NATIONAL ARTISTS

OF THE
PHILIPPINES
 Pambansang Alagad ng Sining
ng Pilipinas

Architecture, dance, film and

broadcast arts, literature, music,
theater, and visual arts

Every three years

 Pambansang Alagad ng Sining
ng Pilipinas

Architecture, dance, film and

broadcast arts, literature, music,
theater, and visual arts

Every three years

National Commission for Culture and the
Arts
Order of the National
Artist Award Secretariat
Cultural Center of the Philippines

Qualifications

Filipino Citizen Building a Filipino sense of nationhood

New and creative expression Noteworthy work

Critically acclaimed
CONTEMPORARY VISUAL
ARTISTS
 Fernando Cueto Amorsolo

May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972

Dalagang Filipina
April 28, 1972, Painting
Backlighting technique
Grand old Man of the Philippine Arts
Maiden in a Stream
El Ciego (1928) Planting Rice (1946)
(1921)
 Ang Kiukok

March 1, 1931 – May 9, 2005

2001, Visual Arts

Chinese descent

Revolutionary artists of 1960’s

Violent and angst-riddent

Geometric Landscape (1969) Pieta (1962)

Seated Figure
(1979)
 Napoleon V. Abueva

January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018

1976, Sculpture

Youngest recipient of Natl. Artist

Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture

 The Transfiguration (1979)

The Nine Muses (1994)

Kaganapan (1953)