arts

• Abaca


  The inner fiber of a banana plant in the Philippine Islands used for cordage
• Abel


  Ilocos blanket made of cotton weaved in different patterns
• Alternative Music


  A kind of music influenced by folk balladeers
• Agungs


  Gongs with the wide tube
• Aroding

  A mouth harp
• Bagay Poetry


  A kind of poetry which uses colloquial language and is built on concrete images which describe experiences
• Aristocracy


  A hereditary nobility or privileged class, preeminent by birth or having prescriptive rank or rights
• Babarak

  A ring flute
• Basal


  A musical ensemble played during the rituals of rice sharing and rice wine drinking among the Palawan people
• Beam


  A long horizontal piece of wood, stone, or metal, forming part of the bar of balance
• Chiaroscuro


  The distribution and treatment of lights and shades in a picture
• Collage


  A composition of flat objects, as newspaper cloth, cardboard, etc. that is pasted together on a surface and often combined with related lines and color for artistic effects
• Bodabil


  A stage show
• Caricaturist


  A person who creates picture or description deliberately making use of ridiculous exaggeration or distortion
• Documentary style


  A style in theater which tends to discuss historical events
• Crescent


  The visible art of the moon in its first quarter having one concave edge and one convex edge
• Delineate


  To draw an outline; trace-out
• Cubism


  A painting technique fragmenting figures
• Encaustic


  Painted and having the hues fixed by heat
• Dula-Dula


  A short drama poem
• Folklore


  Traditional costumes and beliefs
• Essence


  The intrinsic of anything
• Exotic

  Foreign, strange, something not native
• Gawad sa Manlilikhag Bayan


  A national living treasure award; award was given to the artist who is preserving the traditional arts of the country
• Gangsa


  Kalinga gong
• Glaze


  To coat; as pottery; with a glasslike surface applied by fusing
• Illusion


  An unreal image seemingly presented to the senses
• Indigenous


  Originating in a specific place or country, native
• Indigenous Art

  Ethnic Art
• Intricate


  Exceedingly or perplexingly entangled, complicated or involved
• Kiln


  An oven or furnace for baking, burning or drying industrial products as for burning bricks
• Komedya


  Play
• Kusyapi/Kutyapi

  Two stringed flute
• Kulilal


  A lyric poem about love
• Kwintangan Kayu


  Instrument composed of five wooden logs of different sizes, arranged, from shortest to longest
• Modern Art


  Art produced from 1860's to 1960's characterized by Avant-garde
• Molding


  The act of shaping with or as with a mold
• Mosque


  A Muslim temple of worship
• Mural


  Wall painting
• National Artist Award


  • The award which seeks to give honor to the Filipino individuals with outstanding share in the culture heritage and culture identity of the country by means of their valuable efforts and contribution to Philippine Arts specifically in the areas of visual arts, dance, music, architecture design and allied arts, broadcast and film, theatre and literature