SHS

Contemporary Philippine Arts

from the Region
Module 11
Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Region
Grade 12 Module 11
First Edition, 2020

Copyright © 2020
La Union Schools Division
Region I

All rights reserved. No part of this module may be reproduced in any form without
written permission from the copyright owners.

Development Team of the Module

Author: Mirafror V. Mamuyac

Editor: SDO La Union, Learning Resource Quality Assurance Team
Illustrator: Ernesto F. Ramos Jr., P II

Management Team:

Atty. Donato D. Balderas, Jr.

Schools Division Superintendent

Vivian Luz S. Pagatpatan, Ph.D

Assistant Schools Division Superintendent
German E. Flora, Ph.D, CID Chief
Virgilio C. Boado, Ph.D, EPS in Charge of LRMS
Delia P. Hufalar, Ph.D., EPS in Charge of MAPEH

Michael Jason D. Morales, PDO II

Claire P. Toluyen, Librarian II
Contemporary Philippine
Arts from the Region
Module 11
 Target

This module was specifically developed and designed to provide you fun
and meaningful learning experience, with your own time and pace.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

 Relates the significance of arts forms from the regions
(CAR11/12CAP-0c -e-8)
 Promotes arts from the regions (CAR11/12CAP-0c -e-9)

Before going on, check how much you know about this topic.
Answer the pretest on the next page in a separate sheet of paper.

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Pretest

Directions. Read and understand each test item carefully then write the letter
of the correct answer.

1. Which would be an appropriate subject for a still-life painting?

a. the Egyptian Pyramids c. a vase of flowers
b. a nude model d. Prince Charles

2. An artist who regularly uses a mixture of oxygen and acetylene to produce his
works is working with which medium?
a. clay b. metal c. stone d. textiles

3. Which of these does NOT describe what art is?

a. Produces aesthetic objects that express important ideas or feelings
b. Production of aesthetic objects that are either beautiful
c. Unconscious use of creative imagination
d. Conscious use of skill

4. Music in the highland and lowland hamlets have a strong Asian elements,
while in the urban areas where influenced by ______________.
a. American and Norwegian c. American and European
b. American and Spanish d. Chinese and Korean

5. The religious and secular music were influenced by _____________.

a. American and Norwegian c. American and European
b. American and Spanish d. Chinese and Korean

6. The Philippine Old Asian music was referred as __________________.

a. indigenous b. modern c. old d. unique

7. What is the role of folk dances and music to the Filipinos?

a. To tell history and preserve traditions
b. To entertain for extra income
c. To become famous
d. Just for fun

8. When was the first golden age of Philippine Cinema?

a. 1940 b. 1050 c. 1960 d. 1970

9. When was the second golden age of Philippine Cinema?

a. 1940 b. 1050 c. 1960 d. 1970

10. A movie from Cannes Film Festival where it tells about murder and police
brutality.
a. Calibre 45 c. Palakasan Blues

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 b. Kinnatay (Butchered) d. Pinatay (Murdered)

11. What is the importance of theater in Philippine arts?

a. It is the means of liberal and artful way of expressing opinions and
talents.
b. It is the way of showing interests and willingness to portray
c. To become blockbusters in Philippine movies
d. For recreation and entertainment

12. The re-enactment of the passion of Christ.

a. cenakulo b. moro-moro c. pasyon d. zarzuela

13. This book by Capinpin helps the Filipinos to learn the Spanish languages in a
simple way.
a. Librong Pag-aaralan nang mga Tagalog nang Wikang Kastila
b. Librong Malikhain tungkol sa Wikang Kastila
c. Librong Pagsasanay para sa mga Filipinos
d. Librong Gawain para sa Wikang Kastila

14. The time were the secular subject matter in painting increased.
a. 17th century b. 18th century c. 19th century d. 20th century

15. What does the Bul-ul of Ifugao represents?

a. beauty, luxury, happiness, power
b. wealth, happiness, and well-being
c. power and beauty
d. wealth and power

Great! You are now ready to jump for the next level!

