CONTEMPORARY ART

FORMS, TECHNIQUES AND

PERFORMANCE PRACTICES
GEROME C. TAGALAN
Subject Teacher
• In art historical terms, we refer to
art before the coming of the first
colonizers as “pre-conquest.”
Referred to it as “indigenous”.

• Art before is referred to as an

expression of an individual but yet
not categorized into different kinds
of forms.
1. ETHNIC TRADITION

- Arts were mainly influenced by geographical location

and the practices of the Filipinos.

- Most of their arts were animist or community- based.

DEVELOPMEN
T OF
- Tattoo was believed to be an art during this period.
PHILLIPINE
- Filipinos who lived in the highlands, dance steps were
ARTS
imitated by the movements of animals, while those
who are in the coastline they imitated movements of
sea creatures.
- Visual arts, wood carving, weaving and
pottery
- Used of native resources in architecture
- Epics, myths, riddles and proverbs are their DEVELOPMEN
literature
T OF
- Content of music is from war, courting and
others. PHILLIPINE
- Instruments were used to accompany their ARTS
songs
- Ethnic performances and ceremonials were
the early theatrical presentations.
Example of everyday expressions are the
following:

Rituals Music Dance Carving

Body
Pottery Weaving
Ornamentation
Cañao or Kanyaw -
Cordillera Autonomous Region

Kashawing - Lake Lanao in Mindanao

Rituals
Every Thirteenth Moon (Tagbanwa)- Palawan
HUNTING
The pre-colonial Filipino
hunted food that were shared
among members of a community
in a gathering where they
told stories about the hunt.
MUSIC
NATIVE DANCES

Pangalay
(Sulu Archipelago)
mimetic of the movement of
seabirds

Banog-banog
(Mandayas’kinabua of Mindanao)
movement of hawk
NATIVE DANCES
Kadaliwas dance
(T’bolis)

comedic movements of monkeys

Tinikling
(Tagalog folk dance)

evocative of the movements of

the crane

Talip dance
(Ifugaos)
movements of wild fowls
Carving

• Bul-ul–Cordilleras

• Hagabi – Ifugaos
Carving

• Santos - Laguna and Pampanga

• Okir - Southern Philippines

 SUNDU
K

PANOLONG
SARIMAN
OK

Carvin
g
Pottery
Pottery
- Anthropomorphic Jars

• Manunggul Jar – (890 – 710 BC)

• Metal Age (5 BC–225 AD)
 Tapaya
n

Bang
Palayo
k Potter a

y
Textile Weaving
 Purpose
-: reverence for
spirits and nature
Weaving - criteria for the
beautiful
societies’sociopoliti
cal structures
 Made from:
fibers - cotton, abaca, and
Weaving pineapple leaves
pigments - clay, roots, and
leaves.
 Pis
Malong
Siyabit
Langkit
Textile Weaving
 Weaving
aside from body ornaments, weaving
is also essential for productivity of
natives like baskets and mat weaving.
Product
Weaving
Bub Tepo Mats
o
Product Weaving
Body
Ordamentation
 • A manuscript - Boxer Codex -
sometimes known as the Manila
Manuscript, is a manuscript
written c. 1590, which
contains illustrations of
ethnic groups in the
Body Philippines at the time of
Ordamentations their initial contact with
the Spaniards -
representations of various
ethnolinguistic groups, where
the following are
classified:
 Upper class Tagalog - gold
jewelry
Boxer
Codex
 • Tattoos
• a means protection of an
individual from evil spirit
Body • a badge of maturity and
Ornamentations bravery
• Provinces like Kalinga, Kankanay,
Ibaloy, and Ifugao - practiced
tattooing
Body
Ordamentations
• Jewelry
-make the wearer more
attractive & pleasing to the
gods.
-T’boli - wear brass
chains, bells, and colorful
beads
Body
Ordamentations

