TIMELINE

OF
PHILIPPINE
ARTS
ERA/PERIOD
 ETHNIC ART PRE-13 AD
-Arts during this period is used for ritual
purposes or for everyday functional use. As local
communities become established, art starts to go
beyond mere craft, i.e. stone weapons or jewelry but
starts to have decorative elements, meaning and
context.

• Early Filipino painting was found in the acclaimed

ritual potteries of Manunggul jars.
• Manunggul Jar is a burial jar is
topped with two figures. The front
figure is the deceased man. The rear
figure is holding a steering paddle
directing the boat and soul of the man
to the afterlife.
Stone tools are found in different
regions of the Philippines to suggest
their functional use.
• Carving is made for likha. Manunggul Jar
• Tattoo tradition is also manifested in
Early Filipinos during precolonial Era.
The mountainous province of Ifugao
have been carefully cultivated with
terrace fields. This engineering feat is
considered as a natural architectural
wonder.
• The Bahay Kubo is the Filipino word
for nipa huts, a common native house
design of indigenous people in Bahay Kubo
precolonial period.
ISLAMIC ART 13 AD
 Arts during this area is characterized by geometric
designs and patterns.
 The Muslim Filipinos of the South built strong
fortresses called kota to protect their communities.
These kotas are made of stone, bamboo, and other light
materials and surrounded by trench networks.
 Pre-Spanish colonial period features Maranao’s Naga
Dragons and Sarimanok carvings in their Torogan
houses. Sarimanok is still considered a cultural
significance among Maranao people.
SPANISH ERA (1521-1898)
• Art is used as a tool to propagate
Catholic faith among the natives.
Friars during this time use images
and religious icons to explain
religion, particularly concepts on
Catholicism. Arts during this time
tell the stories of Christ’s life and
passion.
• Damian Domingo is also known
as the "Father of Filipino Painting"
ALIAS "The First Great Filipino
• Damian Domingo becomes the 1st
Painter"
Filipino to do self-portrait. He is the
• In the 16th century, 3 different founder of Academia de Dibujo y
types of dwelling structures are still Pintura, the first school of drawing in the
being built today: (1) bahay kubo; Philippines (1821). Wikimedia. Image is
(2) Ifugao house; and (3) Maranaw on public domain.
house.
• Spanish colonizers introduced easel painting.
• Fr. Antonio Sedeno, a Jesuit introduced the line in
the construction of buildings. He was responsible
for the construction of the first fortress, the Nuestra
Senora de Guia Fort in Manila.
• Engraving was printed from copper plates and
wood cuts in 17th century.
• Carving is redirected to create santos, and other
religious representations.
• The Bahay na Bato is a colonial Filipino house,
made from brick and stone.
• Fort Santiago is a defense fortress established by
Miguel Lopez de Legaspi.
American Era (1898-1940)
• This is the period of secular
art forms. After more than three
centuries of Spanish rule,
Americans came to the
Philippines to rule over
thecountry through education
and governance.
• Lithograph prints replaced
engraving on copper.
• Don Fabián de la Rosa y
Cueto was a Filipino painter.
He was the Uncle and mentor
to the Philippines' national
artist in painting, Fernando Women working in a rice field (1902)
Amorsolo, and to his brother by Fabian dela Rosa.
Pablo. He is regarded as a
"master of genre" in Philippine
art.
 American Era
(1898-1940)
• Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion
Hidalgo became famous abroad for
their visual arts.
• Spolarium (1884) by Juan Luna
was awarded a gold medal at the
Exposicion National de Bellas
Artes. His work is classified as a
classical romantic style.
• Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo won a
silver medal for his large canvass
entitled “Christian Virgins Exposed
to the Populace”.
Barcazas en el Rio (Houseboats in a River)
(1920) by Fabian dela Rosa.
American Era
(1898-1940)
• Emilio Alvero later produced
several Impressionist still life
paintings. But it would take an
architect to give modernism its
needed boost in the country.
Juan Arellano would be known
as an architect but his
Impressionist landscapes are as
impressive as his buildings.
• Carlos “Botong” Francisco,
(1913-1969), Angono-based
painter, depicted Philippine
history in his “History of
Manila” mural at the Manila
City Hall. Noche de Luna by Emilio Alvero