contemporary arts

==National Artists of the Philippines for Literature==

• $Amado V. Hernandez$ - manunulat ng manggagawa

Mga Ibong Mandaragit, Isang Dipang Langit, Luha ng Buwaya

• $Jose Garcia Villa$ - comma poet

  - doveglion - dove, eagle, lion
  * Footnote To Youth
  * Many Voices
  * Have Come
  * Am Here
  * The Anchored Angel

• $Nick Joaquin$ - pen name: Quijano de Manila
    * The Summer Solstice
    * The Woman Who Had 2 Navels
    * Ballads of the Five Battles
• $Carlos P. Ramulo -$ 1st Asian President of the UN General Assembly and the Philippine Ambassador to US

  - The only Asian to win the Putilizer Prize for Journalism (WWII)
  * I Saw the Fall of the Philippines
  * I Walked With Heroes
  * Mother America
  * I See the Philippines Rise

==National Artists of the Philippine Architecture==

• $Philippine Architecture$ - reflect the country’s cultural heritage and the need to adapt to the environment
• $Pablo S. Antonio$
    * one of the leaders in modern Philippine Architecture
    * his works are simple and functional
    * most of his design used clean and smooth lines

    works:
  * FEU Administration and Science Building
  * White Cross Orphanage

• $Leandro V. Locsin$
    * one of the modern artists who shaped the modern Philippine architecture
    * themes of floating volume, heavy, massive

    works:
  * Cultural Center of the Philippines
  * Istana Nurul Iman - Palace of the Sultan, located in Brunei

• $Juan F. Nakpil$
    * Father of Philippine Architecture
    * First National Artist of Phiilippine Architecture

    works:
  * Reconstructed the Quiapo Church
  * Reconstructed the Rizal Shrine

• $Ildefonso P. Santos Jr.$
    * the most recognized landscape architect of the Philippines
    * landscape architect - enhances public outdoor places, landmarks, and structures by contouring the environment

    works:
  * Paco Park, Metro Manila
  * Tagaytay Highland Landscape

• $Jose Maria Zaragosa$
    * the country’s 82nd licensed architect
    * played a key role in the reconstuction of post war philippines

    works:
  * Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City
  * Meralco Building

• $Francisco T. Manosa$
    * Father of Philippine Neovernacular Architecture

    works:
  * The Coconut Palace
  * EDSA Shrine
  * Manosa Family Home

==National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts==

• $Visual Arts$ - refers to art form that expresses their message, meaning and emotion through visual means
• $Philippine Visual Art$ - a confluence of both ethnic and western tradition in the treatment of subject and the use of medium
• $Church$ - informal museum in the past
• $Napoleon Abueva$
    * considered as “Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture”
    * youngest National Artist Awardee at 46

  ^^works:^^
  * The Transfiguration at the Eternal Garden Memorial Park
  * Nine Muses
  * Kiss of Judas

• $Ang Kiukok$
    * A Filipino painter known for his experessive, cubist like works

    ^^works^^
  * Pieta
  * Dog Fight

• $Victor C. Edades$
    * Father of Modern Phlippine Painting

    ^^works:^^
  * Mother and Daughter
  * The Sketch

• $Vicente S. Manansala$
    * was an extraordinary illustrator and cubist

    ^^works:^^
  * Bird Man
  * Madonna of the Slums

• $Hernando R. Ocampo$
    * A self-taught painter
    * a leading member of post ar moderns

    ^^works:^^
  * Genesis
  * Revelation

• $Fernando C. Amorsolo$
    * Grand Old Man of Philippine Art
    * rich rural landscape of the Philippine landscape

    ^^works:^^
  * Planting Rice
  * Sunday Morning Going to Town

• $Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco$
    * Most distinguished practitioner of Mural Painting also known for historical pieces

    ^^works:^^
  * First Mass at Limasawa
  * The Martyrdom of Rizal

• $Arturo R. Luz$
    * Abstract painter, subject matter is local color and people in the street

    ^^works:^^
  * Street Musicians
  * Magbabanig

• $Abdulmari Asia Imao$
    * A native of Sulu, a sculptor and painter
    * First Moro to receive recognition

    ^^works:^^
  * Sarimanok
  * Fish

• $Francisco Coching$
    * one of the pillars of Philippine Komiks Industry
    * King of Komiks
    * Dean of Philippine Illustrates

  ^^works:^^
  * Pedro Penduko