PERFORMING ARTS

Ø  The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object. The term "performing arts" first appeared in the English language in the year 1711.

Dance

Philippine All-Stars

The Philippine All-Stars is a Philippine hip-hop dance group. They won the 2006 and 2008 World Hip Hop Dance Championships. They were formed on 2005 by twelve individuals that were working in the Manila underground Hip-hop scene. They also joined the “Artists Revolution: 365 days to change” campaign which asks the Filipino voters to be more critical in choosing their political leaders in the coming 2010 elections.

Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde 

(born on October 3, 1964) is a Prima Ballerina. She is the first Philippine ballerina, and first foreign soloist who ever joined the Kirov Ballet in 1984. In the Philippines, she is the Artistic Director of Ballet Manila and Vice-Chairman of the Philippine UNESCO National Commission. She was also the Commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women. Macuja-Elizalde is also Directress and faculty member of the Ballet Manila School – a training center for ballet professionals who are steeped in the Russian Vaganova method.

Leonor Orosa-Goquingco 

(July 24, 1917 - July 15, 2005) was a Filipino national artist in creative dance. She could play the piano, draw, design scenery and costumes, sculpt, act, direct, dance and choreograph. Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine Theater Dance and Dean of Filipino Performing Arts Critics. She died on July 15 2005 of "cardiac arrest secondary to cerebro-vascular accident" at the age of 87.

Cinema and Theater

Nora Aunor 

(born Nora Cabaltera Villamayor on May 21, 1953) is a multi-awarded Filipino actress, singer and producer. Aunor has also topbilled several stage plays, television shows, and concerts. She is regarded as the "Superstar in Philippine Entertainment Industry".^[1] In 1999, Aunor received the Centennial Honor for the Arts awarded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). She was the only film actress included in the prestigious list of awardees. In 2010, she was hailed by the Green Planet Awards as one of the 10 Asian Best Actresses of the Decade.

Ronald Allan Pou y Kelley-Gatbonton 

(August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor and cultural icon. From the 1950s, Poe played steadfast film heroes who fight for the common man, which won him respect and admiration. He did not complete high school but went on to win numerous awards and prizes as an actor and film director. During the latter part of his career, he ran an unsuccessful bid for President of the Philippines in the 2004 presidential election against the former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He was honored on May 24, 2006 as Philippine National Artist through Philippine Proclamation No. 1065.

Gloria Romero 

(born Gloria Galla on December 16, 1933) is a Filipino actress whose career spans 60 years. She is acknowledged as the original Queen of Philippine Movies. She holds two records in FAMAS award history: She is the only actress in Philippine movie history to win the FAMAS Best Actress Award for a comedy role and the oldest FAMAS Best Actress winner, receiving the prestigious accolade in 2001 when she was 67 years old.

LITERARY ARTS

Ø  Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources (although, under circumstances they can be exempt). Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction.

Poets

Lamberto E. Antonio is a Philippine writer.  In 1978, he wrote the script for Insiang, the first Filipino film to be showcased at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books - Hagkis ng Talahib(1971), Pagsalubong sa Habagat (1986 National Book Award for Poetry), and Pingkian at Apat Pang Aklat ng Tunggalian (1997 National Book Award for Poetry).

Julian Cruz Balmaceda (sometimes spelled as Balmaseda)

(January 28, 1885–September 18, 1946) was a Filipino poet, essayist, playwright, novelist, journalist and linguist. He made several works written in Tagalog, English and Spanish languages.

José Corazón de Jesús 

(November 22, 1896 – May 26, 1932), also known by his pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino poet who used Tagalog poetry to express the Filipinos' desire for independence during the American occupation of the Philippines, a period that lasted from 1901 to 1946. He is best known for being the lyricist of the Filipino song Bayan Ko.

Writers

Lualhati Torres Bautista 

(b. Manila, Philippines December 2, 1945) is one of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the history of contemporary Philippine Literature. Her novels include, Dekada '70, Bata, Bata, Pa'no Ka Ginawa?, and ‘GAPÔ.

Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín 

(May 4, 1917–April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquin was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature. He is considered the most important Filipino writer in English, and the third most important overall, after José Rizal and Claro M. Recto, who both wrote in the Spanish language.

Bob Ong, or Roberto Ong

Is the pseudonym of a Filipino contemporary author known for using conversational Filipino to create humorous and reflective depictions of life as a Filipino. 

VISUAL ARTS

Ø  The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts (photography, video, and film making) and architecture.

Sculpture

Napoleón Isabelo Veloso-Abueva 

(born January 26, 1930), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He is the only Boholano given the distinction as National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.

Rey Paz Contreras 

(born August 31, 1950, is a prominent Filipino sculptor working with urban refuse and environmental materials as artistic media. He is inspired by the indigenous Filipino culture and creates visual forms of contemporary images that explore a distinct Filipino aesthetics. He currently has his studio near the railroad tracks in Tondo, Manila, where he conducts his community-based art training to promote a socially-responsive 'people's art' that has developed into the Daambakal Sculptors Collective. Contreras' pioneered the use of travieza or hardwood railroad tracks during the late 70s.

Anastacio Tanchauco Caedo 

(14 August 1907–12 May 1990) was one of the Philippines' greatest sculptors. His style of sculpture was classical realist in the tradition of his mentor,Guillermo Tolentino. He produced commissioned representational sculptures mainly monuments of national heroes and successful Filipino politicians, businessmen, and educators. He was born in Macao, China and was brought here at the age of fourteen and stayed in Batangas with his parents Arsenio Caedo and Genoveva Tanchauco.

Painting

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto 

(May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972) is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in thePhilippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. Born in Paco, Manila, he earned a degree from the Liceo de Manila Art School in 1909.

 Vicente Silva Manansala 

(January 22, 1910 - August 22, 1981) was a Philippine cubist painter and illustrator. Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada. In 1950, he received a nine-month scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris by the French government.

Carlos V. Francisco 

(November 4, 1912 – March 31, 1969), popularly known as Botong, was a muralist from Angono, Rizal. Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural painting for many decades and best known for his historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino modernists along with Galo Ocampo and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando Amorsolo's romanticism of Philippine scenes.

WHAT IS ART?

Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the

beauty of the world – Plato

Art is the medium by which the artist communicates with his fellow -Van Dyke

Art is anything made or done by man that affects or moves us so that we see or feel the beauty in it. – Collins and Riley

Art is derived from the Latin word “ars”  which means ability or skill      J.V. Estolas  

Art is taken from the Italian word “artis”, which means craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form and ideas, between materials and techniques. – A. Tan

Art  is a product of man's needs to express himself.  F. Zulueta

Art is concerned itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of sensuous medium, color, sound, bonze, marble, words and film.  – C. Sanchez

Art is a reflection or a mirror of beauty.  - Aristotle

HUMANITIES

v  It brings out the good and the noble in man

v  Shows the changing image of man as he journeys across time

v  Searches for reality, and strives to achieve the ideals that create the meaning of life