GAMABA Benefits and rewards
● Gawad sa Manililikha ng Bayan, ● maximum cumulative amount of
P750,00 medical and
or National Living Treasures
hospitalization benefit annually
Award ● Place of honor at state functions,
ceremonies, and other cultural
● Institutionalized by Republic
presentations
Act No. 7355 of 1992 ● State funeral prepared and paid
● Implemented by the NCCA by the
● granted to folk/traditional Government
artists who have reached a
high level of technical skill and GAMABA Categories
artistic excellence The Award shall be given in each, but
not
“…[A]dopts a program that will limited to the following categories of
ensure the transfer of their skills traditional folk arts:
to others and undertakes ● folk architecture
● maritime transport
measures to promote a genuine
● Weaving
appreciation of and instill pride ● Carving
● performing arts
among our people about the
● Literature
genius of the Manlilikha ng Bayan. ● graphic and plastic arts
● Ornament
● textile or fiber art
Benefits and rewards ● pottery
● initial grant of P100,000
● not less than P10,000 monthly Order of National Artists: Criteria
stipend for life
➔ Technical and creative skill
● Gold-Plated Medallion From
The candidate must possess a
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
mastery of the tools and materials
needed by the art, and must As a precious treasure of the
have an established reputation in country, the candidate must
the art as master and maker of command the respect and
works of extraordinary technical admiration of the country for his
quality. character and integrity.
Artistic quality GAMABA Process
The work of the candidate must Ad Hoc Panel of Experts
be ● Gawad sa Manlilikha ng
outstanding aesthetically, and Bayan
he/she Committee
must have consistently produced ● representative from each
over a of the
significant period, works of committees of the
superior NCCA-SCCTA
quality. ● Office of Muslim Affairs
(OMA)
Community tradition ● National Commission on
The candidate must have Indigenous
transferred People (NCIP)
and/or willing to transfer to other ● other appropriate
members of the community, skills institution
in the folk art for which the
Process
community has become
nationally known. 1. research by the Ad Hoc
Search
Folk art tradition
Committee
The candidate must have
engaged in a 2. recommendation of Ad
folk art tradition that has been in Hoc Screening Committee to
existence and documented for at an Ad Hoc Panel of Reviewers
least 3. deliberation and evaluation
fifty (50) years by the Gawad sa Manlilikha
ng Bayan Committee and Ad
Character and integrity Hoc Panel of Experts
4. submission of ● 330 million pesos (8.68 million
recommendations to the
dollars), 47 percent from the
NCCA
government and the rest from
5. approval of the names of
the awardees by the NCCA private patrons.
Board
Marcos regime: Other art
6. submission to the President establishments
of the Philippines for
Philippine International Convention
proclamation
Center
● Designed by Leandro Locsin
CULTURAL CENTER OF THE ● host of numerous local and
PHILIPPINES (CCP) foreign
conventions, meetings, and
CCP
social
● Established in 1969 affairs
● per Executive Order No. ● built in a span of 23 months
303 of (from
Nov. 1974 to Sept. 1976)
Ferdinand Marcos
Manila Film Center
● “with the sole purpose of
promoting and preserving Filipino ● built to host the 1982 Manila
arts and culture” International Film Festival
● Served as a venue for fundraising ● commissioned by Imelda
activities for Imelda Marcos’ Marcos
projects ● modelled after the
Panthenon,
CCP: Int’ performers
designed by Froilan Hong
● Placido Domingo sing for the ● contractors had less than
opera “Tosca” three months build it
● Bolshoi Ballet performed “Swan ● construction was nonstop:
Lake” 4,000 laborers working three
● Frank Sinatra shifts every 24 hours
CCP: Marcos era budget
o Tagum City Comprehensive
National High School Rondalla
Tanghalang Francisco Balagtas
(Davao del Norte)
● Folk Arts Theater
Kaisa sa Sining: The Regional Art Centers
● designed by Leandro V.
Locsin ● 2014
● seating capacity of 8,458 with ● initiated by the CCP to
ten sections “further strengthen its
● commissioned by Imelda linkages and
Marcos in 1974 for the Miss cooperation with local
Universe Pageant organizations in the
● inaugurated on July 7, 1974 regions”
● built in seventy-seven days in ● 10 pilot sites (p. 39)
time for the pageant
National Art Center and the Philippine
CCP: Marcos era Budget
High School for the Arts
● 330 million pesos (8.68 million
● Under the charge of CCP
dollars), 47 percent from the
● Located in Mt. Makiling, Los
government and the rest from
Baños, Laguna
private patrons.
