The document provides a timeline and overview of Philippine art from pre-colonial times through the contemporary period. It discusses the arts of the pre-conquest era including rituals, music, dance, carving, pottery, weaving, and body ornamentation. It then focuses on the Islamic colonial period from the 15th century onward, covering the history of Islam in the Philippines, Islamic influences on arts, and the architecture influenced by Islamic forms.

1. A Brief
History to
Philippine Arts
Contemporary Philippine
Arts from the Regions

2. Contents
Arts of Different
Eras;
•* Pre – Conquest
•* Islamic Colonial Period
•* Spanish Colonial Period
•* American Colonial Period
•* Japanese Colonial Period
and the Post War Republic
•* 1970s and the Contemporary
Artworks and Forms,
Artist and Artisans,
and;
Contributions to
Philippine Industry
and Development

3. History of Art

4. Philippine Art Timeline
890 BC
890
BC
225
AD
Pre - Conquest
890 BC – 225 AD
01
1 AD
1521
Islamic Colonial
Islam(s) of Mindanao
13th Century - Present
02
15th Century
Q1 Q4
Spanish Colonial
Spaniards
1521 - 1898
03
American Colonial
American Colonizers
1898 - 1940
04
2000
Q2
Post War Republic
Japanese Colonizers
1946 - 1969
70s
Marcos Regime
1970
06
Present
2018
13th Century
Contemporary
Short Description
2018 (Present Tiimes)
05
1898 1946 1970

5. Pre-Conquest
890 BC – 255 AD
Photo CC BY 2.0

6. Historical
Overview
• In art historical terms, we
refer to art before the coming
of the first colonizers as
“pre-conquest.” Referred to it
as “indigenous” to emphasize
the idea that our ancestors.
• Art before is referred to as an
expression of an individual but
yet not categorized into
different kinds of forms until
the next slides conveys.

7. Historical
Overview
• Example of everyday
expressions are the
following:
- Rituals (planting,
harvesting, rites of passage,
funerary, ceremonies,
weddings);
- Hunting, and etc.

8. Historical
Overview
• A series of topics about
the following will be
tackled on:
• Rituals
• Music
• Dance
• Carving
• Pottery
• Weaving
• Body Ordamentation

9. Rituals
Kashawing - Lake Lanao in Mindanao
Every Thirteenth Moon (Tagbanwa)- Palawan
Cañao or Kanyaw -
Cordillera Autonomous Region

10. Hunting
The pre-colonial Filipino
hunted food and game that
were shared among members
of a community in a
gathering where they told
stories about the hunt.

12. Music
Zithers
Pipes
Kudyapi
Drums Agong

13. Native Dance
And Counterparts

14. NATIVE DANCES
Pangalay
(Sulu Archipelago)
mimetic of the movement of
seabirds

16. NATIVE DANCES
Banog-banog
(Mandayas’kinabua of Mindanao)
movement of hawk

18. NATIVE DANCES
Man-manok
(Bagobos of Mindanao)
movements of predatory birds

20. NATIVE DANCES
Talip dance
(Ifugaos)
movements of wild fowls

22. NATIVE DANCES
Kadaliwas dance
(T’bolis)
comedic movements of monkeys

24. NATIVE DANCES
Tinikling
(Tagalog folk dance)
evocative of the movements of
the crane

26. Carving

27. Carving
• Bulul – Cordilleras
• Hagabi - Ifugaos

28. Carving
• Santos - Laguna and Pampanga
• Okir - Southern Philippines

29. SARIMANOK
Carving
SUNDUK
PANOLONG

30. Pottery

31. Pottery
- Anthropomorphic Jars
•Manunggul Jar – (890 – 710 BC)
•Metal Age (5 BC–225 AD)

33. Pottery
Banga
Tapayan
Palayok

34. *Pagbuburnay in Vigan -
valued part of the creative
industry Ilokanos have.

