SAN SEBASTIAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SAN SEBASTIAN, SAMBOAN, CEBU

S.Y. 2022-2023

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

NAME: BALBONA, WILFREDO N . DATE: 09-25-22

GRADE & SECTION: 12-HUMILITY SCORE:

NATIONAL ARTIST IN THE PHILIPPINES

(SCULPTURE)

1.Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva 1976 (January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018)
was known as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture" Through
Proclamation No. 1539. He was proclaimed National Artist for Sculpture in
1976 when he was 46, making him the youngest recipient of the award to date.

Some of his Works:

➢ Kaganapan (1953)
➢ Kiss of Judas (1955)
➢ UP Gateway (1967)
➢ Thirty Pieces of Silver
➢ The Transfiguration (Eternal Gardens Memorial Park) (1979)

2. Abdulmari Asia Imao 2006 (January 14, 1936 – December 16, 2014)
was a Filipino painter and sculptor. Imao was named National Artist of the Philippines
for Sculpture in 2006. A Tausūg, Imao is the first Moro to receive the recognition.
Aside from being a sculptor, Imao is also a painter, photographer, ceramist, cultural
researcher, documentary film maker, writer, and a patron of Philippine Muslim art and
culture.

Some of his Works:

➢ Industry Brass Mural, Philippine National Bank, San Fernando, La Union.
➢ Mural Relief on Filmmaking, Manila City Hall.
➢ Industrial Mural, Central Bank of the Philippines, San Fernando, La Union.
➢ Sulu Warriors (statues of Panglima Unaid and Captain Abdurahim Imao), 6 ft., Sulu
Provincial Capitol.
3. Guillermo Estrella Tolentino 1973 (July 24, 1890 – July 12, 1976)
was a Filipino sculptor and professor of the University of the Philippines. He
was designated as a National Artist of the Philippines for Sculpture in 1973,
three years before his death.

Some of his Works:

➢ UP Oblation.
➢ Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan.
➢ Designs for the gold and bronze medals of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
➢ Design for the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

4. Frederico Aguilar Alcuaz 2009 (June 6, 1932 – February 2, 2011)

was a Filipino painter who exhibited extensively Internationally and whose work
earned him recognition both in the Philippines and abroad. Alcuaz was conferred the
title of National Artist for Visual Arts, Painting, Sculpture and Mixed Media in 2009.
However, four nominees for the award other than Alcuaz became embroiled in the
2009 National Artist of the Philippines Controversy, which led the Supreme Court of
the Philippines to temporarily issue a status quo order on August 25, 2009, blocking
the conferment of the awards on all seven nominees - despite the fact that no
objections were ever raised regarding the conferment of the award to Alcuaz and two
other nominees.

Some of his Works:

➢ Solo Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, 1956
➢ Solo Exhibition, Galerias Layetanas Barcelona, 1956
➢ Solo Exhibition, Galerias Manila Barcelona, 1956
➢ Solo Exhibition, Hispanic Cultural Hall Madrid, 1957
➢ Solo Exhibition, Galerias Layetanas Barcelona, 1957
➢ Solo Exhibition, Galeria Dintel, 1957
➢ Solo Exhibition, Galeria Dintel, 1958
Name: Anarisa C. Patcho
Grade Level: 12
Section: Humility
Date: 09/26/22
FILIPINO NATIONAL ARTIST IN THE PHILIPPINES (LITERATURE)

1. Francisco Arcellana

Francisco Arcellana, writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist, and teacher, is one of the
most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English. He
pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form. For
Arcellana, the pride of fiction is “that it is able to render truth, that is able to present
reality”. Arcellana kept alive the experimental tradition in fiction, and had been most
daring in exploring new literary forms to express the sensibility of the Filipino people.
A brilliant craftsman, 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).

Some of his short stories are Frankie, The Man Who Would Be Poe, Death in a
Factory, Lina, A Clown Remembers, Divided by Two, The Mats, and his poems being
The Other Woman, This Being the Third Poem This Poem is for Mathilda, To Touch
You and I Touched Her, among others.

