Philippine Art History Timeline

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Timeline

Pre-Conquest Period
900 - 1521

Spanish Period
1521 - 1898

American Period
1898 - 1940

Japanese Period
1941 - 1945

Postwar Republic
1946 - 1969

Contemporary period
1970 - present

Timeline
Pre-Conquest Period
900 - 1521

PAINTING - Body Painting and adornment; ornament

SCULPTURE - Carving, woodwork, and metalwork
ARCHITECTURE - Worship areas, mosque, dwellings and houses.

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Spanish Period
1521 - 1898

PAINTING - Mostly related to religion (Icon and ecclesiastical) and is secular

(portraiture).
SCULPTURE - Related also to religion (Saints, altar pieces) and metalwork.
ARCHITECTURE - Churches, plaza complex, lighthouses, private residences.

American Period
1898 - 1940

PAINTING - Landscape portraiture and still life painting

SCULPTURE - Free standing and public sculpture.
ARCHITECTURE - Parks, apartments, health & public education, and government
structures.

Japanese Period
1941 - 1945

PAINTING - Mostly wartime scenes (Nationalism, aggression) and Propaganda and

Indigenous works (Known artists- Fernando Amorsolo, Carlos Francisco, and Galo
Ocampo)
SCULPTURE - Public works and sculptures
ARCHITECTURE - Public works

Postwar Republic
1946 - 1969

PAINTING - Modern, conservative, abstract, and experimental paintings.

SCULPTURE - Modern, conservative, abstract, and experimental sculptures
ARCHITECTURE - Real estate, safe housing, commercial buildings and
condominiums.

Contemporary period
1970 - present

PAINTING - Multimedia, mixed media and art for an art sake.

SCULPTURE - Figurative and non-figurative sculptures
ARCHITECTURE - Real estates, safe housings, tenements, malls, subdivisions,
commercial buildings and low cost housing.

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