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Japanese occupation

 Japanese occupation of manila the modern art project would slow

down in pace.in 1943-1944 purugganan and Francisco won
KALIBAPI awards. The Japanese forces led the formation of the
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity sphere, a propaganda that sought to
create a Pan-Asian identity that rejected western tradition.
 The information campaign was the Japanese information bureau or
hodobu, which employed local artist and cultural workers.
 The composer national artist Felipe P. De Leon was said to have
been ‘commanded at the point of the gun’ to write AWIT SA
PAGLIKHA NG BAGONG PILIPINAS.
 Second world war art

 These are some of the art of Fernando C. Amorsolo during second world
war, which showed little indication of war atrocities
The harvest scene, 1942 and rice planting 1942 these are paintings that
evoked a semblance of peace and promote industriousness.
Genre painting were the most widely produced, particularly those that
presented a neutral relationship between the Filipinos and the Japanese
trough works that showed of the normality daily living.
NEO-RALISM
 Alice Guillermo recounts how artist and writers reflected about
national identity as Filipinos were rising from the ashes of war.
 The beggars by Manansala, 1952 consist of the image of two
women with emaciated bodies, their forlorn faces set against a dark
background capturing the dreariness of poverty.
Manansala paintings
70’s to contemporary
 Ferdinand and Imelda marcos beginning in 1965, many cultural projects ensued amid the
backdrop of poverty and volatile social conditions. Amidst claims of national chaos of
emergency proportions, martial law was declared on September 21, 1972.
 The optimism toward a new beginning was articulated for exsmple, in levi celerio and
felipe padellia de leon composition for the new society titled Bagong silang.
Social Realism (SR)

 A significant strand that emerged during

the intense political ferment of the 70’s
and the 80’s was social realism or SR,
for short. It differs from other realist
approaches in that it is conscious with
its regard for the oppressed and
underrepresented masses.