Contemporary Art Forms

and
their Practices from
the various Regions
Presentation by:
QUEENIE R. DELA
CRUZ
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 Art
• Plays a significant part in
the rich cultural identity of
the Philippines.
• It mirrors the Filipino
people, its history, its
tradition, and the country
as a whole.
 Arts
• The 1986 Philippine
Revolution paved the way to
the country independence
from spain.
• American became the
country’s new invaders.
 Visual arts
 Are art forms such as painting,
drawing, printmaking, sculpture,
ceramics, photography, video,
filmmaking, design, crafts, and
architecture.
 Many artistic disciplines such as
performing arts, conceptual art, textile
arts also involve aspects of visual arts
as well as arts of other types.
•
Visual Arts
The 1986 Philippine
Revolution paved the way to
the country independence
from spain.
• American became the
country’s new invaders.
•
Visual Arts
In the American period,
education was introduced
to the Philippines.
• There were Filipinos who
studied abroad and
influenced the art making
• in the country.
 Visual Arts
These three artists went back
to the Philippines and
introduced the concept of
modern art in the country.
1. Juan Arellano,
2. Diosdado Lorenzo, and
3. Victorio Edades
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of the Philippine
Painting under
American colonization
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“Women Working at the Field”

Young Filipina

A remembrance of the Villa

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 His painting, bursting with
yellow-orange and golden
sunlight, captured the
Philippine landscape in all its
glory.
 Amorsolo’s landscapes are
bathe in the glorious Philippine
sunlight.
 1st Filipino painter striking
colors and character of the
country’s magnificent sunlight.
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Some of famous Artwork of

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Fruit Picker under

the Tree

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 Pineda’s series of
native indoor games
painting capture the
intimate, leisurely
spirit of the domestic
life of the period d a
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Jorg
Some of famous Artwork of Jorge Pineda

SUNGKAAN MAGPAPAROL
 Miranda known as a
watercolorist, illustrator
and cartoonist, he was
one time called “Dean of
the Philippine
Cartoonist”
Mi ra n da
Irene o
 Some of famous

Artwork of

Ireneo Miranda
Tausug Princess Portrait of a Lady
 Castañeda’s paintings
diverged from the
characteristics style of the
Amorsolo School and
different direction,
especially in terms of color.
Well known for landscape
render in cool tones of white
and blue a st a ñe da
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 Some of famous Artwork of Dominador
Castañeda

The Doomed Family Bahay Kubo on the Death March

River Bank
 Pablo Cueto Amorsolo
( born Pablo Cueto, June 26,
1898- Feb. 21, 1945) was a
Filipino painter. He was the
younger brothe of the
Philippine National Artist
Fernando Amorsolo.

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Pa b lo
Some of famous Artwork of Pablo Amorsolo

Limpia Botas Fruit Vendor

 PAINTING
 Is the practice of applying pigment
suspended in a carrier (or medium)
and a binding agent (a glue) to a
surface (support) such as paper,
canvass, or wall.
 is also used to express spiritual motifs
and ideas; sites of this kind of painting
range from artwork depicting
mythological figures on pottery to The
Sistine Chapel and to the human body E
G RI C
itself.” P LANTIN
 BIGAS
 Is an artwork of Nestor Leynes.
 Magic realism refers to the style in a
painting showing minute details of
the subjects and highlighting their
texture and color.
 Genre painting is showing the lives of
town folks, legends, and traditions
that stayed in the Philippines
contemporary period.
BIGAS
 FERNANDO AMORSOLO Y
 In the history of painting in the
Philippines, Fernando Amorsolo y
Cueto was oneCUETO
of the most important
artist.