2. Edith L. Tiempo
 A poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic, Edith L. Tiempo is one of the finest
Filipino writers in English. Her works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style
and substance, of craftsmanship and insight. Born on April 22, 1919 in Bayombong,
Nueva Vizcaya, her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant
experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, “The Little
Marmoset” and “Bonsai”. As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language
has been marked as “descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing.” She is an
influential tradition in Philippine literature in English. Together 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.

Tiempo’s published works include the novel A Blade of Fern (1978), The Native Coast
(1979), and The Alien Corn (1992); the poetry collections, The Tracks of Babylon and
Other Poems (1966), and The Charmer’s Box and Other Poems(1993); and the short
story collection Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964).

3. Bienvenido Lumbera

Bienvenido Lumbera, is a poet, librettist, and scholar.

*As a poet, he introduced to Tagalog literature what is now known as Bagay poetry, a
landmark aesthetic tendency that has helped to change the vernacular poetic
tradition. He is the author of the following works: Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa (poems
in Filipino and English), 1993; Balaybay, Mga Tulang Lunot at Manibalang, 2002; Sa
Sariling Bayan, 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. As a scholar, his major books include the
 following: Tagalog Poetry, 1570-1898: Tradition and Influences in its Development;
Philippine Literature: A History and Anthology, Revaluation: Essays on Philippine
Literature, Writing the Nation/Pag-akda ng Bansa.

*(taken from the citation)

4. NVM Gonzalez

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez, better known as N.V.M. Gonzalez, fictionist, essayist,
poet, and teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in rural, urban landscapes. Among the
many recognitions, he won the First Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940, received
the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1960 and the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in
1990. The awards attest to his triumph in appropriating the English language to
express, reflect and shape Philippine culture and Philippine sensibility. He became
U.P.’s International-Writer-In-Residence and a member of the Board of Advisers of the
U.P. Creative Writing Center. In 1987, U.P. conferred on him the Doctor of Humane
Letters, honoris causa, its highest academic recognition.

Major works of N.V.M Gonzalez include the following: The Winds of April, Seven Hills
Away, Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories, The Bamboo Dancers,
Look Stranger, on this Island Now, Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty -One Stories, The
Bread of Salt and Other Stories, Work on the Mountain, The Novel of Justice: Selected
Essays 1968-1994, A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories.

5.Virgilio S. Almario

Virgilio S. Almario, also known as Rio Alma, is a poet, literary historian and critic, who
has revived and reinvented traditional Filipino poetic forms, even as he championed
modernist poetics. In 34 years, he has published 12 books of poetry, which include
the seminal Makinasyon and Peregrinasyon, and the landmark trilogy Doktrinang
Anakpawis, Mga Retrato at Rekwerdo and Muli, Sa Kandungan ng Lupa. In these
works, his poetic voice soared from the lyrical to the satirical to the epic, from the
dramatic to the incantatory, in his often severe examination of the self, and the
society.

He has also redefined how the Filipino poetry is viewed and paved the way for the
discussion of the same in his 10 books of criticisms and anthologies, among which
are Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina, Balagtasismo versus Modernismo, Walong
Dekada ng Makabagong Tula Pilipino, Mutyang Dilim and Barlaan at Josaphat.

Many Filipino writers have come under his wing in the literary workshops he founded
–the Galian sa Arte at Tula (GAT) and the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo
(LIRA). He has also long been involved with children’s literature through the Aklat
Adarna series, published by his Children’s Communication Center. He has been a
constant presence as well in national writing workshops and galvanizes member
writers as chairman emeritus of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL).

But more than anything else, what Almario accomplished was that he put a face to the
Filipino writer in the country, one strong face determinedly wielding a pen into
untruths, hypocrisy, injustice, among others.

6. Cirilo F. Bautista

Cirilo F. Bautista is a poet, fictionist and essayist with exceptional achievements

and significant contributions to the development of the country’s literary arts. He
is acknowledged by peers and critics, and the nation at large as the foremost
writer of his generation.

