Contemporary

Philippine Arts
from the Regions
1st Semester, S.Y. 2018-2019
Rosalinda B. Favorito
Teacher III
Philippine
Art
History
 Timeline of Philippine Arts
Instruction: Activity for
3 mins Group of male
and female.
Contemporary Era

Fill up the timeline using the ART CARD. Modern Era

Japanese Era

American Era

Spanish Era

Islamic Art

Ethnic Art

Pre – 13th C. AD 13th C. AD 1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s - present

 Timeline of Philippine Arts Social Realism
National
Identity

Contemporary Era
Orientalizing

Secular Forms Modern Era

of Art
Faith and Japanese Era
Catechism

Geometric
American Era
Designs
Integral to Spanish Era
life

Islamic Art

Ethnic Art

Pre – 13th C. AD 13th C. AD 1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s - present

• Identify the development of Philippine art
aesthetics from its most primal to its
contemporary form.
• Understand the process and icongraphy of
Philippine art as it progress overtime.
• Co-relate the Philippine contemporary art to its
origin and
the world
• Define what makes an art work distinctly Filipino
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW:
PHILIPPINE ART
 Historical Overview
VISUAL Pre- COLONIAL PERIODS INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC
ARTS Conquest Spanish American Japanese Post-War Contemporary

1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s – present

Painting Pottery, Religious Landscape, Wartime Modern,

Body Portraiture portrait, still life Scenes conservative, Figurative, non
Adornment abstract, figurative, art for
and Propaganda experimental, public art sake ,multi-
Ornament art media, mixed
Sculpture Pottery, Religious figures Free Standing, Indigenizing media and
wood and and carving relief, public and transmedia
metal Orientalizing
carving works

Architecture Dwellings Church, plaza, City planning, Public works Real Estate, safe housing,
and houses Civic building, public works, condominiums, subdivisions, villages,
(Bahay fortress, road and structures and malls, commercial/business/convention
kubo) lighthouse infrastructures buildings
construction
 Stylistic overview
Form Pre-colonial Spanish/Islamic American colonial Modern Post
colonial contemporary
Painting Classical, Idylitic, Incipient Collaborative,
Religious/devotio Nostalgic Triumvirate hyper-realist, new
nal 13 moderns, painting
Secular abstract,
Formal Surreal
Naturalistic, Expressionist
Sculpture Religious (Homegrown Abstract Junk scrap, neo-
(animalist or miniaturismo, Expressionism indigenous, site-
Islamic) guild) specific,
Community-based Academic performance art,
Inter-ethic hybrid
Architecture relations Workship-related Neoclassic, art International Filipino
Collective history and residential deco Industrializing, Architecture
Earthquake eclectic Urban planning
baroque Economic zone,
Hispanic revivalist Neovernacular,
(neogothic, Prefab,
neoromanesque, Regionalist
Islamic cosmopolitan
 Cultural Overview
Form Indigenous Islamic or Folk or lowland Fine or world- Popular or urban
southeast Asian Philippine Muslim based and mass based
Painting Museum-
Sculpture Colonial and post circulated, artist Mass produced
Rituals and governance
colonial centered gallery market oriented
Architect distributed
 ART TERMS
 Historical Terms – refer to art before the coming of the
first colonizers as “pre-conquest”.
 Stylistic Terms – refer to it as “indigenous” to emphasize
the idea that our ancestors have been making art even
before colonization.
 Cultural Terms – “pre-colonial” as a term to use for the
general way of life before colonization
 Pre-Colonial
Arts
(ETHNIC Arts)

In Pre-colonial
Philippines, arts are
for ritual purposes
or for everyday use.
Was there “art” before colonization?
 Art of the ancient Filipinos were woven into the fabric
of everyday life.
 Everyday expressions were all integrated within rituals
that marked significant moments in a community’s life.
 planting,harvesting, rites of passage, funerary ceremonies,
weddings, among others.
 Aside from the communal functionality of indigenous
art
 pottery,weaving, carving, metalwork, jewelry also embody
aesthetic, technological and ritual values that exist in various
forms with the present.
Hunter Gatherers

 Hunted food and game that were shared

among members of the community in a
gathering where they told stories about the
hunt.
 Theyimitated the movement of animals
and prey, and the sounds that they made.
 evolved ritual, music, dance, theatre and even
literature
Rituals performed by hunter-gatherer

 Preparing
for the hunt and prayed to be
endowed with strength of the animal they
hunted.
 Partitionedwhat they hunted and gathered
and feasted on the fish they caught or the
pig they slew
Beginnings of arts
 When they told stories about the hunt, this form of oral
storytelling marked the beginnings of “literature”
 In time they would learned to devise an alphabet and
write these stories down.
 When they imitated the movements of the animals
that they hunted, this marked the early beginnings of
“theater or play acting”
 When they learned to add beating attach a rhythm to
their movements, they had given birth to “music and
dance”.
Rituals are still alive in various regions
 Batanes – mayvanuvanua
 Cordillera Autonomous Regions – cañao or kanyaw officiated
by a shman or mumbaki also involves animal sacrifice
 Lake Lanao in Mindanao – Kashawing to ensure abundance
during rice planting and harvesting, involves a re-enactment
of the pact made by ancestors of the community and the
unseen spirits that inhabit the lake.
 Tagbanwa in Palawan – believe that every thirteenth moon,
three goddesses descend from heaven to bless the planting
rice. The shamans go into a trance amidst ritual chanting and
dancing and are believed to be taken over the goddesses
itself
 PAINTINGS

» The ancient Filipinos had

expressed paintings through
tattoos and cave carvings.
 Tattoos
The pintados (painted ones),
inhabitants of the Visayan islands as
described by the first Spaniards to set
eyes upon them, would use sharp
metal instruments previously heated
over fire.

