THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL

ARTISTS
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 NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE PHILIPPINES

PAMBANSANG ALAGAD
NG SINING NG PILIPINAS
NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE PHILIPPINES is the highest
recognition the Philippine government can give to a
person of the arts. The award was created through
Presidential Proclamation No. 1001, s 1972 to give
recognition and respect to the citizens who have given
outstanding contribution to Philippine arts.
 First, announcement will be made by NCCA and the CCP
acting as the order f the National Artist Award Secretari
What is NCCA? at, for the opening of nominations for the said award
How to become a National Artist?
Qualifications

1. The artist must be a Filipino citizen or

at least at the time of the nomination,
An artist who has passed on can still be
nominated as long as he/she was a
Filipino before they died.
Qualifications

2. The artist should have contributed “in

building” a Filipino sense of nationhood”
as seen in their works.
3. The artist should have lead the way in
new and creative expression or style,
separating themselves from others and
in turn influencing other generations of
artists.
Qualifications

5. The artist should be critically

acclaimed and accepted by legitimate
institution and peers.
THE EMBLEM
BENEFITS
1. The title and rank of a National Artist
2. Medal bearing the insignia of National Artist as well as a
citation
3. A cash gift of Php 100,000 to the living Artist and
Php 75,000 for those who where recognized after their
death which will be given to the heir of the awardee.
4. Monthly pension with medical and hospitalization benefits.
5. Life insurance to those who are still qualified
6. State funeral and interment at the Libingan ng mga Bayani
7. A reserve place at state functions, awarding ceremonies
and cultural events.
 THE NATIONAL ARTISTS
FOR VISUAL ARTS, PAINTING
The Grand Old Man
FERNANDO CUETO AMORSOLO
He is well-known for his
genre paintings and landscape and
idealized depiction of dalagang
Filipina.
His works incorporate his
trademark style of backlighting
technique that makes the canvass
fell alive with the light.
Styles portraiture,
landscapes, sketches, historical
paintings, and advertising art
CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO
He is known for historically
themed murals such as the Filipino
Struggles through History which
displayed in the Manila City Hall.
He is one of the pioneer of
modernism. His art reflects values and
colors of the town Angono.
He is also credited with the
discovery of the Angono, Petroglyphs
VICENTE MANANSALA

Manansala’s early works

combined concepts from the rural and
urban settings, creating reflective
pause when one views his works. He
is the pioneer of Cubism in the
Philippines.
The Father of Modern
Philippine Painting
VICTOR EDADES
His style is described as raw and rough
using bold impasto strokes. His figures are
distorted and flawed. His modernist style
served as the perfect counterbalance to
Fernando Amorsolo’s idealized academic
paintings.
Edades was an educator and became the
dean for the College of Architecture at
UST.
CESAR LEGASPI
He was an art director prior to
going full-time in his visual art practice in
the 1960s. His early (1940s-1960s) works,
alongside those of peer, Hernando
Ocampo are described as depictions of
anguish and dehumanization of beggars
and laborers in the city.
HERNANDO OCAMPO
He was a leading radical modernist
artist in the Philippines. H. R. Ocampo
was credited for inventing a new
mode of abstraction that exemplifies
Philippine flora and fauna, and
portrays sunshine, stars and rain.
Using movement and bold colors,
Ocampo utilized fantasy and science
fiction as the basis for his works.
JOSE JOYA

Jose Joya is a painter and

multimedia artist who distinguished
himself by creating an authentic
Filipino abstract idiom that
transcended foreign influences. Most
of Joya’s paintings of harmonious
colors were inspired by Philippine
landscapes, such as green rice paddies
and golden fields of harvest. His use of
rice paper in collages placed value on
transparency, a common characteristic
of folk art.
BENEDICTO R. CABRERA
Benedicto R. Cabrera, *who signs
his paintings “Bencab,” upheld
the primacy of drawing over the
decorative color. Bencab started
his career in the mid-sixties as a
lyrical expressionist. His solitary
figures of scavengers emerging
from a dark landscape were
piercing stabs at the social
conscience of a people long
inured to poverty and
dereliction.
ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO
Abdulmari Asia Imao, a native of Sulu, is
a sculptor, painter, photographer,
ceramist, documentary film maker,
cultural researcher, writer, and articulator
of Philippine Muslim art and culture.

