PHILIPPINE ARTS

The art of the Philippines refers to the

works of art that have developed and
accumulated in the Philippines from the
beginning of civilization in the country
up to the present era. Inspirations on
the enhancement of Philippine arts in
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Arts of Different
Artworks and Forms, Contributions to
Eras; Artist and Artisans, Philippine Industry
•* Pre – Conquest and; and Development
•* Islamic Colonial Period
•* Spanish Colonial Period
•* American Colonial Period
•* Japanese Colonial Period
and the Post War Republic
•* 1970s and the Contemporary
History of Art
890 BC – 255 AD

Pre-Conquest
Historical
Overview
• In art historical terms, we
refer to art before the coming
of the first colonizers as
“pre-conquest.” Referred to it
as “indigenous” to
emphasize the idea that our
ancestors.

• Art before is referred to as an

expression of an individual
but yet not categorized into
different kinds of forms until
the next slides conveys.
Historical
Overview

• Example of everyday
expressions are
the following:
-Rituals (planting,
harvesting, rites of passage,
funerary, ceremonies,
weddings);
-Hunting, and etc.
Historical
Overview
• A series of topics about
the following will be
tackled on:
• Rituals
• Music
• Dance
• Carving
• Pottery
• Weaving
Everyday expressions were all integrated
within Rituals marked significant moments in
a community’s life, Like:
Cañao or Kanyaw -
Cordillera Autonomous Region
An Igorot ritual of animal
sacrifice. And asking for a
bountiful harvest

Kashawing -
Lake Lanao in Mindanao
Are one of the oldest indigenous A ritual to ensure abundance
people in Palawan. Thanksgiving during rice planting and
of healing sick people possessed harvesting.
by bad spirit. This ritual dance is
held once a year on the fourth
day after the full moon.
Rituals
(December)
Tagbanwa Palawan
 Kudyapi

Zithers Drums Agong

Music
Pipes
Native Dance
And Counterparts
NATIVE DANCES

Banog-banog
(Mandayas’kinabua of Mindanao)

movement of hawk
NATIVE DANCES

Banog-banog
(Mandayas’kinabua of Mindanao)

movement of hawk
NATIVE DANCES

Pangalay
Is the traditional "
fingernail" dance of the
Tausūg people of the
Sulu Archipelago and
eastern coast Bajau of
Sabah. Mimetic movement of
the seabirds.
NATIVE DANCES

Pangalay
(Sulu Archipelago)

mimetic of the movement of

seabirds
NATIVE DANCES

Man-manok
(Bagobos of Mindanao)

movements of predatory birds

NATIVE DANCES

Talipe
(Apayao)

Is a comic dance of the Isneg

tribe that imitates the movements
of a monkey to entertain the
visitors of the community.
NATIVE DANCES

Tinikling
(Tagalog folk dance)

evocative of the movements

of
the crane
Carving
Carving

• Bulul – Cordilleras

• Hagabi - Ifugaos
Potter
y
Potter
y- Anthropomorphic Jars
• Manunggul Jar – (890 – 710 BC)

• Metal Age (5 BC–225 AD)

Manunggul Jar (890-710BC)
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.
Metal Age (5BC-225 AD)
Maitum Jar
In 1991, the National Museum
archaeological team discovered
anthropomorphic secondary burial jars
in Ayub Cave, Barangay Pinol, Maitum,
Sarangani Province,
 Tapaya
n

Also known as banga. It is

Palayo large wide-mouthed Bang
earthenware or stoneware A large spherical baked-clay
watera
A palayok is a clay pot used
k food
as the traditional jars. jar of the Philippines
preparation container in the
Philippines.

