Jambi Matilac Matinagnos Grade 12- Escoda

NATIONAL ARTIST AWARD

The National Artists Award is the highest recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made
significant contributions. The recognition is given to those who excel in the fields of Music, Dance,
Theatre, Visual Arts, Literature, Film and Broadcast, and Architecture or Allied Arts.

“Lino” Ortiz Brocka is known to many as one of, if not the greatest Filipino director of all time. He
espoused “freedom of expression” throughout all his films, injecting each and every one with a social
activist spirit. Some of his well-known works include Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (1974), Maynila sa mga
Kuko ng Liwanag (1975), and Insiang (1976), the latter being the first Filipino film to be shown at Cannes.

Levi Celerio, a prolific lyricist and composer, is known for having effortlessly translating or rewriting lyrics
of traditional Filipino melodies like “O Maliwanag Na Buwan” (Iloko), “Ako ay May Singsing” (Pampango),
and “Alibangbang” (Visaya). He’s also been immortalized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the
only person to make music using just a leaf.

Leonor Orosa Goquingco is a pioneer Filipino choreographer known to many as “The Trailblazer,” “The
Mother of Philippine Theater Dance,” and “Dean of Filipino Performing Arts Critics.” She has produced
stunning choreographies during her 50-year career, highlighted by “Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend,
and Love,” which elevated native folk dance to its highest stage of development.

NATIONAL ARTIST AWARDEES IN LITERATURE

Ilonggo writer Muzones named National Artist for Literature. Muzones was one of the founders of
Sumakwelan, a pioneering organization of Hiligaynon writers.He was awarded the Gawad Pambansang
Alagad ni Balagtas by the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas in 1988, the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in
1989, and the Gawad Bonifacio sa Panitikan Centennial Award granted by the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts on Nov. 22, 1997.

One of the few living national artists, F. Sionil Jose is best known for creating the five-novel masterpiece
known as the Rosales saga: Poon; Tree; My Brother, My Executioner; The Pretenders; and Mass. Set in
the town of Rosales, Pangasinan, it talks about the five generations of two families, the Samsons and the
Asperri, during the Spanish and American occupation.

Amado Vera Hernandez was being a reporter, columnist and editor of several newspaper and magazines
including Watawat, Mabuhay, Pilipino, Makabayan and Sampaguita, he also honed his poetic craft. He
received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award, a number of Palancas and an award from the National
Press Club for his journalistic achievements.
Studying Philippine literature is important for the same reasons that studying any national literature is
important. Nationalist literature preserves national opinion and thought within its text, and can
transport the reader back in time and enable them to experience that world.

THE ARTIST WHO IS INSPIRED ME THE MOST.

Jose Garcia Villa was a consummate artist in poetry and in person as well. At parties given him by friends
and admirers whenever he came home for a brief visit, things memorable usually happened. Take that
scene many years ago at the home of the late Federico Mangahas, a close friend of Villa's. The poet,
resplendent in his shiny attire, his belt an ordinary knotted cow's rope, stood at a corner talking with a
young woman. Someone in the crowd remarked: "What's the idea wearing a belt like that?" No answer.
Only the faint laughter of a woman was heard. Or was it a giggle perhaps? Then there was one evening,
with few people around, when he sat down Buddha-like on a semi-marble bench under Dalupan Hall at
UE waiting for somebody. That was the year he came home from America to receive a doctor's degree,
honoris causa, from FEU. Somebody asked: "What are you doing?" He looked up slowly and answered
bemused: "I am just catching up trying to be immoral." Sounded something like that. There was only
murmuring among the crowd. They were not sure whether the man was joking or serious. They were
awed to learn that he was the famed Jose Garcia Villa. What did the people remember? The Buddha-like
posture? Or what he said?

That was Villa the artist. That was the artist who inspired me the most. There's something about his
person or what he does or says that makes people gravitate toward him. Stare at him or listen to him.

And that a one of the reason why l like him that most. To the point, Im inspired to read all of his works.

Contribution of Jose Garcia Villa in Philippine literatue

Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the
National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in
creative writing by Conrad Aiken.

Villa's literary Works;

Have come am here

The anchored angel

Footnote to Youth

Tales of the Philippines S

Selected poems and new

Volume two

Doveglion

Praise of Love

A Parliament of Giraffes

Mir-i-nisa

When I Was No Bigger Than A Huge

The Portable Villa

The essential Villa

Charlie Chan Is Dead

Appasionata

National Artist of the Philippines ( NOTABLE AWARD )

Tubod National Artist, LNNCHS Award for Literature, YFC Fellowship/ Campus kuya, UP Golden Jubilee
Literary Contests, Pro Patria Award, Heritage Award.

The Biography of Jose Garcia Villa

Jose Garcia Villa. Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He
was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim
Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.
 He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as pen name, the very characters he attributed to himself, and
the same ones explored by e.e. cummings in the poem he wrote for Villa (Doveglion, Adventures in
Value). Villa is also known for the tartness of his tongue.

Jose Garcia Villa, a Filipino poet, critic, short story writer and painter, is an important person to
recognize during Filipino American History Month.

Jose Garcia Villa was the first Filipino National Artist for literature, an award-winning poet here in
Philippines and in United States. He is known for his "reverse consonance" style in poetry such as "said"
and "days". He is also popular in his style for "comma poems" with every word with commas making the
reader pause for every word, slowing the pace of poem resulting to what Villa called "a lineal dignity of
pace and movement".

Jose Garcia Villa is the son of personal doctor of Emilio Aguinaldo, Simeon Villa. He was born on
August 5, 1908 in Singalong , Manila. He enrolled in school of Medicine, shifted to Law school, but
realized his passion is arts. He start in painting but later focus in creative writing after reading
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.

In 1929, he published an erotic series of poems called "Man Songs" which tend UP Administrators to
suspend him from the University and even fined of seventy pesos for "obscenity" by the Court of First
Instance. During that time he won P1,000 from the Philippine Free Press or his "Mir-i-Nisa" which he
used to migrate to United States. He enrolled at the University of New Mexico and finished Bachelor of
Arts Degree. In 1942, after the released of "Have Come Am Here", he introduced his "reversed
consonance" rhyming scheme and in 1949, he introduced his comma poems.

Villa is the undisputed Filipino supremo of the practitioners of the "artsakists." His followers have
diminished in number but are still considerable.

Villa was born in Singalong, Manila, on 05 August 1908. His parents were Simeon Villa, personal
physician of revolutionary general Emilio Aguinaldo, and Guia Garcia. He graduated from the UP High
School in 1925 and enrolled in the pre-med course. He didn't enjoy working on cadavers and so he
switched to pre-law, which he didn't like either. A short biography prepared by the Foreign Service
Institute said Villa was first interested in painting but turned to writing after reading Sherwood
Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio."

Meanwhile, he devoted a good part of his time writing short stories and poems. Soon he started exerting
his leadership among the UP writers.

His ideas on literature were provocative. He stirred strong feelings. He was thought too individualistic. He
published his series of erotic poems, "Man Songs" in 1929. It was too bold for the staid UP
administrators, who summarily suspended Villa from the university. He was even fined P70 for
"obscenity" by the Manila Court of First Instance.

With the P1,000 he won as a prize from the Philippines Free Press for his "Mir-i-Nisa," adjudged the best
short story that year (1929), he migrated to the United States. He enrolled at the University of New
Mexico where he edited and published a mimeographed literary magazine he founded: Clay. Several
young American writers who eventually became famous contributed. Villa wrote several short stories
published in prestigious American magazines and anthologies..