Through his works, the indigenous ukkil,

sarimanok and naga motifs have been
popularized and instilled in the
consciousness of the Filipino nation and
other peoples as original Filipino
creations.
JEREMIAS ELIZALDE NAVARRO
He is a versatile artist, being both a
proficient painter and sculptor. His
devotion to the visual arts spans 40
years of drawing, printmaking, graphic
designing, painting and sculpting. His
masks carved in hardwood merge the
human and the animal; his paintings
consists of abstracts and figures in oil
and watercolor; and his assemblages
fuse found objects and metal parts.
Dean of the Filipino
Illustrators
FRANCISCO V. COCHING
His illustrations and novels were
products of that happy combination of
fertile imagination, a love of
storytelling, and fine draftsmanship. He
synthesized images and stories
informing Philippine folk and popular
imagination of culture. His career
spanned four decades.
FEDERICO AGUILAR ALCUAZ
He is known mainly for his gestural
paintings in acrylic and oil, as well as
sketches in ink, watercolor and pencil.
He was also a sculptor of note and has
rendered abstract and figurative works
in ceramics, tapestries and even in
relief sculptures made of paper and
mixed media, which he simply calls
“Alcuazaics.”
THE NATIONAL ARTISTS
FOR ARCHITECTURE
 JUAN NAKPIL
He was an artist, engineer,
civic leader and teacher. His designs
are both beautiful and functional. His
design principles reflect belief in the
Philippine architecture, tradition and
culture.
JOSE MARIA V. ZARAGOZA
Zaragoza is a pillar of modern
architecture in Philippines buttressed
by a half-century career that produced
ecclesiastical edifices and structures of
modernity in the service of God and
humanity.
The Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture
ILDEFONSO P. SANTOS JR.
Ildefonso Paez Santos, Jr.,
distinguished himself by
pioneering the practice of
landscape architecture–an allied
field of architecture–in the
Philippines and then producing
four decades of exemplary and
engaging work that has included
hundreds of parks, plazas, gardens,
and a wide range of outdoor
settings that have enhanced
contemporary Filipino life.
PABLO S. ANTONIO
He is considered to be the
foremost Filipino modern architect.
His design aesthetic is based on
simplicity and functionality. His
designs consider the Philippine
climate and maximizes the use of
nature illumination and cross
ventilation.
 LEANDRO V. LOCSIN
Leandro V. Locsin reshaped
the urban landscape with a
distinctive architecture
reflective of Philippine Art
and Culture. He believes that
the true Philippine
Architecture is “the product
of two great streams of
culture, the oriental and the
occidental… to produce a new
object of profound harmony.”
THE NATIONAL ARTISTS
FOR SCULPTURE
 GUILLERMO TOLENTINO

He was a premier sculptor and

esteemed professor at UP Diliman.
He specialized commemorative
sculptures of historical figures that
are monumental and grand.
 The Father of Modern
Sculpture
NAPOLEON ABUEVA

Abueva is adept in using a

diverse range of media such as adobe,
metal, cement, marble, etc. But he still
prefers Philippine hardwood such as
narra, molave, acacia, kamagong, etc.
The youngest recipient of the
title National Artist.
THE NATIONAL ARTISTS
FOR LITERATURE
AMADO V. HERNANDEZ

He is a writer and stalwart of

the laborers. He believed that his art
should act as a conscience of society,
correcting and calling attention to what
is needed.
He is also a critically
acclaimed playwright, and
essayist.
This novel was written
while he was in prison

Major Works: Luha ng Buwaya,

Muntinlupa, Magkabilang Mukha ng
Bagol
 JOSE GARCIA VILLA

Jose Garcia Villa or more commonly

known by his pen name Doveglion is
regarded as one of the best
contemporary poets in the world.
He is known for introducing the
reversed consonance rhyme scheme
and used punctuation marks especially
the comma in a novel and lyrical way

Major Works: Footnote to Youth, Many Voices,

Poems, Poems 55: The Best Poems of JG Villa
Mir-i-nisa
 NICK M. JOAQUIN
His style is defined as flowery and
Spanish-influenced English which is
coined by critics as Joaquinesque. His
works study the Filipino psyche in the
changing social climate set during the
Spanish Colonial period. He used his
influenced to fight for intellectual
freedom and helped free imprisoned
writer Jose F. Lacaba during Marcos
Regime.

Major Works: The Woman who had two Navels,

Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young,
The Ballad of the Five Battles, Rizal in Saga
 CARLOS P. ROMULO
He is an accomplished teacher, soldier,
journalist and writer. Romulo has
written and published over eighteen
books. He also received a Pulitzer
Award for Journalism.

Major Works: The United, I Walked with Heroes,

Fourty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN, I Sa
w the Fall of the Philippines.
 FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
He was one of the pioneers of the
lyrical prose-poetic form in Filipino
short stories written in English. He has
continued to express new ways to
express the Filipino ideals and beliefs
through new literary forms

Major Works: Selected Stories, Poetic and Politics:

The state of Original Writing in English Philippines To
day, Frankie, The Mats, The Francisco Arcellana
Sampler
 Close all open things, Lord.
PRAYER
By Francisco Arcellana Open all closed things.

All those who have long received, let them give.

All those who have long given, let them receive.
All those too long apart, let them come
together.
All those too long together, sunder them.

Let the wise be fools for once, Lord,

And let the fools speak their minds.
Affirm the long-denied, Lord.
Fulfill the unfulfilled.