report group 2

contemporary arts

by group 2

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Francisco "Franz" Arcellana

Birth and death: (September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) Year Awarded: The University of the Philippines conferred upon Arcellana a doctorate in humane letters, honors cause in 1989. Francisco Arcellana was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines in Literature on June 23, 1990 by then Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino. Category: lyrical prose-poetic Place of birth: Manila

Background:Arcellana is the fourth of 18 siblings in the family of Jose Arcellana y Cabaneiro and Epifanio Quino. He started studying in Tondo and became proficient in writing while attending Tondo Intermediate School; but it was only honed when he attended Manila West High School (now Florentino Torres High School) when The Torres Torch merged with their school newspaper. He continued his writing while studying at the University of the Philippines. He married Emerenciana Yuvienco and had six children. His son Juaniyo is also a writer and poet. Major Works: He pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form. ... Arcellana's published books are Selected Stories (1962), Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977), The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990).

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DAISY H. AVELLANA

birth and date: January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013 year awarded: 1999 category: actress and theater director place of birth: Capiz, Capiz (now Roxas City)

background: She was a Filipino stage actress and theater director. Avellana was honored as a National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film in 1999. Her husband was Lamberto Avellana, a film and stage director who was also named a National Artist in 1976. Daisy and Lamberto Avellana co-founded the Barangay Theater Guild (BTG), together with forty-eight colleagues, in 1939. Avellana was one of the first graduates of the UST Graduate School with Master of Arts (MA) in English. Avellana died on May 12, 2013, at the age of 96. Major Works: Nick Joaquin's Portrait of the Artist as Filipino directorial credits include Diego Silang Sakay (1939)

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Catalino Brocka

Birth and Death: Catalino Ortiz Brocka, better known as Lino Brocka April 3, 1939, He died on May 21, 1991 at the age of 52 in a car accident in Quezon City. Year Awarded: First award in 1953, The FAMAS Award for Best Director is one of the major FAMAS Awards, given to the film director who has shown great artistic instincts, choices and excellence in assembling his or her motion picture. And in 1958 The Sutherland Trophy was created in 1958 by the British Film Institute as an annual award for "the maker of the most original and imaginative film introduced at the National Film Theatre during the year".[1] In 1997, the criteria changed to honor the maker of the most original and imaginative first feature screened during the London Film Festival. Category: greatest film directors of the Philippines and National Artist for Films (1997). Place Birth: Brocka was born in Pilar, Sorsogon. He grew up and lived in San Jose, Nueva Ecija.

Background: Catalino Ortiz Brocka, more famously known as Lino Brocka, was one of the Philippines' greatest auteurs. He was born in Pilar, Sorsogon in 1939. His father Regino, who was a huge influence on Brocka, teaching him Math’s and English as well as the Arts, was killed in a political murder when Brocka was still young. - Manila in the Claws of Light - You Are the Mother of Your Daughter' Mo (Filipino: Ina Ka ng Anak) is a 1979 Filipino film - This Is My Country (Filipino: Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) Major Works: • “Santiago” (1970) • “Wanted: Perfect Mother” (1970) • “Tubog sa Ginto” (1971) • “Stardoom” (1971) • “Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang” (1974) • “Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag” (1975) • “Insiang” (1976), “Jaguar” (1979) • “Bona” (1980), “Macho Dancer” (1989) • “Orapronobis” (1989) • “Makiusap Ka sa Diyos” (1991)

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Antonino R. Buenaventura

Year Awarded: He composed the Symphony of C that won him the Cultural Heritage Award in 1966. He was a pioneer in the research on Philippine Ethnic and Folk Music. Category: composer, conductor, music director, teacher Place of Birth: Baliuag, Bulacan, Philippine Islands

Background: -He was born in a family of musicians; his father Lucino Buenaventura was a musician at the Spanish Artillery Band in Intramuros. -He studied under Nicanor Abelardo at the University of the Philippines Diliman Conservatory of Music and graduated in 1932 with a Teacher's Diploma in Music, major in Science and Composition and became an assistant instructor at the Conservatory. -He also studied composition for a post-graduate degree under Jenő Takács. -After the war he became conductor of the devastated Philippine Constabulary Band for 16 years and he brought it back to its former glory. Major Works:  “Triumphal March  “History Fantasy,”  Ode to Freedom

