Lesson 5: Local Materials to Contemporary Arts

Sanikulas Cookies
 Are arrow foot cookies that have the image of St. Nicholas molded on it’s ergo name.
 Is also known as “The Healer” from illnesses.
 Legend says that if you consume these cookies when you are ill, you get healed and
recover in a shorter amount of time that it would usually take
Pabalot or Pastillas Wrapper Cutting Art (Bulacan)
 The wrapper was made out of the delicate Japanese paper
 The way to make it is so delicate that only the ones with skilled hands and perfect
control of their motor skills can produce the best kind
Taka (Laguna)
 Is not an exclusive Pinoy art
 Became more popular during the American colonization period when there was an
excess of news print
 The people of Paete decided to create more Takas and even diversified into different
animals not just the traditional horse
Pagbuburda (Taal, Lumban and Laguna)
 Theart of embroidering is happily alive and flourishing in the towns
 Mostly done by the women who are wives of the farmers and fisherman and delicately
embroidering floral designs during the “Off-Season”
Singkaban or Bamboo Art
 Is the art of shaving bamboo into artful creations that can be used as décor for archers
or the home
 Is usually celebrating art during fiestas, weddings and other celebrations that involve
the entire community
Puni or Palm Leaf Folding (Bulacan)
 Was intended to create artful toys for kids
 Can also be used to create woven baskets, bags and evenfans
 The most common presentation of Puni art is the “Palaspas” we see every Holy Week

Lesson 6: Traditional Techniques to Contemporary Art Creations

Indigenous Art
 Itneg people – known for their intricate woven fabrics
 Binakol
 Features designs that incorporate optical illusions woven fabrics of the Gadang,
people usually bright red tones
 Their weaving can alos be beaded ornamentation
 Ilongot – make jewelry from pearl, red horn bill beak, plants and metals
 The Lumad people of Mindanao – are skilled in the art of dying abaca fibers
 Abaca – is a plant closely related to bananas and its leaves are used to make
fiverknown as “Manila Hemp”
  Ikat fibers – are woven into cloth with geometric patterns depicting human,
animal and plant leaves
 Sarimanok
 Is the most well-known design
 The figure represents a fowl with wings, feathered tail and a head decorated
with ornaments of scrolled and painted motif of leaves, spirals and feather like
forms
 It usually stands on a fish and another hangs from its beak
 Stands among decorative flags during weddings and other festive occasions
 Hagabi
 A wooden chair of Ifugao which symbolizes his status as a citizen in their
community
 It depicts the wealth and power of the own in who is called “Kadanagyan” or a
person who belongs to the higher status in their society
 This chair is made of Narra or Ipil-Ipil and the original design is called Ginulding-
Gulding
Islamic Arts
 Okir Design
 The scroll is the dominant feature in the men’s work composed of various spiral
forms
 Okir-a-Bay
 The zigzag and angular forms are the dominating motifs in women’s geometric
art
 Malong
 The most popular style and land cap which is either dominantly red, yellow,
green, blue or violet
 Often men wear the red land cap and the women the yellow
 Bagobo
 Are proud people with proto Malayan features
 They have ornate traditions in weaponry and other metal arts
 They are noted for their skill in producing brass articles through the ancient lost-
wax process
 These people weave abaca cloths of earth tones and make baskets that are
trimmed with beads, fibers and horse’s hair, weapons made by Muslim Filipinos
such as Kampilan
 Kut-Kut Art
 Is an exotic Philippine Art form based on early century techniques “Sgraffito”,
encaustic and layering
 The merging of this ancient styles produces a unique artwork characterized by
delicate swirling interweaved lines, multi-layered texture and an illusion of three
dimensional space
 Performing Arts
 Music
 The early music of the Philippines featured a mixture of indigenous Islamic and a
variety of Asian sounds
 Spanish settlers and Filipinos played a variety of musical instruments, including
flutes, guitar, ukulele, violin, trumps and drums
 Modern day Philippines music featured several styles
 Most music genres are contemporary such as Filipino rock, Filipino hip-hop and
another musical style
 Dance
 Philippine folk dances include Tinikling or Carinosa
 Singkil – is a popular dance showcasing the story of a prince and a princess in the
forest
Architecture
 The Spaniards introduced stones as housing and building materials
 In the past, the nipa hut (Bahay Kubo) was the most common form of housing among
the native Filipinos
 It is characterized by the use of simple materials such as Bamboo and coconut
as the main source of wood

Lesson 7: Artistic Skills and Techniques to Contemporary Art Creations

Collage – are the techniques of an art production primarily used in the visual arts where the
artwork is made from assemblage of different forms
- May sometimes include magazines and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paints, bits of colored
or handmade papers, portions of other artworks or texts, photographs and other found
objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas
Decollage – instead of an image is being built up all or parts of existing images are created by
cutting, treating away or otherwise removing pieces of an original image
- The French world “Decollage” in English means “Take-Off or “ To be come Unglued” or “To
become unstuck”
Graffiti – are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched or painted illicitly on a wall
or other surface often in a public space
- Range from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings
Land-art – it is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock
(bed rock, boulders, stones), organic media (logs, branches, leaves) and water which introduced
materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt or mineral pigments
Digital Arts – is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the
creative or presentation process
- Is placed under the larger umbrella termed new media art
- Is a term applied to contemporary art that uses the method of mass production or digital
media
Mixed-Media – it refers to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual
art media
- When creating a painted or photographed work using mixed media it is important to choose
the layers carefully and allow enough dying time between the layers to ensure the final
work will have structural integrity
Printmaking – is the process of making artworks by painting, normally in the paper
- Prints are created by transforming ink from a matrix or through a prepared screen to a sheet
of paper or other material
- Screens made of silk or synthetic fabrics are used for the screen printing process
Subject – refers to any person, objects, scene or event described or represented in a work of art
- The arts that have subject are called “Representational” or “Objective Arts”
 Representational – painting, sculpture, graphic arts, literature and theatre arts
 Non-representational – music, architecture and many of the functional arts
Non-objective arts – do not present descriptions, stories, or references to identifiable objects or
symbols
Form – refers to the physical qualities or characteristics of the image
- It’s about the use of color, lines, space and other elements
- These elements are arranged to observe unity, harmony, rhythm and other principles of
design in the production of a particular artwork