Philippine Art Flashcards
Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures
- cultural exchange through migration and trade
Pre-colonial Art in the Philippines
Tabon Cave in Palawan holds the earliest human remains in the country; the skullcap of the Tabon Man
DESIGN (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
- Batangas’ stone tools
- jade bracelet and lingling-o earrings
RECPTACLES (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
- used containers (served as a funerary)
- endorse and protect the bodies of their deceased relatives by using leaves, wood, and
bamboo
TEXTILE WEAVING (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
- Flat stone tools
JEWELRY (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
use of pierced cone shells
POTTERY (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
smoothing paddles and using stone anvils, and shells were
added for support
Representational Art: Sculpture
- Carvings of the Cordillera’s anito and bulul, and Mindanao’s okir and pako-rabong designs
- anitos represented spirits and played a similar
role to patron saints.
Baybayin (PS)
an abugida or an alphasyllabary
Tanaga (OT)
type of Filipino poem using four lines
Ibalon (OT)
portrays the heroic deeds of Baltog, Handyong and Baltong in freeing the Bicol Peninsula of beasts and monsters
Hinilawod (OT)
a triangle-shaped island in the western Visayas. It means ‘Tales from the Mouth of the Halawod River’.
Lam ang (OT)
long poem among the Ilocanos
Darangan (OT)
maranao narrative poetry
Hudhud and Alim (OT)
- from the Mountain province
- feats of Aliguyon and Alim
Pamatbat (OT)
epic tales of the Tagalogs
Git Git (M)
instrument of the Negritos, which resembles a violin, has a body and pegs made of wood
Kaleleng (M)
three stopped and its sound is produced by wind blown through the nose
Bungkaka (M)
produced by the metal gangsa and the bamboo buzzers called bibil or
bungkaka
Kudyapi (M)
Philippine two-stringed, fretted boat-lute.
Kulintang
It is a row of seven or eight gradually pitched gongs set horizontally on a designed wooden framework. It is beaten with a stick to produce its seven different tones.
Gabbang
series of bamboo slats nailed on wood. It is played by striking the slats with a rubber-covered hammer
Kalutang
A pair of percussion bars which are struck against each other at specific angles to produce a pitch.
Bahay kubo
stilt house
Ifugao house
square, windowless, and
elevated from the ground by four sturdy posts.
boat-house appearance, with a prow-like end of the beams that support the flooring of the house
Maranao house
The Indigenous Art of the Muslim
Regions & the Mountain Province
1.Ifugao
2.Bontoc
3.baloi (Nabalot)
4.Apayao
5.Tinguian or Itneg
6.Kalinga
7. Kankanay
The Indigenous Art of the Muslim Regions & the Mountain Province
wood
woodcarving
Iron-smelting and bronze-casting
Philippine Art during the
Spanish Colonial Regime
- trade centers
- class stratification
- Christianity
natives began producing Western-inspired art forms such as poetry, paintings, and music
17th Century
- devotional, catechetical, grammar, and vernacular-Spanish books
- “Salamat nang Walang Hoyang” by Pedro Suarez Ossorio
- ladinos by Fernando Bagongbanta and Tomas Pinpin
Poetry (17th Century)
Church-centered celebrations in the Philippines attracted colonized people to the new culture and their festive spirit.
Early comedia (17th Century)
choir played a significant role in church rituals
Music (17th Century)
- easel painting
- Fr. Antonio Sedeño
- painting and sculpture and realistic human figures
Visual art (17th Century)
- Galleon Trade
- principalia (the ruling class in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period)
- Intermarriage
18th Century
A metrical tale composed of octosyllabic verses
corrido
Engraving
- copper plates were used to print all engravings
- Woodcuts were also used
Santos
- Christian subjects
- Wood was the most commonly used material for creating santos that have been preserved.
19th Century
- Philippine ports to trade in 1834
- Suez Canal.
