CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE ART
FROM THE
REGION

LITERATURE
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE
ARTS FROMTHE REGION Classical
On December 1, 1846, the first
literature
daily newspaper, La Esperanza, was in Spanish during the

19th
published in the country. Other early
newspapers were La Estrella (1847),
Diario de Manila (1848) and Boletin
Oficial de Filipinas (1852). The first
provincial newspaper was El Eco de
Vigan (1884), which was issued in Ilocos.
In Cebu City, El Boleaetín de Cebú (The
Bulletin of Cebu) was published in 1890.

Century
La
Esperan
za

the first daily

newspaper, was
published in the
country.
(December 1,
1846,)
Noli Me
Tangere
(Touch Me Not)

is an 1887 novel by
Filipino writer and
activist José Rizal
published during the
Spanish colonial period
of the Philippines. It
explores perceived
inequities in law and
practice in terms of the
treatment by the ruling
government and the
Spanish Catholic friars of
the resident peoples a
hundred years ago.
Classical
literature in
Spanish during
the 19th Century Poetry and
metrical
romances
 Di baquin ang ybang

Ladino manga caasalan at

caanyoan nang manga
Castila, ay inyong
Poems quinalologdan at
guinagagad din ninyo, sa
pagdaramitman, at sa
nananandataman, at
paglacadman at
Were natives of first
Tagalog versifiers madlaman, ang magogol,
who saw print: highly ay ualarin hinahinayang
literate in both cayo, dapouat
Spanish and the mamochamocha at
vernacular. pangongosap nang canila
ding uica and di sucat
ybiguing camtan?...
Corridos

Were widely read

during the Spanish
period that filled the
populace's need for
entertainment as
well as edifying
reading matter in
their leisure
moments.
 Awit
like corridos, these
were also widely read
during the Spanish
period as
entertaining, edifying,
reading manner in
their leisure time. It is
also a fabrication of
the writers
imagination although
the characters and
the setting may be
European. The
structure is rendered
dodecasyllabic
quatrains
Tanaga

Short poems
consisting of four
lines with seven
syllables each that
rhyme at the end
of each line.
 PRO
Classical
literature in
Spanish during
the 19th Century

SE
Classical
literature in
Spanish during
the 19th Century
DRAMAS
RELIGIOUS and SECULAR
D
R
A RELIGI Sinakulo
Salubong
Moriones
M
OUS
Pangangaluwa
Sanatacruzan
A
S
 Salubong

A ritual performed in the early

morning of Easter Sunday a few
hours after the Easter Vigil and
before the Easter Mass, dramatising
the meeting between the
resurrected Jesus and his mother.
In its basic form, the rite begins
with two separate processions—
one consists of males
accompanying a statue of the Risen
Christ, the other of women with a
statue of the Virgin Mary veiled in
black. Both processions meet at the
churchyard, town plaza, or some
other suitable area, where a girl,
dressed as an angel, stands from a
scaffold or descends on a rope and
sings the Regina Caeli. The angel
then removes the black veil to the
sound of pealing bells and
firecrackers, ending the penance
and mourning of Lent.
 Moriones

Refers to the helmets of

participants dressed as
Roman soldiers, their
identities hidden behind
colorful, sometimes
grotesque, wooden masks.
Found only on the island
of Marinduque, it is down
during Holy Week,
culminating in a Passion
play that adds the scene of
Saint Longinus' conversion
and martyrdom.
 Panuluyan

the Tagalog version of the

Mexican Las Posadas, and
literally means "seeking
passage". Held during
Christmastime but
especially on Christmas
Eve, it depicts Joseph and
Mary' search for room at
the inn in Bethlehem. The
actors playing the Holy
Couple chant their pleas
for lodging in slow,
mournful tones, while the
innkeepers and
householders would drive
them away with haughty
verses sang in dance-like
metre.
Pangangaluw
a

A practice formerly
widespread during All
Saints' Day which
literally means for the
soul[s], it is analogous
to the now-defunct
English custom of
Souling.
 Sinakulo

