This document provides information about several notable Filipino dancers who have been named National Artists of the Philippines for Dance. It discusses their contributions to researching, preserving, and choreographing traditional Philippine folk dances as well as incorporating folk dance traditions into ballet. The dancers profiled include Francisca Aquino, known for her early research of Philippine folk dances; Leonor Goquingco, a pioneer in blending folk dance and ballet; Ramon Obusan, who established a dance company focusing on indigenous dances; and Alice Reyes, the founder of the premier ballet company Ballet Philippines.
The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture. The document then profiles several influential Filipino artists such as Fernando Amorsolo, Hernando Ocampo, Benedicto Cabrera, Carlos Francisco, Cesar Legaspi, and others known for works depicting Philippine culture and scenes as well as more abstract styles of painting and sculpture that modernized Philippine art.
This document provides information on six Filipino artists who have been designated National Artists of the Philippines in recognition of their significant contributions to their fields. It discusses Antonio Buenaventura and Jose Maceda in music, Francisca Reyes Aquino and Ramon Obusan in dance, Daisy Avellana and Rolando Tinio in theater, Francisco Arcellana and Edith Tiempo in literature, and Fernando Amorsolo, Carlos "Botong" Francisco, Guillermo Tolentino, Francisco Coching, and Victorio Edades in visual arts. For each artist, it highlights some of their major works and research that helped promote and popularize Philippine culture.
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