Learning Activity Sheet

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

Grade 12

Name : ________________________________________ Date : _______________________

Grade & Sec. __________________________________ Score : _______________________

LESSON 1 : Various contemporary art forms , techniques and performance practices

MELC : Describe various contemporary art forms and their practices from the various regions.

What I Know
Pre-test
True or False questions:
TRUE FALSE
1. Artists are self-taught and did not have formal education
Originality is not issue in Contemporary Art. 
2.  It is not restricted to individual experience but it is reflective of the world we
live in. Event in the world having an effect to the Philippines 
3. Is OPM considered a contemporary art?

Multiple Choice. Select the letter of the best answer from among the given choices.
4. One of the most internationally renowned pieces of modern Filipino art. It
now hangs in the main gallery of the National Museum of the Philippines and
is the first painting to greet museum visitors.
A. Malliarium B. Selfie Post of Sarah Geronimo
C. Spoliarium Painting by Juan Luna D. All of the Above

5. A human pursuit to imitate life and the world into something pleasing or
beautiful
A. Contemporary Arts B. Art
C. Public Speaking D. Digital Art

IDENTIFICATION : Identify what is being defined or described.

6. Art which is continuously in process and continues to be produced during
our lifetime
7. Simultaneously reflects the realities and values of our society, its variety
portrays the mosaic of our cultural diversity.
8. Process by which the artist creates by means of movement, space,
spontaneity, and the uniqueness of the movement

9. National Artist in Painting in 1976; Father of Modern Filipino Painting

10. It is a form of art that refers to the staging and execution of a production
like drama, opera, festivals.

What I Need to Know

Contemporary Art Forms in The Philippines
First, one needs to be clear about what the term contemporary art has come to mean. This lesson will teach us
everything about arts produced by Filipino artists rooted from their own culture and tradition. Various
contemporary art practices from every region will also be included. At the end of this lesson, you will be able to
understand what Contemporary Art and their practices from various regions is.

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. Defines Contemporary Art.
2. Identify the major contemporary art forms in the Philippines
3. Describes the contemporary art forms in the Philippines.
4. Describes their practices from the various regions,
5. Learners will broaden and acquire the necessary creative tools that open
opportunities in pursuing their individual career goals and aspiration

What’s New
Learning Task 1 : Instructions:
Match the word in the second column associated with the art forms in the first column ; write the letter of your
answer on the space provided for.

ART FORMS ASSOCIATED WORDS ANSWER

ARCHITECTURE a. Abstract
DANCE b. Arena
FILM c. Breath mark
LITERATURE d. Choreography
MUSIC e. Diagram
THEATRE f. Motion picture
VISUAL ARTS g. Poetic

What Is It
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 living in the twenty-first century.
Contemporary art of the 21st century may combine elements of performance, 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, economic 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.

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

Senior High School

Department of Education
Division of Cagayan de Oro City
Alternative Delivery Mode /
ADM

Philippine Contemporary Arts

 https://www.slideshare.net/jikumoshijiku/philippine-contemporary-art-128570465

What is Art?

INTEGRATIVE ART AS APPLIED TO CONTEPORARY ART : HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ART

IN THE PHILIPPINES
>Art is creation.
>Creating something new , something original and something different. Art is life. It is creating life on a
material and making inanimate objects to have life. To create art is to give life (RAMON ORLINA-Glass
Sculptor).

>Contemporary – Current, now, the present.

>Arts produce by national artist and contemporary to us

Arts through the Ages

TIMELINE
1050-31 BC 753-509 BC 350-1450 AD 1400-1500 1700-1800 1800-1900 1800-1900

Technique Skill Craftmanship Genius & Fine Arts Self Self -Expression
Design -Expression
GREEK ROMAN CHRISTIAN RENAISSANC MODERN ROMANTIC ROMANTIC
PERIOD E

>Have you ever wondered how the Philippine art developed?

TIMELINE OF PHILIPPINE ARTS

Pre-13th C.AD 13th C.AD 1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s-Pressnt
Integral to life Geometric Faith and Secular Forms Orientalizing National Social Realism
Designs Catechism of Art Identity
Ethnic Art Islamic Spanish Era American Era Japanese Era Modern Era Contemporary
Era

Pre-Colonial Ars – Ethnic Arts Islamic

Arts are for ritual purposes or for everyday use. Islamic art is characterized by geometric designs and
patterns eliciting focus from the believers.

