Pre-colonial Arts

Visual Arts- Manunggul Jar

'tnalak
BULUL
OKIR
Ling-ling-o
Tribal Dances

Performed during special occasions such as birth,

baptism, circumcision, puberty rites, courtship,
weddings, illness and death.

Hunting, Fishing, rice planting, harvest time and

engagement in tribal wars.
Philippine Art During Hispanic Conquest

‘Sword and the Cross’

“Divide and rule”
Religion became reflected in the
practice of arts under the supervision
of the Friars.
Philippine Art During Hispanic Conquest

Literature
 Poetry
Religious poetry during Hispanic rule was either Lyrics or Narratives.
Examples:
The pasyon
Awit and Korido – Ibong Adarna, Florante at Laura

 Prose
Religious narrative prose consists of those written to prescribe proper behavior.
Examples:
Manual de Urbanidad
Pagsusulatan nang Dalauang Binibini na si Urbina ani Feliza
Magbigay ng mga salitang
espanyol na ginagamit
natin hanggang ngayon.
Philippine Art During Hispanic Conquest
Visual Arts-San Agustin Church
VIGAN
Painting
Print
Filipiniana
American Colonization

Marked profound changes in

Philippine arts as the introduction
of PUBLIC EDUCATION brought
forth literacy and the further
Westernization of the Filipinos.
American Colonization

Literature
 Development of free verse, modern short story, and the
critical essay which were written in English.
 English became the medium in schools
 University of the Philippines became the center of modern
writing through College Folio and The Literary
Apprentice.
 Jose Garcia Villa – ‘Art for art’s sake’ (Liwayway, Bisaya,
Hiligaynon, Bannawag
American Colonization

Literature

 Free verse, Modernism, Political and economic realities

 “Like the Molave”
Filipino Novels
 Banaag at Sikat – Lope K. Santos
 Anino ng Kahapon & Ilaw sa Hilaga – Francisco Laksama
Essays
 Essays became modernized: formal, informal, humorous
 Carlos P. Romulo
 Jorge Bocobo
American Colonization

 Theatre- “Bodabil”, “Annie” and “Ëvita”

 Visual arts- illustartions and cartoons
-Fernando Amorsolo
 Sculpture-Guillermo Tolentino, Napoleon
Abueva –UP Oblation
 Painting- Modernisism(Amorsolo and Edades)
Japanese Period

 “Asya Para Sa Asyatiko”

 English language was prohibited by the government.
 Filipinoliterature was given a chance to flourish
specifically in the form of literary works.
Short stories
 Uhaw ang tigang na lupa,Lupang tinubuan, Lunsod,
Nayon at Dagatdagatan
Japanese Period

Performing Arts
 English plays were translated into tagalog.
 Japanese Music was imposed and heard in radio broadcasts.
 The Japanese government held lectures on Oriental Music to allow
appreciation of Asian and not Western Music.
Japanese Period

Visual arts

 Art forms were used to produce materials for propaganda.

 Filipino artists clamored for independence and national
identity.
 Modern paintings
 First Mass in Limasawa, Flagellants, A day begins,
Christmas Eve
Large-scale outdoor sculptures
 Luz and Eduardo Castrillo- “The Redemption”
Sculpture during those
times manifest the
absence of peace and
the presence of chaos.
Thank you!

 Closing Prayer