contemporary world

• Contemporary art can be situated in art historical, stylistic, and cultural terms.
• Pre-conquest art, referred to as "indigenous", was woven into the fabric of everyday life prior to colonization.
• Rituals in the pre-conquest period included Mayvanuvanua in Batanes, Cañao/Kanyaw in CAR, Kashawing in Lake Lanao, Tagbanwa in Palawan, and others.
• Pamilya Pintura is composed of members Alvarado, Co, Roldan.
• Salingpusa is composed of members Borlongan, Flores, Garibay, Justiniani, Mondejar, Sievert.
• Kaisahan is composed of members Delotavo, Doloricon, Habulan, Hernandez, Manrique, Ruiz, Santos.
• Ethnic musical instruments include Kudyapi, Kulintang, Gansa, Agong, and others.
• Dance forms in the pre-conquest period include Pangalay in Sulu Archipelago, Kinabua in Mandaya, Banog-Banog in Higaonon & B’laan Communities, Man-Manok in Bagobos, Talip Dance in Ifugao, Inamong in Matigsalugs, Kadaliwas Dance in T’bolis, and Tinikling in Tagalog.
• Carved images in the pre-conquest period include Bulul in Cordillera, Hagabi in Ifugao, Santos in Laguna & Pampanga, Okir/Ukkil in Tausug/Samal/Badjao, and others.
• Jar/ Vessels in the pre-conquest period include Manunggul Jar, Palayok, Banga and Tapayan, Kendi, Gadur, and others.
• Textile weaving in the pre-conquest period includes Pis Siyabit in Sulu, Malong in Maranao, Tepo Mat in Tawi-Tawi, and others.
• Other pre-conquest objects include Boxer Codex, Tattoo/ Tattoos, and others.
• Manila Film Center was built to host the Manila International Film Festival to ambitiously rival Cannes.
• National Arts Center, designed by National Artist Architect Leandro Locsin, was located in Mt Makiling and appropriated the style of vernacular houses like the Ifugao fale.
• Infrastructure improvements during the 70’s to contemporary period included built roads, street, and bridges.
• Lydia Arguilla, an artist-writer, established the Modern Architectural Structures with the Church of Holy Sacrifice (1955), Church of the Risen Lord, and Chapel of St Joseph the Worker (Victorias, Negros) built by the Czech-American Architect Antonin Raymond.
• Philippine Art Gallery (PAG) provided a venue and laid out early programs for modern art.
• Clothing during the 70’s to contemporary period saw changes for men to include suits, polo shirts, ties, jeans, and for women to include dresses, high-heeled shoes, and handbags.
• The Folk Arts Theater was the venue of the First Ms Universe pageant in the Philippines in 1974.
• The Philippine International Convention Center was a state-of-the-art venue that housed the 1976 IMF-World Bank Conference.
• Food during the 70’s to contemporary period saw the introduction of ice cream, cookies, hamburger.
• Art Association of the Philippines (AAP) established in 1948 under the leadership of artist Purita Kalaw-Ledesma and sponsored contests to encourage art production.
• Tahanang Filipino, also known as Coconut Palace, was built in anticipation of a papal visit and designed by Architect Francisco Mañosa, utilizing indigenous building materials and fashioning the roof to look like a salakot, a pointed hat used by famers in the field.
• Leandro Locsin, the Chief Architect of Imelda Marcos, designed the modernist cantilevered building of CCP that described as a cross between the vernacular bahay kubo and art brut minimalistic structures.
• Entertainment during the 70’s to contemporary period saw the rise of movies and new kinds of music.
• Social Realism is a form of protest art that exposed the sociopolitical issues and struggles of the times.
• Raymundo Albano, the 2nd Director of the CCP Museum, opened its exhibition programming to works influenced by the western avant-garde and conceptual tenets, pop art, happenings, environmental assemblages, new realism, performance art and sound works.
• Kalibapi (Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod ng Bagong Pilipinas) recognized for indigenizing western icons with artwork Brown Madonna (1938).
• Pasyon/ Pabasa is the biblical narration of Christ’s Passion chanted in an improvised melody.
• Carroza is where the santos are paraded during town processions.
• Religious orders were dispatched to convert the natives to Catholicism as part of the larger project of colonization.
• A religious school, Madrasa, was built by Abbubakar that facilitated the teaching of Arabic Writing in the 16th century.
• Archbishop Juan Rodriguez Angel was the Archbishop of Manila that established a singing school at the Manila Cathedral that taught western church music.
• Panolong is an elaborately carved protrusion akin to a wing.
• While the South remained resistant to Spanish colonization, the colonizers gained inroads in the central part of the islands whose inhabitants we now refer to as “Lowland Christians”.
• Theater arts include Zarzuela/ Sarsuwela, an operetta which features singing and dancing interspersed with prose dialogue which allowed the story to be carried out in song.
• Baroque style is characterized by grandeur, drama, and elaborate details that purposely appealed to the emotions.
• Secular music forms include Awit and the Corrido, Kundiman, and Balitao.
• Plaza Complex consists of Municipal/Local Government Office & Church.
• Plateria refers to the organic designs of hammered silver.