Throughout his career that spanned more than four decades, he established a
reputation for fine and profound artistry; his books, lectures, poetry readings and
creative writing workshops continue to influence his peers and generations of
young writers.

As a way of bringing poetry and fiction closer to the people who otherwise would
not have the opportunity to develop their creative talent, Bautista held funded and
unfunded workshops throughout the country. In his campus lecture circuits,
Bautista updated students and student-writers on literary developments and
techniques.
 As a teacher of literature, Bautista realized that the classroom is an important
training ground for Filipino writers. In De La Salle University, he was instrumental
in the formation of the Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Center. He was also the
moving spirit behind the founding of the Philippine Literary Arts Council in 1981,
the Iligan National Writers Workshop in 1993, and the Baguio Writers Group.

Thus, Bautista contributed to the development of Philippine literature: as a writer,

through his significant body of works; as a teacher, through his discovery and
encouragement of young writers in workshops and lectures; and as a critic,
through his essays that provided insights into the craft of writing and correctives
to misconceptions about art.

Major works: Summer Suns (1963), Words and Battlefields (1998), The Trilogy of
Saint Lazarus (2001), Galaw ng Asoge (2003).

7. Nick Joaquin

Nick Joaquin, is regarded by many as the most distinguished Filipino writer in

English writing so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino. Nick
Joaquin has also enriched the English language with critics coining
“Joaquinesque” to describe his baroque Spanish-flavored English or his
reinventions of English based on Filipinisms. Aside from his handling of language,
Bienvenido Lumbera writes that Nick Joaquin’s significance in Philippine literature
involves his exploration of the Philippine colonial past under Spain and his
probing into the psychology of social changes as seen by the young, as
exemplified in stories such as Doña Jeronima, Candido’s Apocalypse and The
Order of Melchizedek. Nick Joaquin has written plays, novels, poems, short stories
and essays including reportage and journalism. As a journalist, Nick Joaquin uses
the nom de plume Quijano de Manila but whether he is writing literature or
journalism, fellow National Artist Francisco Arcellana opines that “it is always of
the highest skill and quality”.

Among his voluminous works are The Woman Who Had Two Navels, A Portrait of
the Artist as Filipino, Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young, The Ballad of the
Five Battles, Rizal in Saga, Almanac for Manileños, Cave and Shadows.

8. Amado V. Hernandez
 Amado V. Hernandez, poet, playwright, and novelist, is among the Filipino writers
who practiced “committed art.” In his view, the function of the writer is to act as
the conscience of society and to affirm the greatness of the human spirit in the
face of inequity and oppression. Hernandez’s contribution to the development of
Tagalog prose is considerable — he stripped Tagalog of its ornate character and
wrote in prose closer to the colloquial than the “official” style permitted. His novel
Mga Ibong Mandaragit, first written by Hernandez while in prison, is the first
Filipino socio-political novel that exposes the ills of the society as evident in the
agrarian problems of the 50s.

Hernandez’s other works include Bayang Malaya, Isang Dipang Langit, Luha ng
Buwaya, Amado V. Hernandez: Tudla at Tudling: Katipunan ng mga Nalathalang
Tula 1921-1970, Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas at Iba Pang Kuwento ni Amado V.
Hernandez, Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol at Iba Pang Akda ni Amado V.
Hernandez.

9. Lazaro Francisco

Prize-winning writer Lazaro A. Francisco developed the social realist tradition in

Philippine fiction. His eleven novels, now acknowledged classics of Philippine
literature, embodies the author’s commitment to nationalism. Amadis Ma.
Guerrero wrote, “Francisco championed the cause of the common man,
specifically the oppressed peasants. His novels exposed the evils of the tenancy
system, the exploitation of farmers by unscrupulous landlords, and foreign
domination.” Teodoro Valencia also observed, “His pen dignifies the Filipino and
accents all the positives about the Filipino way of life. His writings have
contributed much to the formation of a Filipino nationalism.” Literary historian and
critic Bienvenido Lumbera also wrote, “When the history of the Filipino novel is
written, Francisco is likely to occupy an eminent place in it. Already in Tagalog
literature, he ranks among the finest novelists since the beginning of the 20th
 century. In addition to a deft hand at characterization, Francisco has a supple
prose style responsive to the subtlest nuances of ideas and the sternest stuff of
passions.”

