ARTS IN THE PAST Flashcards
Before colonization, the Philippines already has its indigenous art. Early Filipinos use art as an expression of individual and these everyday expression were all integrated within rituals that marked significant events like planting, harvesting, wedding, funeral, etc.
Pre-conquest/Pre-colonial Art Forms
It is largely influenced by the geographical location and the experiences of Filipinos. Pottery, weaving, wood carving, and metal crafting were dominant during those times. Also, our ancestors were using any available materials like bamboo, cogon, rattan, coconut, mud, etc. to make things.
Pre-conquest/Pre-colonial Art Forms
Folk literature like folk songs, and narratives speaks of their experiences. Theatrical arts are about tribal presentations, and rituals which speak of their belief. Early Filipinos were also known to be musicians as they use bamboo flutes and gongs. Folk dance are imitation of animal movements.
Pre-conquest/Pre-colonial Art Forms
It is a Late Neolithic secondary burial jar found in Manunggul Cave in, Lipuun Point, Palawan. It is glazed with reddish hematite and incised with curvilinear designs. It had 2 anthropomorphic or human forms atop the lid: a boatman paddling to transport the deceased whose journey through water is interpreted as a metaphor of travel to the afterlife.
Manunggul Jar (Pottery)
Is a guardian figure of the Ifugao people. These are anthropomorphical representations of rice divinities protecting the seeds and the harvest. It also appears in containers, bowls, and spoons. It absorbs the disease of the sick people by performing rituals and brings good luck.
Bul-ul (Sculpture)
A headpiece woven by the Tausug of Sulu and malong with exquisite tapestry panels called langkit are woven by the Maranao of Lanao del Sur. Darhata Sawabi is a weaver of pis syabit, in the island of Jolo, Sulu province.
Pis sayabit and Malong Textile (Weaving)
is made of impermanent materials like cogon, sawali, nipa, coconut and wood which are abundant on those times.
Bahay Kubo (Architecture)
Is not small and is the royal house of the datu and his families in Maranao. It is also used as a meeting place for his people.
Torogan
is a Muslim place of worship for Allah.
Mosque (Architecture)
in Islamic religious architecture, the tower from which the faithful are called to prayer five times each day by a muezzin, or crier.
Minaret
It is the legendary bird that has become a ubiquitous symbol of Maranao art. It is depicted as a fowl with colorful wings and feathered tail, holding a fish on its beak or talons.
Sarimanok
is the holy book which Muslims recite and turn to for guidance in all aspects of their lives. The Quran is the last testament in a series of divine revelations from God (Allah in Arabic).
Quran (Literature)
The pre-colonial beautiful ancient writing script of the Islands of the Philippines. Incorrectly known as “Alibata”, it has been a core part of our culture and heritage for centuries.
Baybayin
When was the Spanish colonial period?
1521-1898 (333 years)
Art became a hand maiden of religion, serving to propagate the Catholic faith and thus support the colonial order at the same time. Religious orders were dispatched to convert the natives to Catholicism. Art that flourished during this period conformed to the demand of the church and state. They are referred as religious art, lowland Christian art or folk art.
Spanish Colonial Period
The Spanish friars introduced Western painting in the Philippines to artisans who learned to copy on two-dimensional form from the religious icons that the friars brought from Spain.
Painting
For the first centuries of Spanish colonization, painting was limited to what?
Religious icons