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 Jumpstart

Arts in the Philippines refer to 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.

Activity 1

Directions: Match the words from Column A to the Philippine Art Forms from
Column B. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

Column A Column B
1. Cenakulo A. Theater
2. Okkil B. Painting
3. Banga C. Music
4. Markang Demonyo D. Dance
5. Palay Maiden E. Cineme/Movie
6. Mumbay F. Sculpture
7. Tinikling G. Handicraft
8. Mababangong Bangungot
9. Planting Rice
10. Panolong

Activity 2

Directions: Write the word or phrase that makes the statement erroneous and write
the correct answer enclosing a parenthesis. Do this in your activity notebook.

1. Zarzuela is a drama play shown after the harvest season.

2. Until the 20th century. Art was only for the church and religious use.
3. A consecrated bulol has been bathed in pig's blood, had myths recited to it, and
received offerings of wine, ritual boxes, and rice cakes.

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4. People agree to the fact that discovering the Philippines' culture needs a little of
time.
5. Music in the highland and lowland hamlets where indigenous culture continues
to thrive has strong Asian elements.
6. A religious and secular music influenced by Asian forms.
7. Spanish became the social language of urban places and the true lingua franca of
the archipelago.
8. A particular dance might be performed slightly differently from one region to the
next, it remains true to its roots.
9. The 1960s were the second golden age of Philippine cinema with the period of the
avant-garde filmmakers.
10. Theatre arts have long been existing as a part of the Filipino tradition and serve
effectively as a medium of social awareness and entertainment.

Great job! Good luck to your next stage!

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 Discover

Read and understand!

Learning through and about the arts enriches the experience of studying while
at school as well as preparing students for life after school. Arts subjects
encourage self-expression and creativity and can build confidence as well as a sense
of individual identity.

Music

Although, geographically, the Philippines belongs to the East, its music has
been heavily influenced by the West owing to 333 years of Spanish rule and 45 years
of American domination.
Music in the highland and lowland hamlets where indigenous culture
continues to thrive has strong Asian elements. Spanish and American influences are
highly evident in the music of the urban areas.
Three main roots are apparent:
1. an old Asian influenced music referred to as the indigenous;
2. a religious and secular music influenced by Spanish and European forms; and
3. an American/European inspired classical, semi-classical, and popular music.
A system to classify Philippines' music is a geographic or ethno-linguistic
approach: for example, traditional Tagalog music, which is somewhat more Hispanic
in flavor, differs from Ifugao music and Islam influenced Maranao kulintang music.
In indigenous music, various kinds of instruments are made of bronze,
bamboo or wood. These include gongs of various kinds of size and shapes, drums,
flutes, zithers, lutes, clappers and buzzers.
Vocal genres include epics relating genealogies and exploits of heroes and
gods; work songs related to planting, harvesting, fishing; ritual songs to drive away
evil spirits or to invoke blessings from the good spirits; songs to celebrate festive
occasions particularly marriage, birth, victory at war, or the settling of tribal
disputes; mourning songs for the dead; courting songs; and children's game songs.
It is this type of music that is still practiced today by the indigenous groups.

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 Kulintang - a row of small brass or bronze gongs

Dance

As varied are the people of the Philippines, so too are the dances. There are
many dances performed in the Philippine Islands such as the popular "Tinikling", to
the exoticized "Pangalay", to the skill-based interpretation of the "Banga" and
Spanish-tinged "Jota"
Dances are performed anytime and anywhere. This starts in the morning in
schools, where dance is an integrated part of education. It lasts till late in the night
especially when there is a fiesta.
Dancing is deep inside Filipinos. "Dancing keeps us away from negative
things, when you move, everything is positive, there’s no right or wrong, you release
all your emotions and it will end up with a beautiful smile."
The Philippines have many popular folk dances which have evolved and
changed as they have been passed down from generation to generation. Although a
particular dance might be performed slightly differently from one region to the next,
its remains true to its roots.
Dancing plays an important role in Filipino culture, telling their history and
preserving traditions through folk dances and music. These dances are entertaining
to observe, and even more fun to learn and perform yourself.

