LESSON 1

• National Artist Award


  The highest national recognition for the arts in the Philippines, also known as the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining
• National Artist


  A Filipino who has made a significant contribution to the development of Philippine arts in the fields of Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film and Architecture
• A Filipino individual who should have been awarded the highest national recognition for the arts namely, National Artist Award
• Gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining


  The Filipino context for the National Artist Award
• The Order of National Artist Award was established by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No.1001 s.1972
• Categories for the Order of National Artist


  • Music
  • Dance
  • Theater
  • Visual Arts
  • Literature
  • Film and Broadcast Arts
  • Architecture or Allied Arts
• NCCA and CCP


  Institutions that administer the nomination and selection of the chosen artist, which are conferred by the President of the country
• The National Artist award is the country's highest honor delineated to an artist who according to the NCCA, "embodies the nation's highest ideals in the humanities and aesthetic expression through the significant achievements of individual citizens"
• The insignia of the Order of the National Artists is formed from a Grand Collar featuring circular links depicting the arts and an eight-pointed sunburst suspended from a sampaguita wreath in green and white enamel
• The works of National Artists can be found in different University Campuses, such as the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City
• National Artist


  The country's highest honor delineated to an artist who embodies the nation's highest ideals in the humanities and aesthetic expression through the significant achievements of individual citizens
• The Order of National Artist is also known as (Orden ng Gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining
• The Order of the National Artist Award was established by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No.1001


  1972
• Categories in which the National Artist can be categorized


  • Music
  • Theater
  • Visual Arts
  • Film and Broadcasting
  • Literature
  • Architecture
  • Design and Allied Arts
• NCCA and CCP


  Together administer the nomination and selection of the chosen artist which are conferred by the President of the country
• The National Artist award is the country's highest honor delineated to an artist who according to the NCCA, " embodies the nation's highest ideals in the humanities and aesthetic expression through the significant achievements of individual citizens"
• Those who have been proclaimed as National Artists are given a Grand Collar that embodies their status
• Oblation Statue by Guillermo Tolentino


  • Depicts a male nude with arms outstretched as a gesture of sacrifice and freedom
• Paintings by Fernando Amorsolo


  • Romantic paintings of landscapes and portraits
  • Idealized portraits of prominent individuals from Commonwealth Period and the Second World War
• Barter of Panay by Jose Tanig Joya


  • A mural in the Virata School of Business that is rendered in the Abstract Expressionist style and consists of soft overlapping planes of black, white, orange, brown, and golden yellow
• Public Sculptures by Napoleon Abueva


  • Various materials were used, from wood to stone and metal with themes ranging from figurative tableaus to abstract sculptures
• 15 Stations of the Cross by Vicente Manansala


  • Murals portraying Christ and the character surrounding His passion are represented with mildly distorted figures - limbs are elongated, and volume is suggested through solid, hard-edged shapes, lending the compositions cubist quality