National Artists

The Order of National Artists is the highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to Philippine arts.

Fernando Amorsolo

Fernando Amorsolo

Fernando Amorsolo

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Fernando Amorsolo , he is most famous for his rendition on canvas of the idyllic provincial life; from a cook preparing a meal in a nipa hut to farmers working in the rice field, from nude lavanderas bathing in the stream to the fishermen departing on their boats at sea.

He was declared as ‘First National Artist of the Philippines”

Abdulmari Asia Imao

Abdulmari Imao

Abdulmari Imao

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Abdulmari Asia Imao is the Philippines’ first Moro National Artist.

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Larry Alcala

Larry Alcala

Larry Alcala

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Larry Alcala was a well-known editorial cartoonist and illustrator in the Philippines. In 2018, he was posthumously conferred the National Artist for Visual Arts title and the Grand Collar of the Order of National Artists (Order ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining) 

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Federico Aguilar Alcuaz

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz

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Describing Alcuaz’s oeuvre in a few statements is a challenge. His mastery of landscape, portraiture, nudes, still-lifes, and his study of color contrasts not only in figurative works, but most dramatically in his abstracts, along with forays into different media such as tapestry, cemented Alcuaz as a major artist locally and internationally.

Jerry Elizalde Navarro

Jerry Elizalde Navarro

Jerry Elizalde Navarro

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J. (Jeremias) Elizalde Navarro was born on May 22, 1924 in Antique. He is a versatile artist, being both a proficient painter and sculptor. His devotion to the visual arts spanned 40 years of drawing, printmaking, graphic designing, painting and sculpting.