A dancer at the Lanzones festival in Camiguin

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Movie

In August 1897, Liebman and Peritz, two Swiss entrepreneurs, presented the
first imported movies on the Lumiere Cinematograph in Manila at Escolta Street.
Using the Lumiere Cinematograph as a camera, Antonio Ramos locally filmed
Panorama de Manila (Manila landscape), Fiesta de Quiapo (Quiapo Fiesta), Puente
de España (Bridge of Spain) and Escenas Callejeras (Street scenes), making him the
first movie producer in the Philippines.
After the second world war, a resurgence of Visayan films came about through
Lapu-Lapu Pictures. The 1950s were labeled as the first golden age of Philippine
cinema. Four big production studios (LVN Pictures, Sampaguita Pictures, Premiere
Productions and Lebran International) were at their peak in filmmaking.
The 1970s were the second golden age of Philippine cinema with the period of
the avant-garde filmmakers.
In 1977, Kidlat Tahimik, made a film entitled Mababangong Bangungot
(Perfumed Nightmare), which won the International Critic’s Prize in the Berlin Film
Festival that same year.
The year 2009 brought the highest international esteem to a Filipino
filmmaker when Brillante Mendoza was judged as the Best Director at the Cannes
Film Festival for his film Kinatay (Butchered), a movie about murder and police
brutality.
But the one film out of ten is a piece of art. It's not always accepted by the
average movie goers, but it stands out of the mass production of Mumbay and
Hollywood inspired productions. The Cannes Film Festival proves that Pinoy movies
can be outstanding.
The Cannes Film Festival is one of the 3 most important film festivals in
Europe aside Venice and Berlin. A "Palme d'Or" in Cannes is culturally much more
worth than an "Oscar" in Hollywood. The Oscar is just another promotion tool to see.

Today 9 out of 10 movies are "Bollywood" style

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Theater

Theatre arts have long been existing as a part of the Filipino tradition and
serve effectively as a medium of social awareness and entertainment. It is also a
means of liberal and artful way of expressing opinions and talents.
As part of the Philippine tradition, many festivals and occasions are celebrated in the
country where theatre arts are in use. For instance, during Holy Week, "Cenaculo"
takes place as an on-stage performance that re-enacts the passion of Christ. Another
is the Moro-Moro which expresses the conflict between Christians and Muslims in
the country.
In other towns, a famous theatre form called carillo, which is usually a drama
play, is shown after the harvest season. "Zarzuela" is another famous theatre
performance, a local version of Spanish operetta. In many other places or occasions,
variety of traditional plays that express the Filipino love for arts are shown even up
to this very day.

The Philippine Madrigal Singers

Painting

The first paintings were commissioned works during the Spanish colonial era.
Since most art produced during the first two centuries of Spanish occupation were
for the church, the friars enforced strict supervision over their production. Until the
19th century, art was only for the church and religious use. There is also some
Chinese influence which can be found in the brush handling.
Tagalog painters Jose Loden, Tomas Nazario and Miguel de los Reyes, did the
first still life paintings in the country. They were commissioned in 1786 by a Spanish
botanist to paint the flora and fauna found in the country.
Secular subject matter in painting only increased during the 19th century. With more
tourists, ilustrados and foreigners demanding souvenirs and decorations from the
country, tipos del pais developed in painting. These watercolor paintings show the
different types of inhabitants in the Philippines in their different native costumes
that show their social status and occupation. It also became an album of different
native costumes. Damian Domingo y Gabor (ca. 1790-1832) was the most popular
artist who worked in this style.

