Contemporary

Philippine Arts
from the Regions
1st Semester, S.Y. 2018-2019
Rosalinda B. Favorito
Teacher II
 Contemporary Art
• Produce by living artist and
contemporary to us.
• Contemporary Art may become
Traditional and Academic art at some
point.
 Timeline of Philippine Arts
Instruction: Activity for
3 mins Group of male
and female.
Contemporary Era

Fill up the timeline using the ART CARD. Modern Era

Japanese Era

American Era

Spanish Era

Islamic Art

Ethnic Art

Pre – 13th C. AD 13th C. AD 1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s - present

 Timeline of Philippine Arts Social Realism
National
Identity

Contemporary Era
Orientalizing

Secular Forms Modern Era

of Art
Faith and Japanese Era
Catechism

Geometric
American Era
Designs
Integral to Spanish Era
life

Islamic Art

Ethnic Art

Pre – 13th C. AD 13th C. AD 1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969 1970’s - present

• Identify the development of Philippine art
aesthetics from its most primal to its
contemporary form.
• Understand the process and icongraphy of
Philippine art as it progress overtime.
• Co-relate the Philippine contemporary art to its
origin and
the world
• Define what makes an art work distinctly Filipino
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, public art sake ,multi-
Ornament art media, mixed
Sculpture Pottery, Religious figures Free Standing, Indigenizing media and
wood and and carving relief, public and transmedia
metal Orientalizing
carving works

Architecture Dwellings Church, plaza, City planning, Public works Real Estate, safe housing,
and houses Civic building, public works, condominiums, subdivisions, villages,
(Bahay fortress, road and structures and malls, commercial/business/convention
kubo) lighthouse infrastructures buildings
construction
 Stylistic overview
Form Pre-colonial Spanish/Islamic American colonial Modern Post
colonial contemporary
Painting Classical, Idylitic, Incipient Collaborative,
Religious/devotio Nostalgic Triumvirate hyper-realist, new
nal 13 moderns, painting
Secular abstract,
Formal Surreal
Naturalistic, Expressionist
Sculpture Religious (Homegrown Abstract Junk scrap, neo-
(animalist or miniaturismo, Expressionism indigenous, site-
Islamic) guild) specific,
Community-based Academic performance art,
Inter-ethic hybrid
Architecture relations Workship-related Neoclassic, art International Filipino
Collective history and residential deco Industrializing, Architecture
Earthquake eclectic Urban planning
baroque Economic 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-
Sculpture Colonial and post circulated, artist Mass produced
Rituals and governance
colonial centered gallery market oriented
Architect distributed
 Pre-Colonial
Arts
(ETHNIC Arts)

In Pre-colonial
Philippines, arts are
for ritual purposes
or for everyday use.
 Islamic art is
characterized by
geometric
designs and
patterns eliciting
focus from the
believers.
 Art became a
handmaiden of
religion,
serving to propagate
the Catholic faith and
thus support the
colonial order at the
same time.
 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.
 Since the Japanese
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 in Philippine
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.
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.
Agreement:
1.Observe the designs and patterns of the
different structures in your
neighborhood. Write in your Journal
Notebook 5 reasons why you think they
are examples of Contemporary Art.