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Levi Celerio

Year Awarded: On October 9, 1997, pursuant to Proclamation No. 1114, President Fidel V. Ramos proclaimed him a National Artist for Music and Literature. His citation read that his music "was a perfect embodiment of the heartfelt sentiments and valued traditions of the Filipino". Category: Filipino composer and lyricist Place of Birth: Tondo, Philippines

Background: - Levi Celerio was born on April 30, 1910, in Tondo, Philippines to Cornelio Cruz and Juliana Celerio and was born to a poor family. - Celerio's affinity for music was a result of influence from his mother who is a harpist and a member of a church choir. - He was estranged from his father who is involved in the real estate and jewelry business. His father was never married to his mother. - Celerio became a close acquaintance of gang leader Asiong Salonga. At his mother's encouragement, Celerio started playing the violin at age 11 taking lessons from a member of the Philippine Constabulary Band. Major Works: -“O Maliwanag Na Buwan” (Iloko) - “Ako ay May Singsing” (Pampango), - “Alibangbang” (Visaya)

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Lucio D. Dan Pedro

Birth and Death: February 11, 1913 – March 31, 2002 Year Awarded: San Pedro was given the title professor emeritus by the University of the Philippines College of Music in 1979. He received the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan from the City of Manila in 1984 and the ASEAN Award for Music and Papal Award in 1990. National Artist of the Philippines for music in 1991. Category: Filipino Composer, Teacher and Conductor Place of Birth: Angono, Rizal, Philippines Islands U.S

Background: • He was the conductor of the much acclaimed Peng Kong Grand Mason Concert Band, the San Pedro Band of Angono, his father’s former band, and the Banda Angono Numero Uno. • His other vocation was teaching. He has taught at the Ateneo de Manila University, virtually all the major in music conservatories in Manila, and at the college of Music of the University of the Philippines, Diliman. • He also became a faculty member of the Centro Escolar University Conservatory of Music in Manila. • Sand Pedro was known for composing the official march of Makati Major Works: • The Devil’s Bridge • Easter Cantata • Dance of the Fairies

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Gerardo “Gerry” De Leon

Birth & Death: September 12, 1913 - July 25, 1981 Year Awarded: 1972 Winner AMAS Award Best Director lilet (1971), 1963 Winner FAMAS Award Best Director, El filbusterismo (1962), best Screenplay El filibusterismo (1962), Shared with:Adrian Cristobal & Jose Flores Sibal, 1962 Winner AMAS Award Best Director noli me tángere (1961), 1957 Nominee faMAS Award Best Director Ang buhay at pag-ibig ni Dr. Jose Rizal (1956) and 1952 Winner Maria Clara Award Best Director Sisa (1951) Category: National Artist for Cinema and film director

Background: He was a director and actor, known for Noli me tángere (1961), Huwag Mo Akong Limutin (1960) and El filibusterismo (1962). A National Artist in the Philippines. The most-awarded director in the history of the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences: 7 awards. Father of Liberty Ilagan. Major works: Sawa sa Lumang Simboryo (1952), Hanggang sa Dulo ng Daigdig (1958), Huwag Mo Akong Limutin (1960), Noli Me Tangere (1961, adapted from the novel of the same title), El Filibusterismo (1962), Daigdig ng Mga Api (1965), and Lilet (1971). One of his unfinished projects was Juan de la Cruz (1972) with Fernando Poe Jr.

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HONORATA “ATANG” DELA RAMA

Birth & Death: January 11, 1902 – July 11, 1991 Year Awarded: In 1979, she was hailed as Queen of Kundiman, and in 1987, she was awarded as National Artist for Theater and Music. June 11, 1987 is an important date in the history of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. It was the day Ka Atang (de la Rama) was named National Artist for Music and Theater, with no less than President Corazon Aquino bestowing the honors. Category: National Artist for Theater and Music (1987) Place of birth: Pandacan, Manila

Background: Started her career at age seven after being cast in Spanish zarzuelas such as "Mascota", "Sueño de un Vals" and "Marina". She starred in several veladas, a literary musical program.She was an actress, known for Mahiwagang binibini: Ang kiri (1939), Dalagang bukid (1919) and Oriental Blood (1930). She died on July 11, 1991 in the Philippines. In 1979 (age 74), Atang was formally honored as the Queen of Kundiman. Major works: In 1979, she was hailed as Queen of Kundiman, being cast in "Mascota", "Sueño de un Vals" and "Marina". She starred in several veladas, a literary musical program.She was an actress, known for Mahiwagang binibini: Ang kiri (1939), Dalagang bukid (1919) and Oriental Blood (1930).