Spanish Era American Era

Art become a handmaiden of religion, serving to
propagate the Catholic faith and thus support the
colonial order at the same time.
Japanese Era
In the American regime, commercial and advertising
arts were integrated into the fine arts curriculum.
Moreover, Americans favored idyllic sceneries and
secular forms of arts.
Modern Era
Since the Japanese advocated for the culture of East Modern Era in Philippine Art
Asia, preference was given to the indigenous art and began after World War 2 and the granting of
traditions of the Philippines. This emphasized their Independence. Writers and artists posed the question of
propaganda of Asia belonging to Asians. national identity as the main theme of various art forms.

Contemporary Art  Art produced at the present period in time.

Philippine Contemporary Art was an offshoot of
social realism brought about by Martial Law. Arts  Contemporary art includes, and develops from,
became expression of people’s aspiration for a Postmodern art, which is itself a successor to
just, free, sovereign society. Modern art.                                 
 In vernacular English, “modern” and
“contemporary” are synonyms, resulting in some
conflation of the terms “modern art” and
“contemporary art” by non-specialists.

Contemporary Philippine Arts

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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW : PHILIPPINE ART

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Visual Arts Pre- Colonial Periods Independent Republic
Conquest
Spanish American Japanese Post -War Contemporary
1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s-present
Painting Pottery. Body Religious Landscape, Wartime scenes, Modern, Figurative,
adornment Portraiture portrait, still life Propaganda conservative, non-
and Ornament abstract, figurative, art
Sculpture Pottery, wood Religious figures Free standing, Indigenizing and experimental, for art sake,
and metal and carving relief, public Orientalizing public art multimedia,
carving works mixed media
and
transmedia
Architecture Dwellings Church, plaza, City planning, Public works Real estate, safe housing,
and houses civic building, public works, condominium , subdivisions,
(Bahay Kubo) fortress, road structures and villages, malls,
and light house infrastructures commercial/business/convention
construction building
STYLISTIC OVERVIEW
FORM Pre- Spanish/ American Modern Post contemporary
Colonial Islamic
Painting Religious/ Classical, Incipient Collaborative
Devotional, Idylitic, Trinomvirate,13 Hyper-realist
Secular Nostalgic moderns, New painting
Formal Abstract
Naturalistic Surreal
(Homegrown Expressionist
Sculpture Religious miniaturismo Abstract Junk scrap
(animalist/Isl guild) Expressionism Neo-indigenous
amic) Academic Site-specific
Community Performance art
based Inter hybrid
Architecture -ethnic Workship- Neoclassic, art International Filipino Architecture
relations related and deco industrializing, Urban planning
Collective residential electric Economic zone
history Earthquake Neovernacular,
Baroque Prefab
Hispanic Regionalist cosmopolitan
Revivalist
(neogothic ,
Neoromanesque,
Islamic
CULTURAL OVERVIEW
FORM Indigenous Islamic or Folk or Fine or World- Popular or urban and mass
southeast Philippine Lowland based based
Asian Muslim
Painting Rituals and Governance Colonial and Museum- Mass produced
Sculpture post colonial circulated, artist- Market oriented
Architecture centered gallery
distributed

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Contemporary Art Forms in The Philippines

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.
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 bodies, 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 choreographed 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 permanent form.
Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions
Senior High School

Department of Education
Division of Cagayan de Oro City
Alternative Delivery Mode /
ADM

III. Contemporary Art Practices from Various Regions

DANCE
Tinikling - Philippine dance which involves two individual performers hitting bamboo poles, using them to
beat, tap, and slide on the ground, in co- ordination with one or more dancers who steps over and in between
poles
Cariñosa - is a Philippine national dance from the María Clara suite of Philippine folk dances.

DESIGN AND ART PURPOSE

LAPU-LAPUS SHRINE
Is a 20-meter bronze statue located in the Mactan Shrine in Punta Engaño, Mactan Island, Cebu. The statue was
erected to honor Rajah Lapu-Lapu, the native chieftain of Mactan Island who defeated Ferdinand Magellan
during historic battle of Mactan in 1521.

DANCE
HALADAYA FESTIVAL - The northernmost town of Cebu, Daanbantayan, celebrates
a festival in honor of the warrior Datu Daya of Kandaya.

Sinulog- Sinulog Festival – Dance ritual of the miraculous image of Sto. Niño.

ARCHITECTURE – BAGUIO
BURNHAM PARK – Architech William Parsons
Urban Planner Daniel Burnham

VISUAL ARTS
Spoliarium painting of Juan Luna

Sculptures
Nine Muses by Napoleon Abueva (1976)
The Sketch, Portrait of the Professor, and Poinsettia Girl

What’s More

Learning Task 2 : Do I Look Familiar

Instructions: Identify what art form is being described in the following pictures; choose your answer in
the box; and write it on the blank provided for.

