TIMELINE OF PHILIPPINE ARTS
Ethnic arts – integral to life
Islamic arts – geometric designs
Spanish era – faith and catechism (333 years gin sakop)
American era – secular forms of arts (48 years gin sakop)
Japanese era – orientalizing (4 years gin sakop)
Modern era – national identity
Contemporary era – social realism
2 DISTINCT CATEGORIES OF ART FORMS IN THE PHILIPPINES
1. Visual arts
2. Performing arts
VISUAL ARTS
- A wide array of artistic disciplines that are appreciated primarily through sight.
- Includes; fine arts, decorative, and contemporary.
Fine arts
- Created primarily for appearance.
- Art work that merge technology and artistic innovations.
(UNDER NI SA FINE ARTS)
1. Drawing – form of visual art that uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another
two- dimensional medium.
2. Sculpture - A branch of visual arts that operates in three dimensions. (ice, wood, metal paper,
cement)
3. Painting - An image (artwork) created using pigments (color) on a surface (ground) such as
paper or canvas.
4. Printing
- original print as an artwork that has been manually printed by the artist
- not a reproduction
- created an image on block, stone, plate, or screen from which the final print is produced.
5. Graphic art - use of line and tone rather than three-dimensional work or the use of color.
6. Calligraphy
- A visual art related to writing.
- defined as the art of giving form to sign in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner.
7. Architecture
- describe buildings and other physical structures.
- The art and the science of designing buildings and non-building structures.
- The style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures.
Decorative arts (decorative crafts)
- are artworks that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional.
- were not only beautiful but are useful as well.
(UNDER SA DECORATIVE ARTS)
1. Textile arts - Arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or
decorative objects.
2. Glassware - Articles of glass designed primarily for decorative purposes.
3. Jewelry
- emphasizes creative expression and design
- characterized by the use of a variety of materials, often common place or of low economic value
4. furniture - movable objects intended to support various human activities
5. earthenware - Pottery made of clay fired to a porous state that can be made impervious to
liquids by the use of a glaze.
6. Metal craft - The art of executing artistic designs in metal.
7. Interior design - The art or process of designing the interior decoration of a room or building.
PERFORMING ARTS
- artists use their voices and/or their body movements to communicate artistic expression
- meant to be enacted in front of live audience.
- Categorized into 3 types: MUSIC, DANCE, AND THEATER.
MUSIC
- manipulation of sound and silence.
- It blends the different elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre, and texture to create
sound.
- It is performed by utilizing different instruments, vocal techniques, and styles.
- It can be performed live or recorded and can be prepared in advance or improvised.
TYPES OF MUSIC
1. ART MUSIC
- umbrella term used to refer to music that stems from Western Classical Music.
- It is usually presented and preserved through written musical notations that were developed in
Europe.
2. POPULAR MUSIC
- accessible and commercially available to the public
- played or disseminated through different mass media outlets
3. TRADITIONAL MUSIC
- community and culturally based
- diverse with one community or group often having a different form from another.
- preserved by passing it to one generation to another through oral communication and actual
performance
DANCE
- defined as regulated and deliberated order of body movements.
- These movements have aesthetic value and are often performed accompanied with music.
TYPES OF DANCE
1. BALLET
- originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century.
- highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology.
2. BELLY DANCE - originating in the Middle East, typically performed by a woman and involving
undulating movements of the belly and rapid gyration of the hips.
3. MODERN DANCE
- arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
- considered to have emerged as a rejection of, or rebellion against classical ballet.
4. CONTEMPORARY DANCE
- expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres.
- connect the mind and body through fluid dance movements.
- Alice Reyes (mother of contemporary dance)
5. TRADITIONAL DANCE - develop by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country
or region. (Francesca Reyes, mother of traditional dance)
THEATER
- often involves the integration and combination of the visual and performing arts.
- actors or actresses performed experiences, whether real or imagined, in front of a live audience.
TYPES OF THEATER
1. MIMING
- involves acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech.
- performer would typically be referred to as a mummer.
2. PUPPETRY
- involves the manipulation of puppets- inanimate objects.
- Manipulated by a puppeteer.
3. MUSICAL - Is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken dialog, and dance. (Lea Salonga,
widely known performer in the Philippines).
JED MADELA (John Edward Tajanlangit)
- He was born and raised in Iloilo.
- His father served as his mentor every time he joined singing contests in his younger years.
- dominated the World Championship of the Performing Arts (WCOPA) held in Hollywood,
California
JOSE MARIE CHAN
- He is popularly known for his Christmas album.
- compose more than 20 songs for movies and earned him different recognitions and nominations at the
Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards (FAMAS Awards)
EUGENE ROXAS DOMINGO
- studied theater arts at UP
- notable arts include: bahay kubo, ang babae sa septic tank
The University of San Agustin Little Theater (USALT)
- was established by USA Rec- tor Rev. Fr. Eduardo Perez, O.S.A. in 1965
Iloilo Prima Galaw, Inc.
- The men and women of Iloilo Prima Galaw Incorporated work and live from the inside. They
drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after
audience.
West Visayas State University Little Theater
- is one of the collegiate theatre groups in Iloilo
- They started in minor production like: Sangre (Blood) and Pisik (Jerk) that are original play
written by Silak Publication of the college of education and the ”Bakit babae ang nag huhugas ng
pinggan”.
