CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS REVIEWER

 Abstract Painting is the most difficult among paintings for it demands a good background in drawing
for the pre-planned concept of painting, and an overflowing passion in painting for this type is used by
most artist as an avenue where they can express their boundless imagination. It let viewers to thinks
deeper and aloe them to have their own interpretation.

 Figurative Painting is a painting that portrays pictures of actual images as seen in the real world. The
human images are commonly used as subject of this painting throughout history up to the present.

 Landscape painting are paintings of outdoor scenes.

 The early Filipinos played different musical instruments with distinctive purposes (marriage,good
harvest, gratitude to the spirits)
 Fernando C. Amorsolo developed the backlighting technique that became his trademark where figures,
a cluster of leaves, spill of hair, the swell of breast, are seen aglow on canvas.
 Carlos "Botong" Francisco single handedly revived the forgotten art of mural painting.
 Napoleon V. Abueva is the father of Modern Philippine Sculpture.
 Pablo Picasso is a famous painter cited “Good artists copy, great artists steal”
 Art appropriation is a combination of past from present and revives interests in existing forms of art.
 Sculpture expressed either by carving, shaping, or molding.
 Ramon Valera unified the components of the baro't saya into a single dress with exaggerated bell
sleeves, cinched at the waist, grazing the ankle, and zipped up at the back.
 Pompiyang is one of the following musical instruments does not belong in region 10.
 Francisca Reyes-Aquino he was the acclaimed national artist that conducted a study on local forms of
celebration and rituals.
 GAMABA stand for Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan.
 Pantomime is a dramatic representation by means of facial expressions and body movements rather
than words.
 Puppet show a theatrical performance which uses Puppets as characters in where in audiences
perceive life and spirit from their movement, their shape, and other aspects of their performance.
 Auditory Arts are primarily heard, they are also known as “Time Arts” because they exist in time.
 Gray, violet, dark blue are the colors to use when you’re trying to express sadness in your drawings.
 Tap dance can produce their own sound while dancing.
 Art evaluator assesses artwork beyond visuals they follow the principles of interpretation to provide
security, stability and objectivity of evaluation.
 Analyze beyond visuals would be the ideal way of interpreting or analyzing artwork or masterpiece.
 Cubist paintings obviously show several elements of art (unity, variety, balance)
 Lubi-lubi Festival (Coconut dance) is an indigenous fun dance (street parade) utilizing the city’s
abundant coco plants and materials. It is a celebrations of peace, love and unity among the
Gingoognons done every May 22nd to pay homage to the local patroness Sta. Rita de Cascia on her
annual feast dayDalit Festival Held every September 29 is celebrated in honor of Tangub City's patron
saint, St. Michael the Archangel. The Search for Dalit Festival Queen, a newly added attraction, is
already four years old.
 Pasungko Festival is the province of Misamis Occidental comes alive with a festive mood every first
week of November as it celebrates the Pasungko Festival. ‘Pasungko’ – a Subanen word which means
“thanksgiving after a fruitful harvest”, provides a glimpse into the colorful culture of the Subanen
people.
 Alimango Festival is mountain of steamed crabs stood in the middle of the crowd in this colorful town
of Lala to grace the 16th Alimango festival Wednesday, March 22. The free-for-all “Alimango
mountain” which weighed about 1.2 tons graced the 68th founding anniversary of the town.
 Grunge is commonly associated with punk and gothic styles.
 Typographic utilizes the modification of fonts which is the focus of the design.
 Tagoktok ay instrmentong ginagamit tuwing nag-aani ng palay, sinasabayan din ito ng sayaw.

 Gabbang ay instrumentong pangmusika na karaniwang tinutugtog ng mga babae, tinutugtog din ito
tuwing may kasalan.

 Monochromatic Contemporary Filipino artists predominantly exhibits colorful masterpieces evidently

uses indigenous materials and intricately designed to achieve desired motif.