36. Weaving

37. Textile Weaving

38. Weaving
Purpose:
- reverence for spirits and
nature
- criteria for the beautiful
- societies’sociopolitical
structures

39. Weaving
Made from:
fibers - cotton, abaca, and
pineapple leaves
pigments - clay, roots, and
leaves.

40. Textile Weaving
Pis Siyabit
Malong Langkit

41. Weaving
aside from body ormnaments,
weaving is also essential for
productivity of natives like baskets
and mat weaving.

42. Product
Weaving

43. Product Weaving
Head Sling Baskets Bubo Tepo Mats

44. Body
Ordamentation

45. Body
Ordamentations
• A manuscript - Boxer Codex -
sometimes known as the Manila
Manuscript, is a manuscript written c.
1590, which contains illustrations of
ethnic groups in the Philippines at
the time of their initial contact with
the Spaniards - representations of
various ethnolinguistic groups, where
the following are classified:
Upper class Tagalog - gold jewelry
Visayans - tattoo

46. Boxer Codex

47. Body
Ordamentations
•Tattoos
•a means protection of an
individual from evil spirit
•a badge of maturity and
bravery
•Provinces like Kalinga, Kankanay,
Ibaloy, and Ifugao - practiced
tattooing

48. Body
Ordamentations
• Jewelry
- make the wearer more
attractive & pleasing to the
gods.
- T’boli - wear brass
chains, bells, and colorful
beads

49. Body
Ordamentations
•Metalworks like lotoans
or betel nut boxes are
made of brass or bronze
(Maranao of Lanao del Sur)

50. Body Ordamentations
lost wax or cire perdue
- metal casting, moulds filled with
liquefied metal, hardens
• Other vessels
- brass kendi and the gadur, status
symbols or as heirloom pieces
Gadur
Kendi

52. Islamic
Colonial
15th Century - Present

53. Historical Overview
Islam, which is entrenched in
Southern Philippines is
already culturally dominant
and strong and said to have
gained significant grounding
in Sulu as early as the 13th
century

54. Historical Overview
•A series of topics about the
following will be tackled on:
History of Islam and Development
Islamic Influence in Arts
Art Influence of Islams in
Architechture

55. Story Telling
(History of Islam and Development)

56. Sayyid Abbubakar of Arabia
15th Century

57. Princess Piramisuli
Rajah Baguinda

62. 16th Century
Madrasa

68. Islamic
Influence in
Arts

69. Influence on
Arts
FILIPINO MUSLIMS BELIEVES THAT
THEY BELONG TO AN “UMMAH” -
COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS
DOCTRINE OF
TAWHID - UNITY OF
GOD

70. Influence on Arts
• impermanence of
nature &
incomprehensible
greatness of the divine
Being.

71. Influence
on Arts
• Prof. Abraham Sakili, introduced
two aspects of reality:
- object perceived by the ordinary
sense
- sense of nothingness - a space or
a void empty
- Which evoke that God is above
and beyond all thing

72. Art Influence of
Islams in
Architechture

73. Architechture
• Considering the goal of negating
materiality in the interior of mosques
having elaborate patterning which
reliefs to draw the attention away
from concrete object like human
forms and nature “toward the
contemplation of the divine.”

74. Architecture
• Philippine Muslims organize
space in architecture with
parts of the mosque like the
mihrab or niche & Qibla wall
• It is toward the west - may it
be in Sultan Kudarat or in
Quiapo, Manila

76. Architecture
• Having dome - how the order of
the universe is imagined - As the
central feature - “all levels of
cosmic existence“
- octagonal base - the spirit
- four-sided main base - earth
or material world

77. Architecture
• Ka’bah
- black shrine is said built by the
Prophet Muhammad - reference
point for the Qiblah - direction
- faced - a Muslim prays
• Area for water supply
- function of ablution, or
cleansing before one enters -
Mosque

78. Architecture
• Islamic forms would project, grow, or
have an upward orientation - for
heaven and to veer from the “material
earth.”
• panolong - carved protrusion akin to a
wing attached to the torogan, torogan
- royal house of the Maranao

79. Architecture
• Aside from the mythical
sarimanok; the burraq, a horse
with the head of a woman is the
Prophet - ascension to heaven