Contemporary Philippine Arts from

the Region
Activity # 1: Guess
whether the picture
is considered as
“Philippine Art” or
not
Activity # 2: Guess
whether the pictures
of Philippine Arts are
from Luzon, Visayas
or Mindanao
Philippine Art History
Pre-colonial Period
Spanish Period
American Period
Post-War Colonial Period
Contemporary Art Period
 Pre-colonial Period

• Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)

• Espinosa Ranch Site, Cagayan (16,000-
8,000 B.C)
• Proof of man’s early existence
Pre-colonial Period

• New Stone Age (Neolithic)

• Cagayan, Palawan & Sorsogon
• Shell Ornaments
 Maitum Jars

• Anthropomorphic
secondary burial
jars in Ayub
Cave, Barangay
Piñol, Maitum,
Saranggani
 • A Tagalog
ancient script
derived from
Brahmic script of
India and first
recorded in the
16th century
Baybayin Script
 Pre-colonial Period

• Traditional Folk Dance

• Dances to celebrate for important occasions.
• Bayanihan, Filipinescas, Barangay, and Hariraya
Other Pre-colonial
Art Forms
• Pottery
• Weaving
• Tattoo
• Jewelry
• Carving
• Metal Crafts
 • Artistic paintings
were introduced
to the Filipinos in
the late 16th
century
• “Amoy
Spanish Colonial Simbahan”
Period
 Try to analyze
the pictures and
find out what
kind of mode of
thinking does
Filipinos have.
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino
Artists
Byzantine
Filipino
Painting Style:
Attributed to Interpretation:
Maître à la Esteban
Ratière, Battle of Villanueva, Basi
Marignano, 1515 Revolt, 1821
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists

Battle of Marignano, 1515

Maître à la Ratière Revolt, 1821
Esteban Villanueva
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists

BYZANTINE FRESCOES
Langit, Lupa at
11th–12th-century
Impierno
Church of
Josef Luciano
Panayia Phorviotissa
Dans 1850
Cyprus
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists
Baroque Filipino interpretation:
Aesthetics: Sto. Tomas de
Cathedral Church Villanueva Parish
of Saint Church
Mary in Murcia, Miagao, Iloilo
Spain
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists
Rococo Aesthetics Gothic Aesthetics
Rococo Art originated in Gothic Art is typically rooted
early 18th in religious devotion, it is
century Paris, is characterized especially known for the
distinctive
by
arched design of its
whimsical, curvy lines and
churches, its stained
elaborately decorative style of
glass, and its illuminated
art, manuscripts.
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists
 SPANISH COLONIAL ART
‘Colonialism’ in Filipino antiques and
carving designs

Baroque inspired wood carvings of table and relief statue made by Juan
Flores, Father of Pampanga Sculpture and Woodcarving.
Photo credit: leahdeleon.com
The Filipino Mode of Thinking is ORIENTAL
 • In the formation of the
elite Filipino class, the
THE Ilustrado, paved way for
UPRISING
OF THE
the rich locals to study
PHILIPPINE abroad, a more
ARTS “academic” and “western”
approach has been
learned.
Damian Domingo

• “The Father of Filipino

Painting”
• The first Filipino to paint
his face (self-portrait)
Two Filipino Art Styles developed
during the Spanish Period

Letras y
Miniaturismo Figuras (Letters
and Figures)
 Miniaturismo

• Pays attention to the

embroidery of the costume
Letras y Figuras Fuses letters with figures in every day
(Letters and active amidst a common background.
Usually used in painting patron’s full
Figures) name.
 American
Colonial Period
• Art Illustration,
Advertising and
Commercial Design
gained popularity
incorporated in Fine Arts.
 NOTABLE ARTIST
Fabian dela Rosa

• Master of Genre
• Influenced his
nephews: Pablo and
Fernando Amorsolo.
 Women
working in
a rice
field, 1902.
Young Filipina,
1928
Un recuerdo de la
Villa Borghese
(A remembrance of the Villa
Borghese),
1909.
 NOTABLE ARTIST
Fernando Amorsolo
• Portraitist & painter of
rural landscapes.
• Known for his
craftsmanship and mastery
in the use of light.
• First awardee of the
National Artist Award in
1972.
The Palay Maiden,
1920
A Basket of
Mangoes
1949
Tinikling
in barrio,
1951
Antipolo by
Fernando
Amorsolo,
depicting
Filipinos
celebrating a
town fiesta.
UNFINISHED
PAINTING OF
FERNANDO
AMORSOLO
 •It’s full swing
Post-Modern
Art Period began only
after the war.
THE CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES
 • The creation of the
Cultural Center of the
The Philippine Philippines during 1969,
Postmodern gave a venue for all artist
Art to experiment and explore
different art mediums -
Pop Art, Installation Art,
Performance Art
Social Realism a
heavy theme used by
most Filipino Artist as a
social commentary of
the problem brewing in
the Philippine political
and social landscape.
 • The on-set of the
sudden rise of
personal computers
and new technology
created a new art
medium for the arts
and human
Philippine expression.
Contemporary
Art
Modern Art
• The artist's intent to portray a
subject as it exists in the
world, according to his or her
unique perspective and is
typified by a rejection of
accepted or traditional
styles and values
 Postmodern Art
• A body of art movements
that sought to contradict
some aspects of
modernism or some
aspects that emerged or
developed in its aftermath.
 Contemporary
Art
It mirrors contemporary
culture and society, it offers
a rich resource to consider
current ideas and rethink the
familiar.
 The work of contemporary artists is

Characteristics a dynamic combination of

of materials, methods, concepts, and
Contemporary subjects that challenges
Art
traditional boundaries and defies
easy definition.
 Group Writing Activity

• Imagine that you are riding a time that brings

you back to the past-ten years ago, what
period do you want to visit first and why?
Defend your answer by elaborating further
your reasons.
 •Diverse and eclectic,
Characteristics contemporary art is
of distinguished by the
Contemporary very lack of a uniform
Art organizing principle,
ideology, or – ism.
Characteristics of
Contemporary Art
• Forms of art that is
produced in the present
time. It includes, and
develops from,
postmodern art, which
is a successor to
modern art.
Activity 3:
Observe the
following pictures
to be presented
and identify what
period do they
belong
Posterity Rings
The Mona Lisa Project