biography n works of the national artist

1. National Artist
LESSON IV

2. Review
What is the meaning of National Artist?

3. Who established the National Artist Award?

4. What government company and corporations
takes responsibility in choosing the recipients of
national artist?

5. R a m o n Va l e r a
National Artist for
Fashion Design (2006)
(August 31, 1912 – May 25, 1972)

6. Ramon Valera
The contribution of Ramon Valera, whose family hails from
Abra, lies in the tradition of excellence of his works, and his
commitment to his profession, performing his magical seminal
innovations on the Philippine terno.
Valera is said to have given the country its visual icon to the
world via the terno. In the early 40s, Valera produced a single
piece of clothing from a four-piece ensemble consisting of a
blouse, skirt, overskirt, and long scarf.

7. Ramon Valera
He unified the components of the baro’t saya into a single dress with
exaggerated bell sleeves, cinched at the waist, grazing the ankle, and zipped up at
the back. Using zipper in place of hooks was already a radical change for the
country’s elite then. Dropping the panuelo–the long folded scarf hanging down the
chest, thus serving as the Filipina’s gesture of modesty–from the entire ensemble
became a bigger shock for the women then. Valera constructed the terno’s butterfly
sleeves, giving them a solid, built-in but hidden support. To the world, the
butterfly sleeves became the terno’s defining feature.

10. National Artist for Cinema (2006)
(August 20, 1939 – December 14,
2004)
Ronald Allan K. Poe

11. Ronald Allan K. Poe, popularly known as Fernando Poe, Jr., was a
cultural icon of tremendous audience impact and cinema artist and
craftsman–as actor, director, writer and producer.
Poe was born in Manila on August 20, 1939. After the death of his
father, he dropped out of the University of the East in his sophomore year
to support his family. He was the second of six siblings. He married actress
Susan Roces in a civil ceremony in December 1968.
He died on December 14, 2004.

12. The image of the underdog was projected in his films such as Apollo
Robles(1961), Batang Maynila (1962), Mga Alabok sa Lupa (1967), Batang
and Batang Estibador (1969), Ako ang Katarungan (1974), Tatak ng
Alipin(1975), Totoy Bato (1977), Asedillo (1981), Partida (1985), and Ang
Probisyano (1996), among many others. The mythical hero, on the other hand, was
highlighted in Ang Alamat (1972), Ang Pagbabalik ng Lawin(1975) including
his Panday series (1980, 1981, 1982, 1984) and the action adventure films adapted
from komiks materials such as Ang Kampana sa Santa Quiteria(1971), Santo
Domingo (1972), and Alupihang Dagat (1975), among others.

14. Group Activity: Camera Action!
1. Each group will have to re-enact the following lines and
action scenes of Fernando Poe Jr.
2. Show the video.
3. The group can improvise props and costumes in the scenes.
4. The group will be given 15 minutes to prepare.

15. Criteria:
Expression – 5 points
Acting skills - 10 points
Dialogue - 10 points
TOTAL OF 25 POINTS

16. National Artist for Cinema (2009)
(October 9, 1915 – August 11, 1985)
Manuel Conde

17. Born on October 9, 1915 and christened Manuel Pabustan Urbano, Manuel
Conde grew up and studied in Daet, Camarines Norte.
Conde invested local cinema with a distinct cultural history of its own through movies
that translated onto the silver screen the age-old stories that Filipinos had told and retold
from generation to generation for at least the past one hundred years. Among the
narratives that Conde directed and/or produced for the screen were three of the most
famous metrical romances in Philippine lowland culture: Siete Infantes de Lara, Ibong
Adarna, and Prinsipe Tenoso.

18. SHORT QUIZ
Please prepare ¼ sheet of paper.
Clear your arm chair.
No ERASURES allowed.

19. Additional activity
Each group should create a Panuelo that is inspired by the
Film made by Manuel Conde, Ibong Adarna.
 Criteria:
Technique – 10 points
Craftsmanship – 15 points
Creativity – 10 points
TOTAL --------------- 35 points