Mataas Na Paaralang Neptali A.

Gonzales

Special Program in the Arts

“Visual Arts- 1st quarter Examination Pointers to Review”

- Visual Arts- The Visual Arts are art forms that create works that are primarily visual in nature such as ceramics,
drawing,painting,sculpture,printmaking,design and crafts and architecture.
- Imagination- the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful
- The Evolution of Visual Arts in the world:
- Bhimbetka Petroglyphs- The Earliest recorded form of visual arts.
- The use of visual art is not to impress but to communicate and to survive
- Hieroglyphics- Bronze Age | The earliest writing system of Ancient Civilization
Mayan Calendar- an ancient calendar system that rose to fame in 2012, when a great cycle of its long count
component came to an end, inspiring some to believe that the world would end at December 12, 2012
- Three epochs of Prehistory- Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
- Egyptian Art- 2d Form of Art | A series of wonderful Egyptian encaustic wax paintings, known as the Fayum
portraits, offer a fascinating glimpse of Hellenistic culture in Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greek- the theme of their art era is Heroism and Machismo Culture
- Journey to the Philippine Visual Arts
- Pre Historic
- Age of Horticulture| Local communities are being established and art starts to go beyond mere craft, i.e. stone
weapons or jewelry but starts to have decorative elements, meaning and context
- Flake tools- The proof of earliest man’s presence was recovered from a ranch site in Cagayan Province-two flake
tools dated about .9 million years, the oldest man-made object associated with the fossils of a proboscidean, a
prehistoric elephant. Other flake tools are recovered in Tabon Caves, Palawan and some stone tools in Bolobok
Cave, Sanga-Sanga in Tawi-Tawi
- Shell Bracelets- Cagayan, Palawan, and Sorsogon 4854 BC Shells were fashioned into tools, as well as
ornaments. The oldest known ornaments made from cone shells were found in the early 1960’s in the grave of an
adult male in Duyong Cave in Palawan. A shell disk with a hole in the center was found next to his right ear and a
disk with a hole by the edge was found on his chest. The shell ornaments were dated 4854 B.C.
- Angono Petroglyphs- are oldest known work of art in the Philippines located in the province of Rizal. There are
127 human and animal figures engraved on the rockwall probably carved.
- Lingling-o (2000 BC – 1000 AD) Duyong Cave, Palawan a kind of ear pendant fashioned from green nephrite
(jade) is the characteristic trait of the Early Metal Age.
- Manunggul Jar/ Burial jar excavated from a Neolithic burial site in Manunggul cave of Tabon Caves at
Lipuun Point at Palawan dating from 890–710 B.C.
- Pre-colonial traditional art have religious symbols, every day activity such as fishing, farming, etc., or a specific
decorative art pattern to the community
- Baybayin- the earliest writing system of the filipinos
- Pintados- describe the tattoed indigenous tribes.
- Torogan known as the flower symbol of the ancestral home of the highest titleholder in a Maranao village
- Sarimanok, a chicken-like figure that carries a fish in its beak
- Spanish Colonial Period
- Introduced formal Painting, Sculpture and Architecture which was inspired by the Byzantine, Gothic, Baroque and
Rococo art styles
- Damian Domingo- The father of Filipino Painting
- Spoilarium- A work by Juan Luna, Gold medal 1st Place at Expocion Nacional De Bellas Artes at Madrid, 1884
- Felix Hidalgo- His work has a touch of Romanticism and Neoclasism
- Letras y Figuras- Art style that fuses letters with figures
- American Colonial Period: The Filipino Artist starts look for His identity
- The American brought Education and Value Formation
- Popular Art Styles- Metamorphosis in Metropolitan Theater
- Art Nouveau- a style of decorative art, architecture prominent in Western Europe.
- Fabian Dela Rosa- the brightest artist in Philippine painting after Juan Luna and Hidalgo
- Fernando Amorsolo- He is best known for his craftmanship and mastery in using light
- Guillermo Tolentino- He is consider as father of Philippine Arts | Sculptor | Known in his work UP Oblation
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