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    The document provides a historical overview of Philippine arts from pre-colonial to contemporary eras. In pre-colonial times, arts were integrated into daily life and rituals, expressed through pottery, body adornment, wood carving, and other forms. During Spanish colonization, art became a tool for propagating Catholicism, seen in religious paintings, sculptures, and architecture in churches. As American and Japanese influences emerged, new genres like landscape painting and wartime propaganda developed. Post-war, arts diversified with modern, experimental, and public forms emerging. Today, Philippine arts encompass figurative, non-figurative, multi-media, and transmedia works.

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    The document provides a historical overview of Philippine arts from pre-colonial to contemporary eras. In pre-colonial times, arts were integrated into daily life and rituals, expressed through pottery, body adornment, wood carving, and other forms. During Spanish colonization, art became a tool for propagating Catholicism, seen in religious paintings, sculptures, and architecture in churches. As American and Japanese influences emerged, new genres like landscape painting and wartime propaganda developed. Post-war, arts diversified with modern, experimental, and public forms emerging. Today, Philippine arts encompass figurative, non-figurative, multi-media, and transmedia works.

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    CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS

    FROM THE REGIONS


    Historical Overview
    FORM Pre- Spanish American Japanese Post-War Contemporary
    Conquest
    1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s – present

    Painting Pottery, Religious Landscape, Wartime Modern,  Figurative, non


    Body Portraiture portrait, still life Scenes conservative, figurative, art for
    Adornment   abstract, art sake ,multi-
    and Propaganda experimental, media, mixed
    Ornament   public art media and
    Indigenizing transmedia
    Sculpture Pottery, Religious figures Free Standing, and
    wood and and carving relief, public Orientalizing
    metal works
    carving

    Architectur Dwellings Church, plaza, City planning,  Public works Real Estate, safe
    e and houses Civic building, public works, housing,
    (Bahay fortress, road and structures and condominiums,
    kubo) lighthouse infrastructures subdivisions,
    construction villages, malls,
    commercial/busines
    s/convention
    buildings
    Philippine
    Art
    History
    Pre-Colonial Arts
    (ETHNIC Arts)

    In Pre-colonial
    Philippines, arts
    are for ritual
    purposes or for
    everyday use.
    In this period, they do not refer to “art” as we do
    today, that is an expression of an individual. They
    did not distinguish forms into different categories
    like music, theater, visual arts, etc. Everyday
    expressions were all integrated within rituals that
    marked significant moments in a community’s life
    like planting and harvesting, weddings, and etc.

    Aside from the communal functionality of


    indigenous art, creative forms such as pottery,
    weaving, carving, and jewelry, some ritual values
    that exist in various forms at present.
     Our ancestors during those times were hunter gatherers. 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. In this simple activity alone evolved
    ritual, music, dance, theater, and even literature.
    LITERATURE – when they told stories about the hunt , this form of
    oral story telling marked the beginnings of literature. In time, they
    would learn to devise an alphabet and write these stories down.

    THEATER OR PLAY ACTING- when they imitated the movements of


    the animals that they hunted

    MUSIC AND DANCE- When they learned to add drum beating and
    attach a rhythm to their movements.
     Long before the coming of Spaniards, the
    pre-colonial peoples of the Philippines
    already possessed a varied and vibrant
    musical culture. The country’s indigenous
    cultures through the existence of ethnic
    musical instruments such as pipes, flutes,
    zithers, drums, various string instruments
    like the kudyapi a three stringed guitar, the
    kulintang- an array of bossed gongs.
    Traditionally, tongatongs are
    used by the people of Kalinga
    to communicate with spirits,
    particularly as part of
    healing rituals. In modern
    times, they are also played
    recreationally as part of an
    ensemble and to communicate
    with spirits during house
    blessings.
     This wealth of ethnic musical instruments
    is further complimented by native dance
    forms whose movements often imitated the
    movements of animals, humans, and
    elements from nature
    EXAMPLE: Tinikling, a popular Tagalog folk
    dance often showcased for tourist, balancing
    itself on stilt-like legs or flitting away from
    the clutches of bamboo traps.
     In traditional weaving, the fibers are gathered from
    plants like cotton, abaca, and pineapple leaves.
    SPANISH
    ERA
    Art became a
    handmaiden of religion,
    serving to propagate
    the Catholic faith and
    thus support the
    colonial order at the
    same time.
     Religious orders, were dispatched to convert the natives
    to Catholicism as part of the larger project of
    colonization. The art forms from that period are referred
    to stylistically and culturally as religious art, lowland
    Christian art, or folk art.
     In keeping with the prevailing design of Hispanic
    churches, the baroque style was predominantly employed
    (San Agustin Church in Manila, Paoay church in Ilocos
    Norte).
     Images of saints ang interpretations of biblical
    narratives were considered essential to worship and
    images were produced through painting, sculpting, and
    engraving.
    (Via Crusis- a series of 14 paintings or sculpture
    depicting Christ crucifixion and resurrection;
    images of the holy family, the Virgin Mary in the
    ceilings and walls of the church)

     Spaniards also brought musical instruments like


    the pipe organ, the violin, the guitar, and the
    piano. Philippine musical forms also took on a
    very European flavor– with new rhythms,
    melodies and musical form e.g. pasyon or
    pagbasa – the biblical narration of Christ passion
    chanted in an improvised melody.
    Another secular music forms that developed:
    - Awit and Corrido ( musical forms that chanted stories based on European literature and
    history and were popular even among the peasantry who learned the verses purely by
    rote.
    - Kundiman and Balitao ( spoke of resignation and fatalism, for all intents and purposes,
    the lyrics were that of unrequited love, except that the love object was the Philippines
    who would be cleverly concealed as beautiful woman.

     Local theater forms would developed earlier than literary fiction. The earliest forms of
    theater were replaced by the pomp and pageantry of religious processions that were
    introduced by the Spanish colonizers, containing religious tableaus of Catholic saints
    and scenes from the bible.
    - Sarsuwela ( a popular form of musical theater imported from Spain. This features singing
    and dancing interspersed with prose dialogue which allowed the story to be carried out in
    song.

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