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 Several Filipino painters had the chance to study and work abroad. Among
them were Juan Novicio Luna and Felix Resureccion Hidalgo who became the first
international Filipino artists when they won the gold and silver medals in the 1884
Madrid Exposition.
During the American period (1900-45) on-demand portraitists included
Fabian de la Rosa, Miguel Zaragoza, Teodoro Buenaventura, Jorge Pineda and above
all, Fernando Amorsolo, whose style would dominate the period.
Amorsolo designed the logo for Ginebra San Miguel (Markang Demonyo) depicting
St. Michael vanquishing the devil. The logo is still in use in its original form today.
The owner of the beverage company, Don Enrique Zobel, who is an ardent patron of
the arts, was so impressed by his work that he offered to send Amorsolo to the
Academia de San Fernando in Madrid for further studies with a generous stipend for
himself and his family.
Despite his exposure to Western influences, Fernando Amorsolo retained his
Filipino consciousness. He was drawn more towards the gentle rolling hills and rice
fields of the Philippines rather than the cosmopolitan world of Europe's proud cities.
Even his illustrations of Spanish women were drawn with slender physiques,
narrower hips, and smaller breasts more typical of Filipinas rather than full bodied
Caucasian women. One of his most copied paintings is the "Palay Maiden".
Another contemporary artist I know is Valentino Goyenechea Jr. He lives with
his family in Dumaguete (Negros). Goyenechea is a visual artist in different domains
such as painting and photography. Two of his paintings decorate our house.
This article contains excerpts of Ronnie Pasigui's presentation. Another very
interesting website is Go Philippines, a blog dedicated to all Filipinos, locals, OFW,
migrants and tourists to gain more knowledge about Philippines.

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Sculpture

Early carved human figurine are known from the

cordilleras. Still today, the bulols, or "Ifugao rice Gods,"
are kept in the house or granary, and are usually made
in pairs. They are carved of narra wood, which
represents wealth, happiness, and well-being. Every step
in their production requires a ceremony, from tree
selection to arrival at the owner's house. A consecrated
bulol has been bathed in pig's blood, had myths recited
to it, and received offerings of wine, ritual boxes, and rice
cakes.
The carvings brought to the Philippines by early
Arab and Russian missionaries were of beveled type as
the slanting type called Okkil. Although the word literally
means XXX it is not confined to carving alone but also refers to design.
A familiar example of sculpture with the integration of architecture is the Art
Deco Style of the Metropolitan Theater at Liwasang Bonifacio completed by Juan
Arellano in 1931.
Woodcarving comes in ornamental form in the houses of the Maranao like that
of the "torogan" which features the "panolong", an extended beam carved with the
Sarimanok or the Naga design.
Napoleon V. Abueva is known as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture".
He was born in Tagbilaran, Bohol in 1930. In 1951, he won the Pura Villanueva-
Kalaw scholarship and finished Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture in University of the
Philippines in 1953.
Abueva utilized almost all kinds of materials
from hard wood (molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil,
kamagong, palm wood and bamboo) to adobe, metal,
stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster,
coral and brass.
Among the major works of Abueva are:
Kaganapan (1953), Kiss of Judas (1955), The
Transfiguration at the Eternal Garden Memorial Park
(1979), Fredesvinda in Fort Canning, Nine Muses at the
UP Faculty Center (1994), Sunburst at the Peninsula
Manila Hotel (1994) and the bronze figure of Teodoro M.
Kalaw in front of National Library.

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Handicraft

Inspired by the Japanese One Village One Product Movement of 1979, the
Philippines' OTOP program was proposed by then-President Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo as early as 2002 and launched in 2004. Current Filipino President Benigno
'Noynoy" Aquino has authorized the continuation of the OTOP program.
OTOP products vary, and can include fruits, specialty dishes, or handmade
products. Examples of OTOP products include Arabica coffee in the Cordillera region,
cacao products in San Isidro in Davao del Norte, and brooms in Santa Fe in Nueva
Vizcaya.
Other OTOP products are the Lanzones
fruits and the famous Pastel buns in Camiguin. The
Bicol Express in Naga-City isn't a train but a spicy
food. Another good example is the potter's village of
Lezo in Aklan, Panay.
Handicraft you can see anytime and anywhere in
the Philippines. On nearly any island you find a
black-smith who makes the traditional bolos.
Fishermen wear the typical conic hat made of sliced
bamboo or palm leaves.
Hand made items are usually not expensive,
are decorative and make the perfect gift
(pasalubong) for your family and your friends.