● Established in 1976
1. Concentration of art in Manila
● School for young and aspiring
2. Regional art got left behind
artists
3. CCP response: Ugnayan sa Sining
● Application is competitive
Ugnayan sa Sining ● Students have full scholarship
and living assistance
● 2010
● initiated by the CCP
NCCA
● program for the promotion of
● Established in 1992
regional arts
● per Republic Act 7356
4 pioneer groups ● also “with the sole purpose of
promoting and preserving Filipino
o SIBUL (Bulacan)
arts and culture”
o St. Louis University (Baguio)
● Overall policy-making body and
o CPU Handell Choir (Iloilo)
coordinator among cultural
agencies NCCA-SCD
● Mandate: “to encourage artistic
● Subcommission on Cultural
creation within a climate of
Dissemination
artistic freedom”
● Communication
● Cultural Education
NCCA Subcommissons ● Language and Translation
● Subcommission on the Arts (SCA)
● Subcommission on Cultural NCCA-S
Heritage
● Subcommission on Cultural
(SCH)
Communities and Traditional Arts
● Subcommission on Cultural
● Cultural Communities (Northern,
Dissemination (SCD)
Central, and Southern)
● Subcommission on Cultural
Communities and Traditional Arts PAINTING
(SCCTA)
● expression of ideas and
emotions, with the creation of
NCCA-SCA
certain aesthetic qualities, in a
● Subcommission on the Arts
● made up of 19 committees two-dimensional visual language
● facilitates art-related events FINE ARTS
● National Arts Month (February)
1. Painting
2. Sculpture
NCCA-SCH
3. Architecture
● Subcommission on Cultural
Heritage Style
● Archives
● arrangement of a variety of
● Art Galleries
objects
● Historical Research
● Libraries and Information Services into a group of categories that
● Monuments and Sites make
● Museums
them easier to recognize,
understand
and talk about ● Emphasis on amount of light
an object receives and on
creating shadows (its shape,
transition from light to
shadow, and the source of
Four Broad Categories of Style in
light)
Painting
Focus
1. style of OBJECTIVE ACCURACY
● Controls spectators visual
Objective Accuracy
experience
● attempts to accurately represent ● Objects in the periphery
what we see in the world around appear more blurred
us Color
● conveys drama through artist’s ● Also indicates the amount of light
representational skill an
Objective Accuracy can be object that is being portrayed
receives
achieved through:
Perspective
1. correct drawing
2. control and handling of illumi- ● Creates illusion of deep space
nation within
3. focus the painting
4. color
● Achieved through manipulation
5. perspective
of
Correct drawing
lines and shadows
● Accuracy of size and shape
2.style of FORMAL ORDER
relationships aka
● Proportional portrayal of images
Formal order
● Distinguish between illustration of
surfaces (for depth or form) ● artist’s preference for stability in
their creative work
Control and handling of illumination
● works with the characteristics of ● BenCab
order in measure, proportion, ● 2006
mathematical relationships, ● BenCab Museum Baguio
balance and harmony ● works feature struggles
● most important aspect: sense of throughout Philippine history
order or an ideal
Jose Joya
2. style of EMOTION
● 2003
● has been said to have
Emotion
“spearheaded the birth, growth
● communication of emotion takes and flowering of abstract
expressionism” in the Philippines
precedence over everything
else
● can feature romance, anxiety Ang Kiukok
and
● 2001
despair, joy and celebration, or ● chose dynamic or disturbing
subject matter
distortion
● known for his expressive, Cubist-
3. style of FANTASY likeworks
Fantasy
“The significance of style lies in
● art of this type originates in both
the fact that it allows us to
logical and irrational ideas
● draws on diverse sources as discern the meaning behind
science,
the subject matter and
myth, and superstition
purpose of the painting.”
PAINTING
FINE ARTS
Some of our National Artists for Painting
1. Painting
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera
2. Sculpture
3. Architecture VISUAL ARTS - broader art category
that features images seen by the
eye.
ARCHITECTURE
a. Installation art
Styles in Contemporary Architecture b. Public art
c. Mixed media
1. Biomorphic architecture -
d. Photography
naturally occurring patterns or
e. Digital arts
shapes.
● Reminiscent of nature and HISTORY OF ZINE
living organisms.
1776 - Political
2. Environment - friendly
architecture ● Thomas Paine’s “Common
Alternative and/or renewable Sense” which is an
energy-using, light controlled, independently published
and well-oxygenated spaces. writing.
3. Tropical architecture – ● “an instrument in promoting
achieving thermal comfort the ideas that contributed to
through use of passive design the U.S. War for
elements like sunshades, Independence”
cavity walls, light shelves,
overhangs, roof and wall Zine: Content
insulation and even shading
a. Personal zines
from large trees to block the
● Perzines
sun
● Content focuses on the
ZINE personal experiences,
narratives, thoughts,
● Independently or self-published and even dreams of a
booklet creator.
● Very independent art form free b. Political zines
from the restrictions of censorship ● Political themes
and even publisher and editor discouraged in some
influence over artistic freedom. publications (do not
sell well)
● Independent publishers ● Created using editing
and creators of zines software and were printed
recognize the out fall under this category.
importance of politics ● not handmade and are
and use zines as means reproduced either by
to forward advocacies reprinting or by photocopying
and movements. or risograph
c. Fanzines d. Cut-and-paste zine
● Content generated by ● Texts and images from
fans of music, film, TV different sources are cut up
series, comic book series, and pasted on a page of a
even Kpop artists, and zines.
anime.
● Explores fandoms, shares
Installation
and spreads excitement
and belongingness within VISUAL ARTS
that group.
