CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM

THE REGIONS
Art
Defined as the
manifestation or use of the
various creative disciplines.
It is produced by human
creativity and skill to
express oneself.
• Art is the expression or application of human
creative skills and imagination, typically in a visual
from such as painting or sculpture producing
works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty
or emotional power.
• Art is the process or product of deliberately
arranging elements in a way that appeals to
intellect, sense or emotion.
• Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions,
intuitions or desires. It is about sharing the way
we experience the world, which for many is an
extension of personality.
Functions of Art
 Functions of Art
• Personal or Individual Function: Artist has their
personal reason for indulging an art
• Social Function: Man is a social being and as
such associates with his fellow beings
• Economic Functions: Many people believe that
it does not pay to be artist. However, this belief is
negated by the facts that many people earn their
living in arts
 Functions of Art
• Political function: When Imelda Marcos, a
patroness of arts became the governor of metro
manila, she promoted her political programs by
means of the art
• Historical Function: Paintings, sculptures,
architectural works, and other art forms serve to
record historical figures and event
Functions of Art
•Cultural function: Buildings, furniture,
clothes and other like form part of the
country’s material culture
•Religious function: Almost all, if not all, art
forms evolved from religion. People in
olden times worshipped their god in the
form of songs and dances
Functions of Art

•Physical function: Houses and other

buildings are constructed to protect their
occupants and all others inside them
•Aesthetic Function: Artworks serve to
beauty.
CONTEMPORARY
ART
Contemporary Art
•Contemporary art is defined as the art
of “now” An art produced at the
present period.
•In vernacular English, “modern” and
“contemporary” are synonyms,
resulting in some conflation of the
terms “modern art” and
“contemporary art” by non-specialists.
Contemporary Art
•The term “contemporary art” refers to
art made and produced by artists
living today.
•Today’s artists work in and respond to a
global environment that is culturally
diverse, technologically advancing,
and multifaceted.
Because art is produced by people
and people are influenced by time,
contemporary art is a continuing
practice that has evolved with the
following new element:
Appropriation
• Existing artworks are
“appropriated” to form
another artwork.
• Appropriation is the
intentional borrowing,
copying, and alteration of
existing images and
objects
Performance
•Performing arts consist of genres in
which artists or performers use their
voices, move their bodies and relate to
other performers. Objects or even to
the audience.
 Marilyn Arsem
Playing dead person at the Philippine Yuan Moro Ocampo
International Performance Art Festival Performing The Shadow in
Denmark
 Space
Space is where an art is performed
and positioned in specific spots.
Especially in public places.
 Hybridity
Mixing unlikely materials to produce
an artwork.
Karen Eland
Picasso's Blend, c. Karen Eland 2002 Picasso's Blend, c. Karen Eland 2002
 Technology
• Existing artworks are
“appropriated” to form
another artwork.
Contemporary Art
vs. Modern Art
Modern art emerged in the late 1800s and
continued to grow for more or less a century.
It slowly waned in the middle to late 20th
century when postmodernism came to light.
Postmodernism then give birth to what we
know now as contemporary art. This art exists
up to this day, and no one knows when a new
period will arrive to veil contemporary art in its
shadow. Often referred as “Traditional”
Visual Arts and
Performing
Arts
Visual Arts
Visual arts is a term used
to described a wide array
of artistic disciplines
that are appreciated
primarily through
sight.
1. Fine arts
• Created primarily through appearance rather
than their practical used
• Ex. Drawing, painting, sculpture, print, graphic
art, calligraphy, architecture
2. Decorative arts
• Decorative arts also known as decorative crafts, are
artworks that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional.
Decorative arts are not only beautiful but are useful as well.
• Ex. Textile art, Glassware, Jewelry, Furniture, Metal Craft,
interior design
3. Contemporary
art forms
• Contemporary art forms
include recently conceived art
styles and techniques that are
avant-garde or experimental in
nature.
• Ex. Collage, digital art, land art,
installation
Performing
Arts
When artist used their
voices and/or their
body movements to
communicate artistic
expression, it is
considered an example
of performing arts. It
1. Music
• Music is a universal form of art. It is defined as
the manipulation of sound and silence.
• Music is beyond words, it has the power to
speak through people’s mind, heart and soul. It
can affect the mood, way of thinking and even
character and disposition of people listening to
it.
2. Dance
• Is defined as regulated and deliberated order
of body movements
• Contemporary dance is a performing art that
involves body movement in accord to the
musical beat, for some use it as an
expression of thoughts and feelings,
releasing energy or simply joining with the
beat of music or into dance movement itself.
1. Disco Dancing is a dance style
characterized by movement of the
hip and pelvic, some will jump
together with the raising of arms to
the beat of the disco music. Its music
is a continuous mix of disco songs
operated by the Disc Jockey.
2. Hip hop is a dance style that
includes breaking, locking and
popping. It is something made just
happened or “freestyle” or
spontaneous performance.
Various Art form in
the Philippines
 American Postwar
Pre- Spanish Period Japanese Period
Form Period Republic 70’s Contemporary
Conquest 1521-1898 1941-1945
1898-1940 1946-1969

