ACTIVITY 3: RESEARCH ON NATIONAL ARTISTS

There are a lot of other artists in the country who have contributed to the art and culture of
the Phiippines. Make a research about the different National Artist in our country.

NESTOR VICENTE MADALI “N.V.M” GONZALEZ

BIRTH AND DEATH: September 8, 1915 - November 28, 1999

YEAR AWARDED: 1997
CATEGORY: Literature
PLACE OF BIRTH: Romblon Province

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez, better known as N.V.M. Gonzalez, fictionist, essayist, poet, and
teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in rural, urban landscapes. Among the many recognitions, he won the first
Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940, received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1960, and the Gawad
CCP Para sa Sining in 1990. The awards attest to his triumph in appropriating the English language to express,
reflect and shape Philippine culture and Philippine sensibility. He became U.P.’s International-Writer-In-Residence
and a member of the Board of Advisers of the U.P. Creative Writing Center. In 1987, U.P. conferred on him the
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, its highest academic recognition.

MAJOR WORKS:
 The Winds of April  Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-One Stories
 Seven Hills Away  The Bread of Salt and Other Stories
 Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories  Work on the Mountain
 The Bamboo Dancers  The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994
 Look Stranger, on this Island Now  A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories

JOSE MARIA V. ZARAGOZA

BIRTH AND DEATH: December 6, 1912 - November 26, 1994

YEAR AWARDED: 2014
CATEGORY: Architecture
PLACE OF BIRTH: Quiapo, Manila

Jose Maria V. Zaragoza’s place in Philippine architecture history is defined by a significant body of
modern edifices that address spiritual and secular requirements. Zaragoza’s name is synonymous to modern
ecclesiastical architecture. Notwithstanding his affinity to liturgical structures, he greatly excelled in secular works:
36 office buildings, 4 hotels, 2 hospitals, 5 low-cost and middle-income housing projects; and more than 270
residences – all demonstrating his typological versatility and his mastery of modernist architectural vocabulary

Zaragoza is a pillar of modern architecture in the Philippines buttressed by half-century career that
produced ecclesiastical edifices and structures of modernity in the service of god and humanity.

MAJOR WORKS:

 Meralco Building (Pasig City)  Quiapo Church Expansion

 Sto. Domingo Church and Convent (Quezon City)  Casino Espanol de Manila Building
 Metropolitan Cathedral of Cebu City  National Library of the Philippines (contributed)
 The Bamboo Dancers  Bataan Power Plant (contributed)
 Villa San Miguel, Mandaluyong  Union Church of Manila
 HERNANDO R. OCAMPO

BIRTH AND DEATH: April 28, 1911 - December 28, 1978

YEAR AWARDED: 1991
CATEGORY: Visual Arts
PLACE OF BIRTH: Manila

Hernando Ocampo was a man whose name connotes excellence in the arts – be it in literature, news
papering or painting, but especially painting (Visual Arts)

A self-taught painter, Hernando R. Ocampo was a leading member of the pre-war Thirteen
Moderns, the group that charted the course of modern art in the Philippines. His works provided an understanding
and awareness of the harsh social realities in the country immediately after the Second World War and contributed
significantly to the rise of nationalist spirit in the post-war era. It was however, his abstract works that left an
indelible mark on Philippine modern art. His canvases evoked the lush Philippine landscape, its flora and fauna,
under the sun and rain in fierce and bold colors. He also played a pivotal role in sustaining the Philippine Art
Gallery, the country’s first.

MAJOR WORKS:
 Genesis  Man and Carabao
 Inang Balon  Angel’s Kiss
 Calvary  Palayok at Kalan
 Slum Dwellers  Ancestors
 Nude with Candle and Flower  The Resurrection

ISHMAEL BERNAL

BIRTH AND DEATH: September 30, 1938 - June 2, 1996

YEAR AWARDED: 2001
CATEGORY: Cinema
PLACE OF BIRTH: Manila

Ishamel Bernal was a filmmaker of the first order and one of the very few who can be truly called a
maestro. Critics have hailed him as “The Genus of Philippine Cinema”

He is recognized as a director of films that serves as social commentaries and bold reflections on the
existing realities of the struggle of the Filipino. His art extends beyond the confines of aesthetics. By polishing its
visuals, or innovating in the medium, he manages to send his messages across: to fight the censors, free the artists,
give justice to the oppressed, and enlighten as well as entertain the audience.

He was recognized as the director of the decade of the 1970’s by the Catholic Mass Media Awards;
four-time best Director by the Urian Awards (1989, 1985, 1983, and 1977); and given the ASEAN Cultural Award in
Communication Arts in 1993.

MAJOR WORKS:

 Pahiram ng Isang Umaga  Relasyon

 Broken Marriage  Ikaw Ay Akin
 Himala  Hinugot sa Langit
 City After Dark  Working Girls
 Nunal sa Tubig  Shake, Rattle & Roll
 RAMON P. SANTOS

BIRTH: February 25, 1941

YEAR AWARDED: 2014
CATEGORY: Music
PLACE OF BIRTH: Pasig City

Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer, conductor and musicologist, is currently the country’s foremost
exponent of contemporary Filipino music. A prime figure in the second generation of Filipino composers in the
modern idiom. Santos has contributed greatly to the quest for new directions in music, taking as basis non-Western
traditions in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

MAJOR WORKS:
 Music for Two Pianos and Four Percussions  Abot Tanaw
 Copacabana  Klintang
 Sujeichon  Pal’ok
 Strata  Daragang Magayon
 Du’a  Tuksuhan

ALICE REYES

BIRTH: October 14, 1942

YEAR AWARDED: 2014
CATEGORY: Dance
PLACE OF BIRTH: Manila

The name of Alice Reyes has become significant part of Philippine dance parlance. She is the founder
of ballet Philippines, she received since June 20, 2014 from the Philippine president Benigno Aquino III the highest
award in the arts, National Artist of the Philippines. As a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director, she has
made a lasting impact on the development and promotion of contemporary dance in the Philippines. Her dance
legacy is evident in the dance companies, teachers, choreographers and the exciting Filipino modern dance
repertoire of our coutry today.

MAJOR WORKS:
 Amada  Bayanihan Remembered
 At a Maranao Gathering  Carmina Burana
 Itim-Asu  Cinderella
 Tales of the Manuvu  Romeo and Juliet
 Rama Hari  Bungkus Suite

WILFRIDO MA. GUERRERO

BIRTH AND DEATH: January 22, 1911 - April 28, 1995

YEAR AWARDED: 1991
CATEGORY: Theater
PLACE OF BIRTH: Ermita, Manila

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero is a teacher and theater artist whose 35 years of devoted professorship has
produced the most sterling luminaries in Philippine performing arts today. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which
have been published. His unpublished plays have either been broadcast over the radio or staged in various parts of
the Philippines

MAJOR WORKS:
 Half an Hour in a Convent  In Unity
 Wanted: A Chaperon  Deep in My Heart
 Forever  Three Rats
 Condemned  Our Strange Ways
 Perhaps  Frustrations