Lesson 4

• Artist

  • Professes & practice imaginative art

  • We have beautiful art because of artist

  • Role of artists in the past: Create something that uplifted the spirit, aesthetically pleasing & entertaining

  • Before: Beauty, Now: Reality
• 4 Roles of Filipino Artists

  1. The Personal
  2. The Social
  3. The Physical
  4. The Immaterial
• 1. The Personal

  • Express what the artist feels

  • Real and authentic feelings before making art

  • Negative or positive feelings
• 2. The Social

  • What the artist sees around

  • Society is included in making artworks

  • Not just beauty, includes issues today:

  • Example:

  > Poverty

  > Calamities
• 3. The Physical

  • Not only pleasing but create something useful

  • Practical

  • Have purpose in daily life
• 4. The Immaterial

  • Give form to: immaterial, hidden truth, & spiritual force of world
• Social Realism

  • Creative people make meaningful artworks that have an impact to the audience
• 5 Roles of Filipino Contemporary Artists

  1. The Filipino Artist gives OPINION about the culture of his time
  2. The Filipino Artist is a CRUSADER, Attempting to SWAY the VIEWER to his / her side
  3. The Filipino Artist has become a SOCIAL CRITIC
  4. The Filipino Artist has become an ADVOCATE for what she BELIEVES IN
  5. The Filipino Artist is VERSATILE
• 1. The Filipino Artist gives OPINION about the culture of his time Example: > Nick Quaquin • Quijano de Manila • Manila, My Manila
• 2. The Filipino Artist is a CRUSADER, Attempting to SWAY the VIEWER to his / her side
• 3. The Filipino Artist has become a SOCIAL CRITIC

  • Convey the true condition of society through art

  Example:

  > Corruption, & System of Education
• 4. The Filipino Artisst has become an ADVOCATE for what she BELIEVES IN

  • Agent of change, not just a social critic
• 5. The Filipino Artist is VERSATILE

  • Create not only to realize personal fulfillment but share inner talents

  • Storyteller

  • Narrating eveyday life

  • Preserving history for future generation
• Before Philippine Contemporary Art Era

  • Only few women were to find access in arts
• National Artist of the Philippines

  • Can be counted
• Order of National Artists

  • Established by virtue of Proclamation No. 1001's 1972, under administration of Ferdinand Marcos

  • Highest award by the President to artists
• National Commission for Culture & Arts (NCCA)

  • Organizer
• Fernando Amorsolo

  • 1st Filipino to be awarded as National Artist during 1972
• Qualifications for National Artist


  • Significant body of work
  • Consistently displayed excellence in the practice of their art form
  • Helped build a Filipino sense of nationhood through the content & form of their work
  • Pioneering in a mode of creative expression or style, making an impact in succeeding generations of artists
• National Artist


  Living artist who have been Filipino citizens for the last 10 years prior to nomination as well as those who have died after the establishment of the award in 1972 but were Filipino citizens at the time of death
• National Artist


  • Helped build a Filipino sense of nationhood through the content & form of their work
  • Distinguished themselves by pioneering in a mode of creative expression or style, making an impact in succeeding generations of artists
  • Created a significant body of works or have consistently displayed excellence in the practice of their art form, enriching artistic expression or style
• 4 Qualifications for National Artist

  1. Filipino Citizen
  2. Artwork have impact
  3. Artists started their own style / strategy
  4. Made meaningful artworks through practice of style
• Process on how to be a National Artist (Steps) 1. Announcing about nomination 2. Received by NCCA & CCP to be evaluated 3. Create list of passers and is sent to the Office of the President 4. Proclamation & Certificates 5. Awarding
• Benefits on Being a National Artist

  1. Rank & Title of National Artist, proclaimed by the President
  2. Insignia of National Artist, and Citation
  3. Lifetime of emolument & material & physical benefits comparable in value to those received by the highest officers of the land. Lifetime finacial support & material benefits
• Lifetime finacial support & material benefits: 1. Cash award (P100,000) for living awardees 2. Cast award (P75,00) for posthumous awardees, payable to legal heir 3. Monthly life pension, medical, & hospitalization benefits 4. Life insurance coverage for awardees whi are still insurable 5. State funeral & burial at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani 6. Place of honor & recognition at cultural events
• 6 National Artist of the Philippines 1. Cesar F. Legaspi (t) (1990) • Tree planting 2. Hernando Ocampo (tt) (1991) • Man & Carabao • Ina ng Balon 3. Arturo R. Luz (1997) • Candle Vendors 4. Ang Kuikok (t) (2001) • Angry Figure 5. Benedicto Cabrera (2006) • The Oriental Fan 6. Fernando Amorsolo (tt) (1972) • Planting Rice
• Posthumous Confinement

  • Dead person who received award
• Cesar F. Legaspi (t) (1990)

  • Tree planting
• Hernando Ocampo (tt) (1991)

  • Man & Carabao

  • Ina ng Balon
• Arturo R. Luz (1997)

  • Candle Vendors
• Ang Kuikok (t) (2001)

  • Angry Figure
• Benedicto Cabrera (2006)

  • The Oriental Fan
• Fernando Amorsolo (tt) (1972)

  • Planting Rice