Landscape, Wartime scene

Potter; body portraiture, (aggression,
Painting adornment, Religious genre, nationalism,
ornament interior, still atrocities, symbolic,
life protest, aspiration
Modern, Figurative, non-
for peace)
conservative, figurative, art for art's
abstract, sake, multimedia,
Propaganda
experimental mixed media,
Pottery, , public art transmedia
Santos, Furniture, Indigenizing and
carving and
reliefs, altar pieces, Free Orientalizing works,
woodwork,
Sculpture jewelry metalwork, standing, genres idyllis
metal work
Fiesta, relief, public (Amorosio,
and
ornamentation Francisco ocampo
expression
 Japanese Postwar
Pre- Spanish Period American Period Period Republic 70’s
Form
Conquest 1521-1898 1898-1940 1941- 1946- Contemporary
1945 1969

Church, Plaza
Dwellings complex; town City planning parks,
Real estate, safe housing,
and houses, planning, waterfronts,
accessories, tenements,
shelters, fortification, civic civic/gov’t
squatters, convention arch,
worship buildings and structures, public
commercial/business,
Architecture areas, official installations, private works, apartments, Public works
condos, malls,
residences, residences, residences, offices,
subdivisions,
mosque, commercial health and public
development, low-cost
masjid, state structures, education, business
housing
edifices cemeteries, bridges, chalet
lighthouse
PRE-COLONIAL ART PERIOD
900 - 1565
Ritual (Performance)
•A pray to be endowed
with the strength of the
animal they hunted.

• when they partitioned

what they hunted,
gathered, and feast on the
fish that they caught or the
pig that they slew.
Mayvanuvanua in Batanes

Canao or Kanyaw in Cordillera

Kashawing in Mindanao
Literature
•Oral Story telling/Oral Literature-
when our ancestors told stories about
hunt.
•Legends, Epic Tales, and
Theater
•When they imitated the movements
of animals that they hunted, this
marked as the early beginnings of
theater or play.
Music and Dance
•When they learned to add drum
beating and attach a rhythm of their
movements, they had given birth to
music and dance.
Architecture
•A Lean-to is a portable
shelter of the negritos
made by the tree branches
and twigs, using leaves and
fonds for siding. A screen
resting on the ground and
help up at an angel by one
or several poles, the lean-to
is both roof and wall,
protecting dwellers from
rain and heat of the sun.
Fine arts
•Painting: Tattoos
(CENTRAL VISAYAS)
• The Pintados or painted
ones, inhabitants of the
Visayan island are
described by the
conquistadors used sharp
metal instruments
previously heated over fire
in painting their bodies
Decorative Art
•FLAKE STONE
•Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
•Espinosa Rance Site, Cagayan
1600-8000 BC
•dated about 9 million years,
the oldest man
•made object associated with
the fossils of a proboscidean,
a prehistoric elephant
•Pottery
•Manunggul Jar (Discovered in 1965)
•The tradition of potter dates back to
prehistoric times as proven by the
mannungul jar which is at least 3, 500-year-
old and which depicts on its lid tow
boatmen riding a banca on their way to
great divide. Pottery become more
associated with objects for daily use such
as palayok for cooking and the Bangka
and tapayan for storing liquids
SPANISH COLONIAL ART PERIOD
1521 - 1898
•Spaniards arrived in the Philippines
in 1521
•the colonizers used art as a tool to
propagate the Catholic faith through
beautiful images to explain the
concepts behind Catholicism and to
tell the stories about life and passion
of Christ.
•Natives where forcibly resettled in
towns structured according to Plaza
Complex
•Hispanic churches, the baroque style was
predominantly employed; they were
characterized by grandeur, drama, and elaborate
details that purposely appealed to the emotions.
•San Agustin Church
•Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Church
in Miag-ao, Ilo-Ilo
•Images of saints and interpretations
of biblical narratives were considered
essential worship.
•Under the strict watch and patronage of
the church, images were produced
through painting, sculpting, and
engraving.
•17th
Century, Chinese artisans, under
Spanish rules were engaged in making
icons or saints or “santos”
•In colonial churches, santos are
displayed in a decorative altar niche
called retablo
•With coming of the Spaniards, who
brought western musical instruments
like pipe organ, the violin, the guitar,
and the piano
•Catholic liturgical was introduced in 1742
when Archbishop of Manila, Juan Rodriguez
Angel, established a singing school at Manila
Cathedral that thought western church music.
•“Pasyon or Pabasa” as it sometimes
called or the biblical narration of Christ’s
passion chanted in an improvised melod.
•Among lowland
Christian communities
of Pampanga, Ilocos,
Bicol and IloIlo,
secular music from
such the “awit and
corrido” soon
flourished.
•Spanish
colonizers,
complete with
highly
embellished
carrozas
containing
religious tableus
of catholic
saints scenes
from the bible.
•In 19th Century, Zarzuela or Sarsuwela was an
operetta which features singing and dancing
interspersed with prose dialogue which allowed
the story to be carried out in a song.
•Severino Reyes and Hermogenes Ilagan, who
wrote sarsuwelas in Tagalog were the most
distinguished playwrights of their day with
Honorata ‘Atang’ de la Rama as their most
celebrated leading actress
•The first sinakulo or passion play was written
in 1704 by Gaspar Aquino de Belen. Its
narrative was culled entirely from the biblical
account of christ’s passion and death on the
cross.
•The sinakulo was tweak to convey Christ’s
suffering as a methaphor for the suffering
of Filipinos under Spanish colonial rule.
•Two local theater forms that were
greatly influenced by Catholicism were
moro-moro- or komedya. The word
‘moro’