National artists

• Order of the National Artists

  Highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts
• Order of the National Artists

  • Proclamation No. 1001, s. 1972
  • Administered by the National Commision for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
  • The president grants this award
• Criteria for Order of the National Artists

  • Natural born filipino
  • Those died after 1972 but were filipinos
  • Filipino who re aquired filipino citizenship through dual citizenship for minimum of 5 years
  • Artists who contributed in building filipino sense of nationhood thru their works
  • Artists who have created a substantial and significant body of works
  • Artists who enjoy broad acceptance through national/international recognition, critical acclaim/reviews of their works, respect and esteem from peers
• Honors and Privileges of Order of the National Artists

  • National Artist title
  • National Artist gold plated medallion
  • Minimum cash award of 200,000 (living awardees) and 150,000 (posthumous awardees)
  • Minimum lifetime personal monthly stipend of 30,000
  • Life insurance
  • State of funeral benefit not exceeding 500,000
  • Place of honor in state functions, national commemoration ceremonies, and cultural presentations
• Insignia of the Order of National Artists

  Red, white, and blue medallion with three stylized letter Ks, the KKK
• Fernando Amorsolo is the "grand old man of philippine art"
• Benedicto Cabrera is the "best selling painter of his generation"
• Francisco Coching is the "king of komiks" and the "dean of filipino illustrators"
• Victorio Edades is the "father of modern philippine painting", his works use black and somber colors and depict laborers
• Guillermo Tolentino is the "father of philippine arts", he designed the gold and bronze medals for the Ramon Magsaysay Award
• Napoleon Abueva is the "father of modern philippine sculpture" and the youngest National Artist awardee
• Nick Joaquin is the "most distinguished filipino writer in english writing" and is known as "Joaquinesque"
• Levi Celerio holds the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first person to make music using a leaf
• Lazaro Francisco is the "master of tagalog novel", his novels exposed the evils of the tenancy system, exploitation of farmers, and foreign domination
• Francisca Reyes is the "mother of philippine folk dancing", her thesis was on Philippine folk dances and games
• Leonor Orosa Goquingco is the "trailblazer", "mother of philippine theater dance", and the "dean of filipino arts critics", her works show a trend of returning to native, Javanese garden, sports, and vinta
• Honorata Atang De La Rama is the "queen of kundiman" and the "sarswela and kundiman expresses best the Filipino soul", she starred in the sarswela "Dalagang Bukid" at age 15
• Gerardo De Leon is the "most awarded film director in the history of FAMAS Awards", his films include Daigdig ng mga api, El Filibusterismo, Dyesebel, and Sisa
• Ishmael Bernal is the "the genuis of philippine cinema", his films serve as social commentaries and showed bold reflections on the existing realities of the struggle of the Filipino
• Lamberto Avellana is the "boy wonder of philippine movies", he was the first National Artist for Film and the first to use motion picture to establish point of view
• Salvador Bernal is the "guru of contemporary filipino theater design", he designed more than 300 productions using local materials like bamboo and abaca
• Cesar Legaspi is a pioneer "neo-realist"
• Jose T. Joya pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines
• Carlos Botong Francisco revived the forgotten art of mural, his works include Portrait of Purita, Invasion of Limahong, Serenade, Sandugo, Bayanihan, Camote Diggers, and Blood Compact
• Abdulmari Asia Imao is the first Moro to receive the National Artist award, through his works the indigenous ukkil, sarimanok and naga motifs have been popularized
• Jose Villa introduced the reversed consonance rhyme scheme and is known as the "comma poet"
• Rolando S. Tinio is the sole inventor of "Taglish" and his Tagalog poem collection is "Bagay"
• Alejandro Roces is the "best writer of comic short stories", he popularized local fiestas like "Moriones" and "Ati Atihan" and led the campaign to change independence day
• Francisco Sionel Jose is "one of the most widely read filipino writers in the english language", his works depict social underpinnings, class struggles, and colonialism
• Carlos P. Romulo was the first Asian president of the UN General Assembly, he was a reporter at 16, newspaper editor at 20, publisher at 32, and the only Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism
• Bienvenido Lumbera introduced "bagay poetry" to Tagalog literature and pioneered the creative fusion of fine arts and popular imagination
• Carlos Quirino was the first recipient of the National Artist award for historical literature, he wrote "The Great Malayan", the earliest biography of Jose Rizal, and other works like Maps and Views of Old Manila, Quezon; Man of Destiny, Magsaysay of the Philippines
• Andrea Veneracion spearheaded the development of choral music in the Philippines and founded the Philippine Madrigal Singers
• Ramon Santos is the country's foremost exponent of contemporary Filipino music and a prime figure in the second generation of Filipino composers in the modern idiom
• Lucrecia Roces Kasilag pioneered the discovery of Filipino roots through ethnic music and fusing western influences, she founded the Bayanihan Folk Arts Center
• Francisco Arcellana pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form, and said "the pride of fiction is that it is able to render truth that is able to present reality"
• Severino Montano was a forerunner in institutionalizing "legitimate theater" in the Philippines
• Jovita Fuentes was known for her portrayal of Cio-cio San in Madame Butterfly in Italy, which was hailed as "most sublime interpretation of the part", and placed the Philippines on the map in terms of performing