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Philippine Art

Arts of the Philippines cover a variety of forms of


entertainment.
Folk art and Primitive art consist of classic and modern
features that flourished as a result of European and
Indigenous influences
Folk Art
• 17th century during the Spanish period

• Earliest paintings: religious imagery


• 19th and 20th century : mixture of religious,
political and landscape artworks
(sweetness, dark, and light)
Folk Art
• Some Early Modernist Painters
►Damian Domingo – religious and
secular paintings
► Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo – showed
a trend for poitical statement
►Fernando Amorsolo – used post-
modernism that illustrated Philippine
culture, nature and harmony
► Fernando Zóbel – used realities
and abstract on his work.
Examples of Paintings by
Early Modernist Painters

The Blood Compact by Juan Luna

Painting of Señora del


Santissimo Rosario
by Damian Domingo
Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al
Populacho by Felix Hidalgo

Fruit Gatherer by Fernando Amorsolo


• Boy with kite by
Fernando Zobel
Itneg and Mindanao
Tribal art
ITNEG tribes:
• intricate weaving production
– binakol is a blanket which features optical
illusion designs

a.) Ga'dang tribes – bright red tones ; beaded


ornamentations
b.) Ilongot – jewelry from pearl, red hornbill beak,
plants and metals.
Itneg and Mindanao
Tribal art
• MINDANAO tribes:

– B'laan, Mandaya, Mansaka and T'boli


– skilled in art of dyeing abaca fibre
– Ikat – fibre dyeing method
– Ikat textiles are woven into geometric
patterns with human, animal and plant
pictorial themes.
Kut-kut art
• A technique combining ancient Oriental
and European art process

• considered lost art and highly collectible


art form.

• practiced by the indigenous tribe of


Samar Island
Kut-kut art
• an exotic Philippine art form based on
early century techniques
– sgraffito
– Encaustic
– layering.

• The merging of these ancient styles


produces a unique artwork characterized
by delicate swirling interwoven lines,
multi-layered texture and an illusion of
three-dimensional space.
Examples of Kut-kut art
ISLAMIC ART IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• Two main artistic-styles:
– Curve-line woodcarving (women)
– Metalworking called okir (men)
• Tausug and Sama-Bajau – boat-like
imagery

• Maranaos make similar carvings


– on housings called torogan
ISLAMIC ART IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Weapons made by Muslim Filipinos are


skillfully carved

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