances and rituals are staged tradition.
 Art forms native to the community tend to
diminish in quality.
 Removed from their original context, the
works are transformed into mass colors and
designs woven from synthetic fibers have
been made available in recent years to
create appropriations of traditional textile
designs for commercial purposes.
2. Mining and Infrastructure projects - The
construction of dams and the establishment of oil
and mining companies evict people from the
dwellings and severely damage the environment.
 Deprived of the bounty of land, indigenous
groups are prompted to seek short-term
 employment from these industries in order
to make ends meet in a money economy.

3. Militarization - The insecurity and tensions

brought about by militarized zones arrest the
people's ability to create art.
 It prevents people from having communal
gatherings, where exchanges and passing
of knowledge can take place.
 Archipelagic orientation - locations make it
challenging to reach by land, air or sea.
Christianization - The influence of Christianity and
 Insecured places - particularly militarized
the conversion of the natives to a foreign religion
zones prevent the sustained entry of
have caused members of the community to forsake
researchers and possibly diminish reception
their indigenous rituals and traditions.
outside of the locality.
 The Manobo community of Mt. Apo, for
 This is partly why the awarding does not
example initiated a "culture regeneration
follow a regular pattern on Year of
movement".
Conferment of GAMABA awardees.
 At worse, people are led to believe that the
 The award-giving body, through its cultural
latter are primitive and therefore their
workers, is entrusted with an equally
practice has no place in contemporary
significant and difficult responsibility of
culture.
being critical, transparent, and judicious in
 In some cases however, the community
the processes entailed by the GAMABA,
finds a way to syncretize (reconcile) their
from the selection, awarding, and even
indigenous ways with traditions of
beyond.
Christianity.
 The Manobo community of Mt. Apo, for
example initiated a "culture regeneration
movement".
 As Christian converts, they sought the
revival of their traditions by holding clan
reunions, employing native wedding rites,
and recalling narratives of their culture
through painting.

Difficulties in the Selection Process

 Archipelagic orientation
 Risky places
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