IV.

American
Colonial to the
Postwar Republic
Sedition law which
banned the writing,
printing and publication
of materials advocating
Philippine Independence
 Literature
1. Drama Simbolico
are one-act play came to
represent a deep and
profound yearning from
freedom
 Drama Simbolico
Tanikalang Guinto or Golden
Chain Juan Abad
1902 Hindi Ako Patay or I am not
Dead Juan Matapang Cruz
1903 Kahapon Ngayon at Bukas
Aurelio Tolentino
 Literature
2. A Modern Filipina
the first English play written in 1915
by Liastillejo and Jesus Araullo
 Literature
3. Vaudeville
is a motley collection of slapstick,
songs, dances, acrobatics, comedy
skits, chorus girls, magic acts, and
stand-up comic acts
 Architecture
1. New Urban Design
employed Neoclassic architecture for
governement edifices and integrated
parks and lawns to make the city
attractive by making its buildings
impressive and places more inviting for
leisure amid urban light
Legislative Building
National Art Gallery
Post Office
 Architecture
Tomas Mapua, Juan Arellano,
Andres Luna de San Pedro, and
Antonio Toledo
 Paintings
1. Landscape
became cherished travel souvenirs
 Fabian Dela Rosa
Known for his naturalist painting
characterized by restraint and
formality in brushwork, choice of
somber colors, and subject matter
Planting Rice 1921
El Kundiman 1930
Fernando Amorsolo
1972 National Artist known for his
romantic paintings that captured
the warm glow of the Philippine
sunlight
Ginebra Logo Design
Amorsolo School
Irineo Miranda, Toribio Herrera,
Cesar Buenavantura and
Dominador Castaneda
Victorio Edades
National Artist Victorio Edades
influenced by United States'
modern art movement
The Builders
Guillermo Tolentino
National Artist (1973) Guillermo
Tolentino is sculptor
studied Fine Arts in Rom and was
influenced by classical tradition
 Oblation

1958
1935 original
Bonifacio Monument 1933
 Napoleon Abueva
National Artist Napoleon Abueva is
a modern artist who has worked
with a variety of mediums from
hardwood to precious alabaster
 Japanese
Occupation (1941-
1945)
Modern Art project slow
downed in pace
 1. KALIBAPI (Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod ng
Bagong Pilipinas) sponsored art
competitions
2. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is
a propaganda movement that sought to
create a Pan-Asia identity that rejected
Western traditions.
Slogans like “Asia for Asia” made its way
to the public through posters, ephemera,
comics, and Japanese sponsored
publications such as Shin-Seki, Liwayway
and Tribune
Amorsolo Paintings
Harvest Scene 1942 and Rice Planting 1942
continued to flourish because his arts
showed little or no indication of war's
atrocities which is continued to be favored.
Amorsolo Paintings
Evocative of Semblance of peace, idealized
work in the countryside and promoted values
of docile industriousness
 Sa Kabukiran
Is Sylvia La Torre's hit song written
in tagalog in the 1940'by the
acclaimedcomposer Levi Celerion
National Artist for Music and
Literature awarded 1997
His Excellency, Jorge B. Vargas, Chairman of
the Philippine Executive Commission 1943
“Independence this Year” said His
Excellency, Premier Tojo 1943
 Paintings
1. Genre Paintings
2. Showed indigenous and pre-colonial
traditions
3. Portraits of ethnolonguistoc groups
(Crispin Lopez's Study of An Aeta 1943)
 4. Scenes of war that remained neutral
focusing on the aesthetic qualites of ruin and
disaster (Amorsolo's Bombing of the
Intendencia 1942 and Ruins of the Manila
Cathedral 1945)
 After 1945 works which depicted the horrors
of war such as Diosdado Lorenzo's Atrocities
in Paco and Dominador Castaneda's Doomed
family were painted
 IV. 70's
Contemporary

Many cultural projects

ensued during the helm
of the Marcoses
Under Martial Marcos envisioned a New Society or
Bagong Lipunan
1. Rebirth of a long lost civilization
2. Aspiration to modernization and development
CCP Shrine for the Arts
Cultural Center of the Philippines is the premier
bureaucratic entity through which art acquisition,
exhibition making, workshops, grants and awards
were implemented
 CCP Complex
Folk Arts Theater (1974 Miss Universe Pageant)
Philippine International Concention Center (1976
IMF-World Bank Conference)
Tahanang Filipino or Coconut Palace (Papal Visit)
Manila Film Center (Manila International Film
Festival)
Reviving Filipino Tradition

National Arts Center in Mt. Makiling

Coconut Palace A
 National Arts Center
in Mt. Makiling was designed by
Architect Leandro Locsin is
appropriated the style of vernacular
houses like the Ifugao fale
Coconut Palace
was designed by Architect
Francisco Manosca utilized
indigenous building
materials and fashioned the
roof to look like a salakot
 Reviving Filipino Tradition
National Arts Center in Mt. Makiling designed by
Architect Leandro Locsin is appropriated the style of
vernacular houses like the Ifugao fale
Coconut Palace Architect Francisco Manosca
utilized indigenous building materials and fashoined
the roof to look like a salakot