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Topic Topic Topic Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic NATIONAL ARTIST FOR Topic LITERATURE (2006) BIENVENIDO LUMBERA (11 April 1932, Lipa, Batangas ) Region of Origin: Calabarzon Topic...

Topic Topic Topic Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic NATIONAL ARTIST FOR Topic LITERATURE (2006) BIENVENIDO LUMBERA (11 April 1932, Lipa, Batangas ) Region of Origin: Calabarzon Topic Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera is a poet, author, literary and film Topic critic, librettist, literary historian, anthologist, revered Topic mentor, and activist. Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021 As a poet, he introduced to Tagalog literature what is now known as Bagay poetry, a landmark aesthetic tendency that has helped to change the vernacular poetic tradition.  Topic The Yaya’s Lullaby Hair so fine, Soft as silk, Topic Gently I comb This yaya’spet. To my own child This caring I can’t give, Topic In another bosom, Mine I had left. Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic Hair of my ward The scent of gardens, Topic Sweetness of flowers We don’t have. Topic Body so pink, So nice to embrace, Topic Ah, it’s not mine, This child I 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic The one I dandle Is a child of the rich, My day, whole Topic And entire, is hers. To my own beloved I would’ve wanted to Topic leave A wee bit of my heart, My leftover love. Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic NATIONAL ARTIST FOR Topic LITERATURE (2014) CIRILO F. BAUTISTA ( July 9, 1941-2018, Manila ) Region of Origin: National Capital Region Topic Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic Cirilo F. Bautista, is a poet, Topic fictionist, critic, and writer of nonfiction. Topic Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic TELEX MOON To say that of man or of any categoric being, Topic is only to philosophize, as to conclude that because the motorguards who run over children in the part are doing Topic their duty, the levies on machineries ought to be revoked, is only to beg the point. The sea crawls as it ought to crawl, Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic dragging the seaweeds and the seastones with it. as it should, but to conclude it retards the growth of hibiscus and Topic ephemera, or clog the brains of statesmen on rainy days, is to debase one’s own persona. To say of this City that it is the City of God favored by the cross-sticks and cross- Topic lights Aramaic, is to dress violence in pied puppetry. Topic 10 : 55 PM 04 / 10 / 2021  Topic In “Telex Moon”, Bautista tracked the simultaneous growth and degradation of the city of Manila, lamenting its subsequent fate Topic under the tyranny of wealth, and drawing from his own views the developments and circumstances surrounding Rizal’s time as well Topic as what was happening in the country during the Marcos era. Topic  Topic Such lines depict the city as undermined by materialism and the adverse effects of the Topic so-called march of progress. “The crawling of the sea” alludes, in a way, to the telex moon, which hovers over the city as a symbol of the Topic ever-present glare of these wayward forces. Topic NATIONAL ARTIST FOR LITERATURE (2018) Ramon L. Muzones (1913 – 1992, Iloilo City) Region of Origin: Western Visayas A writer and lawyer, Ramon Muzones was born in Iloilo City on March 20, 1913. The oldest of the ten children of Santiago Muzones and Florentina Larupay, Ramon Muzones finished his law degree at Central Philippine University in 1952. He was a Hiligaynon poet, essayist, short story writer, critic, and novelist who authored an at least 60 completed novels. A number of these represent groundbreaking “firsts’ in Hiligaynon literature such as the feminist Ang Bag-ong Maria Clara, the roman a clef Maambong Nga Sapat (Magnificent Brute,1940), the comic Si Tamblot (1946), the political satire Si Tamblot kandidato Man (Tamblot is Also a Candidate, 1949), and the 125- installment longest serialized novel Dama de Noche (1982-84), among others. NATIONAL ARTIST FOR MUSIC (2014) Francisco Feliciano (1941 – 2014, Morong, Rizal) Region of Origin: National Capital Region  As a young child in Morong, Rizal, Dr. Francisco Feliciano was exposed to the “Morriz band and their genre of music by his father Maximiano Feliciano”. In high school, he learned to play the cymbals and the clarinet. He studied at the University of the Philippines (UP) and attained a Master’s degree in Music Composition. Dr. Feliciano was one of the Philippines’ most important composers. He created more than 30 major works that include operas and music dramas including La Loba Negra, Ashen Wings, Sikhay Sa Kabila ng Paalam (Beyond the Farewell), and the life of wartime Filipino hero, Jose Abad Santos. NATIONAL ARTIST FOR MUSIC (2014) RAMON P. SANTOS (February 25, 1941, Pasig, Rizal) Ramon Pagayon Santos graduated in 1965 from the UP College of Music with a Teacher’s Diploma and a Bachelor of Music degree in both Composition and Conducting. Santos is a composer, conductor and musicologist, who is currently the country’s foremost exponent of contemporary Filipino music. ATIONAL ARTIST FOR VISUAL ARTS (2006) BENEDICTO R. CABRERA (April 10, 1942, Malabon, Rizal) Region of Origin: National Capital Region At 75 years old, Benedicto Reyes Cabrera is the only living among the 21st century national visual artists. He signs his works BenCab, and thus is popularly known by that name. A painter and printmaker, he has widely exhibited his works in Asia, Europe, and the United States of America. BenCab began his career in the mid-sixties as a lyrical expressionist whose “solitary figures of scavengers emerging dark landscape” disturbed the social conscience of Filipinos who have long embraced and accepted poverty and dereliction as part of their reality. Studies of Sabel (1980) etching Woman with a Fan (2001), Source: artnet.com acrylic on canvas Source: Inquirer.net NATIONAL ARTIST FOR VISUAL ARTS (2006) ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO (1936 – 2014, Siasi, Sulu) Region of Origin: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) The first Muslim to be awarded the Order of National Artist, Abdulmari Asia Imao has adapted into his art works traditional Muslim Mindanaoan motifs such as the ukkil (sinuous relief woodcarving tradition found in houses and boats), the naga (sea serpent motif), pako rabong (fern motif), and sarimanok (mythical bird-with- fish figure). Imao is a sculptor, painter, photographer, ceramist, documentary film maker, cultural researcher, and articulator of Philippine Muslim art.  Sarimanok Sarimanok with 8 Fishes Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer Statue of Antonio Pigafetta, Fort San Pedro Source: cebuexperience.com NATIONAL ARTIST FOR VISUAL ARTS (2009) FEDERICO ALCUAZ AGUILAR (1932 – 2011, Sta. Cruz, Manila ) Region of Origin: National Capital Region Federico Aguilar y Alcuaz, the son of Mariano Aguilar and Encarnacion Alcuaz, was born in Manila on June 6, 1932. He was a multi-awarded Filipino visual artist who exhibited extensively in Europe and earned recognition for his excellent works in the Philippines and abroad.  According to the NCCA, Alcuaz is primarily known for his gestural paintings in acrylic and oil, and also for his sketches in ink, watercolor and pencil. He is also a noted sculptor with abstract and figurative works in ceramics, relief sculptures made of paper and mixed media which he called “Alcuaziacs.” Federico Aguilar Alcuaz Bronze Bust Tres Marias (1982), oil on canvas 71 x 86 cm. (28 x 33.9 in.) Source: (1976) Artes de las Filipinas Source: artnet.com