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Néstor Vicente Madali González

Birth and Death: September 8, 1915 – November 28, 1999 Year Awarded: Conferred as the National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 1997. Category: Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist and, poet. Place of Birth: Romblon, Philippines

Background:• González wrote for the Philippine Graphic and later edited for the Evening News Magazine and Manila Chronicle. • González made his mark in the Philippine writing community as a member of the Board of Advisers of Likhaan: the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center • Founding editor of The Diliman Review and as the first president of the Philippine Writers' Association. Major Works: • The Winds of April • Seven Hills Away • Children of the Ash-Covered Loam

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Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

Birth and Death: January 22, 1911 – April 28, 1995 Year Awarded: Guerrero received three national awards: the Rizal Pro-Patria Award in 1961, the Araw ng Maynila Award in 1969, and the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1972. Category: Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist Place of Birth: Ermita, Manila

Background: • Wrote his first play at the age of 14 in Spanish, entitled No Todo Es Risa. This play was produced at the Ateneo de Manila University when he was 15. • In 1962, he organized and directed the U.P. Mobile Theater, which traveled around the Philippines to give performances. • He is the first Filipino to have a theater named after him within his lifetime, the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater of the University of the Philippines. Major Works: • Movie Artists • "Wanted: A Chaperone." • "Forever"

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LUCRECIA KASILANG

Birth and death: 31 August 1917 to 16 August 2008 to her death. Year awarded: Artistic Director and later President of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Chairman of the League of Filipino Composers and of the Asian Composers League, founder of the National Music Competitions for Young Artists, and board member of the UNESCO International Music Council and of the International Society for Music Education, co-founder of the Bayanihan National Dance Company and the dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts of the Philippine Women’s University. Category: Filipino composer. conductor. musicologist. pianist. music pedagogue. Place of birth: San Fernando, La Union

Background:• Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La Union, in 1918 and studied at the Philippine Women’s University and at St. Scholastica’s College before further study at Eastman School of Music. • She occupied a leading position in music in the Philippines as a composer, a teacher, a writer and an administrator. • She was president and artistic director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex and was dean emeritus of the Philippine Women’s University College of Music, which she headed for 25 years. • Her work in music has been recognized at home and abroad by various official honours, and she frequently represented her country abroad at international conferences on music. Major works: Her Son, Jose, operatorio (1977). The Spiritual Canticle, operatorio (1991). Filiasiana, choral dance kaleidoscope (1964)

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Cesar Legaspi

Birth and Death: April 2, 1917 to April 7, 1994Year Awarded: Cesar Legaspi, honored as a National Artist in Visual Arts in 1990, is considered the pioneer of neo-realism in the Philippines. Aside from the monochromatic works in his early years, he exploited the full potential of color in his paintings. Category: Filipino Painting Place of Birth: Tondo, Manila, Philippine Islands

Background:• A Filipino National Artist in painting. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. • Legaspi was born to Manuel Legaspi and Rosario Torrente in Tondo, Manila. He took up painting for one term at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts before he decided to take commercial art courses instead. There he received medals for perspective and illustration projects. • He earned his Certificate of Proficiency in 1936, after which he continued his education in art under Pablo Amorsolo. Major Works: • Idols of the Third Eye • Façade • Flora and Fauna

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Leandro V. Locsin

Birth and Death: August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994 Year Awarded: 1992 Category: Arts and Culture/ Architect Place of birth: Silay, Negros Occidental

Background: He was a Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer known for his use of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his various projects. An avid collector, he was fond of modern painting and Chinese ceramics. He was a prodding National Artist of the Philippines for Architecture in 1990 by the late President Corazon C. Aquino. Major Works: • The Theater of Performing Arts (Now the Tanghalang Pambansa) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. • Istana Nurul Iman, the palace of the Sultan of Brunei • Church of the Holy Sacrifice

