The Filipino Artists’ Role and

their Contribution to
Contemporary Arts
Learning Competency:

Explain Filipino Artists’ Roles and

Identify their Contribution to
Contemporary arts
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:
1.Explain Filipino artists’ role in contemporary arts;
and
2.Identify Filipino artists’ contributions to
contemporary arts; and
3.Demonstrate appreciation for Filipino artists and
their contribution to contemporary arts.
What is a National Artist?
 Topics;
- National Artist of the Philippines
- National Living Treasure Award
- The Outstanding Young Men
(TOYM)
- The thirteen Artists Awards
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ARTIST
 PAMBANSANG ALAGAD NG
SINING NG PILIPINAS
- the highest recognition the
Philippine government can
give to a person of the arts.
- Presidential Proclamation
No. 1001, s. 1972
- The Republic of the Philippines, through
the National Commission for Culture and
Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the
Philippines (CCP), established the Order of
the National Artist Award or The
Pambansang Alagad ng Sining ng Pilipinas
on April 27, 1972.
Order of National Artist
- A rank, title and wearable award that
represents the highest recognition given to
Filipinos who have distinct contributions in the
field of arts and letters.
Order of National Artist
- The Insignia of the Order of
National Artist composed of a
Grand Collar featuring circular
links portraying the arts, and
eight-pointed conventionalized
sunburst suspended from a
sampaguita wreath in green
and white enamel.
Order of National Artist
- This award seeks to give honor to Filipino Individuals
without understanding and share the cultural
heritage and cultural identity of the country by means
of their valuable efforts and contribution to Philippine
art specifically in the areas of Visual Art, Dance, Music,
Architecture Design, and Allied Arts, Broadcast and
Film, Theater and Literature.
How do you become a
National Artist?
 CRITERIA FOR THE ORDER OF
NATIONAL ARTISTS
1.living artists who are Filipino citizens at the time of the
nomination, as well as those who died after the
establishment of the award in 1972 but were Filipino
citizens at the time of their death.

2.Artists who, through the content and form of their

works, have contributed to building a Filipino sense of
nationhood.
3. Artists who have pioneered in a mode of creative
expression or style, thus earning distinction, and
making an impact on succeeding generations of artists.

4. Artist who have created a substantial and significant

body of work and/or consistently displayed excellence
in the practice of their art form thus enriching artistics
expression or style; and
5. Artist who enjoyed broad acceptance through:

● prestigious national and/or international recognition,

such as he Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, CCP Thirteen
Artists Award and NCCA Alab ng Haraya;
● Critical acclaim an/or reviews of their works.
● respect and esteem from peers.
Other than the prestigious recognition, National Artists
also receive other benefits such as:

1. The rank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the

President of the Philippines.

2. The insignia of a National Artist and a citation.

3. A lifetime emolument and material and physical benefits

comparable in value to those received by the highest
officers of the land such as:
a. a cash award of One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P100,000.00) net of
taxes, for living awardees.
b. a cash award of Seventy-Five Thousand Pesos
(P75,000.00) net of taxes, for posthumous awardees, payable
to legal heir/s.
c. a monthly life pension, medical and hospitalization benefits.
d. life insurance coverage for Awardees who are still
insurable.
e. a state funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani;
f. a place of honor, in line with proloculus precedence, at
national state functions, and recognition at cultural events.
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR
LITERATURE
1.Amado V. Hernandez (1973)
September 13, 1903 – May 24, 1970
“Makata ng Mangagawa”
- poet, playwright,and novelist, is
among the Filipino writers who
practiced “committed art”.
- 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
2. JOSE GARCIA VILLA (1973)
August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997
- He is considered as one of the finest
contemporary poets regardless of race or
language.
- Introduced the reversed consonance
rhyme scheme, including the comma
poems that made full use of the
punctuation mark in an innovative,poetic
way.
- He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as
pen name, the very characters he
attributed to himself.
3. NICK JOAQUIN (1976)
- Written plays, novels, poems, short
stories and essays including reportage
and journalism.
- As a journalist, Nick Joaquin uses the
name de guerre 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
4. CARLOS P. ROMULO (1982)
January 14, 1899 – December 15, 1985
- Multifaceted career spanned 50 years
of public service as 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.
- 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 The Philippine
Presidents - his oral history of his experiences
serving all the Philippine presidents.
5. FRANCISCO ARCELLANA (1990)
September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002.
- Writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist
and teacher, and 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.
- 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
• Divided by Two
•The Mats
6. ROLANDO S. TINIO (1997)
- 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.
His collections of poetry

• Sitsit sa Kuliglig
• Dunung – Dunungan
• Kristal na Uniberso
• A Trick of Mirrors
7. N.V.M. GONZALES (1997)
(September 8, 1915 – November 28, 1999)
- 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.
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
8. LEVI CELERIO (1997)
(April 30, 1910 – April 2, 20020)
- 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. 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.