CHAPTER 4: “ARTIST & ARTISAN”

Group 4

What is Artist and Artisan?

ARTIST

• All artist’s work aims to create an overall reaction from a viewer. All fine artist first learn to sketch and
begin with a pencil and sketch pad to work with an idea on paper. They transfer their visions to canvas or
other medium and this may mean working in pencils, oils, water color or pastels.

• The word “artist” is generally defined as an art practitioner, such as a painter, sculptor, choreographer,
dancer, writer, poet, musicians, and the like who produces or creates indirectly functional arts with
aesthetic value using imagination.

ARTISAN

• Artisan are craftsmen who make practical artistic product.

• Artisans gain their knowledge by studying under master craftsmen and practicing with continued study.
They work to create something new, original and at times, provocative.

• An ARTISAN is a craftsman, such carpenter, carver, plumber, blacksmith, weaver, embroiderer, and the
like who produces directly functional and or decorative arts. Artisan help us in meeting our basic needs,
such as food, clothing, dwelling, furniture, and kitchen utensils; they craft everything that makes our life
easy. The artisan’s works are useful, relevant, and essential in our daily life.

The Artist and Artisans' Medium and Technique

A medium is the material which the artist uses to communicate and translate his feelings, ideas, or
thoughts. A technique, on the other hand, refers to the manner in which the artist controls his medium
to achieve the desired effect.

Comparing Artists to Artisans

• Artists and artisans fill different roles in the art sector. Artists work in fine arts including painting,
illustration and sculpture while artisans are craftsme who work in textiles, pottery, glass and television,
long and round tables, ro doors, etc. Usually, these are manmade shapes (Ragans, 2005).

Career Information Involving Art and Performing Artists

• Actors perform creative works written by playwrights or screenwriters for the entertainment of others.

• Singers transform written music into song in front of an audience or inside a recording studio.
Musicians continually hone their skill by playing instruments which they often play in performances
either in front of live audiences or in recording studios. Each time they sing or play, they perform their
art.

• Dancers express art on stage in front of live audiences by movement or in front of a camera for
recorded sessions.
• Performance makeup artists use makeup to enhance the appearance of actors and make them look
more like their characters and better reflect the scenes they are in.

Career Information Involving Art and Performing Artists

• Choreographers create dance routines for trained dancers to perform.

• Directors work behind the scenes to bring a script or play to life. They take scripts and plays, which are
the art of the writers, and craft them into performances either for film, television, or on stage, by
instructing actors on what they should do. Their work centers on the performing arts.

• Set and exhibit designers study scripts in order to produce accurate sets for performance events, from
plays to films. They discuss their set designs with directors and perform research in order to produce
accurate backgrounds. Their artistic efforts are part of performance art every time they face an
audience.

• Costume attendants work in the performing arts in addressing those who perform.

Information About Careers that Involve Art and Creativity

1. Craft and Fine Artist – The most obvious career choice that involves art and creativity is the role of a
craft or fine artist.

2. Multimedia artists and animators – work with various software programs and technology to create
the graphics and visuals for many types of media, including video games, films and television shows.

3. Art directors – work in a number of diverse fields, from the film industry to magazine publishing and
are responsible for the artistic and visual design and style of the product they They produce.

4. Photographer’s – duties may vary depending on the specific type of photography specializes in, as
some may travel offen to capture special eves like weddings and parties, while others may work in
corporate photography specialize in food photography.

5. Museum curator – one is responsible for setting up, maintaining and designing exhibits in a museum

6. Performing Arts Manager or Arts Administrator – facilitates a creative organization, giving everything,
it needs to function both as a business and as an artistic entity.

The Needed Skills and Qualifications of a Career in Art Performing

• ORGANIZATION – duty of a performing arts manager is to manage and administrate.

• ACCOUNTING-A performance arts manager draws up budgets with the team and ensures its
responsibility.

• THE LAW-The law protects creative rights-that of the artists and the artisans.

• FUNDRAISING – A major element of the position is securing the funding your organization needs to
achieve its aims and fulfil its potential.

• MARKETING Advertisements and promotions increase are production and sales

• PUBLIC REACTION – He or she serves drinks and provides a better service to the customer.
• FLEXIBILITY- Career in the art does not have fixed schedule.

What is Art Production and Why Does it Matter?

ART PRODUCTION

• Art production refers to the creation and development of artwork in various forms, such as painting,
sculpture, photography, and digital art. It involves the process of conceptualizing ideas, selecting
materials, and executing the artwork.

Why Does it Matter?

