APPROPRIATION
•Existing artworks are appropriated
to produce another artwork. Usage
of prints, images, and icons to
produce another art form. Combines
past from the present. Revives
interests to existing forms of art.
DALAGANG BUKID
(Fernando Amorsolo)
A BASKET OF RIBBONS
(Christen Brun)
PERFORMANCE
•Performance evolved to “emphasize
spontaneous elements of chance”.
Interpreting various human activities
such as ordinary activities such as
chores, routines and rituals, to socially
relevant themes such as poverty,
commercialism and war.
A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
(CCP)
FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
(P.E.T.A)
SPACE
•Arts transforming space. For
example, flash mobs, art
installations in malls and parks.
Art form that is performed and
positioned in a specific space
such as public places.
BREAK OUT IN EPIC
(INMATES)
INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM
(Yayoi Kusama)
BARIKADA ART
(UP Diliman)
HYBRIDITY
•Usage of unconventional
materials, mixing of unlikely
materials to produce an artwork.
For example, coffee for painting;
miniature sculptures using
crayons.
MEDIUM: HUMAN BLOOD
(ELITO GARCIA)
MEDIUM: PASTA, KETCHUP
(ANDRE MANGUBA)
TECHNOLOGY
•Usage of technology in the
creation and dissemination of
art works. Video phenomenon
from MTV to Youtube. Recording
performances, video posting,
sharing, live streaming.
ITIK-ITIK DANCE
In Youtube
LES MISERABLES
(Recorded Video)
SPOLIARIUM
by: JUAN LUNA
•The painting features a glimpse of Roman
history centered on the bloody carnage
brought by gladiatorial matches.
•Spoliarium is a Latin word referring to the
basement of the Roman Colosseum where
the fallen and dying gladiators are dumped
and devoid of their worldly possessions.
SPLANTING RICE
by: FERNANDO AMORSOLO
• Truest Philippine culture, this is the theme that composes most of
Fernando Amorsolo’s artworks.
• Rice planting is among those that depicts the real Filipino tradition that is
still applicable until the present time.
• The painting is set on the rice field wherein farmers, regardless of their
gender, are on with their usual work under a bright sunny day. Its visual
weight is light because the colors used were mostly pastel in nature. No
dark colors were used to produce a feeling of calm and peace.
• It was an ideal picture of provincial life like most of his paintings. He
painted the details as to how it might look in real life. However, faces of
the farmers were not vividly detailed because their Buri hats covered
them. Supposing that the sun was on its peak.
TINIKLING
• It is a traditional folk dance which originates from the
Spanish colonial era.
• The dance imitates the movement of the tikling birds as
they dodge bamboo traps set by rice farmers.
• Dancers mimic the tikling bird’s grace and agility by
dancing between large bamboo poles.
• The tinikling is one of the oldest dances from the
Philippines, and originated in the islands of Leyte in
Visayas. According to the legend, the Tinikling was started
by people who worked in the paddies and farms of the
Philippines.
MAGLALATIK
• It is an indigenous dance from the Philippines in which coconut shell
halves that are secured onto the dancers’ hands and on vests upon which
are hung four or six more coconut shell halves.
• The dancers – all male – perform the dance by hitting one coconut shell
with the other – sometimes the ones on the hands, sometimes, the ones
on the body, and sometimes the shell worn by another performer, all in
time to a fast drumbeat.
• Originally performed in Binan, Laguna as a mock-war dance that
demonstrates a fight between the Moros and the Christians over the
prized latik or coconut meat during the Spanish rule, the dance is also
shown to pay tribute to the town’s patron saint, San Isidro Labrador.
THE OBLATION
by: GUILLERMO TOLENTINO
• The Oblation is a concrete statue by Filipino artist Guillermo E. Tolentino
which serves as the iconic symbol of the University of the Philippines.
• It depicts a man facing upward with arms outstretched, symbolizing
selfless offering of oneself to his country.
• The statue’s height of 3.5 meters symbolizers three and a half centuries
of Spanish colonial rule, while its pose of self-offering represents
Tolentino’s interpretation of Rizal’s second stanza above – in particular
the “unknown heroes who fell during the night”.
• Furthermore, its base is a stylized representation of the Philippine
archipelago, with rocks from Montalban Gorge to highlight its cultural
and historical significance
PAINTING
• Painting the expression of ideas and emotions, with the
creation of certain aesthetic qualities, in a two-dimensional
visual language.
• The elements of this language – its shapes, lines, colors,
tones, and textures – are used in various ways to produce
sensations of volume, space, movement, and light on a flat
surface.
• The first paintings here in the Philippines are
commissioned works during Spanish colonization. Here are
some paintings from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
SCULPTURE
•The sculpture is an art form in which hard
or plastic materials are worked into three-
dimensional art objects.
•Filipino sculptors came to be known in the
middle of the 19th century.
•These are some of the sculptures in the
Philippines.
ARCHITECTURE
• Architecture is the art and practice of designing and constructing
buildings (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary &
Thesaurus).
• In relation to that, Philippine architecture was characterized as
simple, rational, and functional.
• In the 20th century, the young Filipino who studied in American
colleges and institutes introduced the neoclassic style in building
structures.
• However, after World War II, real estate development started to
take place (Sandagan & Sayseng, 2016).
• To illustrate these architectural designs, these are some examples
from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
FILM
• Film is a form of visual art use to imitate experiences that
communicate ideas, stories, or feelings with the use of moving
images.
• It is also called a movie or motion picture. Moreover, the art form
that is the result of the film is called cinema (Faber & Walters,
2003).
• The film industry in the Philippines started in 1897. In the
contemporary period, martyr wife, superhero, action,
melodramas, and comedies are some of the usual subjects and
themes in the Philippine films.
• Some films in the Philippines are presented below.
LITERATURE
•According to Lombardi (2020), literature is a term
used to describe written and sometimes spoken
material.
•Derived from the Latin word literature meaning
"writing formed with letters," literature most
commonly refers to works of the creative
imagination, including poetry, drama, fiction,
nonfiction, and in some instances, journalism, and
song. These are some examples of Philippine
literature.
MUSIC AND THEATER
• Music is a collection of coordinated sound or sounds.
• According to Ramon P. Santos in his article entitles Contemporary
Music, Contemporary music in the Philippines usually refers to
compositions that have adopted ideas and elements from
twentieth-century art music in the West, as well as the latest
trends and musical styles in the entertainment industry.
• Filipino Music had already a rich and unique musical tradition long
before westerners set foot on our native land. Music was present
in every stage of our ancestors’ lives — from birth to death, in
blissful or tragic times. Below are some Music from the different
Regions of our country.
MUSIC AND THEATER
•Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that
uses live performers to present the experience
of a real or imagined event before a live
audience in a specific place.
•The performers may communicate this
experience to the audience through
combinations of gesture, speech, song, music,
or dance. Some of the Theater Play in the
Philippines are the following.
DANCE
•Dance, the movement of the body in a rhythmic
way, usually to music and within a given space,
for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion,
releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the
movement itself.
•Dances in the Philippines vary from Region to
Region and below are some dances of the
different regions.
Thank
You!
