Arts

He wrote songs and musical arrangement based on the folk songs of different of different

ethnic groups.

• Lucrecia R. Kasilag

• Alice Reyes

• Antonio Buenaventura

• Severino Montano

She studied the country’s folk and ethnic dances for four decades and developed ethnic

choreographies applying her findings. She was the dance director of Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company for three

decades.

• Vicente Manansala

• Lucrecia Reyes - Urtula

• Victorio Edades

• Salvador F. Bernal

Known as the "Grand Old Man of the Philippine Art" was the first National artist of the country.

• Fernando Amorsolo

• Nick Joaquin

• Lino Brocka

• Daisy Avellana

The Boy Wonder of the Philippine Cinema

Background and contribution: He was the director who first utilized the motion picture camera which influenced

filmmaking techniques during American-Colonial period.

• Jose F. Lacaba

• Rolando Tinio

• Guillermo Tolentino

• Lamberto Avellana

He was a muralist from Angono, Rizal showing the historical past of the Philippines. The

significant elements of in his painting were their lines and shapes that seem like cut outs and their lush tropical colors.

• Pablo S. Antonio

• Carlos "Botong" Francisco

• Francisca Reyes Aquino

Contributed in the development of unique Filipino modern dance idiom.

• Alice Reyes

• Bienvenido Lumbera

• Carlos P. Romulo

Father of Modern Philippine Painting

Background and contribution: Edades shocked many Filipinos in his exhibit due to his non-conventional style of painting.

He deviated from Amorsolo’s use of happy and bright colors and use dark and sad hues in his painting instead.

• Diosdado Lorenzo

• Victorio Edades

• Juan Arellano

What is NCCA?

• National Country for Central and the Arts

• National Commission for Cultural and Asian

• National Commission for Culture and the Arts

What is NCCA?

• National Country for Central and the Arts

• National Commission for Cultural and Asian

• National Commission for Culture and the Arts

He was a famous landscape architect known for landscaping plazas, gardens, hotels,

playgrounds, commercial centers, housing projects, parks, etc.

• Jose Maria V. Zaragoza

• Ildefonso P. Santos

• Ishmael Bernal