CONTEMPORARY

12 PHILIPPINE
ARTS FROM THE
REGIONS
Quarter 1


 LESSON
1

WEEK
1-2

GRADE 12
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS
FROM THE REGIONS
LESSON 1: Contemporary Art Forms and
Practices From Regions
 Guide in Using PIVOT Learner’s Material

For the Parents/Guardian

As a parent/guardian, you are expected to participate and facil-

itate diverse learning experiences and activities of your child outside
the school, premises. /e believe that your engagement will create
conditions in which your child learn more effectively. By monitoring
your child in taking up his /her lessons, you will become an im-
portant factor in your child’s overall learning and education.

For the Learner

This self learning module entitled Contemporary Philippine Arts

from the Regions is all about arts produced by Filipino artists in the
present period. By knowing all of these, students will be enlightened
about different cultures and tradition throughout the Philippines.

By definition, the term “Contemporary Art” refers to any work

created by a living artist. It has changed dramatically through the 20th
century and into the 21st century period. Famous artists, sculptors,
architects, actors, authors, musicians and their works will be intro-
duced to every student in order to know more about Philippine arts,
culture and traditions.
I What I need to know?

The lesson in this module will discuss the concepts related to

contemporary arts, the different art forms and their significant de-
velopment into modern art. This will also describe the characteris-
tics of the various art forms as they develop from the American Colo-
nial period up to the present.

At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:

a. Demonstrate understanding on the concepts of contemporary arts
and significant development of various art forms to the modern art.
b. Classifies various art forms from different regions.
c. Identify the different contemporary art forms and practices from
the regions
d. Describes various contemporary art forms and practices from the
various regions

NOTE:
All answers should be written in your activity notebook.
 I What is new?

PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY:
Direction: Observe the following pictures and answer the questions
below. Write your answers in your activity notebook.

1. How does your eye move through this artworks?

2. Choose at least one picture. How do you personally relate to or
connect with it?
3. /hy do you think you should be learning about this artwork?
D What I know?

SELF-CHECK:
ACTIVITY 1:
Direction: Answer the following TRUE, if the statement is true, and
FALSE, if it is wrong. /rite your answers in your activity notebook.

1. The Spaniards greatly influenced the Filipinos that the arts in the
country resulted to pure /estern Art.
2. The piano is one of the instruments that Spaniards introduced in the
field of Philippine music.
3. Contemporary art refers to the recent and current practice of art rang-
ing from the 1960’s up to the present.
4. Folk songs, speeches, and narratives were the forms of literature in
the Spanish Era with religious and secular contents.
5. Modern Art Refers to the practice of art in the 1860’s-1960’s. It was in
these years that the western world was significantly developing.
6. Modern art is totally the same with Contemporary Arts since modern
and contemporary are synonymous to each other.
7. Valse, Fandango, polka, and minuet are examples of theatrical perfor-
mances in the Spanish Perios.
8. Before colonialization, the Philippines already has its indigenous art.
9. Modern art continuously develops even after /orld /ar II, which held
to the contemporary way of art making today.
10. Artists used wood carving and metal works with intricate decorative
designs as embellishments for buildings in the pre-colonial period.
 D What is in?

ACTIVITY NO.1

ACTIVITY NO. 2

/hat are the Philippine Contemporary Art Forms? Define each

in your own words based on the timeline presented. /rite your answers
 D What is it?

INFORMATION SHEET:
LESSON 1.1
What is Contemporary Arts?

• Art produced at the present period in time, includes and develops from
postmodern art, which is itself a successor to Modern art.

• Art made and produced by artist living today.

• Statement that an artist makes about life, thoughts, ideas, beliefs,

and many other things that define human life. Simultaneously reflects
the realities and values of our society, its variety portrays the mosaic
of our cultural diversity is culture.

• Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are liv-
ing in the twenty-first century.

• Contemporary art of the 21st century may combine elements of perfor-

mance, painting, sculpture, dance, and many other media. It draws on
the movements of modern art, including minimalism and assemblage
art, to create dynamic pieces that aim to challenge the viewer and
spark thought. Many contemporary artists use their work to comment
on cultural and political issues, including race, human rights, eco-
nomic inequality, and global conflict. As the world continues to change
and impact human life on a large scale, art continues to experiment
with new ways of reaching its audience.

The 7 Major Contemporary Art Forms in the Philippines

1. Music - art form that appeals to the sense of hearing, composed by
combining notes into harmony.
2. Literature - art form of language through the combined use of
words, creating meaning and experience.
 D What is it?