The tattoos were valued because

it was believed to protect the
individual from evil spirits and some
cases, it was considered as a badge of
maturity and bravery
Silup
•The tattooing
imitated the upper
garment worn by the
men of north
Kalinga.
•The women of
south Kalinga
painted their faces a
bright red.
 SCULPTURE

» The ancient Filipinos had attained a

high artistic level through pottery,
jewelry, and wood carving.
• Early Filipino painting can be found in red
slip (clay mixed with water) designs
embellished on the ritual pottery of the
Philippines such as the acclaimed
Manunggul Jar.
• The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar
excavated from a Neolithic burial site in
Manunggul cave of Tabon Caves at Lipuun
Point at Palawan dating from 890–710 B.C
Jewelry
 Wood
Carvings
Hagabi
(Ifugao)

-Awooden bench that

marks the socio-
economic status of the
owner.
 ARCHITECTURE

» The ancient Filipinos

had first dwelt in caves
and has learned the art
of architecture as they
move and hunt for food..
.
TAUSOG HOUSE
 MUSIC
»The ancient Filipinos had
music practically for all
occasions, for every phase
of life, from birth to
death.
BAMBOO ZITHER
GADDANG
KULINTANG
 Types of Filipino dance
 Cordillera
 Muslim
 Tribal
 Rural
 Spanish style dances.
 Cordillera
 Banga
▪ illustrates the grace and strength of women in the
Kalinga tribe.
▪ Women performing the Banga balance heavy pots on
their heads while dancing to beat of wind chimes.
 Lumagen orTachok
▪ is performed to celebrate happy occasions
▪ When Lumagen is performed, it is meant to symbolize
flying birds and is musically-paired to the beat of gongs.
 Bendayan – also known as bendian, a dance to
celebrate the arrival of successful headhunters
 Lumagen/Tachok – this is a dance by kalinga
maiden during the happy occasion (birth of the
first baby boy, wedding or budong)
 Manmanok- imitate the movements of predatory
birds
 Turayen – dance the Gaddang imitates bird
attracted to tabacco trees.
 Ragsaksakan- this dance portray the walk of
industrious kalinga women carrying water pots on
their head and wearing the hand woven “blanket of
life”
 Salisid - is the dance to show courtship.
▪ In the Salisid dance, a male and a female performer
represent a rooster attempting to attract a hen.
 Salip/Talip – wedding dance/used in courtship
 Mimetic the movements of wild fowls
 Tarektek
 Uyaoy/Uyauy
 Tribal dance
 Malakas at Maganda
▪ is a national folklore dance.
▪ It tells the story of the origin of the Filipino people on the islands
 Kadal Blelah
 KadalTahaw
 Binaylan
▪ the Binaylan dance, tells the story of a hen, the hen's baby, and a
hawk. In this dance, the hawk is said to control a tribe's well-being,
and is killed by hunters after attempting to harm the hen's baby.
 Bagobo Rice Cycle
 Dugso
 Traditional Filipino Dances
 Tinikling
▪ take two long bamboo sticks rapidly and in rhythm, clap
sticks for dancers to artistically and daringly try to avoid
getting their feet caught between them
 Singkil
▪ In this dance, there are four bamboo sticks arranged in
a tic-tac-toe pattern in which the dancers exploit every
position of these clashing sticks.
▪ is identifiable with the use of umbrellas and silk clothing
 Binasuan
Other ethnic musical instruments that
complimented by native dances
 Pangalay from Sulu – mimetic of the movements of seabirds
 Mandayas’ kinabua
 Higaonon and B’laan
 Bagobos’ manmanok they imitate the movements of
predatory birds
 Ifugaos’ Talip dance –used in courtship and is mimetic the
movements of wild fowls
 Matigsalugs’ inamong and T’bolis’ kadaliwas represent the
comedic movements of monkeys
 Fabrics
 abaca
 Pineapple
 Cotton
 bark cloth
 Textiles, clothes, rugs, baskets and hats
 Nipis
Other forms of weaving

 Tepo mat (double- layered) of the Sama of Tawi-Tawi made of pandan leaves
is a remarkable example of mundane or everyday object with high artistic
value.
 In Itbayat, Batanes, ovaloid baskets made of nito and bamboo are used as
head sling to carry harvest.
 In the Ilocos region sturdy bamboo strips are woven to create fish traps called
“bubo”

Agreement:
1. Observe the designs and patterns of the
different structures in your
neighborhood. Write in your Journal
Notebook 5 reasons why you think they
are examples of Contemporary Art.