Development of Visual Arts in The Philippines
Development of Visual Arts in The Philippines
Development of Visual Arts in The Philippines
of Visual
Arts in the
Philippines
Painting in the
Philippines
Pre-Spanish Colonial
Period
• Early Filipino painting can be found in red
slip (clay mixed with water) designs
embellished on the ritual pottery of the
Philippines such as the acclaimed
Manunggul Jar.
• The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar
excavated from a Neolithic burial site in
Manunggul cave of Tabon Caves at Lipuun
Point at Palawan dating from 890–710 B.C
Pre-Spanish Colonial
Period
• Painting are also manifested in the
tattoo tradition of early Filipinos,
whom the Portuguese explorer
referred to as Pintados or the 'Painted
People' of the Visayas.
Pre-Spanish Colonial
Period
• Early Filipino’s painting can be
manifested today among the arts and
architecture of the Maranao who are
well known for the Nāga Dragons and
the Sarimanok carved and painted in
the beautiful Panolong of their
Torogan or King's House.
Spanish Colonial
Period
• Artistic paintings were
introduced to the Filipinos
in the 16th century when
the Spaniards arrived in the
Philippines.
• Spaniards used paintings as
religious propaganda to
spread Catholicism
throughout the Philippines.
• Paintings appeared mostly
on church walls, featured
religious figures appearing
in Catholic teachings.
Spanish Colonial
Period
• Filipinos began
creating paintings in the
European tradition
during the 17th- century
Spanish period.
• Most of the paintings and
sculptures between the 19th,
and 20th century produced a
mixture of religious, political,
and landscape art works, with
qualities of sweetness, dark,
and light.
Post-Spanish
Colonial Period
(Modern)
• Early modernist painters
such as Damián
Domingo was associated
with religious and
secular paintings.
• The art of Juan Luna and
Félix Hidalgo showed a
trend for political
statement.
• Artist such as
Fernando
Amorsolo used
post-
modernism to
produce
paintings that
Sculpture in the
Philippines
Rizal Monument (Bantayog ni Jose
Basic information:
Location: Rizal Park (Luneta), Rizal)
Manila
Designer: Richard Kissling
Date of inauguration: December 30 ,
1913
Dedicated to: To the memory of José
Rizal, patriot and martyr.
•
Maintenance of the rice terraces
reflects a primarily cooperative
approach of the whole community.
Classical Period