Francisco gained prominence as a writer not only for his social conscience but
also for his “masterful handling of the Tagalog language” and “supple prose
style”. With his literary output in Tagalog, he contributed to the enrichment of the
Filipino language and literature for which he is a staunch advocate. He put up an
arm to his advocacy of Tagalog as a national language by establishing the
Kapatiran ng mga Alagad ng Wikang Pilipino (KAWIKA) in 1958.

His reputation as the “Master of the Tagalog Novel” is backed up by numerous

awards he received for his meritorious novels in particular, and for his
contribution to Philippine literature and culture in general. His masterpiece novels
—Ama, Bayang Nagpatiwakal, Maganda Pa Ang Daigdig and Daluyong—affirm his
eminent place in Philippine literature. In 1997, he was honored by the University of
the Philippines with a special convocation, where he was cited as the “foremost
Filipino novelist of his generation” and “champion of the Filipino writer’s struggle
for national identity.”

10. F. Sionil Jose

F. Sionil Jose’s writings since the late 60s, when taken collectively can best be described as
epic. Its sheer volume puts him on the forefront of Philippine writing in English. But
ultimately, it is the consistent espousal of the aspirations of the Filipino–for national
sovereignty and social justice–that guarantees the value of his oeuvre.
In the five-novel masterpiece, the Rosales saga, consisting of The Pretenders, Tree, My
Brother, My Executioner, Mass, and Po-on, he captures the sweep of Philippine history while
simultaneously narrating the lives of generations of the Samsons whose personal lives
intertwine with the social struggles of the nation. Because of their international appeal, his
works, including his many short stories, have been published and translated into various
languages.

F. Sionil Jose is also a publisher, lecturer on cultural issues, and the founder of the
Philippine chapter of the international organization PEN. He was bestowed the CCP
Centennial Honors for the Arts in 1999; the Outstanding Fulbrighters Award for Literature in
1988; and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative
Communication Arts in 1980.
11.Carlos P. Romulo

Carlos P. Romulo‘s multifaceted career spanned 50 years of public service as an educator,

soldier, university president, journalist, and diplomat. It is common knowledge that he was
the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, then Philippine
Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later minister of foreign affairs. Essentially though,
Romulo was very much into writing: he was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of
20, and a publisher at 32. He was the only Asian to win America’s coveted Pulitzer Prize in
Journalism for a series of articles predicting the outbreak of World War II. Romulo, in all,
wrote and published 18 books, a range of literary works which included The United (novel), I
Walked with Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother America, I See
the Philippines Rise (war-time memoirs).

His other books include his memoirs of his many years’ affiliations with United Nations (UN),
Forty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN, and The Philippine Presidents, his oral history
of his experiences serving all the Philippine presidents.

12. Jose Garcia Villa

Jose Garcia Villa is considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of
race or language. Villa, who lived in Singalong, Manila, introduced the reversed
consonance rime scheme, including the comma poems that made full use of the
punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way. The first of his poems “Have Come,
Am Here” received critical recognition when it appeared in New York in 1942 that,
soon enough, honors and fellowships were heaped on him: Guggenheim, Bollingen,
the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards. He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle,
Lion) as pen name, the very characters he attributed to himself, and the same ones
explored by e.e. cummings in the poem he wrote for Villa (Doveglion, Adventures in
Value). Villa is also known for the tartness of his tongue.
Villa’s works have been collected into the following books: Footnote to Youth,Many
Voices, Poems by Doveglion, Poems 55, Poems in Praise of Love: The Best Love
Poems of Jose Garcia Villa as Chosen By Himself, Selected Stories,The Portable Villa,
The Essential Villa, Mir-i-nisa, Storymasters 3: Selected Stories from Footnote to
Youth, 55 Poems: Selected and Translated into Tagalog by Hilario S. Francia.

