Carl Daris M.

Trinidad
12 ABM D
WEEK 5
WRITTEN WORK (30%): Evaluating Learning
Activity: Appreciate the roles of the artists in the development, preservation,
and promotion of the Philippine Arts by writing an essay about your ideal
agency. (15pts)
If you will be given the opportunity to create and establish a new agency that
would promote and preserve the arts of the Philippine region, what will you call it
and what would be its focus?

If I were to be given the opportunity to create a new agency that would promote
and preserve the arts of the region, it would be called “Philippine Arts, Culture
and History Council” with the abbreviation “PACHC”. This agency would focus on
conserving the country’s various forms of art, culture and practices and
information regarding significant events. It would consist of council members who
will make sure that the function and objectives of the agency are successfully
accomplished. Aside from preservation and conservation, the agency will also
promote the arts and culture of the Philippines and ensure that they would still
be existent for the future generations to see. PACHC will also disseminate current
knowledge about Philippine history and culture to every Filipino, especially
students, to generate recognition, awareness and appreciation of the country’s
colorful and momentous evolution and development. Hence, in order to fulfill its
functions, the PACHC will initiate various ideas and projects. One proposed
project would be the arts exhibit. This project would display different forms of
artistic expression which are all created by Filipino artists. These will include
paintings, photographs, sculptures, music and dance which all showcase the
culture and everyday lives of Filipinos. Moreover, PACHC will also hold events
with interested attendees who will be given chances to inspect closely and
experience various Philippine culture and art. Through this agency, the
preservation and promotion of arts and culture in the Philippines will hopefully be
achieved.

PERFORMANCE TASK (70%): Evaluating Learning

Directions: Explain the Filipino artists’ roles and contribution in Architecture and
Literature
artforms in contemporary art in essay form. (15pts)
NAME OF ARTIST ROLES STYLE CONTRIBUTION
1. Leandro S. National Artist for reshaped the Locsin’s largest
Antonio Architecture, urban single work is the
landscape with a Istana Nurul
distinctive Iman, the palace
architecture of the Sultan of
reflective Brunei, which has
of Philippine Art a floor area of 2.2
and Culture. million square
feet. The CCP
Complex itself is a
virtual Locsin
Complex with all
five buildings
designed by him
— the Cultural
Center of the
Philippines, Folk
Arts Theater,
Philippine
International
Convention
Center,
Philcite and The
Westin Hotel
(now Sofitel
Philippine Plaza).
 It is this synthesis
that
underlies all his
works, with his
achievements in
concrete
reflecting his
mastery of space
and scale. Every
Locsin Building is
an original, and
identifiable as a
Locsin with
themes of
floating volume,
the duality of light
and heavy,
buoyant and
massive running
in his major
works. From 1955
to 1994, Locsin
has produced 75
residences and 88
buildings,
including
11 churches and
chapels, 23 public
buildings, 48
commercial
buildings, six
major hotels,
and an airport
terminal building.
2. Juan Nakpil architect, teacher, He has integrated He designed the
and civic strength, function, 1937 International
leader is a pioneer and beauty Eucharistic
 and innovator in in the buildings Congress altar and
Philippine that are the rebuilt and
architecture. country’s heritage enlarged the
today. Quiapo Church in
1930 adding a
dome and a
second belfry to
the original
design. Nakpil’s
greatest
contribution is
his belief that
there is such a
thing as Philippine
Architecture,
espousing
architecture
reflective of
Philippine
traditions and
culture.
3. Francisco writer, poet, brilliant He pioneered the
Arcellana essayist, craftsman, development of
critic, journalist, the short story as
and teacher, a lyrical
prose-poetic
form. his works
are
now an
indispensable part
of a tertiary-level-
syllabi all over the
country.
Arcellana’s
published books
are Selected
Stories (1962),
 Poetry and
Politics: The State
of Original
Writing in English
in the Philippines
Today (1977), The
Francisco
Arcellana
Sampler(1990).
4. Edith L. Tiempo A poet, fictionist, Her works are She is an
teacher and characterized by a influential
literary remarkable fusion tradition
of style in Philippine
and substance, of literature in
craftsmanship and English. Together
insight. with
her late husband,
Edilberto K.
Tiempo, she
founded and
directed the
Silliman National
Writers
Workshop in
Dumaguete City,
which has
produced some of
the country’s best
writers.
5. Bienvenido a poet, librettist, As a poet, he a
Lumbera and scholar. introduced to landmark
Tagalog literature aesthetic
what is now tendency that has
known as Bagay helped
poetry, a to change the
landmark vernacular poetic
aesthetic tradition. He is
tendency that has the author of the
helped to change following works:
the vernacular Likhang Dila,
poetic tradition Likhang Diwa
(poems in Filipino
and
English), 1993;
Balaybay, Mga
Tulang Lunot at
Manibalang, 2002;
Sa Sariling Bayan,

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Apat na Dulang
May Musika,
2004; “Agunyas sa
Hacienda Luisita,”
Pakikiramay,
2004.
As a librettist for
the Tales of the
Manuvu and
Rama Hari, he
pioneered the
creative
fusion of fine arts
and popular
imagination