National Artist & Their Contributions to Particular Areas

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fragmented figures in larger planes, color harmonies, and texture

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Cubism

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his canvases were described as masterpieces that brought the cultures of the barrio and the city together

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Vicente Manansala

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• primarily features pieced together from muted monochromatic shapes
• also awarded as presidential merit award

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Romeo Tabuena

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• consistently tackling issues of social injustice

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Cesar Legaspi

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the highest national recognition given to filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of philippine arts

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Order ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining

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• Father of Modern Filipino Sculpture
• Youngest artist to receive the honor

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Napoleon Abueva

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artist who worked with realism and experimental devices

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Benedicto Cabrera “Ben Cab”

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known as genius of glass sculpting

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Ramon Orlina

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was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality

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Surrealism

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• He, along with Victorio C. Edades and Carlos V. Francisco, painted the mural “Rising Philippines” in the lobby of the Capitol Theater in Manila.

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Juvenal Sanso and Galo Ocampo

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conductor of the Philippine army band

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Antonio Buenaventura

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The Philippine army band was tagged as

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the only band that can sound like a symphony orchestra.”

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• Musical career was focused on understanding & popularizing Filipino traditional music.

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Jose Maceda

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• Fused western influences to Philippine ethnic music.
• Integrated ethnic instruments in her orchestral productions.

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Lucresia Kasilag

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• incorporated kundiman elements in his ballad love songs.
• many of his works served as the theme songs & musical scores for numerous Filipino movies that led to his fame.

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Ernani J. Cuenco

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• lyricist and wrote a wide range of songs of different themes.
• composed an estimate of 4000 musical works
• started playing a violin @ 11 y/old

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Levi Celerio

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• NATIONAL ARTIST KNOWN FOR MAKING MUSIC USING A LEAF.
• WAS INCLUDED IN THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS FOR SUCH TALENT.

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Levi Celerio

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combined Philippine indigenous instruments & vocals or orchestral instruments and other instruments from foreign nations like the Javanese gamelan.
COMPOSED WORKS THAT INTERWEAVED ASIAN CULTURE, DRAMA, POETRY, AND DANCE.

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Ramon Santos

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is an orchestra of 60-plus musical instruments - bronze gongs and metallophones, drums, wooden flute and two-stringed fiddle - which together create a rich, distinctive sound.

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Javanese Gamelan

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• Fold dance pioneer of the country
• Mother of Philippine Folk Dancing
• was awarded by former president Ramon Magsaysay the republic award merit

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Francisca Reyes Aquino

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promoted the Philippine ethnic dances and performed them with respect and authenticity.

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Ramon Obusan

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• Mother of Contemporary Dance

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Alice Reyes

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also known as “trailblazer (pioneer/innovator),” “mother of Philippine theater dance, and ”dean of Filipino performing arts critics,”

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Leonor Orosa Goquingco

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• First lady of the Philippine Theater

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Daisy Avellana

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Became the administrator of the Ateneo Experimental Theater.

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ROLANDO TINIO

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• Queen of Kundiman
  -orphaned at an early age
• grew up under the care of her elder sister

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Honorata “Atang” Dela Rama

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exceptional theater designer who designed hundreds of theater production for 4 decades.

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Salvador F. Bernal

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• titan of the Philippine theater
• took the lead in promoting “legitimate theater” in the country.

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Severino Montano

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“grand old man of the Philippine art”

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Fernando Amorsolo

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• The painting features farmers set on a rice field, regardless of their gender, they are all together working under a bright sunny day.

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Planting Rice

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— or the maiden in the rice field shows a medium brown-skinned woman portraying the Maria Clara image

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Dalagang Bukid

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created the up oblation, which became the representation of the academic freedom of the university.

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Guillermo Tolentino

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It is a kind of poetry which uses colloquial language and is built on concrete images which tend to describe experiences.

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The “BAGAY” Movement

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It is a long narrative piece about a peasant leader. Oppression and fighting for human rights are the main themes of the said piece.

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ANG BAYANG MALAYA

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The nationalist spirit of writers arouse.

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Marshall Law Period

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English poems in the Philippines were influenced by the works of American and British poets.

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CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

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Focused on the self-consciousness and self-expression.

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SHORT STORIES

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use vernacular language.
- depicts the lives of the working class.

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CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

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Focused on the Sociopolitical themes.

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Novels

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• Criticism, literacy

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ESSAYS

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Mostly classical due to the influence of the European.

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MUSIC