National artist of the Philippines

1. National Artist of the Philippines
LAPIG, Glydel I.
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2. Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
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.
Family
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was born on July 24, 1917 at Jolo, Sulu. Her
parents were Sixto Orosa and Severina Luna, both doctors who graduated
from the University of the Philippines. She was married to Benjamin
Goquinco and had three children: Benjamin, Jr., Rachelle and Regina.
Education
Goquingco graduated Elementary in 1929 at Central Philippine
University and as the top of her class as valedictorian in Negros
Occidental Provincial High School. She moved to Manila and entered
the Philippine Women's University (PWU) where she took an ACS course. She
earned a diploma in education, majoring in English Literature from St.
Scholastica's College Manila and graduated summa cum laude. The famous
national artist also took graduate courses in theatre craft, drama and
music at Columbia University and Teachers College in New York City, USA.
She also took professional and teacher courses at the Ballet de Monte
Carlo.
Accomplishments
In 1939, Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was the only dancer sent on the first
cultural mission to Japan, at the age of 19. She produced Circling the
Globe (1939) and Dance Panorama in the same year. She created The
Elements in 1940, the first ballet choreographed by a Filipino to
commissioned music. She also created Sports during the same year,
featuring cheerleaders, a tennis match and a basketball game. The first
Philippine folkloric ballet, Trend: Return to the Native, was
choreographed by Goquingco in 1941. After the Second World War, she
organized thePhilippine Ballet and brought the famous Filipino novel, Noli
Me Tángere, to life. The Noli Dance Suite consisted of several
dances. Maria Clara and the Leper, Salome and Elias, Sisa, Asalto for
Maria Clara and The Gossips are some of the dances found in the Noli Dance
Suite.
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco also danced during her early years. She danced at
the American Museum of Natural History, Theresa Kaufmann Auditorium, The
International House and Rockefeller Plaza, just to name a few. She
appeared in War Dance and Planting Rice. Other works she choreographed
were "Circling the Globe", "Dance Panorama", "Current events", "Vinta!",
"Morolandia", "Festival in Maguindanao", "Eons Ago: The Creation",
"Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend, and Lore in Dance", "Miner's
Song", "The Bird and the Planters", "Tribal", "Ang Antipos" (The

3. Flagellant), "Salubong", "Pabasa" (Reading of the Pasyon) and "Easter
Sunday Fiesta".
She took the Filipinescas Dance Company on a world tour in 1961, 1962,
1964, 1966, 1968 and 1970.
She was also a writer, and her articles were published in Dance
Magazine (New York City), Enciclopedia Della Spettacolo (Rome), Grove's
Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London), Arts of Asia (Hong Kong) and
the Philippine Cultural Foundation. She wrote Dances of the Emerald
Isles and Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and Lore in Dance.
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco also wrote a poem on the Japanese
occupation, Lifted the Smoke of Battle. She is famous for her one-act
play, Her Son, Jose Rizal which is set during the time Rizal was
imprisoned and awaiting his execution. It reveals the emotions going
through Rizal's mother at that time and the similarities between Rizal's
life and that of Jesus Christ.
Goquinco was also a critic who wrote reviews. She critiqued works like
Tony Perez' Oktubre, Ligaya Amilbangsa's Stillness and Tanghalang
Pilipino's Aguinaldo: 1898.
Awards
 Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award in 1961 and 1964
 Rizal Centennial Award in 1962
 Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1964
 Presidential Award of Merit in 1970
 Tandang Sora Award and the Columbia University Alumni Association
Award in 1975
 National Artist for Dance on March 27, 1976
Positions
She was an Honorary Chairman of the Association of Ballet Academies of the
Philippines, the founding member of the Philippine Ballet Theatre (PBT)
and was known as a Zontian and a performing arts critic and columnist of
the Manila Bulletin.
Francisco Coching
Francisco V. Coching (January 29, 1919- September 1, 1998) was a Filipino
comic books illustrator and writer and is regarded as one of the “pillars
of the Philippine Komiks Industry”. He served as both illustrator and
writer for his comic book stories, Coching is referred to as the "King of
Komiks", and as the "Dean of Philippine Comics".
Biography
Coching was born in Buting, Pasig, Rizal Province in the Philippines. He
was the son of Gregorio Coching, a Filipino novelist in the Tagalog-language
magazine Liwayway.