• Art production matters because it alloWS individuals to express their creativity, emotions, and unique
perspectives. It serves as a powerful medium for communication, enabling artists to convey their
thoughts, beliefs, and experiences to a wider audience. Art. Production also plays a significant role in
cultural preservation and documentation, as it captures the essence of different time periods and
societies. Additionally, art production has the ability to challenge societal norms, provoke critical
thinking, and foster social change.

National and GAMABA Artists’ Notable Works and Contributions

• The Philippine Congress passed Republic Act No. 7355 or also known as Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan,
(GAMABA) or the National Living Treasures Award.

• As envisioned under R.A. 7355, Manlilikha ng Bayan shall mean a citizen engaged in any traditional art
uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have reached such a high level of technical and artistic
excellence and have been passed on to and widely practiced by the present generation in his/her
community with the same degree of technical and artistic competence (NCCA). In return, the GAMABA
Awardees are required to participate in different cultural celebrations both in local and national events.

These are the Qualifications to Become a Manlilikha ng Bayan based on the NCCA Guidelines (NCCA,
2020):

1. He/she is an inhabitant of an indigenous/traditional cultural community anywhere in the Philippines

that has preserved indigenous customs, beliefs, rituals and traditions and/or has syncretized whatever
external elements that have influenced it.

2. He/she must have engaged in a folk-art tradition that has been in existence and documented for at
least fifty (50) years.

3. He/she must have consistently performed or produced over a significant period, works of superior and
distinctive quality.

4. He/she must possess a mastery of tools and materials needed by the art and must have an established
reputation in the art as master and maker of works of extraordinary technical quality.

5. He/she must have passed on and/or will pass on to other members of the community their skills in the
folk art for which the community is traditionally known.
 Even if the traditional artist is incapable of teaching his/her masterpiece due to advanced age or
sickness, he/she can still be rewarded if:

1. He/she had created a significant body of works and/or has consistently displayed excellence in the
practice of his/her art, thus achieving important contributions for its development.

2. He/she has been instrumental in the revitalization of his/her community’s artistic tradition.

3. He/she has passed on to the other members of the community skills in the folk art for which the
community is traditionally known.

4. His/her community has recognized him/her as master and teacher of his/her craft.

“GAMABA AWARDEES”

• GINAW BILOG

Date Awarded: 1993

Origin: Panaytayan, Oriental Mindoro Artistry: poet

The Mangyan script is one of the four remaining syllabic scripts in the country, and Ginaw Bilog’s work
has been crucial to its preservation. He was considered as a master of the Ambahan (a metaphoric poem
comprising seven-syllable lines) poetry..

• MASINO INTARAY

Date Awarded: 199e

Origin: Brookes Point, Palawan Artistry: musician and storyteller

A member of the Palawan tribe. Masino Intaray was a prolific and pre-eminent epic chanter and story
teller recognized for his outstanding mastery of various traditional musical instruments of the Palawan
people- such as basal, kulilal, a lyrical poem expressing love, and the bagit, an instrumental piece about
nature.

SAMAON SULAIMAN

Date Awarded: 1993

Origin: Mama sa Pano, Maguindanao Artistry: musicion

Musician Samaon Sulaiman was a master of the kutyapi, a two-stringed lute that requires highly
technical skill to play. He was also proficient in playing instruments such as the kulintang. Agong (a
suspended gong with a wide rim), gandingan (a gong with a narrow rim), and tambul Sulaiman’s
fascination for his craft led him to become an influential teacher.

LANG DULAY

Date Awarded: 1998

Origin: Lake Sebu, South Cotabato Artistry: textile weaver

Lang Dulay was a T’boli traditional weaver of “tinalak” or Tboli cloth made of colorful abaca fabrics. As
demand grew for new designs, she persisted and kept working with traditional patterns, even though
they were harder to complete. She valued purity, so much so that she never washed her t’nalak with
soap.

SALINTA ΜΟΝΟΝ

Date Awarded: 1998

Origin: Bansalan, Davao Del Sur Artistry: textile weaver

Salinta was a Tagabanwa-Bagobo traditional weaver of distinct abaca fabrics called inabal. Her favorite
pattern, despite or because of its difficulty, was the binuwaya (crocodile), and she continued weaving
until her death in 2009.

ALONZO SACLAG

Date Awarded: 2000

Origin: Lubungan, Kalinga Artistry: musician and transitional dancer

He was a Kalinga Master of Dance and the performing arts who mastered not only the Kalinga musical
instruments but also the dance patterns and movements associated with his people’s ritual. It was
through observation, time, and experience rather than education or training or any kind that Alonzo
Saclag learned local musical instruments and dance patterns.

FEDERICO CABALLERO

Date Awarded: 2000

Origin: Calinog, Iloilo Artistry: epic chanter Epic chanter

Federico Caballero of Calinog. Iloilo was best known for his expertise in the Sugidanon, a Central Panay
epic traditionally chanted while lying on a hammock, and his work in the preservation of oral literature,
documenting 10 Panay-Bukidnon epics in an extinct language with close ties to Kinaray-a.

