What is Art?

• Art is a expression or application of creativity

• We produce art by its beauty.

Different Types of Art

 Drawing
 Paintings
 Sketching
 Music
 Sculpture
 Poem

What is Contemporary?
- It means current, present, recent time

Contemporary Art
- Newest form of art, using people for late 1960s to 1970s up to present time.
- Its art of today by the living artist
- Cultural diverse and it has a touch of technology
- They discovered new mediums of art

Characteristics:

SITE SPECIFIC
- Designed for a specific location
- It loses all for a substantial parts of its meaning if its removed from its location.
- Artwork creates to exist in a certain place.

COLLABORATIVE
- Involves artist and communities working closely together often over extended periods of time to
make art.
- It harnesses the experiences and skills of each person taking part to give meaning and creative
expression to what’s important in their lives.

INTERACTIVE
- Art that you can play with an can walk through over by around them

INTEGRATIVE
- Artistic Creation of work

PROCESS BASED
- Process art is about the creative process of making the art and not about the end product

Modern Vs Contemporary Art

• Modern and Contemporary have the same synonyms and definitions, but they’re not the same when it
comes to art.

What is Modern Art?

 - Modern art is an artwork that is not modern at all. This was created during the industrial
revolution period (1860-1970)
- In modern art they attempt to create something new.
- It is an experimentation of the artist with abstraction

ISMS
 Idealism • Aomantism
 Realism • Surrealis
 Modernism • Expressionism
 Futurism
 Cubism
 Impressionism

Art of Modern Art

•Monet
•Degas
•Renoir

Ritual
- It is a religious or solemn ceremony consisting to of a series of actions performed according to a
prescribed order
• Dance, Chants and Musical Instruments

Shaman
- Are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds.

Rituals and Practices performed by early Filipinos

• Kanyaw/Cañao
- Ifugao in the Cordillera
- Mumbaki (Shaman)
- Pigs, Chickens, and even carabaos
- Thanksgiving, offering, weeding, birth of a child, death of a member of the community, or during
the performance of healing

*A ceremonial ‘cañao’ speech or chant is given while the actual act of butchering a pig

CALING THE AID OF THE LAND

-Cebuanos
-Ritual of Tamblan
-meat from a white chicken or white pork along with wine or buyo

• Taboos
- For rice, one must kill an insect called taga- taga
 - When planting corn, the first three rows should be done at sundown
- An individual with broken teeth can not go and plant corn for it was believed to bear low
quality grains.
- Coconut Seedlings were placed on the open ground during a full moon and planted at noontime
when sun is directly overhead.
- Ube, a root cap that sone ethnic groups considered to be scared must be kissed when dropped
to avoid angering a spirit called Gaba.

•Isneg Tribe
- Apayao
- Small whirlwind (Alipugpug)

•Kankanaey Group
- Western Mountain Province
- LegLeg
- Bonabon Seedling
- Four or five long feathers of the sacrificial chicken would be planted.

• Tagalog
- Lakan- Bakod (God)
- Abundant harvest of their fruit bearing plants and trees.
- Food offerings and wine for assurance of a bountiful harvest season.

GAINING THE FAVOR OF THE WIND

*Ethnic group of Subanon
*Mountanious areas of Zambangoa del sur, Misamis Occidental and Mindanao

•Magbinukid
- River
- Baylan (shaman)
- They set a stalk of bamboo and place at the top of a saucer where an egg sprinkled with apog
(powdered limestone) rice, and a portion of chicken meat.

• Kanobiton
- Ceremony meant for ceasing a dry spell or drought
- The baylan offers a pig or chicken to the spirits of nature to help them ease the drought.

• Lapiraw
- Using a windmill made of Bamboo to call on the winds.

Common indicators of an incoming typhoon:

- Snails suddenly hiding under banana leaves to take shelter
- The whirring sound of winged termites
- Agitated ducks and geese

•Kumpisaw (Cebu)
- When it flies with its tail feather spreads out, a storm will definitely come
•Solay-Bagyo (Bicol)
- If its leaves are drawn into the stem, it is a warning that a typhoon is coming.

SAILING WITH BLESSING

•Kibang
- Tagalog Tribe
- Meaning the rocking motion of boat when traversing waves

• Guibang
- Visayas
- “Guibang, guibang cun magtoto cami”
“Sway Sway if we should Proceed”

•Blood Sacrifice
- Masbate

•Bacalag
- Mindanao

Philippine Artistic Heritage

- Before the arrival of colonizers, ancient Filipinos have long been making arts that are anchored
on their spirituality, worldviews, and day-to-day living.
- They may differ in culture and beliefs but their strong sense of community intimately linked to
their natural heritage is manifested in their artistic expression.

*Arts created during this period showed the creativity of our ancestors by making arts that embody
indigenous aesthetic, technology, and the values of their beliefs.