Literature

The first book printed in the Philippines is the "Doctrina Christiana", see also
the written language. It had been published 1593 in Manila.
Tomas Pinpin wrote and printed in 1610 "Librong Pagaaralan nang mga
Tagalog nang Wikang Kastila", 119 pages designed to help fellow Filipinos to learn
the Spanish language in a simple way. He is also credited with the first news
publication made in the Philippines: "Successos Felices".
On December 1, 1846, La Esperanza, the first daily newspaper, was available
in the country. Other early newspapers were La Estrella (1847), Diario de Manila
(1848) and Boletin Oficial de Filipinas (1852).
In 1863, the Spanish government introduced a system of free public education
that had an important effect on the ability of the population to read in Spanish and
further in the rise of an educated class called the Ilustrado (meaning, well-informed).
Spanish became the social language of urban places and the true lingua
franca of the archipelago. A good number of Spanish newspapers were published
until the end of the 1940s, the most influential of them being El Renacimiento,
printed in Manila by members of the Guerrero de Ermita family.

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Activity 3

Directions: Recall a experience regarding attendance in any traditional

activities (Example: Harana, Pamamanhikan, Fiestas, Folk Dancing, Moro-Moro
and etc.) Tell something about it in a written composition entitled: “The Arts:
First Encounter”. Do this in your activity notebook.

Activity 4

Directions: Create an art mosaic based from the different Philippine art
forms.art forms ( Dance, Music, Theater, Cinema/Movie, Sculpture, Painting or
Architecture).

Procedure:

1. Choose a simple example of an art form, sketch the overall design on a piece of
black cartolina (1/4).
2. Cut small squares from colored pages of magazines. Sort the pieces by color.
3. Glue or paste the tiny pieces of colored paper tesserae as you arrange them on
the design. Be sure to leave very little spaces between the pieces of colored
paper. The space gives a crackle effect on your work.
4. Fill the entire space on your cardboard with tesserae. D not overlap tesserae to
make a crackled effect.
5. (Optional) When finished, brush varnish to give your mosaic a glossy effect. Let it
dry.

Examples:

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 Explore

Here are some enrichment activities for you to work on to learn and
improve the basic concepts you have learned from this lesson.

Activity 5

Directions: Name three Filipino folk dances in Region I and discuss how they are
originated. Do this in your activity notebook.

Activity 6

Directions: Look for two pictures from magazines showing the traditional art forms
of the Philippines. Paste the pictures in a short bond paper and write a short
description in each picture.

Nice job! More activities are waiting on the next page!

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 DEEPEN

Activity 7

Directions: Recall stage plays in school or elsewhere that you have watched and give
some highlights about it. You may use the guide questions listed below. Do
this in your activity notebook.

1. What is the story about?

2. Name or point a part in the story you like most and why?
3. Who among the characters in the play do you like most and why?

Activity 8

Directions: Gather an information about the history of your community. An elder

may be interviewed and use the information as the basis for doing a narrative
report about the history of the community. You may use the guide questions
listed below. Do this in your activity notebook.

1. Who was the previous leaders in the community?

2. What were the basic occupation of the people in the community?
3. What are the products found in the community?

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 GAUGE

Activity 9

Directions: Assuming you are a tour guide, write a speech promoting arts from your
province or region. Do this in your activity notebook.

Activity 10

Directions: Cite the significance of art forms from the various regions. Do this
in your activity notebook.

Congratulations! You made it!

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Rubrics

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