Essentially a Passion
play, which depicts
the passion and
death of Jesus Christ.
It is customarily
performed during
Holy Week, and
bears similarities to
Mystery plays
popular in medieval
Europe.
Santacruzan
Performed during the
month of May, which
reenacts Saint Helena's
Finding of the True Cross
and serves as an
expression of devotion to
the Virgin Mary. The
young women of a town,
parish, or village dress in
formal gowns and bear
attributes related to
religious themes, such as
titles of Mary, with the last
(often most beautiful) lady
"Reyna Elena"
representing the empress,
and holding a crucifix,
representing the True
Cross. Its May observance
is due to the pre-1962
date for the feast of
Roodmas.
D
R
A SECU Duplo
Karagatan
M
A
S
LAR Comedia
 Comedia

It is about a courtly
love between, a
prince and a
princess of different
religions, and
highlights concepts
of colonial attitudes
to Christian-Muslim
relations
 Duplo

forerunner of the
balagtasan. The
performances
consist of two
teams; One
composed of young
women called
Dupleras or
Belyakas; and the
other, of young men
called Dupleros or
Belyakos.
Karagatan

comes from the

legendary practice
of testing the mettle
of young men vying
for a maiden's hand.
The maiden's ring
would be dropped
into sea and
whoever retrieves it
would have the girl's
hand in marriage.
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE
ARTS FROMTHE REGION

The post-colonial literature

covered a literary period typified by
experimentation with a new
language, particularly the forms and
imagery that are offered by English
Post-
colonial
and American literature.

literature
 A Child of
Sorrow It is considered the
(A Romantic Novel) first
Philippine
By: novel written
Zoilo Galang
in English.
Critics have suggested
that the novel was
heavily influenced by
the sentimentalism of
the Tagalog prose
narratives of the
eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries
 explored the
challenges faced
Like the by the Philippines
Molave as a new country
and, then,
By: evaluated the past
R. Zulueta and present to
da Costa discover what
should constitute
Filipino ideals.
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE
ARTS FROMTHE REGION

Modern
A portion of early modern
Philippine literature was written
during the American period, most
often as an expression of post-
Hispanic nationalism by those who
had either been educated in Spanish
or had lived in the Bisaya-speaking

literature
cities, and whose principles entered
in conflict with American cultural
trends.

(20th and 21st century)

Poetry was a Spanish Filipino,
poet, journalist, lawyer,
politician, and polyglot
who became a
significant figure during
the Philippines' golden
period of Spanish
literature, a period
Fernando ranging from 1890 to
the outbreak of World
María War II in 1940

Guerrero
 His works would
Narrative later be known as part of
the Golden Age of
Fil-Hispanic
Literature (1898-
1941). Two of his novels
went on to win the
Premio Zóbel,
the oldest literary award in
Antonio the Philippines, in 1928 and
1929.

Abad
 was a Filipino
politician, jurist, and
Essay poet. He is
remembered for his
nationalism, for "the
impact of his patriotic
convictions on
modern political
thought", and has
been seen in the
Claro same class as Dr.
Jose Rizal, Sen.
Recto Jose W. Diokno,
and Sen. Lorenzo
Tañada
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE
ARTS FROMTHE REGION

The Order of National Artists of the

Philippines is conferred to Filipinos with
"exquisite contribution to Philippine art".
The artists are chosen by the National
National
Artists
Commission for Culture and the Arts
(Philippines) and the Cultural Center of
the Philippines. The Order is given by
the President of the Philippines.

for Literature
 1976 – Nick Joaquin, National Artist for Literature
1982 – Carlos P. Romulo, National Artist for Literature
1990 – Francisco Arcellana, National Artist for Literature

Nationa 1997 – Ryan Christopher Joson, National Artist for Literature

1997 – Rolando S. Tinio, National Artist for Theater and Literature
1997 – Levi Celerio, National Artist for Music and Literature

l Artists
for Literature
1999 – Edith L. Tiempo, National Artist for Literature
2001 – F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature
2003 – Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature
2003 – Alejandro Roces, National Artist for Literature
2006 –*2009 – Lazaro A. Francisco, National Artist for Literature
2014 – Cirilo F. Bautista, National Artist for Literature
2018 - Ramón Larupay Muzones, National Artist for Literature
2018 - Resil Buagas Mojares, National Artist for Literature
2022 - Gémino Henson Abad, National Artist for Literature