• Metalworks like lotoans

or betel nut boxes are
made of brass or bronze
(Maranao of Lanao del Sur)
2. SPANISH COLONIAL TRADITION
- Several practices of the early Filipinos were stopped by
the Spaniards.
- Written traditions were burnt.
- Literature was dominantly religious and secular. DEVELOPMEN
- Theater- komedya became common T OF
- Painting was introduced PHILLIPINE
- Sculpture focused of carved images of saints
ARTS
- Metals were used in carving
- Stone bricks were used in constructing houses, churches
and others
- Orchestra and operas were prevalent
3. AMERICAN COLONIAL AND
CONTEMPORARY TRADITIONS
- Changes in education DEVELOPMEN
- Arise of technological innovations, T OF
- Art forms expanded using various PHILLIPINE
materials ARTS
- Filipino architecture focused on urban
planning, economic zone and regionalism
Contemporary Arts……….
•
Allows Filipino
artists to portray
the subject and the
medium in
innovative and
skillful ways,
reflecting Filipino
identity.
 Contemporary Artists……….
• Brought their artworks into the
street, in public.
• The main feat of any art primarily
depends on how the art is able to
connect with spectator.
7 MAJOR CONTEMPORARY ART
FORMS

VISULA ARTS DANCE MUSIC ARCHITECTUR THEATER

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LITERATURE FILM/ CINEMA

Visual Arts
• Visual artists is becoming
bold regarding the
expression of personal
feelings and perspective
 CONTEMPORARY ART
TECHNIQUES
DIGITAL ARTS- describe
COLLAGE- is made by
the technological arts GRAFFITI- words or
pasting different materials
which include digital drawings printed on public
such as pictures and pieces
photography and digital walls or structures.
of paper or textile.
painting.

PRINT MAKING-
MIXED MEDIA- made by
creation of images on
combining two or more art
paper, fabric and plastic
materials or medium.
materials.
Pilipinas Shell
Foundation Inc.
• Recognizing young talents in
the visual arts.
• Play an important role in
encouraging emerging artist
create and produce their work
 Child
Trafficking
by Leomar
C. Conejos
 Juan’s
Struggle sa
Mundong
Nobody’s
Perfect
by Ferd
Angelo A.
Failano
 Tragic
Bangus
by Rene S.
Sibulangcal
Bandilang
Di’
Tumutumb
a by Melvin
G. Anglaser
2. DANCE
◦ Is an instance of moving
the human body to the
beat of a music
choreographed in definite
time, form and space.
3. MUSIC

- Is an art that appeals to sense of

hearing. It is composed of ordered
tones or sounds in succession.
Binondo Church in Manila (16th Century)
Lucky China Town Mall in Binondo Manila
4. Philippine Architecture
• Faced with threats and
globalization.
• Either designed by foreigners
or a derivative designs
mimicking western forms.
5. Theater
•Philippine
Theater is still alive
• There is a multiple
stage productions
Theater
• Tanghalan
g Pilipino
• Philippine
Educational Theater
Association (PETA)
Theater
• Tanghalan
g Pilipino
• Philippine
Educational Theater
Association (PETA)
PET
A
•Founded
In 1967 by
Cecile
Cecile Guidote-Alvarez
• Advocate the
use of theater
in inspiring
change and
development
in society.
PET
A
• Composed of dedicated
“artist-teacher-cultural
workers”
PET
A
• They work to promote
the transformative
power of theater
PET
A
• Celebrated its 50th
anniversary in 2017
 Tanghalan
g Pilipino
• Established in
1987
• The resident drama
company of CCP.
Tanghalang
Pilipino
• It continues to
push Philippine theater to
artistic and professional
excellence through the
development and education of
actors, writers and directors
and technical staff.
 Other Theater Group
•Gantimpala
Theater Foundation
• Ballet
Philippines
• 9 Works
Theatrical
• Atlantis
Other Theater
Group

• Dulaang UP
• Ateneo Blue
Repertory
• Teatro
Tomasino
6. Philippine Literature
• Contains diasporic experience
and the incorporation of
both the rural and the urban
experience.
• Explored the Western genre
and produce legitimate text.
Philippine Literature
• Writers gather
anthologies to collect into
volumes the newest and
most innovative works.
Philippine Literature
• Contemporary Filipino
writers are continuing to
struggle with the low
readership among the public
and the domination of foreign
titles in the market.
7. FILM/ CINEMA
◦Is a technological transformation of a
theater. Scripts are portrayed but are
pre- taped and edited before its showing