PATEROS CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Senior High School Department

F. Imson St., Barangay San Pedro, Pateros, Metro Manila
First Semester, SY 2021-2022

Humanities and Religious Education Department

CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS
(CPAR)

Module 10

Class Number: B-9

Name of Student: Jibrael Keith E. Balicha Score: _________________
Grade and Section: 12 – St. Agatha Teacher: Ma’am Yago

Topic:
 National Artists for Visual Art

Objective:

 Explains Filipino artists’ roles and identify their contribution to contemporary art
 Promotes arts from the regions

NATIONAL ARTISTS FOR VISUAL ART

Filipino painters including Juan Luna, whose agitated works helped inspire a sense of
Filipino nationalism in the late 19th century; Fernando Amorsolo, who is known for his traditional rural scenes;
the muralists Carlos V. Francisco and Vicente Manansala; and the modernists Victorio Edades and Arturo
Rogerio Luz. Among sculptors, Guillermo Tolentino and Napoleon Abueva are prominent.

In this work sheet, let’s explore some of our national artists and their contributions in the development
of Philippine visual arts.

1. Log on to the internet and visit the following website:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlxb9TWlWw0

http://www.artnet.com/artists/benedicto-cabrera/
2. Character Analysis
Using a character analysis, describe “Sabel”, a major subject that recurs through BenCab’s
works for decades that become his vehicle for the transmission of intensely emotional moods.
Analyze the different faces of Bencab’s Sabel below, what character/ emotion does it convey?
 Character Analysis

personification

dignity despair

isolation dislocation

3. How did Bencab used the character for self- expression?

He observes and sketches from his window in Bambang a bag lady/madwoman/scavenger named Sabel. To
him she is a symbol of dislocation, despair& isolation – the personification of human dignity threatened by
circumstances. Undergoing numerous transformations over the coming years, she becomes a landmark for
every stylistic painting transition.