History of Philippine Arts

1. HISTORY OF
PHILIPPINE
ARTS
Reported by: Jeff
M a d e r a

2. Arts in the Philippines refer to all the various
forms of the arts that have developed and
accumulated in the Philippines from the
beginning of civilization in the country up to
the present era. They reflect the range of
artistic influences on the country's culture,
including indigenous forms of the arts, and
how these influences have honed the
country's arts.

3. PRE-
COLONIAL
PERIOD
The Pre-Colonial Period is when our
indigenous ancestors inhabited the
Philippines and the time before the
coming of our first colonizers. Arts in this
time were for ritual purposes or everyday
use only. As local communities were
established, art starts to go beyond mere
craft, i.e., stone weapons or jewelry but
starts to have decorative elements,

4. ARCHITECTURE
VISUAL ARTS
The earliest records of
pre-colonial architecture
in the Philippines are
rock shelters, caves and
molded hollows on cliffs
and mountainsides.
Sculpture, paintings, and
pottery were the widely known
forms of visual arts in the Pre-
Colonial Period, such as the
tattoos from the pintados in
Panay, the Bulul that is a
wooden sculpture of the rice
God of Ifugaos, and the
Manunggul burial jar that was
found in Palawan.

5. DANCE
MUSIC
Pre-colonial dances are
distinctly meant to appease
the Gods and to ask favors
from spirits, as a means to
celebrate their harvest or hunt.
Their dance mimicked life
forms and the stories of their
Ethnic dances and
songs are usually
accompanied by
chordophones such as
Tangkol or bamboo
zithers of Bukidnon.

6. LITERATURE
It can be in written and oral form. Cave
drawings and writings are the earliest forms
of written literature, and rituals, chants, and
storytelling are the earliest forms of oral
literature.
Discovered in 1965, the Angono Petroglyphs
are believed to be the oldest known artworks
in the Philippines.

7. ISLAMIC
COLONIAL
PERIOD
The history of Philippine Muslims is part of the
backbone of the historical development of the
whole country.In the 13th century, traders and
missionaries introduced Islam religion in the
Philippines, specifically, Sayyid Abubakar of
Arabia. Islamic art meshed with ethnic culture
and produced a Filipino Muslim art that
reflects the ethnic background and Islamic
identity.e natives of Ma-I (the Philippines name
before).

8. VISUAL ARTS
The only reminders of Filipino Muslim
art inside mosques is the traditional art
form known as Okkir. This art form is
believed to be of Hindu and Chinese
influences. Okkir uses geometric and
floral artwork. One popular motif of this
art form is the use of an imagery of a
dragon or serpent.

9. LITERATURE ARCHITECT
URE
Quran reading was
introduced, and the
Arabic language and
writing were taught.
Early mosques
were built made of
light materials
such as wood,
bamboo, and
cogon grass.

10. SPANISH
COLONIAL
PERIOD
When the Spaniards arrived in the
Philippines in 1521, the colonizers used
art as a tool to propagate the Catholic
faith through beautiful images. With
communication as a problem, the friars
used images to explain the concepts
behind Catholicism and to tell the stories
of Christ’s life and passion.

11. VISUAL
ARTS
For the first centuries of Spanish
colonization, painting was limited to religious
icons. Portraits of saints and of the Holy
Family became a familiar sight in churches.
Other subject matters include the passion of
Christ, the Via Crucis, the crucifixion,
portrayal of heaven, purgatory and hell.

12. LITERATURE
Baybayin from Mangyans of
Mindoro was one of the only
preserved traditional writings of the
Filipinos, and the Doctrina
Christiana (the teachings of
Christianity) was introduced by the
Spaniards.

13. American
colonial
period
With the coming of the Americans, Filipino
playwrights who had just undergone the
Philippines Revolution of 1898 against Spain
now found themselves confronted by
censorship with the issuance of the Sedition
Law which banned the writing, printing and
publication of materials advocating Philippine
independence and engaging in activities which
championed this cause.

14. Japanese
colonial
period
Under the Japanese occupation the
Modern Art project slow down in pace.
The Japanese forces led the
formation of the Greater East Co-
Prosperity Sphere, a proganda
movement that sought to create a
Pan-Asian identity that rejected
western traditions.

15. 70's to Contemporary
. Amidst claims of national chaos of emergency
proportions, Martial Law, Marcos envisioned a New
Society or Bagong Lipunan, which worked toward
the rebirth of a long lost civilization, on one hand,
and aspiration to modernization and development,
on the other.

16. HISTORY OF
PHILIPPINE
ARTS