Style and Culture Religious Art, Lowland Christian Art or Folk art
Architecture
Sculpting Engraving
Music
Literature
Theater
Visual Art
6 Lowland Christian Art
Plaza Complex
The complex was designed as the town center and consisted of the municipio or local government office and church
Cruciform Churches
Following the shape of the Latin cross churches were built
Baroque Style
Characterized by grandeur, drama, elaborate details that purposely appealed to the emotions
Seen in San Agustin Church in Manila, Morong Church in Rizal, Paoay Church in Ilocos Norte and Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Church in Miag-ao Ilo-Ilo
Where did we find the baroque style
Colonial Baroque or Philippine or Tropical Baroque
Fusion of both native and European elements
local intervention was made
To suit the native's sensibilities
The facade of Miag-ao Church features St. Christopher
surrounded by reliefs or relleves having tropical motifs life palm fronds and papaya trees
Adobe
The use of ______, limestone or brick and the construction of thick buttresses or wing- like projections
Santos
Greek and Roman classical influence is seen in the proportion and formality of expression of a santo and baroque style in the expressive and emotional characteristics of the ____
Retablo
Integrates architecture and sculpture and is often embellisehed with rosettes, scrolls, pediments and solomonic columns which may be gilded or polychromed
Via Crucis
series of 14 paintings or relief structures depicting Christ's crucifixion resurrection
Trompe l'oeil
a French word meaning "fooling the eye" it refers to painting that give a heightened illusion of three- dimensionality
Relleves
carved figurative protrusions on the surface
Plateria
organic designs of hammered silver
Western Musical Instruments
Pipe, organ, violin, guitar, and piano
Catholic Lithurgical Music
Introduced in 1742 by the then Archbishop of Manila Juan Rodriguez Angel
The Santo Domingo and San Agustin convents
taught choral music to young boys including Filipino composers like Marcelo Ardonay (1848-1928)
Pasyon or Pabasa
biblical narration of Christ's passion chanted in an improvised melody
Awit and Corrido
Musical forms were chanted stories based on European Literature and history
Balitao
sentimental love songs
Kundiman
usually spoke of resignation and fatalism became a vehicle for resistance
Kundiman ni Abdon
became a feature of protest actions against Martial Law
Mangyans of Mindoro
Among _____ of ______ bamboo poles are turn into smaller nodes and are etched with baybayin used to compose short poems of courtship and emotional concerns
huge stone
In Ticao Leyte a __________ was discovered that contained baybayin writing believed to be an invocation for a safe journey by sea.
Cathecism and Prayer books
literature
ZarzuelaorSarsuwela
Senakulo
Komedya
Moro-moro
4 Religious Processions
Catholicsaintsandscenesfrom the Bible
Earliest forms of theater were replaced by the pomp and pageantry of religious processions complete with embellished carrozas containing religious tableaus of
Zarzuela
A popular form of musical theater from Spain imported during the 19th century it is an opera which feautes singing and dancing interspersed with prose dialogue which allowed the story to be carried out in song
Severino Reyes and Hermogenes Ilagan
arethe most distinguished playwrights of their day and Honorata "Atang" dela Rama (National Artist for Theater and Music,awarded 1987) as their most celebrated leading actress
Senakulo
Written in 1704 by Gaspar Aquino de Belen its narrative was culled entirely from the Biblical account of Christ's passion and death on the cross adapted into verse form and translated into local language.
1. Komedya de Santo or Religious Komedya
2. Secular Komedya
-Moro-moro
Depicts the conflict between the Muslims and Christians.
cariñosa
pandango
polka
dansa
riodon
Folk Music and Dance
Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas
The first scientific map of the Philippines
Jesuit Priest Fr. Pedro Murillo Velarde collaboarated with artists Francisco Suarez and engraver Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay
they were the first to acknowledge their role as artist. Other known engravers include Laureano Atlas and Felipe Sevilla who produced religious images
Flora de Filipinas
an extensive compilation of Philippine plants by Augustinian botanist Fr. Manuel Blanco
1. Heaven, Earth, and Hell (1850)
a mural by Jose Dans in Paete Church Laguna
2. Two versions of San Cristobal
3. Basi Revolt Esteban Villanueva
3 Visual Arts
native elites
The opening of Manila to international trade and the Suez Canal in1869 gained economic benefits for the
Music
development inside the church through Marcelo Adonay and his compositions based on the Western tradition.