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Arturo Luz

Birth and Death: November 26, 1926 – May 26, 2021 Year Awarded: 1997 Category: Visual Artist Place of Birth: Manila

Background: He was a Filipino visual artist. He was also a known printmaker, sculptor, designer and art administrator. A founding member of the modern Neo-realist school in Philippine art. Influenced by Modernist painters such as Paul Klee, he has worked in a variety of styles and techniques in varying degrees of abstraction to create playful geometric figures and forms. Major Works: • Grey Performance • Performing Quartet • Cyclists and Acrobats

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Jose Maceda

Birth And Death: January 31, 1917 – May 5, 2004 Year Award: Fumio Koizumi Award for Ethnomusicology in Japan (1992), the National Research Council Award (1993), the award Araw ng Maynila (1996), the Nikkei Award in Tokyo (1997), the award of the Fondazione Civitella Ranieri in Italy (1997), and the title of National Artist for Music (1998). He also holds the titles of Officier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite (1997) and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (2001) from the government of France. Category: composer, pianist, conductor Place of birth: Manila, Philippines

Background:-He taught as Professor of Piano and Ethnomusicology at the University of The Philippines from 1952–90, where he was named a University Professor in 1988 and as professor emeritus until 2004. He served as Executive Director of its Center for Ethnomusicology from 1997–2004. -He has also given lectures throughout the world, including the Charles Seeger Lecture at the meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Los Angeles in 1984 and a lecture as the International Arts Symposium Speaker at the National Academy of Arts in Seoul in 1994. -Most recently, he spoke at the Arts Summit in Indonesia in 1995, was the Rayson Huang Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 1999 and served as the Jean-MacDuff Vaux composer-in-residence at Mills College in 2000. Major works: Usually performed as a communal ritual, his compositions such as Ugma-ugma (1963), Pagsamba (1968) and Udlot-udlot (1975) are monuments to his unflagging commitment to Filipino music. His other major works include Agungan, Kubing, Pagsamba, Ugnayan, Ading, Aroding, Siasid and Suling-suling.

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Elizalde Navarro

Birth And Death: May 22 1924 – June 10 1999 Year Award: In 1999, Navarro was awarded Philippine National Artist for Painting. Place of birth: San Jose de Buenavista

Background:His devotion to the visual arts spanned 40 years of drawing, printmaking, graphic designing, painting and sculpting. Major works: 1967 – represented the Philippines in Sculpture Category, São Paulo Beinnale Brazil 1970 – represented the Philippines in Sculpture Category, São Paulo Beinnale, Brazil 1972 – represented the Philippines at the Biennale de art Graphiques, Brno, Czechoslovakia 1977 – designed the Philippine booth, 12th Tokyo International Trade Fair Japan 1977 – designed the ASEAN Trade Fair, Manila, Philippines 1980 – First Filipino artist to be represented at YAYASAN Bali, Indonesia 2014 – Leon Art Gallery Auction House "The Kingly Treasures"

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Hernando R. Ocampo

Birth and Death: Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was born on April 28, 1911 and Hernando Ruiz Ocampo died on December 28 1978 at the age of 67 in Caloocan City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Year Awarded: In 1954,Ocampo had recognition of his contribution towards the advancement of Filipino culture in the field of painting of the government that bestowed on his Republic Cultural Heritage Award. Then in 1954 Ocampo was awarded the Republic Cultural Heritage Award of his excellent writer and journalist that Ocampo penned a short story that entitled “Unang Pamumulaklak”. Category: fictionist, playwright and edit Place of Birth: Sta. Cruz, Manila

Background : -In the Philippines, Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a notable radical modernist artist. He was a member of the Saturday Group of painters (also known as the Taza de Oro Group) and one of the Thirteen Moderns (established by Victorio C. Edades in 1938). -His paintings portrayed the terrible reality of his nation following WWII, and he is best known for his trio with neo-realists Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi. However, with his masterful use of harsh and bold colors, many of his works represented lush panoramas and lovely Philippine landscapes. -H. R. Ocampo is credited with establishing a new style of abstraction that depicts Philippine flora and animals as well as sunlight, stars, and rain. Ocampo's creations were inspired by fantasy and science fiction, and he used movement and bright colors to create them. "Abstrat compositions of organic shapes that seemed to pulsate, quiver, inflame, and multiply" like mutations, according to his art. Major Works: Calvary (1948) Mother and Child (1961) Easter Sunday (1967) Genesis (1968), used as the design for the theater curtain of the Cultural Center of the Philippines