UWANG AHADAS

Date Awarded: 2000

Origin: Lamitan, Basilan Artistry: musician

Uwang Ahadas was a Yakan musician who is a master of the kwintangan, kayu, and tuntungan
instruments. He is also dedicated to sharing his knowledge to younger folk: his teaching style is hands-on
and supportive, giving his students his full attention.

DARHATA SAWABI

Date Awarded: 2004

Origin: Parang, Sulu Artistry: textile weaver

The Tausug weaver’s primary creation was the pis siyabit the traditional cloth tapestry worn as a head
cover, pis stands for the pattern, which is said to be derived trom India’s mandala, depicting spirituality
through geometric forms, and siyabit refers to the hook and technique. She gained recognition for the
precision of her work and her passion for preserving traditional designs, as well as teaching the youth.

EDUARDO MUTUC

Date Awarded: 2004

Origin: Apalit Pampanga. Artistry: metalsmith

Mutuc was an artist from Apalit. Pampanga who has dedicated his life to creating religious and secular
art with exquisitely detailed and lifelike pieces of varying sizes: altars, mirrors, retablos, and even
carosas, using silver, bronze, and wood.

HAJA AMINA APPI

Date Awarded: 2004

Origin: Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi Artistry: pandan mat weaver

Haja Amina Appi of Ungos Matata, Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi created Intricate mats that boast beautiful
geometric designs, vibrant colors, and fine symmetry. She was recognized as a master mat weaver
among the Sama indigenous community for her unique designs, straightness of her edging (tabig). And
fineness of her sasa and kima- kima.

TEOFILO GARCIA

Date Awarded: 2012

Origin: San Quintin, Abra Artistry: Casque Maker

Through word of mouth and his participation in the annual local harvest festival, Garcia was able to
introduce the tabungaw plant as a good and sturdy material for functional, elegant, and protective hats.
He produces everything he needs. Planting and harvesting the gourds, splitting and refining rattan for the
lining, and weaving nito and bamboo for accents himself- and usually takes seven days to finish a hat.

MAGDALENA GAMAYO

Date Awarded: 2012

Origin: Pinili, Ilocos Norte Artistry: textile weaver

Gamayo’s skill and instinct are none more apparent than they are in her ability to replicate designs she’s
only seen once. Her binakol, or woven cloth, continues to draw praise and awe for its above-average
thread count and uniform weave. To keep Ilocos abel weaving tradition alive, she teaches her practice to
her cousin’s daughter-in-law and sister-in-law.

Estelita Batilan
• She is credited with creating “some of the biggest, most subtly beautiful mats to be seen anywhere in
Southeast Asia.” She was given the National Living Treasure Award by the Philippines through the
National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2016.

Known for: Textile

Style: Blaan traditional weaving

Ambalang Ausalin was a Filipino master weaver from the city of Lamitan, Basilan.

Born: March 4, 1943

Died: February 18, 2022 (age 78 years) Award: 2016

Awards: National Living Treasure Nationality: Philippine

Known for: Textile

Style: Sinaluan and sputangan Yakan traditional weaving

Fu Yabing Masalon Dulo, commonly referred to as Fu Yabing, was a Filipino textile master weaver and
dyer, credited with preserving the Blaan traditional mabal tabih art of Ikat weaving and dyeing.

Born: August 8, 1914, Cotabato

Died: January 26, 2021 (age 106 years), South Cotabato

Known for. Textile

Awards: National Living Treasure Award; 2016

Style: Blaan traditional mabal tabih weaving and dyeing

The Order of National Artists

• This Order of National Artists is the highest national honor and recognition conferred to a selected
artist who has contributed much to the development and promotion of Philippines Arts whether in the
fields Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film and Broadcast Arts, Architecture or Allied Arts.
This is the one of the highest Honors of the country which implicates the ideals in humanism and artistic
expression in the Philippines.

The National Artist

• This is the distinguished Filipino artists who have made significant contributions to the cultural heritage
of the country, an individual whose artistic accomplishment is at its highest level promoting creative
expression and national cultural identity, an artist who has dedicated his life and works to forge new
paths and directions for future generations of Filipino artist (National Center for Culture and the Arts,
2015)

The proclaimed National Artists are awarded a Grand Collar as a symbol of their title.

• The Insignia of the Order of the National Artists is comprised of a Grand Collar made of silver gilt
bronze showing circular links representing the arts, and an eight pointed conventionalized sunburst
suspended from a sampaguita wreath in green and white enamel. A medallion in the center is colored
red, white, and blue, similar to the Philippine flag. Found in it as well is the “KKK” which reveals the CCP’s
motto: “Katotohanan, Kabutihan, at Kagandahan”.