3. Theater - art form of performance. Dramatic text is portrayed on stage

by actors and actresses and are enhanced by props, lights and
sounds. form of art in which artists use their voices and/or their bod-
ies, often in relation to other objects, to convey artistic expression.
4. Film - a technological translation of theater, special effects are utilized
to enhance the story telling
5. Dance - art of the human form, body is used, mobilized and choreo-
graphed in a specific time, form and space.
6. Architecture, Designs and Allied Arts - structure that meant to be used
as shelter, its art relies on the design and purpose of the structure.
7. Visual Arts - artwork, such as painting, photography, or sculpture,
that appeals primarily to the visual sense and typically exists in per-
manent form.

LESSON 1.2
CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS AND THEIR PRACTICES FROM
DIFFERENT REGIONS
MUSIC
• During the early American Period, the music of the country was mostly
classical due to the influence of the European.
• In 1960’s, the avant-garde music emerged, it evolved into combination
of classical and traditional (ethnic) music.
• Philippine music continuously evolved, Pinoy pop or Filipino pop mu-
sic took place.
• Pinoy pop covers different forms like jazz, dance hits, folk song revival,
rock and roll, rap and etc.
• At present, different music genre like pop, rock, OPM, indigenous mu-
sic, jazz, rap, a mixture of different genre like ethnic rock and many
other forms exist in the music industry.
 D What is it?

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS- any tool or device that produces sound. It

consist of an array of shapes and styles from the simple to the complex.

a. KUBING - is a jaw harp

made with bamboo and is
one of the more well known
traditional musical instru-
ments. This instrument is
known to be used as a way
for our ancestors to com-
municate through song es-
pecially courtship.

b. KULINTANG - a set of 5-9

pieces of gongs that vary in
size and sound. It is usual-
ly played for entertainment
during festivals, weddings,
and healing ceremonies.
The natives of Meranao,
Tausug and Maguindanao
take a lot pride and joy with
these.

c. KUDYAPI - a string wooden

lute that’s about 4-6 ft
long. Played by men, main-
ly when singing of love
songs. The strings are tra-
ditionally made with abaca
fibers or horsehair, but
modern versions of the
Kudyapi use wires like a
guitar.
 D What is it?

d. TONGALI - is played to mimic

a mournful human voice. It
has 3-4 holes where the fin-
gers are placed over. One
found in the back where air is
forced through nostril and an-
other is found about midway
where thumb is placed to
change the tone and pitch. It
is played during celebrations,
special meals, festivals, plant-
ing season and in courtship.

LITERATURE
• The bond between the Philippines and the American still continues
even after the declaration of independence in 1946 which is evident in
the continual flourishment of modernism.
• In the field of Poetry, publication of young poets to campus journals
emerged.
• The “ Bagay” movement also took the scene. It is a kind of poety
which uses colloquial language and is built on concrete image which
tend to describe experiences.
• Poets like Jose F. Lacaba, Rolando Tinio, Bienvenido Lumbera, Anto-
nio Samson and Edmundo Martinez started the Bagay movement.
• An example of bagay poetry is “Valediction sa Hillcrest” written by
Rolando Tinio.
• Amado V. Hernandez, introduced another form of poerty called “Ang
Bayang Malaya”. It is a long narrative piece about a peasant leader.
Oppression and fighting for human rights are the main themes of the
said piece.
• The rise of the nationalistic poetry discussing poverty, inequality, polit-
ical turmoil, and other social problems started during the Marcos Era.
 D What is it?

Literary works- are written works meant to be read, sung, or deliv-

ered in a play. It includes novels, short stories, and epics are the
most common bases of their forms like theater and cinema.

THEATER

• It refers to the staging and execution of a production like drama,

opera, festivals and the like. It pertains to a public presentation of a
dramatic or musical entertainment.

• The educational system established by the American in the country

paved the way to the development of legitimate theater.

• In the early stage of a Philippine theater, /estern culture greatly in-

fluenced theater production.

• Dula-dula, is a short-drama poem that emerged in the form of thea-

ter.
 D What is it?

