LG#4 : Philippine Contemporary Artist (1st Grading Period)

Question 1

The Role of the Filipino Artist

Answer 1

1. Crusader
2. Social Critic
3. Advocate
4. Versatile
5. Storyteller

Question 2

This role attempts to sway the viewer to his or her side and in the past decades, there has been a rise in national fervor.

Answer 2

Crusader

Question 3

This role exposes the inequalities of life, the effects of urbanization, globalization, and neocolonialism, evident in most
contemporary works today.

Answer 3

Social Critic

Question 4

For what he or she believes in. This role creates an artistic controversy thereby becoming an agent of change.

Answer 4

Advocate

Question 5

Because he or she creates; This role not only realize his or her personal fulfillment, but also expresses a point of view.

Answer 5

Versatile

Question 6

This role narrates everyday life or extraordinary events; presents cultures in different lights; and records and preserving history for future generations to see.

Answer 6

Storyteller

Question 7

This filipino painter ___ romanticized life, reminding Filipinos oft tranquil rural landscapes.

In his creation Under the Mango Tree, he presented the simple life in the province while making the audience feel that simplicity is beauty.

Answer 7

Fernando Amorsolo

Question 8

He drew and painted genre paintings inspired by the life of his town, Angono Rizal - the Art Capital of the Philippines.

One prime example is his “Magpupukot” which shows the bayanihan among fishermen in Rizal.

Answer 8

Carlos “Botong” Francisco

Question 9

This filipino literature artist is Nick Joaquin, a Manileño novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, and essayist.

He started
writing under the pen name of Quijano de Manila for the Philippine Free Press Magazine, chronicled the diverse heritage of the Philippines, and
gave his opinion about the culture of his time for decades.

Some of his notable works include the novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) which examines various Filipino heritages, the novel Cave
and Shadows (1983) which occurs in the period of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, and Candido’s Apocalypse (1979) which re-imagines
postcolonial Philippines.

Answer 9

Nick Joaquin

Question 10

The Filipina Artists

Answer 10

1. Anita Magsaysay-Ho
2. Nena Saguil
3. Lyd Arguilla
4. Purita Kalaw-Ledesma

Question 11

She was the only female painter and a member of the “Thirteen Moderns,” a standing group of Filipino modernists artists.

Her famous work subjects are the beauty of Filipino women dealing with everyday issues.

Answer 11

Anita Magsaysay-Ho

Question 12

She is a Filipina painter of modernist and abstract paintings and ink drawings.

She was most known for her cosmic, organic, and spiritual abstract works depicting internal landscapes of feeling and imagination.

Answer 12

Nena Saguil

Question 13

She was the founder of the Philippine Art Gallery which the first official meetings place of artist.

Answer 13

Lyd Arguilla

Question 14

She was the founder of the Art Association of the Philippines (AAP).

Answer 14

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma

Question 15

She is a doctor in retired professor in the University of the Philippines. She is a multi-awarded educator, and cultural worker.

2012 Gawad CCP for Visual Arts
CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts 1999

Her nationalistic themes are taken from Philippine folklore , legend, and mythology which she relates to contemporary life.

Answer 15

Brenda V. Fajardo

Question 16

She is a mixed-media artist, curator, writer, and organizer.

She is one of the first artist to use nontraditional materials for her artworks which are usually fragmented arrangement of artistic scenes.

She is also an active women’s rights advocate.

Answer 16

Imelda Cajipe Endaya

Question 17

It is a group whose goal was to pursue women’s agenda. Founded in the late 1980s, they addressed women’s issues in culture and the arts.

Answer 17

KASIBULAN (Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan)

Question 18

In the performing arts, she is an artist, educator, cultural researchers, and an advocate of the indigenous arts of the
South.

She’s noteworthy Filipina, model, historical recorder and conservationist and also a cultural dancer.

She earned her the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Answer 18

Ligaya Fernando Amilbangsa

Question 19

It has been established by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 1001’s. 1972, and aims “to give appropriate recognition and made outstanding contributions to Philippine arts and letters.”

The ___ is the highest award conferred by the President of the Philippines to the nation’s artists.

The categories for the Order of National Artists are music. Dance, theater, visual arts, literature, film, and broadcast arts, and architecture or
allied arts.

Answer 19

Order of National Artists (ONA)

Question 20

This award was institutionalized by 1992 Republic Act No. 7335, with the NCCA in charge of its implementation. The process of awarding a Manlilikha ng Bayan is similar to that of the Order of the National Artists.

The categories for ___ are folk architecture, maritime transport, weaving, carving, performing arts, literature, graphic and plastic arts, ornament, textile or fiber art, pottery, and other artistic expressions of traditional culture.

Answer 20

Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA)

Question 21

He is a professor of Art Studies and curator of the Vargas Museum of the University Philippines, was chosen to curate the Philippine Pavilion.

He named the exhibit “Tie a String around the World”.

Representing the Philippines are artists Jose Tence Ruiz, Many Montelibano, Gus Albor, Lito Carating, and Jing Turalba.

Answer 21

Patrick Flores

Question 22

This is a shadow play group of young locals Tanauan, Batangas. The group won first place in the first television production of
Asia’s Got Talent in Singapore in May 2015. They have conquered the hearts not only of the Filipino’s but of Asians as well.

Answer 22

El Gamma Penumbra

Question 23

She is a gifted classical pianist. As a child prodigy, she made her debut at the age of seven as a soloist with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.

She was also one of the youngest musicians to receive the prestigious Leventritt Competition Gold Medal in 1981.

She is based abroad and when she is in the country, she gives concerts and outreach programs to budding musicians.

Answer 23

Cecil Licad

Question 24

She is a former member of Repertory Philippines, a theater company founded by the late Zenaida Amador that produces Broadway and other plays.

She was one of several hundred Asian aspirants to be chosen for the role of Kim in the 1989 musical Miss Saigon in London
and later in Broadway, for which the received a Tony Award.

The Tony Award is Broadway’s equivalent to Hollywood’s Academy Award, or “Oscars.”

Aside from being known as Kim, Lea also performed as Fantine and Eponine in another hit musical, Les Miserables; voiced Mulan in the Disney movie Mulan: and as Princess Jasmine in another Disney film Aladdin.

Answer 24

Lea Salonga

Question 25

She is the country’s first prima ballerina is the first foreign soloist to join Kirov ballet, a famous Russian ballet company.

She has won several awards- both national and foreign- for her recitals.

One of these awards is a spot in the 1997 Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World in the USA.

She was also given the Order of International Friendship by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2001.

Answer 25

Lisa Macuja – Elizalde

Question 26

She is a pop singer who became famous when Ellen DeGeneres discovered her on YouTube a few years ago.

After a short stint
in the United States, she has returned and is now a popular recording artist.

Answer 26

Charice Pempengco (Jake Zyrus)