Get to Know the New National Artists

The nation, led by President Rodrigo R. Duterte, feted seven new National Artists an awarding ceremony
held on 24 October which also revealed the honorees of other aware of national importance the
Presidential Medal of Merit; the Philippines Heritage Awards for tangible and intangible heritage, given
for the first time and the Gawa sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or National Living Treasures Awards for traditional
and folk artists, craftsmen and artisans.

• The newly declared National Artists are Larry Alcala for visual arts; Ameli Lapeña-Bonifacio for theater
and literature; Ryan Cayabyab for music; Kidlat Tahimik for film and broadcast arts: Francisco T. Mañosa
for architecture and allied arts; Resil B. Mojares for literature and Ramon Muzones for literature. Two of
them-Alcala and Muzones were honored posthumously.

The Short Summaries of the Lives and Achievements of the National Artists

• Lauro “Larry” Alcala (18 August 1926- 24 June 2002) is famous for his cartoons. His comic strips spiced
up the slices of Filipino lives with witty illustrations executed throughout his 56 years of cartooning. He
created over 500 characters and 20 comic strips in widely circulated publications. Alcala’s most iconic
work, Slice of Life, not only made for decades long of widely circulated images of Filipino everyday life, it
also symbolically became an experiential way for his followers to find a sense of self in the midst of an
often cacophonic, raucous and at odds environment in which Filipinos find themselves.

• Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio is known as the Grand Dame of Southeast Asian children’s theatre. She is the
founder and playwright-director of the Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas, which has placed the Philippines on
the artistic map of world theater. She has written most of the plays performed by the group based on
materials culled from careful researches. She has also been involved in the production and design of
puppets. What she has achieved is an innovative fusion of puppetry, children’s literature, folklore and
theater.

• Ryan Cayabyab is the most accomplished composer, arranger and musical director in the Philippine
music industry since it bloomed beginning ing 1970s. His skillful and versatile musical style spans a wide
range of genres- from conservatory or art compositions such as concert religious music, symphonic work,
art song, opera and concerto to mainstream popular idioms in the music industry and in live
contemporary shows. Being very visible in mainstream media, Cayabyab is a household name. His
compositions reflect a perspective of music that extols the exuberance of life and human happiness, thus
capturing an essence of the Filipino soul.

• Kidlat Tahimik (Eric de Guia) has continually invented himself through his cinema and so his cinema is
as singule Mababang as the man. His debut film, Bangungot (1977), was praised by critics an film makers
from Europe, North Americ Asia and Africa and is still considered many as a pioneering post colonial es
nim Tahimik’s intense independence an artist and, at the same time, the film itses called for Filipinos to
actively live out the independence and not allow their culture to imperialized by the west. Kidlat’s
“imperfec film is an exemplar of what is world worldwid known as “Third Cinema,” a cinema the is
critical of neocolonial exploitation ang state oppression. But, unlike other Thing Cinema films, Kidlat’s
work does not glom in ugliness.

• Francisco T. Mañosa, for all of his more than 60 years of architecture life designed Filipino. From the
1960s, with his landmark design of the Sulo Hotel unti his retirement in 2015, he passionately created
original Filipino forms, spaces wit intricate and refined details. But what is most valuable is that Mañosa
was in the heart and soul of a Philippine architectural movement. He has developed a legacy of
Philippine architecture. Which is essential to our Filipino identity and at the sam time, deeply
appreciated and shared in our world today.

• Resil B. Mojares is a teacher and scholar, essayist and fictionist, and cultural and literary historian He is
acknowledged as a leading figure in the promotion of regional literature and history. As founding
director of the Cebuano Studies Center-an important research institution which placed Cebu in the
research and documentation map he pioneered Cebuano and national identity formation.

• Ramon Muzones (20 March 1913 to 17 August 1992) was a Hiligaynon poet, essayist, short story writer,
critic, grammarian, editor, lexicographer and novelist who authored an unprecedented 61 completed
novels. A number of these represent groundbreaking “firsts’ in Hiligaynon literature such as the feminist
Ang Bag-ong Maria Clara, the roman a clef Maambong Nga Sapat (Magnificent Brute, 1940), the comic Si
Tamblot (1946), the politically satirical Si Tamblot Kandidato Man (Tamblot is Also a Candidate, 1949),
the longest serialized novel, Dama de Noche (1982 to 1984, 125 installments), etc. Hailed by his peers as
the longest reigning (1938-1972) among “the three kings of the Hiligaynon novel,” Muzones brought
about its most radical changes while ushering in modernism. His liferary career spanned 53 years (1938-
1990).