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• National Artist Award - is the highest distinction/MERIT bestowed upon Filipino Artists. 

   
• President Ferdinand E. Marcos through proclamation no.1001 dated April 2, 1972, confers the award to deserving individuals as recommended by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). 
• Fernando Amorsolo Antipolo,

  ·      Depicting Filipinos celebrating a town fiesta. The country had its first National Artist & the official title “Grand Old Man of Philippine Art” 
• Victorio C. Edades

  ·      Emerged as the “Father of Modern Philippine Painting”. 
•  Victorio C. Edades

  ·      Painting distorted human figures in rough, bold impasto strokes, and standing tall and singular in his advocacy and practice of what he believes is creative art 
• Fernando Amorsolo Antipolo

  ·      He developed the backlighting technique that became his trademark where figures, a cluster of leaves, spill of hair, the swell of breast, are seen aglow on canvas.

  ·      Known for his mastery in portraying rural scenes and landscapes, often depicting idyllic and romanticized images of Filipino life.
• Vicente Silva Manansala 

  ·      His paintings are described as visions of reality teetering/SHAKING on the edge of abstraction.
• Vicente Silva Manansala 

  ·      He believes that the beauty of art is in the process, in the moment of doing a particular painting, closely associating it with the act of making love.

  ·      “The climax is just when it’s really finished.”

  ·      He played a pivotal role in advancing Philippine art and promoting national identity.
• Federico Aguilar Alcuaz 

  ·      He is known mainly for his gestural paintings in acrylic and oil, as well as sketches in ink, watercolor and pencil.  
• Federico Aguilar Alcuaz 

  ·      He was also a sculptor of note and has rendered abstract and figurative works in ceramics, tapestries and even in relief sculptures made of paper and mixed media, which he simply calls “Alcuazaics.” 
• Francisco V. Coching 

  ·      Acknowledged as the “Dean of Filipino Illustrators” and son of noted Tagalog novelist and comics illustrator Gregorio Coching, was a master storyteller – in images and in print. 

  ·      His illustrations and novels were products of that happy combination of fertile imagination, a love of storytelling, and fine draftsmanship. 

  ·      He synthesized images and stories informing Philippine folk and popular imagination of culture. His career spanned four decades. 
• Lucrecia R. Urtula

  ·      A choreographer, dance educator and researcher, spent almost four decades in the discovery and study of Philippine folk and ethnic dances. 

  ·      She applied her findings to project a new example of an ethnic dance culture that goes beyond simple preservation and into creative growth. 
• Singkil

  means “to twist the feet with disturbing objects.”
• Ramon A. Obusan

  ·      He was also acknowledged as a researcher, archivist and documentary filmmaker who broadened and deepened the Filipino understanding of his own cultural life and expressions.
• Ramon A. Obusan

  ·      A dancer, choreographer, stage designer and artistic director. 

  ·      He achieved phenomenal success in Philippine dance and cultural work.
• Vamos a Belen : Sama-samang Paggunita at Pagdiriwang
• ·      Vamos a Belen,

  a musical presentation of various way of Filipinos celebrate Christmas. 
• Alice Reyes 

  ·      The name Alice Reyes has become a significant part of Philippine dance parlance / DIALECT. As a dancer, choreographer, teacher and director, she has made a lasting impact on the development and promotion of contemporary dance in the Philippines. 
• Amado V. Hernandez 

  ·      A poet, playwright, and novelist, is among the Filipino writers who practiced “committed art”. 
• 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. 
• Jose Garcia Villa 

  Considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language. 
• JOSE GARCIA VILLA

  He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as penname.
• Nick M. Joaquin 

  ·      Is regarded by many as the most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino. 
• NICK M. JOAQUIN

  -Pen name, De Guerre Quijano de Manila
• NICK M. 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. 
• Carlos P. Romulo 

  ·      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.
• Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez

  ·      A better known as N.V.M. Gonzalez, fictionist, essayist, poet, and teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in rural, urban landscapes. 
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  As envisioned in Republic Act No. 7355 

  Known as Manlilikha ng Bayan Act was established in 1992 and shall mean citizen engaged in any traditional art uniquely Filipino, whose distinct skills have reached such a high level of technical and artistic excellence, and have passed it on to in his or her community with the same degree of technical and artistic competence. 
• National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) 

  The highest policy and coordinating body for culture and the arts of the state. It has to search for the finest traditional artist of the land who adopts a program that will ensure the transfer of their skills to others, undertakes measures to promote a genuine appreciation of and crafts and give pride among our people about the genius of Manlilikha ng Bayan. 
• The Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) Awardees

  These are Filipino citizen who is engaged in any traditional art forms and has contributed to the development of cultural diversity and the creativity of humanity.
• GINAW BILOG 

  ·      Surat Mangyan and Ambahan poetry 
• MASINO INTARAY

  ·      Epic Chanter and Storyteller 
• SAMAON SULAIMAN

  ·      Playing Kudyapi 
• LANG DULAY

  ·      T’nalak Weaving 
• SALINTA MONON

  ·      Inabal Weaving
• UWANG AHADAS

  ·      Playing Yakan Instruments 
• FEDERICO CABALLERO

  ·      Chanting the Sugidanon Epic of the Panay Bukidnon 
• ALONZO SACLAG

  ·      Playing Kalinga Musical Instruments 
• HAJJA AMINA APPI

  ·      Mat weaving 
• EDUARDO MUTOC

  ·      Metal Plating