It is about Traditional Techniques to Contemporary art Creations. A Contemporary Philippine Arts from The Regions for Grade 12 students in Humanities and Social Science Strand

1. Traditional Techniques to
Contemporary art Creations

2. Discovering and Exploring
There are places in the Philippines which are
famous because of the extraordinary or
unusual but special products that they
produce.

3. These products become the instruments
in spreading the news about this places.
These people use traditional techniques
in creating one particular art or maybe
which make famous and draw people to
these places.

4. Traditional techniques used by the
Filipinos even from the past years are
depicted in our painting, sculpture,
dance, architecture, music, and even
textile.
It only proves that Filipinos like any
other people in the world can be very
proud of our Philippine arts.

5. Painting and Pottery
Early Filipinos painting can be in red
chip (clay mixed with water) designs
embellished on the ritual pottery of the
Philippines such as the acclaimed
“Manunggul Jar” which is an example of
a burial jar.

6. Philippine pottery has been a long
tradition, and evidence of this pottery-
making has been found in Sanga-Sanga,
Sulu and Laurente Cave in Cagayan.

7. Pottery began the making of
earthenware articles for domestic use
such as a cooking vessel and storage
container.

8. Incised designs also appeared in the
pots in Masbate. Among the finest of
early Philippine pottery designs are
footed dishes that were decorated with
geometric cut-outs, molding, cording
or finger impressions, most of these
were made in Batangas.

9. At this ship, (a mixture of clay and
water) rather than glazes is still used by
Filipino Potters to seal the pottery, and
the pottery is open-fried.
Pottery traditions continued to develop
in certain locals, such as Burnay
Unglazed Clay pottery of Vigan.

10. The pottery traditions of Burnay is
among the pottery traditions that have
been maintained, along with those of
Leyte and Bohol. Further evidence of
painting is manifested in the tattoo
tradition of early Filipinos who are now
referred to as the Pintados or the
“Painted People” of Visayas.

11. Sarimano
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Shown above are the most well-known of the old designs, the
sarimano . The figure represents a fowl with wings, feathered tail,
and a head decorated with ornaments of scrolled and painted motif of
leaves, spirals, and leather-like forms. It usually stands on a fish and
another one hangs from its beak. The wooden figure, usually perched
atop a bamboo pole, stands among
d orative flags during ridings and other festive occasions.

12. Indigenous Art
The Itneg people are known for their intricate
woven fabrics.
The “Binakol”, which features designs that
incorporate optical illusions woven fabrics of the
“Gadang” people usually bright red tones.
Their weaving can also be identified by beaded
ornamentation.

13. Other people such as the Ilongot make
jewelry from pearl, red hornbill beak,
plants and metals.

14. Many Filipino painters were influenced
by this and started using these
materials such as an extract from onion,
tomato, tuba, coffee, molasses and
other materials available anywhere.

15. The lumad people of Mindanao such as
the “B’Lan”, “Mandaga”, “Mansaka”, and
“T’Boli” are skilled in the art of dying
abaca fiber.
Abaca is a plant closely related to
bananas and its leaves are used to
make fiber known as “Manila Hemp”.

16. The Fiber is dyed by method called
“Ikat”.
“Ikat” fibers are woven into cloth with
geometric patterns depicting human,
animal, and plant leaves.

17. Sarimanok
This is the most well-known design. The
figure represents a fowl wings,
feathered tail and a head decorated
with ornaments of scrolled and painted
motif of leaves, spirals and feather-like
forms.

18. It usually stands on a fish, and another
one hangs from its beak.
The wooden figure usually perched atop
a bamboo pole, stands among
decorative flags during weddings and
other festive occasions.

19. Hagabi
Another one is “Hagabi”, a wooden chair of
Igufao, which symbolizes his status as a citizen in
their community.
It depicts the wealth and power of the own who
is called “Kadanagyan”, or a person who
Who belongs to the higher status in their society.

20. Only the rich can afford to own it
together with a ritual after the
completion of their chair.
This chair id made of Narra or Ipil Ipil,
and the original design is called
“Ginulding-Gulding”, meaning like a
goat-like head.

21. At present Hagabi may have a different
shapes one end which is called “Ngiwi”,
is like the head of an animal with an
elongated nose and two big ears.

22. Islamic
arts
This kind of art has two main
artistic style. One is carved-line.
Woodcarving and metal working
called “Okir”, similar to the
Middle Eastern Islamic art. This
style is associated with men.
• The other style is geometric
tapestries and is associated with
women.

23. The Tausug and Sama-Bajau exhibit
their own “Okir” on elaborate markings
with a boat like imaging.
An okir design, the scroll is the
dominant feature in the men’s work
composed of various spiral forms.

24. Red is the favorite color along with
yellow; these colors stands for royalty
or aristocracy.
Often, men wear the red lamp cap and
the women, the yellow.

25. The ‘Bagobo” are proud people with
proto Malayan features.
They have ornate traditions in weaponry
and other metal arts.
They are noted for their skills in
producing brass articles through the
ancient lost-wax process.

26. These people weave abaca cloths of
earth tones and make baskets that are
trimmed with beads, fibers and horse’s
hair; weapons made by Muslim Filipinos
such as “Kampilan”, are skillfully carved.

27. Kut-Kut Art
This is a technique combine Oriental and
European art process.
Very few known art pieces exist today.
The techniques were practiced by the
indigenous people of Samar.

28. Kut-kut is an exotic Philippine art form based
on early century techniques “Sgraffito”.
Encaustic and layering. The merging of this
ancient styles produces a unique artwork
characterized by delicate swirling
interweaved lines, multi-layered texture and a
dimensional space.