I used as my benchmark or touchstone for National Artistry the great Caparas, who is so good an artist that he outshines Fernando Amorsolo, Ang Kiukok, Bencab, Victorio Edades, Botong Francisco, Jose Joya, Cesar Legaspi, Arturo Luz, Vicente Manansala, J. It was more gross and more disturbing than the films of Carlos J.
Caparas noong dekada 90.” (“The massacre of the animals started. My epigraph for the lecture was this text from the children’s book Alamat ng Gubat by Bob Ong: “ Nag-umpisa ang massacre ng mga hayop na mas karumaldumal at mas kagimbal-gimbal pa sa mga pelikula ni Carlo J. I divided my lecture into four parts: The Benchmark for National Artists, The Writing Principles Violated by Bob Ong, The Writing Principles Advocated by Bob Ong, and What Makes a National Artist. Of course, kabobohan is a play on the penname Bob Ong, which is in turn a play on the words Bobong Pinoy, the title of the website that started the anonymous author on the road to what has become the bestselling publishing phenomenon of our time. I entitled my lecture “Ang Kabobohan ni Bob Ong, o Dapat Bang Hiranging Pambansang Alagad ng Sining si Bob Ong” (“The Idiocy of Bob Ong, or Should Bob Ong be Declared a National Artist”). 18 at De La Salle University, I delivered (in Filipino) the inaugural lecture of the Br.
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