4. Coching was unable to finish his studies in order to be an illustrator
for Liwayway under the apprenticeship of Tony Velasquez. In 1934, at the
age of fifteen, Coching created Bing Bigotilyo(Silahis Magazine). Coching
had been influenced by Francisco Reyes, another pioneer in the Filipino
comic book industry. In 1935, he created Marabini (an amazon warrior in
Bahaghari Magazine). World War II interrupted Coching’s career in comics.
He became a guerrillero (guerilla) for the Kamagong Unit of the Hunters-
ROTC resistance organization.
After the Second World War, Coching created Hagibis, a Tarzan-like
and Kulafu-like character in Liwayway Magazine). Other creations by
Coching were Sabas, ang Barbaro (Sabas, the Barbarian, wherein the
storyline was set during the Filipino revolution against Spain), Pedro
Penduko, El Indio, Bertong Balutan, Don Cobarde, Ang Kaluluwa ni
Dante (Dante's Soul), Pagano(Pagan), Haring Ulupong, Dumagit, Lapu-
Lapu, Bulalakaw, Waldas, Talipandas, Palasig, Movie Fan, Anak ni
Hagibis (a sequel to Hagibis), Gat Sibasib (another sequel
to Hagibis), Satur,Dimasalang, Bella Bandida, El Vibora, Sa Ngalan ng
Batas, and El Negro. El Negro (1974) was his last komiks novel.
After 39 years in the komiks industry, Coching retired in 1973 at the age
of 54. Coching was able to produce 53 komiks novels overall. He died at
age of 79 on September 1, 1998.
Influence
Coching influenced many other Filipino illustrators. Among them were Noly
Panaligan, Federico C. Javinal, Carlos Lemos, Celso Trinidad, Emil Quizon-
Cruz, Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, and Emil Rodriguez.
Film adaptation
Almost all of Coching’s komiks novels were adapted into films, with the
exception of three titles. Among those that were made into a movie was El
Negro in 1974.
Awards
In 1981, Coching obtained the Makasining na Komiks Award in the Tanging
Parangal for Comics Art from the Manila Commission of Arts and Culture.
In 1984, Coching received the Komiks Operation Brotherhood Inc. (KOMOPEB)
Life Achievement Award.
In 1998, he received the Award of Excellence from the government of Pasay
City.
Coching received the nomination as a National Artist of the Philippines
for the Visual Arts in 1999 and in 2001. On June 20, 2014, Coching was
posthumously named as a National Artist for the Visual Arts by virtue of
Proclamation No. 808, series of 2014.

5. Abdulmari Asia Imao
Sculpture (2006)
Abdulmari Asia Imao, a native of Sulu, is a sculptor, painter,
photographer, ceramist, documentary film maker, cultural researcher,
writer, and articulator of Philippine Muslim art and culture.
Through his works, the indigenous ukkil, sarimanok and naga motifs have
been popularized and instilled in the consciousness of the Filipino nation
and other peoples as original Filipino creations.
His U.P. art education introduced him to Filipino masters like Guillermo
Tolentino and Napoleon Abueva, who were among his mentors.
With his large-scale sculptures and monuments of Muslim and regional
heroes and leaders gracing selected sites from Batanes to Tawi-tawi, Imao
has helped develop among cultural groups trust and confidence necessary
for the building of a more just and humane society.
Selected works:
Industry Brass Mural, Philippine National Bank, San Fernando, La Union
Mural Relief on Filmmaking, Manila City Hall
Industrial Mural, Central Bank of the Philippines, San Fernando, La Union
Sulu Warriors (statues of Panglima Unaid and Captain Abdurahim Imao), 6
ft., Sulu Provincial Capitol