Contemporary Arts-Quarter 1- Arts in American Era Idyllic Landscape, Secular Art, art in American era

1. GROUP 4

2. At the end of this report, you are
expected to know:
What were the changes brought by
American colonization.
How were they different from the
religious forms of Spanish Colonial
Period.

3. Commerical and Advertising arts were incorporated
into the fine arts curriculum. In addition, Americans
prefer idyllic landscape and secular art style.
During the American Regime,

4. If you describe something as idyllic, you
mean that it is extremely pleasant,
simple, and peaceful without any
difficulties or dangers.

5. can be defined as art that has no religious reference points and is, in
fact, oblivious to organized religion. Having an aesthetic appeal in a
non-religious context, it neither denies or affirms the existence of
God, but focuses on human agency.

6. Secular Art
Liturgical Art

7. • New urban patterns were implemented
at the beginning at the beginning of
the 20th century responding to the
secular priorities of education ,health,
and governance. The american interest
in politics, education, industry, and
tourism became the new patrons of
the arts.
• On the other hand landscape we're
cherished as travel souvenirs
especially those that captured the
exotic characteristics of the philippine
terrain.
• A year after the university of
philippines was founded, the school of
fine arts was opened in 1909. To meet
the above demand it also offered a
course on commercial design period

8. • Poems,and stories from books are dramatized in the classroom to promote English language
teaching.
• In comparison to Spanish, Americans are enthusiastic about their language through an
effective system of public schools.
• Filipinos playwrights started writing plays in English in less than a decade.

9. 1. Juan abad (1902)
Tanikalang Ginto was performed at
Dulaang Libertad , a play that encourages
Filipinos to rebel against the Americans.
He was arrested again and imprisoned.

10. 2. Juan Matapang Cruz (1903)
“Hindi Aco Patay” (Iam Not Dead) a full-
length play drama simboliko written by
Juan Matapang Cruz in 1903. The play
invited strong reactions from the colonial
authorities during its time. It was banned in
mid-performance at Teatro Nueva Luna in
Malabon, and the troupe including the
playwright's wife, was arrested and
imprisoned

11. 3. Aurelio Tolentino
Kahapon , ngayon at bukas (yesterday ,
today and tomorrow) is an anti-
imperialist play attacking the new
colonizers (at that time), the Americans,
while not forgiving the old ones –
Mother Spain and Old China, who want
to feast on the Philippines’ wealth.

12. 4. Lino Castillejo
Modern Filipina was the first Filipino play
written in English. This play which has
some occasional songs and dance is
first set in Nueva Ecija is about a modern
Filipina. A modern Filipina is someone
who speaks frankly and intelligently,
makes her own decisions, keeps an
open mind, and is vivacious. She's in
contrast to a conservative and
dependent Filipina.

13. 5. Daniel Burnham
He is an architect. He had prominent
roles in the creation of master plans for
the development of a number of cities,
including the Plan of Chicago, and plans
for Manila, Baguio and downtown
Washington, D.C.

17. 6. Burnham Plan
Burnham's plans emphasized improved
sanitation, a cohesive aesthetic (Mission
Revival), and visual reminders of government
authority. In Manila, wide boulevards radiated
out from the capital building, while in Baguio
government structures loomed from the cliffs
above the town. The land for the Baguio
project, 14,000 acres (5,700 ha) in total, was
seized from local Igorots with approval of the
Philippine Supreme Court.

18. 7. Thomas Mapua
The Philippines’ first registered architect, has
founded Mapúa Institute of Technology on
January 25, with Architecture and Civil
Engineering as its initial programs. He
spearheaded many government projects
including the Philippine General Hospital
Nurses Home, Psychopathic Building (National
Mental Hospital) and the School for the Deaf
and Blind. He also designed the Manila Central
Post Office Building in Ermita, Manila.

20. 8. Andres Luna de San Pedro Architects
Built the first air-conditioned building in the
Philippines, the Crystal Arcade one of the
popular tenant of Manila Stock Exchange
(previous site of Paseo de Escolta) Building
(now present site of City College of Manila-
Escolta Building, demolished in 2016) that was
once located on No. 71 Escolta Street,
Binondo, Manila.

22. 9. Antono Toledo
The architect responsible for the design of the
current Manila City Hall which exhibits
neoclassical style.

24. 10. Fabian dela Rosa
Fabian was a Filipino painter. He was the uncle
and mentor to the Philippines' national artist in
painting, Fernando Amorsolo, and to his
brother Pablo.[1] He is regarded as a "master of
genre" in Philippine art. He painted El
Kundiman (1930) and Planting Rice (1921).

25. It is an interior scene, set in the spacious and
carpeted sala (salon) of an ilustrado house.
Numerous human figures are in formal wear,
but the focus of the painting is a female singer
standing beside a piano as she sings a
"kundiman" to the accompaniment of a male
pianist.

26. The painting features farmers set on a rice
field, regardless of their gender, they are all
together working under a bright sunny day.
Due to the usage of nature and pastel colors
the painting gives off a light visual weight, an
irony to the heavy toil and labor that rice
planting entails.

27. 11, Amorsolo Fernando
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was a portraitist
and painter of rural Philippine landscapes.
Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine
Art," he was the first-ever to be recognized as
a National Artist of the Philippines.

28. Dalagang Bukid
A 1954 AMORSOLO OIL PAINTING DEPICTS PHILIPPINE VILLAGE
LIFE.