13. Alejandro Roces

Alejandro Roces, is a short story writer and essayist and considered as the
country’s best writer of comic short stories. He is known for his widely
anthologized “My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken.” In his innumerable newspaper
columns, he has always focused on the neglected aspects of the Filipino cultural
heritage. His works have been published in various international magazines and
have received national and international awards.

Ever the champion of Filipino culture, Roces brought to public attention to the
aesthetics of the country’s fiestas. He was instrumental in popularizing several
local fiestas, notably, Moriones and Ati-atihan. He personally led the campaign to
change the country’s Independence Day from July 4 to June 12, and caused the
change of language from English to Filipino in the country’s stamps, currency,
and passports, and recovered Jose Rizal’s manuscripts when they were stolen
from the National Archives.

His unflinching love of country led him to become a guerilla during the Second
World War, to defy martial law and to found the major opposition party under the
dictatorship. His works have been published in various international magazines
and received numerous national and international awards, including several
decorations from various governments.

14.Rolando S. Tinio
Rolando S. Tinio, playwright, thespian, poet, teacher, critic, and translator marked
his career with prolific artistic productions. Tinio’s chief distinction is as a stage
director whose original insights into the scripts he handled brought forth
productions notable for their visual impact and intellectual cogency.

Subsequently, after staging productions for the Ateneo Experimental Theater (its
organizer and administrator as well), he took on Teatro Pilipino. It was to Teatro
Pilipino which he left a considerable amount of work reviving traditional Filipino
drama by re-staging old theater forms like the sarswela and opening a treasure-
house of contemporary Western drama. It was the excellence and beauty of his
practice that claimed for theater a place among the arts in the Philippines in the
1960s.

Aside from his collections of poetry (Sitsit sa Kuliglig, Dunung – Dunungan,

Kristal na Uniberso, A Trick of Mirrors) among his works were the following: film
scripts for Now and Forever, Gamitin Mo Ako, Bayad Puri and Milagros; sarswelas
Ang Mestisa, Ako, Ang Kiri, Ana Maria; the komedya Orosman at Zafira; and
Larawan, the musical.

15. Levi Celerio

Levi Celerio is a prolific lyricist and composer for decades. He effortlessly

translated/wrote anew the lyrics to traditional melodies: “O Maliwanag Na
Buwan” (Iloko), “Ako ay May Singsing” (Pampango), “Alibangbang” (Visaya)
among others.

Born in Tondo, Celerio received his scholarship at the Academy of Music in

Manila that made it possible for him to join the Manila Symphony Orchestra,
becoming its youngest member. He made it to the Guinness Book of World
Records as the only person able to make music using just a leaf.

A great number of his songs have been written for the local movies, which
earned for him the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Academy of the
Philippines. Levi Celerio, more importantly, has enriched the Philippine music
for no less than two generations with a treasury of more than 4,000 songs in an
idiom that has proven to appeal to all social classes.

16. Resil B. Mojares

 A teacher and scholar, essayist and fictionist, and cultural and literary
historian, Resil Mojares is acknowledged as a leading figure in the promotion
of regional literature and history. As founding director of the Cebuano Studies
Center—an important research institution which placed Cebu in the research
and documentation map—he pioneered Cebuano and national identity
formation. As a leading figure in cultural and literary history, he networked
actively in many organizations. For over 50 years, Mojares has published in
diverse forms (fiction, essay, journalism, scholarly articles, and books) across
a wide range of discipline (literature, history, biography, cultural studies, and
others). To date, he has 17 published books (3 more in the press) and edited,
co-edited, or co-authored 11 books, and written numerous articles for popular
and scholarly publications.