● More broad - - features
Zine: How to make
images seen by the eye and
a. One-page zine
perceived by the mind
● Using just a single piece of
(moving or otherwise).
bond paper.
● three-dimensional
● folding the zine into a sort of
● site-specific
book where you will have
● designed and installed only in
pages you can draw or write
the space for which it was
on.
created
b. E-zine
● Created using any editing Types of Installation Art
software and is published
online. Different online a. Technology-aided
platforms can be used to - light, video, or film is projected
publish these kinds of zines. - The Grid by Ohm David (2015)
● Issuu.com, Tumblr.com, b. Conceptual installation art
Facebook or Twitter - Emphasis on idea or concept
c. Printed zine rather than in a tangible art
object.
- Follows the notion: art should • Arguably the most familiar art
examine its own nature. to Filipinos.
- Role of the artist = make • From pre-colonial anitos to
people think and reflect colonial Santos.
through art as stimulus. • process can be either
- “Shadows” by Ronald Ventura o Subtractive(material is
(2015) removed or carved out).
- Roberto Rodríguez Chabet o Additive (building up form
c. Interactive installation art by adding material).
• Contribution of the viewer to the Philippine Sculpture
piece is essential to and Traditional Sculpture - In the
completes the meaning of the “Woodcarving Capital of the
installation. Philipines” , Paete, Laguna.
d. Environmental installation art
• Encompasses ecological a. Bulul
concerns. • Ifugao, Cordillera Region
• Celebration of an artist’s • For bountiful harvest, rain, etc.
connection with the beauty of b. Okir/Ukkil
nature and the environment. • Moro and Lumads in the
• Way of artist to educate people South
about environmental • Okir = to carve
degradation or issues about the • Islamic art features patterns
environment because Human
• by Biboy Royong (2019) representation is discouraged
in the Koran.
“[I]nstallation art involves interaction c. Religious figures
among several things: architectural
setting, environment site, use of Contemporary Sculptors
everyday objects in a specific 1. Julie Lluch
context and the viewer/participant.” - Expressive portrayals of
women subjects.
SCULPTURE - Picasso y Yo
• Three-dimensional art made - Trousers Worshippers
by one of four basic 2. Charlie Co
processes: carving, modelling, - Born in Bacolod
casting, or constructing. - Ai Wei Wei
3. Ed Defensor • Subtractive
- Ang Lin-Ay sang IloIlo • Removes unwanted
- Mother and Child material to create the
form - materials such as a
Some of our National Artists for block of wood, stone, and
Sculpture other hard materials are
1. Abdulmari Imao used.
- 2006 3. Casting
- Integrated Tausug sculpting • Liquid is poured into a
sensibilities with Modern ones mold which contains a
Works featured ukkil , naga, hollow cavity of the
and sarimanok. desired form.
2. Napoleon Abueva • Best fits metal materials like
- 1976 bronze.
- Father of Modern Philippine 4. Assembling
Sculpture • Incorporating everyday
- Mentored by Guillermo found objects into 3D
Tolentino sculpture.
- Sandugo • Usually creates dramatic,
- Transfiguration humorous, or satirical
- Siyam na Diwata ng Sining works of art.
(1994)
- Spirit of Business (1979)
PUBLIC ART
- Pegaraw (2000)
• Collaborative work
“Apart from the process, a sculpture’s • Can express community values
material is one of the main factors that • Engages services of different
dictate its meaning.” types of people.
Types of Public Art
Four Basic Sculpture Techniques a. Community-based art
1. Modelling • Artistic creativity based in
• Additive community setting.
• Building-up process in • Often based in
which the sculpture grows economically deprived
organically from the inside. areas and done with
2. Carving
community-oriented, participation in historic
grassroots approach. events.
• Off Site/Out of Site by • Commemorate events
Alma Quinto that have affected a large
b. Municipal art number of people in the
• Instil ideals (such as country.
patriotism and • Tribute in Light
nationalism) among • People Power Monument
community members. Designed by Eduardo
• Historical landmarks Castrillo
• Located in squares, plazas, • Amphibian by Wire Tuazon
in front of government e. Design-based public art
buildings, law courts, • Decorative - Usually
airports, public museums, located in parks or
or academic institutions. commercial centers.
• Designed by sculptor • Matches the buildings and
Anastacio Caedo its surroundings.
• Commission On Audit • By Archie Oclos SM Aura
Monument (1977) By f. Campaign-inspired art
Napoleon Abueva • Promotes an idea by
• Jose “Pepe” Diokno making visible reminders to
Commission on Human the public.
Rights by Julie Lluch • by Jose Tence Ruiz
c. Land art
• Earthworks that interact Public art is a kind of art that is heavily
with nature and the influenced by its location’s environment
environment. and history. If placed elsewhere, the
• Spiral Jetty (1970) by piece can have a different—or even
Robert Smithson Salt Lake, lose its— meaning.
Utah
• Defying Gravity by Reg Public art is powerful because of the
Yuson potential meanings attached to a
d. Commemorative monuments location and the exposure it gets upon
• Public art honoring people being in public.
for their heroism or for