 Amorsolo was a portraitist and

painter of rural Philippine
landscapes. He is popularly known
for his craftsmanship and mastery in
the use of light G RI C E
P LANTIN
 BAYANIHAN
 Is a masterpiece of Carlos
“Botong” Francisco.
 It depicted the resilience of the
Filipino people in times of
need, adversity, and disaster.
 It showed the true character of
the Philippine folks as a
distinct human race. N
AN I H A
BAY
THE FILIPINO STRUGGLES
THROUGH HISTORY”
 Another one of Carlos “Botong”
Francisco great artwork is “The
Filipino Struggles Through
History” that has recently been
unveiled for public viewing, after
four years of restoration. This
artworks, hailed him the “greatest
muralist” of our country. i lip ino St r u g g l e s
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 Literature
In the field of poetry during the
contemporary period,
publication of young poets to
campus journals emerged.
Example:
 Poems
 Novels
 Short story
 Music
• In During the early American
period, the music of the country
was mostly classical due to the
influence of the European.
• This kind of music continued
flourishing until the 1950’s. It was
in the 1960s that avant-garde music
emerged.
 Music
The Philippine music at the time
evolved into a combination of
classical and traditional or ethnic
music.
 Dance
During the first years of the
American period, vaudeville
or bodabil dancing became
popular.
Bodabil
Is a kind of stage show
introduced by the American
Dances like buck-and-wing,
tap dancing, clog, skirt
dancing were among the
dances being performed in
the show.
Buck and Wing
Tap Dancing
Clog Dancing
Skirt Dancing
 Architectur
e
In the American Colonial and Contemporary
Period, the Philippine architecture adopted
the modern Western architectural style while
taking into consideration the physical
and socio-cultural situation of the country.
 Architectur
e
The Philippine architecture was
characterized as:
 simple,
 rational, and
 functional,
• In
F ilm
dustry in the Philippines started in
1897 through the initiatives of
foreign businessmen.
• Swiss entrepreneurs were the first
to feature film shows in Manila.
• The Film became popular in 1912
when foreigner Edward Gross and
Harry Brown produced the film
about the life of Dr. Jose Rizal.
 Film
• This started filmmaking in the country
and each art forms have significant
developments in the contemporary
period.
 Film
The factors of arts that influenced the
development of these contemporary art
forms are:

 Innovation
 social
 economic
 political environment
 emerging new technologies
Various Contemporary Art forms
and their Practices from the
various Regions
 THE HIGANTES
 The “Higantes” is a sculpture made of
paper-mache.
 This paper-mache, in our native town in
Paete, Laguna calls it “taka.”
 It measures four to five feet in diameter
and ten to twelve feet in height.
 “Higantes” represents “mag-anak”
(family) in the Filipino culture; a father, TE S
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a mother, and the children. THE HIG al
o R iz
Angon
 THE HIGANTES
 The “Higantes” is one of the
main attraction in the annual
festival in Angono, Rizal in
honor of St. Clement, patron
saint of the fisher folks held
every 23rd of November.

A N TE S
THE HIG al
o R iz
Angon
THE MANUNGGUL Jar
 It is a secondary burial jar
excavated from a Neolithic
burial site in Tabon Caves at
Lipuun Point in Palawan.

U L Jar
THE MA N UNG G
THE MANUNGGUL Jar
 The Manunggul Jar is widely
acknowledged to be one of the
finest Philippine pre-colonial
artworks ever produced and is
considered a masterpiece of
Philippine ceramics.
U L Jar
THE MA N UNG G
 THE BOHOL BLOOD
 The sculpture was made by the
NationalCOMPA
Artist, Napoleon
CT Abueva,
a Boholano himself.
 This Sikatuna-Legaspi blood
compact is considered as the First
Treaty of Friendship between two
different races, religions, cultures
and civilizations.. M PA C T
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O H O L B
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 THE BOHOL BLOOD
 It was a treaty of friendship based
on respect and
COMPACT equality.
 This event is commonly known as
“Sandugo”.
 Bohol Blood Compact is located at
Barangay Bool, Tagbilaran City,
Bohol, Philippines.
O M PA C T
O H O L B LOOD C
T HE B
 THE BOHOL BLOOD
 This particular site was made in
honor ofCOMPA
a very important
CT event in
the Philippine history done
between Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
of Spain and Rajah Sikatuna of
Bohol.

