Historical Overview: Philippine Arts Timeline

Form Pre-Conquest Spanish Period American Japanese Postwar Republic 70’s –

(1521 – 1898) Period Period (1946 – 1969) Contemporary
(1898 – 1940) (1941 – 1945)
Painting Body Religious and Landscape, Wartime Scene
Adornment, Secular portrait, genre, (Nationalism,
Ornament interior and still Aggression,
life Protest,
Aspiration for Figurative,
Peace) Modern, nonfigurative,
Conservative, art for art’s
Abstract, sake,
Sculpture Pottery, carving Santos, furniture, Free standing, Propaganda Experimental, multimedia,
and woodwork, reliefs, altar relief, public public art transmedia
metalwork, and pieces, jewelry, Indigenizing
expression pieta, and
ornamentation orientalising
works, genre
(Amorsolo, etc)

Architecture Dwellings and Church, plaza, City planning Public Works Real estate, safe housing,
houses, complex, town park, waterfronts, accessories, tenements, squatters,
shelters, planning, civic/government convention arch, commercial/business,
worship areas, fortification, civic structures, condos, malls, subdivisions,
official buildings, and apartments, development, low cost housing
residence, installations, residences,
mosque, private offices, health
masjid, stale residences, and public
edifices commercial education
structures,
cemeteries,
bridges,
lighthouse

Genre – a style of painting depicting scenes from ordinary life especially domestic situations.

Still life – a collection of inanimate objects arranged together in a specific way.

Figurative art – sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from
real object sources.

Nonfigurative – not representing or imitating external reality of the objects of nature.

Art for Art’s sake – used to convey the idea that the chief or only aim of a work of art is the self-expression of the individual artist who
creates it.

Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling) – the technique of telling a single story or
story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

Expressionism – Bul-ul of the Ifugaos

Relief – a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material

Public Art – an art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain,
usually outside and accessible to all.

Indigenization – act of working something more native, subject to native influence

Orientalizing – a complex term that was coined in reference to the spread of Near Eastern and Egyptian ideas, motifs, and other
cultural elements to Greece and to the rest of the Mediterranean
Inclusion of exotic and mythical animals
Human figures were rare

Fortification – a defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a place against attack

Civic Building – is a central landmark in the geographical or business centre of a town or city
Stylistic Overview

Form Pre- colonial Spanish/ Islamic American Modern Post Modern/

Period Period Contemporary
Painting Incipient
Triumvirate, 13
Religious/devotional moderns, Collaborative, hyper realist,
Religious secular, formal, Classical, Idyllic, abstract, new painting
(Animist or naturalistic Nostalgic, Art neorealist,
Islamic), (homegrown Nouveau surreal,
community miniaturismo), expressionist
Sculpture based, inter- academic Abstract, Junk/Scrap, performance
ethnic relations, Expressionism art, hybrid, neo-indigenous
Architecture collective history Worship-related and Neoclassic, art International, Filipino architecture, urban
residential, deco (Juan industrializing planning, economic zone,
Earthquake baroque Arellano, Juan eclectic regionalist, cosmopolitan
Nakpil, Pablo
Antonio),
California
MissionStyle

Animist – belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.

Naturalistic – based on the theory of naturalism in art or literature.

Earthquake baroque – a style of Baroque architecture found in the Philippines which suffered destructive earthquakes during the 17th
and 18th century.

Idyllic – pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity.

Nostalgic – is sentimentality for the past typically for a period or place with happy personal associations

Triumvirate – political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals

13 moderns
1. Victorio Edades 7. Anita Magsaysay – Ho 13. Demetrio Diego
2. Francisco Ocampo 8. Cesar Legaspi
3. Gala Ocampo 9. Bonifacio Cristobal
4. Diosdado Lorenzo 10. Jose Pando
5. Hernando Ocampo 11. Arsenio Capili
6. Vicente Manansala 12. Ricarte Parungganan

Neorealist – any various movements in literature, art, etc. that are considered as a return to a more realistic style.

Surrealism – a 20th century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious
mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images

Eclectic – deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.

Junk/Scrap – players are presented with junk from which they most create art.