The Creativity of our ancestors shows:

1. Textile
2. Pottery
3. Ornaments
4. Metal Works
5. Carving
6. Tattoing

• Pang – o – Tub
- Traditional tattoing of the manobo

•Weaving
- It was being spun
- Ut was being measured
- Our ancestors practice many kind of techniques such as IKAT TEXTILE WEAVING
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
•Kudyapi
- 2 strings, 9 frets
- Boat shaped
- Solid soft wood (Jackfruit tree)
- Palawan (Mindanao)
- Zither (Stringed Instruments

•Kulintang
- Wooden Beater
- Small – Big Gong
- Mindanao
- Metal
- Percussion

•Kolitong
- Zither (Stringed Instruments)
- Bamboo tube (cylinder)
- 6 strings
- Bamboo star shaped
- Bontok Kalinga

•Sulibao
- Percussion Instruments
- Bontok and Ibaloy Tribe
- Kalinga

•Agong
- Percussion Instruments
- Wooden Beater
- To Call Attention
- 13-16 pounds
- Maguindanao People

•Gansa
- Northern Tribe (Cordillera)
- Metal or iron

•Pasiyak
- Wind Instruments
- Pasiyak water whistle
- Panay
- Need Water
- The sounds came from the water
•Buktot (ukelele)
- Zither Instruments
- Visayas Area
- 4 strings
- Made out of coconut husk
- It has hunch back

The History of the Pre- Colonial Filipino Writing System

Baybayin
- Baybayin is an ancient script of the Philippines, believed to have been used as early as the 16th
century
- Baybayin is a pre-Spanish script, which means it predates the Spanish colonization of the
Philippines

The Reformed Baybayin Rule

- Baybayin consonants have default /a/ sounds. To change or remove the default /a/ sounds,
"kudlit" or "krus-kudlit" are added.

- Baybayin consonants have default /a/ sounds. To change or remove the default /a/ sounds,
"kudlit" or "krus-kudlit" are added.

- The cardinal rule in Baybayin is to spell the word the way it is pronounced.
•For example, the word "Philippines" should be spelled like "Pi-li-pins"

- Diphthongs are complex sounds which are combinations of simple vowels and semi-vowels. In
Filipino, diphthongs are those words that end in /w/ or /y/.
•An example is the word "kalabaw.

- Hyphens do not exist in baybayin. If the word contains hyphen, just simply remove the hyphen
and apply the usual rules as is. • For example, the word "ika-walo" will turn into "ikawalo" when
Baybayin is applied.

l- Kuwit
ll- Tuldok

• 3 Vowels and 14 Consonants

• Kudlit ( to add e,I,o,u)
•Krus Kudlit (To remove letters)

Pre-colonial Filipino Dances

Pre Colonial
- Pre-colonial Philippine folk dances date back to the arrival of the first people in the archipelago
more than 40,000 years ago
 - They are a reflection of the culture, traditions, and beliefs of the indigenous people who settled
in the islands.

- These traditional dances were often performed during special occasions such as weddings,
funerals, and religious festivals.

The Banga Dance

- The Banga dance is a traditional Filipino practice that celebrates the strength and ingenuity of
Igorot women.

- The women demonstrate amazing balance and agility by carrying heavy clay pots, sometimes
stacked five high, from the river back home.

The Lumagen Dance

- The Lumagen Dance, also known as Tachok, is a traditional expression of gratitude by the
Kalinga people.

- . Unmarried women perform the dance, which is inspired by the movements of birds in flight, to
celebrate events such as a bountiful harvest, a birth of a first-born child, a victorious battle, and
a wedding.

The Binasuan Dance

- Pangasinan

- It is usually performed during special occasions and festivals, and involves people holding up a
tray of coins or glasses filled with rice wine while they dance together.

The Maglalatik Dance

- Province of Laguna

- The dance mimics the battle between the Christian and the Muslim Moro tribesmen.

- It is an all–male dance with coconut shells used as props.

The Singkil Dance

- Singkil is a traditional Filipino dance that tells the story of a princess.

- The dance is done in a circular formation, with two sets of dancers.

- One set of dancers holds two fans, while the other set of dancers holds bamboo poles to create
a structure around the princess.

The Kappa Malong-Malong Dance

- Kappa Malong-Malong is a traditional Maranao dance performed by Muslims.
 - Women typically wear malong, a shawl, mantle, or head piece, while men wear a sash, waist
band, shorts, bahag, head gear, or turban, as was historically done in the fields.

- This dance is also known as Sambi sa Malong.

Tinikling Dance
- Perhaps the best-known dance in Philippine folk dance history, the Tinikling mimics the high-
stepping strut of birds.

- Two dancers, usually male and female, gracefully step in and out of crossed sets of bamboo
poles being moved together and apart to the music

Gaway Gaway Dance

- Thanksgiving for good harvest

- Featuring the movement of children

Lawin Lawin Dance

- Mimicking the eagle

Pagdiwata Dance
- is a trance dance, featuring women dancers who enact a thanksgiving ritual at the time of the
harvest moon.

- The shamanic figures mime the spirits who possess them and enact a drama that can last for
hours.

Singkil Dance
- It depicts the plight of a princess caught in a magical earthquake in a forest.

Pandango sa ilaw
- Holding a glass with lighted candles

- Lubang Mindao

- Design to show grace balance and dexterity

Dugso Dance
- Bukidnon

- Thanksgiving and birth of the 1st son

Idaw Dance
- Cordillera

- War

- Igorot Dance
Lepanto Dance
- Benguet
- Woodpecker
- Animal Movement

Tareketek Dance
- 2 wood pecker getting attention for 3 women

Binaylan Banog
- Misamis Oriental
- Animal
- Mother hen protecting the chicks to the hungry eagle

Kadal Tahol
- South Cotabato
- means "true dance of the T'boli", it's a story of a flock of sister birds that wandered too far in
search of food