A Brief

History of
Philippine
Art
By: Ms. ORLEAN
ACTIVITY !
 terracotta
pre-conquest
neorealism
abstraction
indigenous
installation
social realism
representation
anthropomorphic
pre-colonial
abstract expressionist
 ANSWERS

01
PRE-CONQUEST
05 ANTHROPOMORPHIC
09 NEOREALISM

02 INDIGENOUS
06 ABSTRACTION
10 SOCIAL REALISM

03 PRE-COLONIAL
07 REPRESENTATION
11 INSTALLATION

04 TERRACOTTA
08 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST
I. PRE-CONQUEST
 I. PRE-CONQUEST
art before the coming of the first colonizers
STYLISTIC TERM - “Indigenous”
CULTURAL TERM - “Pre-Colonial”
Yes, there were “art” before
colonization
ANCIENT FILIPINOS
-do not refer to “art” as we today.
-Hunter-Gatherers
 Our ancestors, just like all others in the world during those
times were hunter-gatherers, Before there were cities and
large monuments, the pre-colonial Filipino hunted food and
game that were shared among members of a community in
a gathering where they told stories about the hunt. They
imitate the movement of animals and prey, and the sounds
that they made. In this simple activity alone evolved ritual,
music, dance, theater and yes, even literature. As these
hunter-gathered societies prepared themselves for the
hunt and prayed to be endowed with the strength of the
animals that they hunted, they were in fact performing a
ritual.
When they partitioned what they hunted, and gathered
and feasts on the fish that they caught or the pig that
they slew, this too was a form of ritual. When they told
stories about the hunt, this form of oral storytelling
marked the beginnings of literature. In time, they would
learn to devise an alphabetical 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. Then they learned
to add drum beating and attach a rhythm to their
movements, they had given birth to music and dance.