The National Artist of the Philippines

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y buildings should be plannedwith austerity in mind and itsstability forever as the aim of

true architecture, thatbuildings must be progressive,simple in design but dignified,

true to a purpose withoutresorting to an applied set ofaesthetics and shouldeternally recreate truth


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y Far Eastern University

Administration and Science

buildings

y Manila Polo Club

y Ideal Theater

y Lyric Theater

y Galaxy Theater

y Capitan Luis Gonzaga

Building

y Boulevard-Alhambra (nowBel-Air) apartments

y Ramon Roces Publications

Building (now Guzman

Institute of Electronics).


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y distinguished himself bypioneering the practice oflandscape architecture

y producing four decades ofexemplary and engaging workthat has included hundreds ofparks, plazas, gardens, and a

wide range of outdoor settingsthat have enhancedcontemporary Filipino life


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Santos, Jr.'s most recentprojects were the:

y Tagaytay HighlandResort

y the Mt. MalarayatGolf

y CountryClub in Lipa,

Batangasy the Orchard Golf andCountryClub in Imus,Cavite.


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y director for film and broadcastarts, espoused the term "freedomof expression" in the PhilippineConstitution

y took his social activist spirit to thescreen leaving behind 66 filmswhich breathed life and hope for

the marginalized sectors ofsociety -- slumdwellers,prostitute, construction workers,etc.


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y the genius of Philippine cinema

y He is recognized as a director offilms that serve as socialcommentaries and bold reflectionson the existing realities of thestruggle of the Filipino.

y Among his notable films are"Pahiram ng Isang Umaga"(1989), "Broken Marriage" (1983),"Himala" (1981), "City After Dark"(1980), and "Nunal sa Tubig"(1976)


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y acknowledged as the Folk Dance Pioneery research on the unrecorded forms of local

celebration, ritual and sport resulted into a1926 thesis titled "Philippine Folk Dances

and Gamesy Her books include the

following: Philippine NationalDances (1946); Gymnastics forGirls (1947); Fundamental Dance Stepsand Music (1948); Foreign FolkDances (1949); Dances for allOccasion (1950); PlaygroundDemonstration(1951); and Philippine

Folk Dances, Volumes I to VI.


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y pioneer Filipino choreographer inballetic folkloric and Asian styles, hasproduced for over 50 years highlyoriginal, first-of-a-kind

choreographies, mostly to her ownstorylines

y Seen as her most ambitious work is thedance epic "Filipinescas: Philippine

Life, Legend and Lore. With it,Orosa has brought native folk dance,mirroring Philippine culture frompagan to modern times, to its higheststage of development.


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y Valera is said to have given the countryits visual icon to the world via the terno

y Valera constructed the terno's butterflysleeves, giving them a solid, built-in but

hidden support. The butterfly sleevesbecame the terno's defining feature.

y Valera helped mold generations ofartists, and helped fashion to become

no less than a nation's sense ofaesthetics. But more important thanthese, he helped form a sense of theFilipino nation by his pursuit ofexcellence


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y has the distinction of having written oneof the earliest biographies of Jose Rizaltitled The Great Malayan. Quirino'sbooks and articles span the whole gamut

of Philippine history and culture--fromBonifacio's trial to Aguinaldo'sbiography, from Philippine cartographyto culinary arts, from cash crops totycoons and president's lives, among so

many subjectsy His book Maps and Views of OldManila is considered as the best bookon the subject.


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y formally honored as the Queen ofKundiman in 1979

y became the very first actress in the very first Tagalog film when she

essayed the same role in thesarsuela's film version

y She counts the role though of anorphan in Pangarap ni Rosa as her

most rewarding and satisfying rolethat she played with realism, thestage sparkling with silver coinstossed by a teary-eyed audience


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y the distinction of being called "TheBoy Wonder of PhilippineMovies" as early as 1939

y first to use the motion picturecamera to establish a point-of-view,a move that revolutionized thetechniques of film narration

y Avellana was also the firstfilmmaker to have hisfilm Kandelerong Pilak shown atthe Cannes International FilmFestival.


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y He made it to the Guinness Book ofWorld Records as the only person ableto make music using just a leaf

y has enriched the Philippine music for

no less than two generations with atreasury of more than 4,000 songs in anidiom that has proven to appeal to allsocial classes

y He effortlessly translated/wrote anew

the lyrics to traditional melodies: "OMaliwanag Na Buwan" (Iloko), "Akoay May Singsing" (Pampango),"Alibangbang" (Visaya) among others.


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involved herself wholly in sharpeningthe Filipino audience's appreciation ofmusic

y Kasilag's pioneering task to discover theFilipino roots through ethnic music andfusing it with Western influences hasled many Filipino composers toexperiment with such an approach

y dared to incorporate indigenous Filipino

instruments in orchestral productions,such as the prize-winning "Toccata forPercussions and

Winds, Divertissement and

Concertante,"


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y "Grand Old Man of PhilippineArt

y developed the backlighting

technique that became histrademark where figures, acluster of leaves, spill of hair, theswell of breast, are seen aglow on

canvasy "defined and perpetuated a

distinct element of the nation'sartistic and cultural heritage"


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y His paintings are described as visionsof reality teetering on the edge ofabstraction

y Manansala professes a preference for

Cezanne and Picasso whom he sayshave achieved a balance of skill andartistry

y Manansala believes that the beauty

of art is in the process, in themoment of doing a particularpainting, closely associating it withthe act of making love


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y most distinguished Filipino writer inEnglish writing so variedly and so

well about so many aspects of theFilipino

y significance in Philippine literatureinvolves his exploration of thePhilippine colonial past under Spainand his probing into the psychology

of social changes as seen by theyoung

y As a journalist, Nick Joaquin uses thenome de guerre Quijano deManila


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y practiced "committed art

y In his view, the function of the writeris to act as the conscience of societyand to affirm the greatness of thehuman spirit in the face of inequityand oppression

y Mga Ibong Mandaragit, first writtenby Hernandez while in prison, is thefirst Filipino socio-political novel thatexposes the ills of the society asevident in the agrarian problems of the50s.

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