FILM
• The film industry in the Philippines started in 1897, through the initi-
atives of foreign businessmen.
• The film became popular in 1912 when foreigners Edward Gross and
Harry Brown produced the film about the life of Dr. Jose P. Rizal.
• Jose Nepomuceno, the first Filipino who produced a film and is also
tagged as the “ Father of Philippine Movies”.
• Philippine film during the early times was greatly influenced by Holly-
wood since the local directors set Hollywood movies as their models.
• During Marcos regime, the government regulated filmmaking. /ith
the establishment of the Board of Censorship Motion Pictures (BCMP).
• New young directors rose who started the so-called ”new cinema”.
They were Lino Brocka, Celso Ad and Ishmael Bernal.
• In the contemporary period, Philippine film revolved around a variety
of subjects and themes like martyr wife, superhero, action, melo-
drams, comedies.
• Among the art forms, the film has the largest audience.
• Cinema- It is the most popular of the art forms. It is similar to theater,
except that it is not a live performance and the action is seen on a flat
 D What is it?

DANCE
• Dance during the first years of the American Period, vaudeville or
bodabil dancing became popular. It is a kind of stage show introduced
by the American.

• Dances like buck-and wing, tap dancing, clog, skirt dancing were
among the dances being performed in the show.
• European Classical ballet enter the scene.
• Remedios de Oteyza and Leonor Orosa were ballet dancers who taught
other Filipinas.
• Folk and social followed the rise of modern dance.
• Francisca Reyes-Aquino integrated folk dances in the Bureau of Edu-
cation, when she entered in the Bureau.
• People from different regions still performs traditional and folk dance
especially in fiestas and festivals like Sinulog, Maskara, Ati-atihan,
Sayaw sa Obando, Kadayawan and many more.
ARCHITECTURE
• In the American Colonial and Contemporary Period, the Philippine Ar-
chitecture adopted the modern /estern architectural style while tak-
ing into consideration the physical and socio-cultural situation of the
country.
• The Philippine architecture was characterized as simple, rational, and
functional.
 D What is it?

• Juan Arellano, Carlos Baretto, and Antonio Toledo were the young Fili-
pinos who studied in American Universities and institutes that
brought changes in the Philippine Architecture.
• They were Filipinos who introduced the neoclassic style in building
structures.
METROPOLITAN THEATER in MANILA

• Arellano designed the theater and experimented with romanticism.

• It was also in the early 20th century when the “tsalet” was developed.
It is a type of house on stilts with a front porch made of wood and con-
crete.
“TSALET”
 D What is it?

• It was after the /orld /ar II when the architecture in the country de-
parted from the native tradition.
• Filipino houses were Americanized. Urban housing, multi-story tene-
ments, and government housing projects emerged due to the increas-
ing population and decreasing land availability.
VISUAL ARTS
• Is a composition or lay-
out of lines, shapes and
color to form patterns
on paper, textile or any
piece for that matter. It
can be found in either
two-dimensional works
like painting and draw-
ing; or three-
dimensional works like installation and sculpture.
• In the American period, education was introduced to the Philippines.
There were Filipinos who studied abroad and influenced the art mak-
ing in the country.
• Juan Arellano, Diosdado Lorenzo and Victorio Edades were among
those who studied outside the Philippines.
• Victorio Edades has a different style in painting, instead of using usual
bright and happy colors, he used dull and dark hues.
• It was also during this period, Paris Cubism took its scene. It is a
kind of cubisim showing fragmented figures in larger planes, color har-
monies, and texture.
Spoliarium painting of Juan Luna
 D What is it?

• It was noticeable that during the American period, the subjects of art-
works shifted from rural to urban themes. It was also during this peri-
od, Paris Cubism took its scene. It is a kind of cubisim showing frag-
mented figures in larger planes, color harmonies, and texture.
• Napoleon Abueva became famous for his modern works. He made use
of different materials like variety of woods, metals, and stones.
Sculpture, Nine Muses by Napoleon Abueva (1976)

• Art in the Philippines during this period reflects dynamism, freedom of

expression and concern to the masses.
• Visual art has developed and transformed through the years.
• The significant development of the modern and contemporary art in
the country only shows how creative, innovative and free thinkers the
Filipinos are.
 E What is more?

ACTIVTIES:
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 E What I can do?

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 What else I can do?
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What I have learned?

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• There are seven major art forms in the Philippines that are commonly
used by Filipinos.
• Different contemporary art forms had its own development and signifi-
cance that made great contributions to the modern art.
 What I can achieve?
A
ASSESSMENT:
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Sayseng, A.H, & Sandagan L.D (2016). Contemporary Philippine
Arts from the Regions. Manila: JFS
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