Notable Works:

Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A Generic Study of the Novel Until 1940
(Quezon City, UP Press, 1983; second ed. 1998)
The Man Who Would Be President: Serging Osmeña and Philippine Politics
(Cebu: Maria Cacao, 1986)
Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on Philippine Cultural History
(Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2002)
Theater in Society, Society in Theater: Social History of a Cebuano Village,
1840-1940 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1985)
The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899-
1906 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1999)
House of Memory: Essays (Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1997)
Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los
Reyes and the Production of Modern Knowledge
(Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006)
Isabelo’s Archive (Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2013).

17. Ramon L. Muzones

Ramon Muzones was a Hiligaynon poet, essayist, short story writer, critic, grammarian,
editor, lexicographer, and novelist who authored an unprecedented 61 completed novels. A
number of these represent groundbreaking “firsts’ in Hiligaynon literature such as the
feminist Ang Bag-ong Maria Clara, the roman a clef Maambong Nga Sapat (Magnificent
Brute,1940), the comic Si Tamblot (1946), the politically satirical Si Tamblot Kandidato Man
(Tamblot is Also a Candidate, 1949), the 125- installment longest serialized novel Dama de
Noche (1982-84), etc. Hailed by his peers as the longest reigning (1938-1972) among “the
three kings of the Hiligaynon novel,” Muzones brought about its most radical changes while
ushering in modernism. With a literary career that spanned fifty-three years (1938-1990), his
evolution covers the whole history of the Hiligaynon novel from its rise in the 1940s to its
decline in the 1970s. Muzones tried his hand at a variety of types and proved adept in all as
literary fashions. In the process, he not only extended with remarkable versatility and
inventiveness the scope and style of the Hiligaynon novel, but he also enriched Hiligaynon
literature’s dramatis personae.

Notable Works:

Shri-Bishaya (1969)
Malala nga Gutom (Malignant Hunger,1965)
Babae Batuk sa Kalibutan (Woman Against the World,1959)
Ang Gugma sang Gugma Bayaran (Love with Love Be Paid, 1955)
Si Tamblot (1948)
Margosatubig (1946)
Name: Anarisa C. Patcho
Grade Level: 12
Section: Humility
Date: 09/26/22
FILIPINO NATIONAL ARTIST IN THE PHILIPPINES (SCULPTURE)

1.Napoleon Abueva

At 46 then, Napoleon V. Abueva, a native of Bohol, was the youngest National Artist
awardee. Considered as the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture, Abueva helped
shape the local sculpture scene to what it is now. Being adept in either academic
representational style or modern abstract, he has utilized almost all kinds of materials
from hardwood (molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil, kamagong, palm wood and
bamboo) to adobe, metal, stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster,
coral and brass. Among the early innovations, Abueva introduced in 1951 was what he
referred to as “buoyant sculpture” — sculpture meant to be appreciated from the
surface of a placid pool. In the ’80s, Abueva put up a one-man show at the Philippine
Center, New York. His works have been installed in different museums here and
abroad, such as The Sculpture at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

Some of his major works include Kaganapan (1953), Kiss of Judas (1955),Thirty
Pieces of Silver, The Transfiguration (1979), Eternal Garden Memorial Park, UP
Gateway (1967), Nine Muses (1994), UP Faculty Center, Sunburst (1994)-Peninsula
Manila Hotel, the bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of National Library, and
murals in marble at the National Heroes Shrine, Mt. Samat, Bataan.

2. Abdulmari Asia Imao

A native of Sulu, Abdulmari Asia Imao is a sculptor, painter, photographer,

ceramist, documentary filmmaker, 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. His U.P. art education introduced him to Filipino masters like Guillermo
Tolentino and Napoleon Abueva, who were among his mentors.

With his large-scale sculptures and monuments of Muslim and regional heroes
and leaders gracing selected sites from Batanes to Tawi-tawi, Imao has helped
develop among cultural groups trust and confidence necessary for the building of
a more just and humane society.