Potter
*Pagbuburnay in Vigan -
valued part of the creative
industry Ilokanos have.
Weaving
Textile Weaving
 Purpose
: - reverence for spirits and
Weaving nature
-criteria for the beautiful
-societies’sociopolitical
structures
 Made from:
fibers - cotton, abaca, and
Weaving pineapple leaves
pigments - clay, roots, and
leaves.
 Pis
Malong
Siyabit
Langkit
Textile Weaving
Weaving
Weaving is also essential
for productivity of natives
like baskets and mat
weaving.
Spanish Colonial
Period
1521 -
1898
Historical
Overview
• Though the South have been
resistant, the Spanish Colonizers
gained control in the Central part,
which they classified them as
“Lowland Christians.”;
• Art forms, as they demanded, are
under the strict rule of the
church and the colonial state, and;
• By Religious orders they
dispatched to convert all the
natives to Catholicism
• Art forms are stylistically and
culturally which are classified
under:
−Religious art
−Lowland Christian art
−Folk art.
• To carry out their projects like,
the plaza complex, they relocated
the natives and let them build
town centers, municipio(s), and
•Baroque are implied with
churches like:
−San Agustin Church in
Manila
−Morong Church in Rizal
−Paoay Church in Ilocos
NorteS
−Sto. Tomas de Villanueva
 • Saints and interpretations are the essentials into worship
• As the process of engraving, painting and sculpting they are
highly supervised in accordance to imposing scale and
overall visual appeal.
• The friars brought the Western models for our local artists to
copy which are most likely made from either ivory or wood
and portrays classical and baroque models
• In the 17th century, Chinese artisans are engaged in making
icons or saints or santos, building churches and houses,
making furniture.
Sculpture And
Ornamentation • Santos are displayed most on
decorative altar niche, which are
called retablo.
• Town’s patron saint implies
with architecture and sculpture
which embellished with rosettes,
scrolls, pediments and
Solomonic columns and are
color dependently classified
(gilded or polychromed)
The Via Crucis is an • Via Crucis (14 paintings or
important inclusion in relief sculptures) is series
colonial churches which of reliefs which shows
are presented as a series Christ’s crucifixion and
resurrection
• Via Crucis (14 paintings or relief
sculptures) is series of reliefs which
shows Christ’s crucifixion and
resurrection
Church altars are sometimes
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decorated with carved figurative
protrusions on the surface called
relleves
 • In other churches, Holy
Family, the Virgin Mary,
and the four evangelists
proliferate in the ceilings
and walls in an ornate
manner of
trompe l’oeil.
• In Taal Basilica in Batangas
or at the St. James the
Apostle Parish in Betis,
Four Evangelists
Pampanga it can be seen.
Plateria Technique
• Church altars *carved
protrusions like relleves in
figurative
organic designsand in
the plateriasilver
hammered (plateria or
which can be seen at bodies of
technique)
the carroza where santos are
paraded during town processions

Carroza
Music • Western musica instruments
l like
Anugon-anugon

The balitaw is an extemporaneous exchange of love verses between a man and a

woman. Danced and mimed, it is accompanied by a song, or the dancers themselves
sing, improvising the steps and verses. ... The dancers may be costumed in
balintawak or patadyong or in contemporary everyday clothes.
• Pabasa ng Pasyón
known simply
as Pabása is a Catholic
devotion in the
Philippines popular
during Holy Week
involving the
uninterrupted
chanting. which are
biblical narration of
Christ’s passion chanted
 • There are a of theater
forme lot locally formsand
through
d colonization with a
development of literature and
simultaneously
other art forms.
Theater • One of the earliest forms of
theater is pomp and pageantry
− A religious with
embellished carrozas
processions
religious
that tableaus, saints and scenes
show
s
• Zarzuela or Sarsuwels in
19th century is a singing and
the
dancing - prose dialogue which
the story is carried out in song
• Later on, the locals learned
to
 Paintings
• Paintings are expressed
through
Visual interpretation through biblical
texts in Catholic devotion.
• Like; Heaven, Earth, and Hell (1850)
is a mural of Jose Dans placed now
in Paete Church, Laguna that shows
the map of the universe and
the terrifying depiction of hell
American

Colonial
Period
1898 - 1940
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SHORT QUIZ
1. A period in Philippine Arts that
referred as “indigenous” to
emphasize the idea of our ancestors.
Also, it is refer to ‘before the coming of
the first colonizers’
2. Everyday expressions were all
integrated within _______ marked
significant moments in a community.

a. Rituals