O M PA C T
O H O L B LOOD C
T HE B
 Mural
Is any piece of artwork painted or
applied directly on a wall, ceiling or
other permanent surfaces.
 A distinguishing characteristic of mural
painting is that the architectural
elements of the given space are
harmoniously incorporated into the
picture.”
 Decorative
 Art s
Is any piece of artwork painted or
applied directly on a wall, ceiling or
other permanent surfaces.
 A distinguishing characteristic of mural
painting is that the architectural
elements of the given space are
harmoniously incorporated into the
picture.”
 Decorative
 Art
Arts or crafts s object is the
whose
design and manufacture of objects
that are both beautiful and
functional.

 It includes interior design, but not

usually architecture.
 Cloth Weaving
 Beginning in the pre-colonial era, the
art of cloth weaving, particularly of
the Cordillera tribes in the North, still
lives not with standing the threat of
the more practical production of
fabrics today.
 T'nalak
 Is a deep brown abaca-based cloth
tie-dyed with intricate designs.
 T'nalak, is a weaving tradition of the
T'boli people of South Cotabato,
Philippines.
 One of the best Filipino craftsmanship
that lives until this present-day.
 The traditional female weavers are
known as dream weavers, because the
pattern of the t'nalak cloth are inspired
by their dreams.
 Piña Cloth
 created through looms everywhere in
the province of Antique.
 It is a fine and elegant handwoven
fabric that is produced from the fibers
of pineapple plants.
 It is commonly used in the well-known
Barong Tagalog, the traditional
Philippine clothes for Filipino men.
 Jewelry
Mak ing
 Is another demonstration of the
skilled craftsmanship of Filipinos
that dates back during the pre-
colonial period.
 This is evident in the pictures of
our great ancestors in our history.
 The use of gold or silver in the
forms of earrings, bracelets, rings,
brooches, necklaces, tie pins,
pendants, and cuff links.
 The Philippine
Architecture
 Adopted the modern western architectural style.

 The Philippine architecture was characterized as

simple, rational, and functional in the early 20th
century
 The Philippine
Architecture
 Young Filipinos who studied in American
universities and institutes were back to the
country and brought changes in the Philippine
architecture.
The Philippine
Architecture
Among them were:

• Juan Arellano,
• Carlos Barreto, and
• Antonio Toledo.
 The Philippine
Architecture

Metropolitan Theater, The main façade with the glass and

Manila, Philippines other decorative elements mural
 “Tsalet”
 is a type of house developed in the
early 2oth century designed with a
front porch made of wood and
concrete. During this time, steel was
used in buildings as protection for
calamities like earthquake.
 Literature
 Is any body or collection of written work. More
restrictively, literature refers to writing considered
to be an art form or any single writing deemed to
have artistic or intellectual value, and sometimes
deploys language in ways that differ from ordinary
usage.
 Literature in the
contemporary
Has oscillated between personal expression and
social commentary. In vernacular poetry, the two
tendencies can be seen at work.
 “Bagay”
- is a form of poetry that uses colloquial language
and is built on concrete images which
tend to describe tendencies.
 The “Bagay”
Movement
A group of young poets that emerged during the
contemporary period in the publications of campus
journals. Edmundo Martinez started this the Bagay
movement.
1. Jose F. Lacaba,
2. Rolando Tinio,
3. Bienvenido Lumbera,
4. Antonio Samsaon, and
Valediction sa Hillcrest
 Valediction sa Hillcrest
by Rolando S. Tinio
Was a poem about a person having a dilemma to
decide between two places, Tondo and New York
and how it affects his whole being.
 “Ang Bayang Malaya”
Amado V. Hernandez
• The poem “Ang Bayang Malaya” is a long
narrative piece about a peasant leader.Oppression
and fighting for human rights are the main
themes of this piece.
• In the succeeding poems developed by Filipino
poets, the influence of Amado V. Hernandez was
evident. Social protest and social realism became
the theme of the poems.
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