Burnham park Haladaya Festival

Lapu-lapus shrine Nine muses
Sinulog Festival Spoliarium
Tinikling

1. 2.

3.
4.

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/philippine
s/articles/tinikling-the-national-dance-of-the-philippines-with-bamboo-poles/
5. 6.
What I Have Learned

Learning Task 3 : Instructions : WORD HUNT

Find a word/s in the GRID by giving the Column and Row number of the first letter of the word.
Example : CONTEMPORARY – COLUMN 1 AND ROW 1; WORD/S TO HUNT
1. Definition of Contemporary Arts – 14 (including conjunction words); then arrange the words to get
the definition; 2pts for the definition
2. The 7 Major Contemporary Art Forms in the Philippine – 7

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
1 C O N T E M P O R A R Y
2 L V A N G I E P E R I O D
3 I L X Y D A N A X T N Y X
4 V I S U A L A R T S T X Y
5 I T I Y N X Y A R T I S T
6 N E V X C A G N E S M Y X
7 G R Y E E M I N D A E P Y
8 Y A R C H I T E C T U R E
9 X T Y F X Y O L A N A O X
10 M U S I C A D X Y M A D E
11 X R Y L I T A T X Y N U F
12 X E Y M E B Y X Y X D C R
13 A L V I N T H E A T R E E
14 Y P R E S E N T X H Y D D
15 M A G G E L X Y B E N G D

8 HORIZONTAL 11 VERTICAL

AND –IN - AT - BY – BONUS for the definition

Definition:
1.
2.

What I Can Do
Learning Task 4 : COLLAGE MAKING - the activity will introduce the artistic skills which
are already enhanced. Artistic skills used in creating arts. (The teacher will make
rubrics as a tool for scoring)
Make and create a collage presenting the cause and effect of climate change.
Procedure:
1. Gather pictures from any sources (internet, used magazine, etc.) cut into pieces.
2. Assemble the cut pieces.
3. Create figures that would represent the causes and effects of climate change.
4. Paste them to the manila paper (HALF).
5. Label the causes and the effects using the black pentel pen. Put a title to your
Collage

Rubric for a Collage

Evaluated by: Teacher _______ Self ________

Criteria Criteria Criteria Criteria Criteria Self - Teacher

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level
Variety of limited variety adequate variety good variety of excellent variety of
pictures  used of pictures used of pictures used pictures used to pictures used to
to develop to develop the to develop the develop the develop the main
main idea main idea main idea main idea idea
Ideas few original some original several original many original
 originality  ideas in material ideas in material ideas in material ideas in material
interest or display are or display are or display are and display are
evident to evident to evident to evident and
stimulate stimulated some stimulate much stimulate a great
interest interest interest deal of interest
Relevance of little material some material material selected material selected is
material selected is selected is is mostly all relevant and
 connected to relevant and relevant and relevant and clearly connected
main idea rarely connected somewhat connected to the to the main idea
to the main idea connected to the main idea
main idea
Visual Impact overall visual overall visual overall visual overall visual
 effectiveness impact is impact is impact is impact is very
of overall limited somewhat effective effective
presentation effective

Comments and Suggestions for Improvement:

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REFERENCES:
MODULE: Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions
Senior High School
Department of Education
Division of Cagayan de Oro City
Alternative Delivery Mode /
ADM

https://www.slideshare.net/jikumoshijiku/philippine-contemporary-art-128570465

Contemporary Philippine Arts

Hulyo 01, 2017
http://mariejelly.blogspot.com/2017/07/contemporary-philippine-arts.html

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions Lesson 1

Uploaded by
Kristel Gail Basilio 
Date uploaded
on Nov 08, 2018
Description:
Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions
https://www.scribd.com/presentation/392643616/Contemporary-Philippine-Arts-from-the-Regions-Lesson-1

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/philippines/articles/tinikling-the-national-dance-of-the-philippines-with-bamboo-
poles/

https://moshej.edublogs.org/files/2011/04/Collage-Rubric-2cfq0em.pdf

REFERENCES : ADM – MODULE

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https://www.slideshare.net/PennVillanueva/the-introduction-to-contemporary-
arts?next_slideshow=1
https://www.slideshare.net/OphelynnCano/1-what-is-contemporary-art
https://www.academia.edu/35809377/Contemporary_Arts_in_Visayas
https://www.slideshare.net/jacintosolivellasdeoleza/characteristics-of-contemporary-art,
https://www.slideshare.net/ClaireNavarro5/contemporary-art-forms?qid=913726ed-af1c-
44b4-91b8-ed76d0645af5&v=&b=&from_search=2
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