Selected works:

Industry Brass Mural, Philippine National Bank, San Fernando, La Union

Mural Relief on Filmmaking, Manila City Hall
Industrial Mural, Central Bank of the Philippines, San Fernando, La Union
Sulu Warriors (statues of Panglima Unaid and Captain Abdurahim Imao), 6 ft., Sulu
Provincial Capitol

3. Guillermo Tolentino

Guillermo Estrella Tolentino is a product of the Revival period in Philippine art.

Returning from Europe (where he was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts,
Rome) in 1925, he was appointed as professor at the UP School of Fine Arts where
the idea also of executing a monument for national heroes struck him. The result
was the UP Oblation that became the symbol of freedom at the campus.
Acknowledged as his masterpiece and completed in 1933, The Bonifacio
Monument in Caloocan stands as an enduring symbol of the Filipinos’ cry for
freedom.

Other works include the bronze figures of President Quezon at Quezon Memorial,
life-size busts of Jose Rizal at UP and UE, marble statue of Ramon Magsaysay in
GSIS Building; granolithics of heroic statues representing education, medicine,
forestry, veterinary science, fine arts and music at UP.

He also designed the gold and bronze medals for the Ramon Magsaysay Award
and did the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

These were the awards given to Guillermo Tolentino:

1959 - UNESCO Cultural Award in Sculpture
1963 - Patnubay ng Sining t Kalinangan Award
1967 - Republic Cultural Heritage Award
1970 - Presidential Medal of Merit
1972 - Diwa ng Lahi Award
1973 - National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts in Sculpture

4. Federico Aguilar y Alcuaz

Federico Aguilar y Alcuaz, who signed his works as Aguilar Alcuaz was an artist of
voluminous output. 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 preference to use his maternal name was more for practical
reasons; Alcuaz was rarer than the name Aguilar, and thus ensured better recall; it
was also simpler to drop the customary y between the two names.

Alcuaz belongs to the second generation of Filipino modernists after the fabled
Thirteen Moderns, credited along with Jose Joya, Constancio Bernardo, Fernando
Zobel, and Arturo Luz, for building a significant body of abstract art from the
arguably more tentative efforts of their predecessors. Alcuaz went to the UP
College of Fine Arts in Diliman while also taking up his pre-law course at San Beda
College. Napoleon Abueva, Jose Joya and Juvenal Sanso were also in school with
him at that time, studying under Fernando Amorsolo, Guillermo Tolentino, Irineo
Miranda, Constancio Bernardo, and Toribio Herrera. He would go on to win prizes
at UP and at the national Shell Art competition, and embarked on several solo
exhibits after graduating from San Beda

Alcuaz would go on in 1955 to obtain a law degree at the Ateneo de Manila in

Padre Faura, Manila in deference to his father’s wishes, but after mounting an
exhibit at the legendary Philippine Art Gallery, he received a fellowship from the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Spain and proceeded to study at the Academia de
Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where other Filipino expatriates like Juan
Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fernando Amorsolo, Fabian dela Rosa and Jose
Ma. Asuncion received similar classical training.
After his studies, he stayed on to live and familiarize himself with the art and
culture of Europe. He had exhibits in Madrid and then in Barcelona, where he met
his future wife Ute Schmidt who he married in 1959. They have three children. In
1964, the family moved to Manila, but after 4 years his wife returned to Germany
with their three sons, whereupon, Alcuaz embarked once more on shuttling
between Europe to see his family and mount exhibits, and then to Manila, where
he preferred to do his studio at the Manila Hilton (now the Manila Pavilion).

His works are highly favored, not only for its studied refinement and European flair
but also for the ease and pleasure conveyed by his choice of light, color, and
composition; all of which add up to scenes which are always quite playful but
never cluttered. His love for classical music is also apparent in this constant
fluidity.

Awards:

1st Prize, UPCFA Art Competition, 1953

ST Prize, Roadside Squatters, 4th SNSAC Modern Painting Category, 1954
1st Prize, Montcada Award Barcelona, 1957
Francisco Goya Award, Cercle Maillol Barcelona, 1958
Republic Cultural Heritage Award, 1965
2nd Prize Prix Vancell, 4th Biennial of Terrassa (Barcelona Spain), 1959