THE NATIONAL ARTIST

FOR TANGIBLE ARTS

THE NATIONAL ARTIST FOR THE
TANGIBLE ARTS
 The Order of National Artists (Order ng
Pambansang Alagad ng Sining) is the
highest national recognition given to
Filipino individuals who have made
significant contributions to the development
of Philippine arts.
Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts,
Literature, Film, Broadcasting, and
Architecture & Allied Arts.
THE NATIONAL ARTIST FOR THE
TANGIBLE ARTS

The order is jointly administered by the

National Commission for Culture and the
Arts ( NCCA ) and the Cultural Center of
the Philippines ( CCP ) and conferred by the
President of the Philippines upon
recommendation by both institutions.
National Artists are given a Grand Collar
symbolizing their status. Likened to the US
National Medal for the Arts and the Order of
Culture of Japan, the recipients embody the
highest ideals of humanities and aesthetics and
ideal expression of Filipinos as exemplified by
their outstanding works and contributions.
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THE NATIONAL ARTIST
FOR TANGIBLE ARTS
THE NATIONAL ARTIST FOR

ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
The style in which a building is designed and
constructed, especially with regard to a specific
period, place, or culture
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR ARCHITECTURE

1. PABLO ANTONIO (1976 )

January 25, 1901 - June 14, 1975
- A modernist pioneer and iconoclast.
- Radically changed the course of Philippine
architecture by boldly defying the well-
established American neoclassicism in the
Philippines in the 1930’s.
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR ARCHITECTURE
PABLO ANTONIO
2. LEANDRO V. LOCSIN (1990)
August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994
-His works are characterized by pure
rational compositions that demonstrate
a mastery of minimalist elemental
geometry of floating mass. - Five
buildings designed by Leandro V. Locsin
The Cultural Center of the Philippines, Folk
Arts Theater, Philippine International
Convention Center, Philcite and The Westin
Hotel (now Sofitel Philippine Plaza).
3. JUAN F. NAKPIL (1973)
May 26, 1899 - May 7, 1986
Architect, teacher, and civic leader is a pioneer
and innovator in Philippine architecture.
Major works:
 Geronimo de los Reyes Building
 Magsaysay Building,
 Rizal Theater
 Manila Jockey Club
 Philippine Village Hotel
 UP Administration and University Library
 Reconstruction of Rizal house in Calamba, Laguna
4. ILDEFONSO P. SANTOS, JR. (2006)
September 5, 1929 – January 29, 2014
 Tagaytay Highland Resort
 Mt. Malarayat Golf
 Country Club in Lipa, Batangas
 Orchard Golf and Country Club in Imus, Cavite.
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR
HISTORICAL LITERATURE
LITERATURE
These are written works, especially
those considered of superior or
lasting artistic merit.
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR HISTORICAL LITERATURE

