• Have you ever wondered

how the Philippine art

developed?
Philippine Art
History
 TIMELINE OF PHILIPPINE Social
ARTS National
Realism

Identity
Contemporary Era
Orientalizing

Secular Forms Modern Era

of Art
Faith and Japanese
Catechism Era
Geometric American Era
Designs
Integral to Spanish Era
life

Islamic Art

Ethnic Art

Pre – 13th C. AD 13th C. AD 1521-1898 1970’s - present

1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969
PRE-COLONIAL ARTS
(ETHNIC ARTS)
In Pre-colonial
Philippines, arts
are for ritual
purposes or for
everyday use.
 ISLAMIC ARTS
Islamic art is
characterized by
geometric designs and
patterns eliciting focus
from the believers.
 SPANISH ERA
Art became a
handmaiden of religion,
serving to propagate the
Catholic faith and thus
support the colonial order at
the same time.
 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.
 JAPANESE ERA
Since the Japanese ERA
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.
MODERN ERA
MODERN ERA IN PHILIPPINE
ERA 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.
CONTEMPORARY ART

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.
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW:
PHILIPPINE ART
 Historical Overview
VISUAL Pre- COLONIAL PERIODS INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC
ARTS Conquest
Spanish American Japanese Post-War Contemporary

1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s – present

Painting Pottery, Religious Landscape, Wartime Modern,

Body Portraiture portrait, still life Scenes conservative, Figurative, non
Adornment abstract, figurative, art for
and Propaganda experimental, art sake ,multi-
Ornament public art media, mixed
Indigenizing media and
and transmedia
Sculpture Pottery, Religious figures Free Standing, Orientalizing
wood and and carving relief, public
works
metal
carving

Architectur Dwellings Church, plaza, City planning, Public works Real Estate, safe housing,
e and houses Civic building, public works, condominiums, subdivisions, villages,
(Bahay fortress, road and structures and malls,
kubo) lighthouse infrastructures commercial/business/convention
construction buildings
 Stylistic overview
Form Pre-colonial Spanish/Islamic American colonial Modern Post
colonial contemporary
Painting Classical, Idylitic, Incipient Collaborative,
Nostalgic Triumvirate hyper-realist, new
Religious/devotio 13 moderns, painting
nal abstract,
Secular Surreal
Formal Expressionist
Naturalistic,
Sculpture (Homegrown Abstract Junk scrap, neo-
Religious miniaturismo, Expressionism indigenous, site-
(animalist or guild) specific,
Islamic) Academic performance art,
Community- hybrid
based Inter-ethic
relations
Architecture Collective history Workship- Neoclassic, art International Filipino
related and deco Industrializing, Architecture
residential eclectic Urban planning
Earthquake Economic
baroque zone,
Hispanic revivalist Neovernacular,
(neogothic, Prefab,
neoromanesque, Regionalist
Islamic cosmopolitan
 Cultural Overview
Form Indigenous Islamic or Folk or lowland Fine or world- Popular or urban
southeast Asian Philippine Muslim based and mass based

Painting Museum-
Colonial and post circulated, artist Mass produced
Sculpture Rituals and governance colonial centered gallery market oriented
Architect distributed
 PERFORMANCE TASK
1. Give 1 of any kind of work of art that
exist today on each ERA that has been
discussed. (so therefore there are 7
examples works of art that you need to
submit and your examples must not
been given on the discussion).
2. Include the picture on each work of art
that you searched.
3. Use MS word or other presentation
application for your performance tasks.