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Carlos L. Quirino

Birth and Death: January 1 1910 to May 20 1999 Year Awarded: In 2019 Quirino Awards is the “Virus Tropical,’ ‘Jorel’s Brother,’ ‘Guaxuma’ is the Win Top Prizes on April 7, 2019. then on 2018 Quirino Awards Winners: Mexico’s ‘Ana and Bruno’ Wins. Catergory: Filipino biographer, historian and cultural administrator.

Background: -Carlos Felix Lozada Quirino (January 14, 1910 – May 20, 1999) was a Filipino biographer, historian, and cultural administrator who is best known for writing The Great Malayan, one of the first biographies of Jose Rizal. -Quirino's books and essays cover a wide range of topics in Philippine history and culture, including everything from Bonifacio's trial to Aguinaldo's biography, Philippine cartography to culinary skills, cash crops to tycoons and presidents' lives, and so much more. -President Fidel Ramos added historical literature to the National Artist Awards in 1997, and Quirino was the first laureate. He set a record early in his career when he became the United Press Institute's first Filipino correspondent. Major Works: • Man of Destiny (1935) • The Great Malayan (1940) • Magsaysay and the Philippines (1958) • Philippine Cartography (1959) • Damian Domingo: First Eminent Filipino Painter (1961) • History of the Philippine Sugar Industry (1974) • Filipinos at War (1981) • Amang, the Life and Times of Eulogio Rodriguez, Sr. (1983)

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Edith L.Tiempo

Birth and Death: April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011 Year Awarded: 1999 Category: poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language. Place of Birth: Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.

Background: She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing."Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Halaman" and "Bonsai." Major Works: • A Blade of Fern (1978) • The Native Coast (1979) • The Alien Corn (1992)

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Rolando Santos Tinio

Birth and Death: March 5, 1937-July 7, 1997 Year Awarded: 1992 Category: Actor; Playwright; Poet; Essayist Place of Birth: Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila

Background: Rolando Tinio is a Philippine National Artist for Theater and Literature.He was an active participant in the Filipino movie industry and enjoyed working with Philippine celebrities who he himself had admired in his childhood. Tinio himself became a film actor and scriptwriter. He is often described as a religious, well-behaved and gifted person. Major Works: • "Sitsit sa Kuliglig" (Whistling at Cicadas) or (Shusshing Cicadas) (1972)[1][2][3] • "Dunung-Dunungan" (Pedantry) (1975) • "Kristal na Uniberso" (Crystal Universe) (1989)

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Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula

Born: June 29, 1929 Died: August 4, 1999 (aged 70) Awarded on 1988 (National Artist of the Philippines) Category: Choreographer (theater director, teacher, author, researcher) Place of birth: Iloilo, Philippines

Background: - Reyes was the daughter of Antonia Faustino, a nurse, and Col. Leon S. Reyes of the Philippine Constabulary (PC), who later served as a brigadier general and a military governor. -While in Baguio, Reyes enrolled in a ballet class run by a Russian immigrant. She later obtained a degree in Education, specializing in Physical Education -Her group, later renamed (PWU) Philippine Delegation of Dancers and Musicians, traveled to Dhaka, East Pakistan and to participate in the International Festival of Dance and Music from December 25, 1954, to January 7, 1955. The host in Pakistan could produce only a guitar as an accompaniment Major Works: Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company Philippine National Dances (1946) Fundamental Dance Steps and Music (1948)

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Andrea Veneracion

Born: July 11, 1928 Died: July 9, 2013 (aged 84) Awarded in 1997 and given the TOFIL (The Outstanding Filipino) Award for Culture and the Arts Category: Conductor, composer, arranger, singer Place of birth: Quezon, Philippines

Background: She earned her Bachelor of Music degrees in Piano and Voice at the University of the Philippines Diliman, graduating cum laude. Apart from being an extraordinary musician, she was also an exceptional athlete as a competitive swimmer. She was the founding choirmaster and first conductor of the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music (AILM) Chorale Major Works: Philippine Madrigal Singers the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music (AILM) Chorale

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