PARAÑAQUE CITY COLLEGE

Coastal Road corner Victor Medina Street (formerly Kabihasnan St.),

San Dionisio, Parañaque City
•Telephone No. 9626958 • Email Address: pccinfo.educ@yahoo.com

Name: Parado, Juzz C.

Course & Section: BS-ENTREP 1F

What’s Happening?: A Bite of Visual Arts history of the Country

Activity (7 points)
Let us see how many local artifacts you can name by completing this short and hypothetical story. Given
the choices below, what do you think are the proper objects to use using only context clues? (Some of the
objects may repeal).

Story:
One day, Maria went to the river bank to fetch some water. Josefina, her mother asked her to use the
banga so she can have some water as soup for her cooking. When she came back home to their humble
__________
nipa hut, she found her mother preparing and putting the __________
palayok over the burning charcoal. She gave the
water to her mother so she can pour it on the __________
palayok together with the vegetables and meat. Maria was
tapis
sweaty from the trip to the river so she decided to change her __________ and wrap it around her waist. “Oh,
tapis is just right for me, the length is not too long.” She thanked her sister who brought it for her.
this __________

Soon enough, Ernesto, her father came home with his catches from the hunt. He was wearing the
Anting anting to protect him from evil spirits in the forest. It is almost nighttime when the youngest in the family,
__________
Danilo came home with his __________
pasiking backpack so full of new items of trade. Finally, dinner was already and
everyone ate the hot sinigang soup that mother prepared.

Analysis (20 points): Based on the activity you have done, evaluate by answering the following questions:

1.) What kind of practical functions do you think our first few art forms served?
- Our ancestors used fibers and wood for artistic creation and have practical uses and are still passed
down from generation to generation. Baskets and even backpacks are made of rattan and bamboo, as
are hats to protect against the hot sun and abaca is used in weaving to make clothes with colorful
patterns.
 PARAÑAQUE CITY COLLEGE
Coastal Road corner Victor Medina Street (formerly Kabihasnan St.),
San Dionisio, Parañaque City
•Telephone No. 9626958 • Email Address: pccinfo.educ@yahoo.com

2.) What do you think were the materials that people in the past sourced from their environment to be able
to create such functional art forms?
- To make art from nature, you need to create new art objects using different elements of nature like
leaves, sticks, stones, bones and water in a creative way. The resulting artwork describes the
relationship between nature and human nature That's how we first made art. The use of natural
materials to make art dates back to the Stone Age, when prehistoric people used organic and mineral
pigments such as metal oxides and iron to mark cave walls. I believe that local materials allow the
artist to produce good quality and affordable products, especially for us students, who love crafts and
cannot afford any product. I believe that using local materials can also enable the artist to convey his
feelings through handmade products. Thus, it not only makes the artist unique but also allows the
artist to contribute to the Philippine industry.

Application (50 points):

“GOD’S PLAN HAS A GREATER PURPOSE!”

There is nothing more than the God’s plan for our lives, because by the time the Lord has planned it all is for
you and you deserve it. I believe that God has a plan for everyone, and that everyone is put on earth to do
something that will influence someone else’s life for the better.