BRIEF HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF PHILIPPINE ART

The art of the Philippines refers to the works of art that have developed and accumulated
in the Philippines from the beginning of civilization in the country up to the present era. It
reflects to its society and non-Filipinos the wide range of cultural influences on the country's
culture and how these influences honed the country's arts. The art of the Philippines can be
divided into two distinct branches, namely, traditional arts and non-traditional arts. Traditional
Art is bearers of traditional arts can be nominated as Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA),
equal to National Artist. It includes Folk architecture, Maritime transport, Weaving, Carving,
Folk Performing arts, Folk (oral) literature, Folk graphic and plastic arts, Ornament, Textile, or
fiver art, Pottery, and other expression of traditional culture. Non-traditional arts bearers of non-
traditional arts can be nominated as National Artist, equal to Gawad Manlilika ng Bayan. It
includes Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film and Broadcast arts, Architecture
and allied arts and Design.

EARLY FORMS OF ART IN THE PHILLIPINES

The visual arts are art forms is consist of ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture,
printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture.

1. Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including
art ware, tile, figurines, sculpture, and tableware. Ceramic art is one of the arts, particularly the
visual arts. Of these, it is one of the plastic arts. While some ceramics are considered fine art, as
pottery or sculpture, some are considered to be decorative, industrial or applied art objects.
2. Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark
paper or another two-dimensional medium. Instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink,
various kinds of paints, inked brushes, wax colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels,
various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silverpoint).

3. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium[1] to a solid surface
(support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements,
such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. The final work is also called a painting.

4. Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the
plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and
modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials
but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process.

5. Printmaking is the
process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only
the process of creating prints that have an element of originality, rather than just being a
photographic
reproduction of a painting.

6. Design can refer to such a plan or specification (e.g. a drawing or other document) or to the
created object, etc., and features of it such as aesthetic, functional, economic or socio-political.

7. Craft or trade is a pastime or a profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of
skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually
applied to people occupied in small-scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example
by tinkers.
8. Photography is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light
or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or
chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film

9. Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display
of moving visual media.

10. Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film,
generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition. Filmmaking involves
a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through screenwriting,
casting, shooting, sound recording and reproduction, editing, and screening the finished product
before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition.
11. Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing
buildings or any other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often
perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified
with their surviving architectural achievements.

CLASSICAL ARTIST IN THE HISTORY OF ARTS

1. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first
name Michelangelo (March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter,
architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an
unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered by many the greatest artist
of his lifetime, and by some the greatest artist of all time, his artistic versatility was of such a
high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man,
along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.
2. Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized
in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre
painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his
death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

3. Jean-Auguste-Dominique (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical

painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the
guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered
himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his
portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive
distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing
Picasso, Matisse and other modernists.

4. Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German
Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his
generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature
contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or
megalithic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often
symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural
world.

Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid

expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian
Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

5. Egon Schiele (German (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A
protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His
work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist
produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that
characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of
Expressionism.
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APPRECIATION
Submitted by: Nicol, Marinel M.

BS Accountancy

Submitted to: Prof. Joellen V. Delas Llagas