Various Contemporary

Art Form
Prepared by: Anna Jeleny E. Palaganas
• PRACTICAL (Utilitarian) ART - This art is intended for practical use
or utility. It is the changing of raw materials for utilitarian
purposes. However, they must possess ornaments or artistic
qualities to make them useful and beautiful.
• INDUSTRIAL ARTS - It is the changing of raw materials into some
significant products for human.
• APPLIED / HOUSEHOLD ART. It refers mostly to household arts.
•CIVIC ART - This art includes city or town
planning.
•COMMERCIAL ART - It involves business
propaganda in the form of advertisements.
•GRAPHIC ART. It is anything printed from
raised or sunken reliefs and plane surfaces.
• AGRICULTURAL ART - (crop production), horticulture
(garden or orchard cultivation), husbandry (raising of
cows, poultry and farming.
• BUSINESS ART - This includes merchandising,
accounting, bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography,
salesmanship, and business administration.
• FISHERY ART - It includes shallow and deep-sea
fishing, fish refrigeration and culture, net weaving.
• MEDICAL / CLINICAL ART - It includes first aid treatments,
medical manufacturing, surgery, medical operation,
rehabilitations and other
Philippine Art History

I. Pre-colonial arts / Ethnic arts

• In Pre – colonial Philippines, arts are for ritual

purposes or for everyday use. Art of the ancient
Filipinos were woven into the fabric of everyday
life. They do not refer to art as we do today.
• The pre- colonial peoples of the Philippines already
possessed a varied and vibrant musicale culture. Pipes ,
flutes, zithers, drums, various string instruments like;

• Kudyapi - a three stringed guitar.

• Kulintang – an array bossed gongs
• Gangsa or flat gong, bamboo percussion instruments.
C:\Users\Anna Jeleny\Documents\CPAR PICS & VIDS\Gangsa.mp4
C:\Users\Anna Jeleny\Documents\CPAR PICS & VIDS\Kudyapi (Solo
Instrument) I Master Samaon Sulaiman.mp4
C:\Users\Anna Jeleny\Documents\CPAR PICS & VIDS\Kulintang - Binalig
a Mamayug & Sinulog a Bagu.mp4
The following are the native dance forms imitated
from the movements of the animals:
• Pangalay dance (Sulu)
• Talip dance (Ifugao)
• Inamo dance (Matigsalugs) and Kadaliwas dance (T’Boli)
• Tinikling dance evocative of the movements of the crane, balancing
itself on stilt – like legs or flirting away from the clutches of bamboo
traps.
C:\Users\Anna Jeleny\Documents\CPAR PICS & VIDS\Hypnotic
PANGALAY Folk Dance _ Philippines Cultural Heritage [Filipino Muslim
Tausug Tribal Music].mp4
C:\Users\Anna Jeleny\Documents\CPAR PICS & VIDS\Talip Folk Dance
[Carasi (Isnag) Indigenous Cultural Dance] - Ilokano Ilocos Norte
Heritage.mp4
Famous artworks during pre – colonial

1. Carving

• Bulul (Cordillera) a granary God that plays an important role

in rituals
• Santos / sculptures of saints (Laguna and Pampanga)
• Okir (Tausug / Samal / Badjao) mythical sarimanok.
• Manunggul Jar discovered at Manunggul cave of Palawan
2. Weaving
- Textile weaving

a) Pis siyabit (Tausug of Sulu) a headpiece woven

b) Malong (Maranao of Lanao del Sur)
- Mat and basket weaving
a) Tepo mat (Sama of Tawi-Tawi) a double layered made of Pandan
leaves.
b) Ovaloid basket (Itbayat, Batanes) a head sling made of nito or
bamboo used to carry the harvests.
c) Bubo (Ilocos region) a sturdy bamboo strips used to trap the fish.
• Ornamentation - representations of various
ethnolinguistic groups.

• Wearing gold jewelry (upper class Tagalog)

• Tattooing - it is believed to protect the individual from
evil spirits, it is also a sign of bravery and maturity.