CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

Grade 12

Concept Note No. 5: Visual Arts

Visual Arts
Visual arts encompass various creative expressions that engage the visual sense.
These art forms can be categorized into several classifications, each characterized
by its styles and defining features. The primary classifications of visual arts are
painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, photography, and architecture.

Painting entails using various techniques and mediums, such as oil, watercolor, or
acrylic, applied to surfaces like canvas, paper, or other materials. Sculpture,
conversely, encompasses three-dimensional artworks crafted from various
materials such as stone, wood, metal, and clay.

Printmaking involves creating multiple copies of artwork using a printing process

while drawing entails using lines and shading to create images on paper or other
surfaces. Photography involves capturing images of the world using a camera,
while architecture involves designing and constructing buildings and other
structures.
Painting Sculpture Architecture
1. Easel Painting 1. Free-standing 1. Domestic Buildings and Houses
2. Murals 2. Relief 2. Ethnic Houses
3. Telon Painting 3. Assemblage 3. One-and-a-Half Story House
4. Jeepney and Calesa 4. Kinetic Sculpture 4. Commercial Buildings
Painting 5. Welded Sculptures 5. Government Buildings
5. Collage 6. Use of Glass 6. Public Buildings and Structures
7. Symbolic Sculpture

Concept note no. 6: Literary Arts (Only the highlighted)

Literature is considered to be a whole bulk of written works. However, another definition of literature
means a body of works that show "the best that has been thought and said," or works that signify the
highest achievements of a particular culture.

Contemporary Philippine literature has been described as focusing on evoking social consciousness.
Creative writing during the Martial Law era was said to be confrontational in highlighting social and
political issues. However, creative writing shifted to a steadier personal perspective when it comes to
social consciousness after the 1986 EDSA Revolution.

Creative writing also became more organized during that time. Academic institutions began offering
Creative Writing as one of their respective undergraduate degree program offerings. Organizations, such
as Unyon ng mga Manunulat na Pilipino and Pambansang Unyon ng mga Manunulat, were established.
Literary publishing and later, number of publications, proliferated. Other sectors such as women,
members of the LGBT community, peasants, and workers began writing.

TRADITIONS AND FORMS OF PHILIPPINE POETRY

Ethnic Tradition

Epic- This relates adventures of a super hero with powers and serves as a code of values of a particular
ethnic group.

Folk song- A song that is transmitted orally from one generation to another and known as awiting bayan
in Tagalog.

Proverbs- A concise statement that teach morality and tradition and usually expressed as rhyming pair
of lines that depict two different elements.

Riddles- This describes an object in a different manner or in a way that is not easily understood and may
be a question for someone to discover the meaning.

Short poems- This usually has four lines, with 5-12 syllables per line.
 Poetic jousts- This may involve marriage negotiations between two families in which every region has
their own version.

Spanish Colonial Tradition

Metrical romance- This focuses on chivalric, folkloric, legendary, and religious themes.

Pasyon- This is written in a stanza with 5 lines with 8 syllables per line which recounts the life of Jesus
Christ. This is useful as a source of images, stories of Jesus Christ.

FORMS AND CONTEMPORARY PROSE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Folk narrative- Any story based on real or fictional events in the past told among the people in a
community.

Myth- This is a story that explains the origin of the world and its first inhabitants.

Legend- Heroic and historical legend tackles episodes in the lives of great men and women. Religious
legend narrates display of miracles of God and of the saints. Supernatural legend focuses on the
existence of beings from the underworld. Toponymical legend explains why a certain place has this
name.

Folktales- These are classified into animal tales or fables, magic tales, humorous tales, novelistic tales,
religious and didactic tales.

Essay- This explains the insights or information using description, narration, and humor.

Novel- This defined as the lengthy and complex narrative of events based on the author’s imagination.

Short story- This is a concise secular narrative with romantic, realistic and radical tradition.

Komiks- This is a special form of contemporary literature which involves drawing frames showing a set
of characters with their actions and usually contains a balloon enclosed with words or dialogue

Concept note no. 7: Philippine National Artists for Visual Arts (Part 1)

National Artist Roles Contribution

 Dalagang Bukid
 El Ciego
Fernando Amorsolo First National Artist in the country.
 The Mestiza
 Planting Rice
 Blood Compact
Carlos “Botong” Most distinguished mural painter for  First Mass at Limasawa
Francisco about 3 decades.  Bayanihan
 The Invasion of Limahong
 UP Oblation
 Bonifacio Monument
 Bronze Statues of Manuel Quezon at QC
Guillermo E. Honored as National Artist for
Memorial Circle
Tolentino Sculpture in1973.
 Seal of the Republic of the Philippines
 Gold and bronze medals for Ramon
Magsaysay Award
Napoleon V.
Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture  Buoyant sculpture
Abueva

National Artist Roles Contribution

Victorio C. Edades Father of Modern Philippine Painting  Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts
Vicente Manansala Known for his paintings depicting  A Cluster of Nipa Hut
realistic themes.  Market Venders
  Madonna of the Slums
 Genesis
Largely known for his abstract
Hernando R. Ocampo  Slum Dwellers
paintings.
 Ina ng Balon
Known for utilizing and refining
Cesar Legaspi  Bayanihan
cubism.
a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and
instructor in the fine arts, known for
 Luz Gallery
Arturo Luz his abstract paintings of geometric
 Black and White
forms and lines, and sculptures
made from hardwood and metal.
 This Week of the Manila Chronicle
J. Elizalde Navarro Known for his hardwood masks.  Figurative drawings for Lydia Arguilla’s
Juan Tamad

National Artist Roles Contribution

Known for his paintings expressing  Geometric Landscape
Ang Kiukok nationalism and sociological agenda.  Pieta
(60’s)  Seated Figure
Best-selling painter of his generation
Benedicto Cabrera  Sabel
of Filipino Artists.
Popularized the ukil, sarimanok and
Abdulmari Asia Imao  Sarimanok
naga motifs in the country.
Federico Aguilar
 “Still Life with Lemons”
Alcuaz
 komiks series —including Hagibis (1947)
Francisco Coching Dean of Filipino Illustrators
and Pedro Penduko (1954)
 Granadean Arabesque
Pioneer of abstract expressionism in
Jose T. Joya  Represented the Philippines in the 1964
the Philippines.
Venice Biennial.

Concept note no. 8: National Artists for Architecture

National Artist Roles Contribution

Pioneer in modern Philippine
Pablo S. Antonio  FEU Administration and Science buildings
architecture.
Most well-known for the designs of
the palace of the Sultan of Brunei,
Leandro V. Locsin  Istana Nurul Iman
Istana Nurul Iman and the five
buildings of CCP Complex.
 Makati Commercial Center
Pioneered landscape architecture in  Tagaytay Highland Resort
Ildefonso P. Santos
the Philippines.  Mt. Malarayat Golf and Country Club
 Orchard Golf and Country Club