CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE
ARTS FROM THE
REGION
Intended Learning Outcomes:
❑ Appreciate the history of art in the
Philippines;

❑ Distinguish contemporary period

from the other art period;

❑ Define contemporary arts; and

❑ Familiarize with the significant

development in the Philippine art.
What is Art?
 Meaning of Art
❖ ART- Art is creation.
❖ Creating something new,
something original and something
different.
❖ Art is life. It is creating life on a
material and making inanimate
objects to have life.
❖ To Create art is to give life. (Ramon
Orlina- Glass Sculptor)
 CONTEMPORARY

CURRENT PRESENT

NOW
ARTS through the Ages
New Art Forms
Self
Expressions 20th- 21st Century
CONTEMPORARY
Fine Arts PERIOD
Genius and ROMANTIC
Design PERIOD 1800-1900
MODERN
Craftsmanship PERIOD 1700-1800
RENAISSANCE
Skill PERIOD 1400-1500
CHRISTIAN
Technique PERIOD 350-1450 AD
ROMAN
PERIOD 753-509 BC
GREEK
PERIOD 1050-31 BC
 Have you ever
wondered how the
Philippine art
developed?
Philippine Arts
Social Realism
National
Identity 1970’s - Present
CONTEMPORARY
Orientalizing ERA
Secular Forms MODERN
of Art ERA 1946-1969
JAPANESE
Faith and ERA 1941-1945
Catechism AMERICAN
Geometric ERA 1898-1940
Designs SPANISH
Integral ERA 1521-1898
ISLAMIC
to life
ART 13th C. AD
ETHNIC
ART Pre- 13TH C. AD
 PRE- COLONIAL ARTS
➢The Philippines back then
already had art that was
considered one of a kind and
rich.
➢Arts are for ritual purposes or
for everyday use.
➢Traditions were orally passed
than written, and their earliest
form of theater was Rituals.
Tattoos of Pre- Colonial Filipinos.
The Manunggul Jar
The Pre-Colonial Filipino house
 ISLAMIC ARTS
➢The Islamic Colonial Period
emerged in Sulu during the 13th
century when the Arabian, Sayyid
Abbubakar arrived.

➢Islamic art is characterized by

geometric designs and patterns
eliciting focus from the believers.
Malong
Mosque
 SPANISH ERA
➢ Art became a hand maiden of
religion, serving to propagate the
Catholic faith and thus support
the colonial order at the same
time.
A Baroque Church
A Religious Painting from the Spanish Era
above Magellan’s Cross by Serry M. Josol
Spanish Era Furniture
 AMERICAN ERA
➢ In the American regime,
commercial and advertising arts
were integrated into the fine arts
curriculum. Moreover, Americans
favored idyllic sceneries and
secular forms of arts
➢ Education was their greatest
contribution in this period.
"Women working in a Rice Field"
by Fabian de la Rosa
 Philippine Normal University, formally known as
Philippine Normal School during the American Period
 JAPANESE ERA
➢ Since the Japanese
advocated for the culture of
East Asia, preference was
given to the indigenous art
and traditions of the
Philippines. This emphasized
their propaganda of Asia
belonging to Asians.
"The Nightmare of 1945" a painting by Diosdado
Lorenzo
A Propaganda in the time of the Japanese Occupation
 MODERN ERA
➢ Modern era in Philippine Art
began after World War 2 and
the granting of Independence.
Writers and artists posed the
Question of national identity
as the main theme of various
art forms.
“Planting Rice” by Fernando Amorsolo
“Interaction” by Victorio Edades
 CONTEMPORARY ERA
➢ The Marcos regime was when culture and art
was put under the spotlight when the first
lady Imelda Marcos thought of having the
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
Since then art the Philippines has
blossomed to what it is today.
➢ Philippine Contemporary Art was an
offshoot of social realism brought about by
Martial Law. Arts became expression of
people’s aspiration for a just, free, and
sovereign society