1. CARLOS QUIRINO ( 1997 )

January 14, 1910 - May 20, 1999 A
historical fictionist and biographer, is
the son of Jose Quirino and Dolores
Lozada, and the former nephew
of former President
Elpidio Quirino.
CARLOS QUIRINO ( 1997 )
Best known books:
• Quezon, Man of Dignity ( 1935 )
• The Great Malayan ( 1940 )
• Magsaysay and the Philippines ( 1958 )
• Philippine Cartography( 1959 )
• Damian Domingo: First Eminent Filipino
Painter ( 1961 )
• Maps and Views of Old Manila (1971)
• History of the Philippine Sugar Industry ( 1974)
• Filipino Heritage: The Making of a Nation
• Filipinos at War
• The Fight of Freedom from Mactan to EDSA
(1981)
2. FRANCISCO ARCELLANA (1990)
September 6, 1916 – August 1 , 2002
 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”.
 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).
3. NICK JOAQUIN ( 1976)
May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004
 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.
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.VIRGILIO ALMARIO (2003)
Also known as Rio Alma, 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.
VIRGILIO ALMARIO WORKS
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR
VISUAL ART ( SCULPTURE )
SCULPTURE
The art of making two- or three-
dimensional representative or abstract
forms, especially by carving stone or wood
or by casting metal or plaster.
1.NAPOLEON ABUEVA ( 1976)
The youngest National Artist awarded and considered as
the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture, Abueva has
helped shape the local sculpture scene to what it is now.
Being adept in either academic representational style or
modern abstract.
NAPOLEON ABUEVA ( 1976)
Utilized almost all kinds of materials from hard wood
(molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil, kamagong, palm
wood and bamboo) to adobe, metal, stainless steel,
cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster, coral and brass.
Major works includes:
Kaganapan (1953) Kiss of
Judas (1955)
The Transfiguration
(1979)
Eternal Garden Memorial Park (1967) Nine
Muses (1994)
UP Faculty Center
Sunburst (1994)
 2. GUILLERMO TOLENTINO ( 1973 )
 Guillermo E. Tolentino 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.
3. ABDULMARI IMAO ( 2006 )

Abdulmari Imao
earned his Masters of
Fine Arts in Sculpture,
major in Metal Brass
Casting
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR
VISUAL ART ( PAINTING )
1.FERNANDO C. AMORSOLO (1972)
Born on May 30, 1892 in Calle
Herran in Paco, Manila to Pedro
Amorsolo and Bonifacia
Cueto. Although
born in the nation’s capital
Amorsolo would spend most of
his childhood in the small of Daet
in Camarines
Norte where his love for the
simple rural life would become the
foundation for his
artistic output for which he is most
well-known.
AMORSOLO’S major
Maiden
works in :a Stream(1921)-GSIS collection
El Ciego (1928)-Central Bank of the Philippines collection
Dalagang Bukid (1936) – Club Filipino collection
The Mestiza (1943) – National Museum of the Philippines
Planting Rice (1946)-UCPB collection
Sunday Morning Going to Town (1958)-Ayala Museum
2.CARLOS V. FRANCISCO ( 1973)
The poet of Angono, single-handedly revived the forgotten art of mural
and remained its most distinguished practitioner for nearly three
decades. In panels such as those that grace the City Hall of Manila,
Francisco turned fragments of the historic past into vivid records of the
legendary courage of the ancestors of his race.
 “Modernist artists” forming with Victorio C. Edades &
Galo Ocampo what was then known in the local art circles as
“The Triumvirate”.
 Botong’s Unerring eye for composition, the lush tropical
sense of color and an abiding faith in the folk values typified by
the townspeople of Angono became the hallmark of his art.
His other major works include the following:
Portrait of Purita
Muslim Betrothal
Blood Compact
First Mass at Limasawa The
Martyrdom of Rizal
Bayanihan, Magpupukot
Fiesta, Bayanihan sa Bukid,
Sandugo.
3. ANG KIUKOK ( 2001 )
 One of the most vital and dynamic figures who emerged
during the 60s. As one of those who came at the heels of
the pioneering modernists during that decade.
 Ang Kiukok blazed a formal & iconographic path of his
own through expressionistic works of high visual impact
and compelling meaning.
Some of his works :
• Geometric Landscape (1969);
• Pieta, (won bronze medal in the 1st International Art
Exhibition held in Saigon (1962)
• The Seated Figure (1979) : auctioned at Sotheby’s in Singapore
His works can be found in many major art collections, among
them the Cultural Center of the Philippines, National
Historical Museum of Taipei, and the National Museum in
Singapore.
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FRANCISCO COCHING (2014)
“ The Father of Philippine Comics ”
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 His comic strips spiced up the slices of Filipino
lives with witty illustrations executed throughout
his 56 years of cartooning.
 He created over 500 characters and 20 comic
strips in widely circulated publications.
 Alcala’s most iconic work, Slice of Life, not
only made for decades long of widely
circulated images of Filipino everyday life.