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José García Villa [1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter.He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [2] [3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [4]
A. Ramón Acín; Francisco Soria Aedo; Joaquín Agrasot; José Aguiar; Jorge Aguilar-Agon; Lorenzo Aguirre; Francisco Albert; Julia Alcayde y Montoya; Aurora Altisent
Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural painting for many decades and best known for his historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino modernists along with Galo Ocampo and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando Amorsolo 's romanticism of Philippine scenes.
Francia was born in Manila, Philippines.He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with an AB in Humanities, cum laude [2] and moved to New York in the 1970s. As a budding poet in New York, he studied with José García Villa, [3] the National Artist of the Philippines for literature, at The New School and later at his private workshop in Greenwich Village.
The NCCA created the category of National Artist for Fashion Design when it nominated Ramon Valera, but subsumed that category under "Architecture, Design and Allied Arts". President Fidel V. Ramos issued an executive order creating the category of National Artist for Historical Literature before conferring the honor to Carlos Quirino.
Lauro "Larry" Zarate Alcala ONA (August 18, 1926 – June 24, 2002) was a well-known editorial cartoonist and illustrator in the Philippines. [1] [2] [3] 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).
A. Z. Jolicco Cuadra (24 May 1939 in Zamboanga City - 30 April 2013 in Calamba) was a poet and artist, art critic, essayist, and short story writer.He was known as the "enfant terrible of Philippine art" in the 1960s, and his good looks and writings dubbed him the Byron of Philippine literature.
His Mexican mother was Amelia Narezo Dragonné and his father was a Spanish writer, artist and critic, Gabriel García Maroto. José García Narezo went to Mexico in 1928 to study, and later (in 1938) returned to Mexico again to escape from the Spanish Civil War. After that, García Narezo remained permanently in Mexico and received citizenship ...