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Direction: Choose letter of the correct answer inside the box.

a. Collaborative art b. interactive art c. installation art
d. mixed media art e. Performance art

_____1. Artist interested in engaging with people.

_____2. Artist engage with communities.
_____3. Artist with neighbourhood organization.
_____4. People united by hobby or interest like chess.
_____5. It is a kind of art where practice plays with and contest notions of
authorship and the idea of the artist.
_____6. Art refers to visual art form combines variety of media.
_____7. Art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve this
purpose.
_____8. Computer.
_____9. Electronic art.
_____10. Three dimensional art.

QUARTER 1
WEEK 2
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Arts in the Philippines

• Painting ● Sculpting
• Dancing ● Pottery
• Weaving ● Other arts

Painting
- Introduced by Spaniards during 16th century.
- Spaniards use paintings as religious propaganda.

Water color paintings

- Increased and the subject matter of paintings began to include landscape, Filipino
inhabitants, Philippine fashion, and government officials.
Portrait paintings
- Featured the painters themselves, Filipino jewelry and native furniture.
Landscape paintings
- Featured artists’ names painted ornately as well as day-to-day scenes of average
Filipinos partaking in their daily tasks.

- During World War II, some painters focused their artwork on the effects of war,
including battle scenes, destruction, and the suffering of the Filipino people.

Dances
Types of Filipino Dance

• Cordillera
• Muslim
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• Tribal
• Rural
• Spanish style dances

Cordillera
Banga
- Illustrates the grace and strength of women in the Kalinga tribe.
- Women performing the Banga balance heavy pots on their heads while dancing
to beat of wind chimes.

Lumagen or Tachok
- Performed to celebrate happy occasions.
- When Lumagen is performed, it is meant to symbolize flying birds and is
musicallypaired to the beat of gongs.
Benday

Dances
• Bendayan
• Lumagen/Tachok
• Manmanok
• Ragsaksakan
• Salidsid
Is the dance to show courtship
In the salidsid dance, a male and a female performer represent a rooster
Attempting to attract a hen.
• Salip
• Tarektek
• Uyaoy/uyauy

Tribal Dance

 Malakas at Maganda
- Is a National folklore dance.
- It tells the story of the origin of the Filipino people on the islands.
• Kadal Blelah
• Kadal Tahaw
• Binaylan
- Tells the story of a hen, the hen’s baby, and a hawk. In this dance, the hawk is
said to control a tribe’s well-being, and is killed by hunters after attempting to
harm the hen’s baby.
• Bagobo Rice Cycle
• Dugso

Traditional Filipino Dance

 Tinikling
- Take two long bamboo sticks rapidly and in rhythm, clap sticks for dancers to
artistically and daringly try to avoid getting their feet caught between them.

• Singkil
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- In this dance, there are four bamboo sticks arranged in a tic-tac-toe pattern in
which the dances exploit every position of these clashing sticks.
- Identifiable with the use of umbrellas and silk clothing.

• Binasuan

Weaving Fabrics
• Abaca
• Pineapple
• Cotton
• Bark cloth
Textiles, clothes, rugs, baskets and hats Nipis
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Sculpturing
- From the transitional carving of anitos to the santos to Christ and down to the
saints, Filipinos find it rather not difficult as they are already familiar with the ways
of the wood.

Pottery

 Clay/Mud
- Ceramic jars
- Water vessels
- Plates - Cups
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Other forms
• Tanaga is a type of Filipino poetry.
• “Kutkut” is an art technique used between the 15 th and 18th
centuries. The technique was a combination of European and Oriental style and
process mastered by indigenous tribes of Samar Island. Past Notable Filipino
Artists
• Juan Luna
• Fernando Amorsolo
• Augusto Arbizo
• Felix Hidalgo
• David Cortes Medalla

Present-Day Filipino Artists

• Anita Magsaysay-Ho
• Fred De Asis
• Daniel Coquilla
• Ang Kiukok
• Mauro Malang Santos
• Santiago Bose
• Francisco Viri Rey Paz Contreras
• Nunelucio Alvarado

Museums

 Malacanang Museum
- A museum inside the Presidential Palace complex

• Metropolitan Museum of Manila - A museum of contemporary arts.

• Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design

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- A museum of contemporary Filipino arts

• The Museum
- A museum of Contemporary Filipino arts.

• UST Museum
- The oldest existing museum in the Philippines, UST Museum has permanent
display on natural history, specimens, coins, medals, memorabilia, ethnographic
materials and oriental arts objects.

• Museo Pambata - A museum for children.

• Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)

- Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino Asian and Traditional Musical Instruments.
- A museum of performing arts.

• GSIS Museo ng Sining - A museum of Filipino Arts.

• Ayala Museum
- A museum of Filipino arts.

• Yuchengco Museum
- A museum of Filipino and Filipino-Chinese Arts.

• Mind Museum
- A science museum found in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.

Directions: Make your own version of Painting.

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Arts in the Philippines refer to the various forms of the arts that have developed and
accumulated in the Philippines from the beginning of civilization in the country up to the
present era. They reflect the range of artistic influences on the country's culture,
including indigenous forms of the arts, and how these influences have honed the
country's arts.

Choose the letter of the correct answers. Write the letter on the space provided.
__A___1. It was used by the Spaniards before to make a religious propaganda.
a. Painting b. Sculpting c. Dancing d. Weaving
__A___2. While women are doing this dance, they balance heavy pots on their heads
while dancing to beat of wind chimes.
a. Banga b. Bendayan c. Manmanok d. Ragsaksakan
__C___3. It tells the story of the origin of the Filipino people on the
islands. a. Kadal blelah b. Kadal Tahaw c. Malakas at Maganda
d. Singkil

__B___4. Tells the story of a hen, the hen’s baby, and a hawk. In this dance, the hawk
is said to control a tribe’s well-being, and is killed by hunters after attempting to harm
the hen’s baby.
a. Bendayan b. Binaylan c. Kadal blelah d. Singkil
__C___5. A male and a female performer represent a rooster attempting to attract a
hen. a. Bendayan b. Manmanok c. Salidsid d. Tinikling
__D___6. Dancing with two long bamboo sticks rapidly and in rhythm, clap sticks for
dancers to artistically and daringly try to avoid getting their feet caught between them. a.
Binasuan b. Dugso c. Tinikling d. Singkil
__C___7. From the transitional carving of anitos to the santos to Christ and down to the
saints, Filipinos find it rather not difficult as they are already familiar with the ways of the
wood.
a. Museum b. Pottery c. Sculpturing d. Weaving _____8.
__B__ 8. A museum inside the Presidential Palace complex.
a. Museo Pambata b. Malacanang Palace c. CCP d. Ayala Museum
__A___9. A museum designed for children.

a. Museo Pambata b. Malacanang Palace c. CCP d. Ayala Museum

__C___10. This is a museum of Performing Arts.
a. Ayala Museum c. Cultural Center of the Philippines
b. Pasig Museum d. Mind Museum

References www.slideshare.net/philippines-art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_in_the_Philippines
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