CPAR

• Art as a form of

  • Self-expression (paintings, music, poetry, fashion)
  • Therapy
  • Aesthetic
  • Inspiration
  • Motivation
  • Awareness
• Modern Art


  Arts of the past (1880-1960)
• Modern Art


  • Being up to date or technologically advanced
  • Traditional or conservative
  • Contrast
  • Not aiming to copy and idealize reality
  • Changing colors and flattening the picture instead of creating illusions of depth
• Arturo Luz


  • Produced paintings in the 90s and well into the 21st century
  • Hard-edged and abstract minimalist style
• Victorio Edades


  • Father of Philippine Modern Art
  • Initiated the Modern Art movement that challenged the Neoclassic style
• Contemporary Art


  • Art of the present (1960-still emerging)
  • A fluid term that can change depending on context
  • Social Realist of the 70s are considered heirs of Neo-realist
  • Influenced by Social Realism
• Imelda Cajipe-Endaya


  Social realist but the style and medium of installation is markedly different
• Characteristics of CPAR


  • Site-specific
  • Process-based
  • Collaborative and Interactive
• Contemporary Art is distinguishable from Modern Art


  In historical, stylistic, and cultural terms
• Contemporary Art is never fixed, but open to many possibilities
• To study and appreciate the contemporary is to experience and understand art as a window to the Philippine contemporary life
• Neoclassic Art


  • Creates illusions of depth, nearness, and farness
  • Familiar and comfortable
  • Taught in school (UP Fine Arts) where Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino are influential
• Art before the conquest were everyday expressions and integrated within rituals
• Earliest forms of theater/rituals

  1. Mayvanuvanua (Batanes) - fishing season of dibang (flying fish)

  2. Cañao or Kanyaw (Cordillera Administrative Region) - officiated by a shaman or mumbaki, animal sacrifice with divination

  3. Kashawing (Lake Lanao of Mindanao) - ritual for abundance during rice planting and harvesting

  4. Tagbanwa (Palawan) - shamans go into a trance amidst ritual chanting and dancing
• Ethnic Musical Instruments


  • Kudyapi (a three-stringed guitar)
  • Kulintang (an array of bossed gongs)
  • Gansa (flat gong)
  • Agong (a large bossed gong)
• Native Dance Forms


  • Pangalay (Sulu) - Mimetic dance of seabirds
  • Kinabua of Mandaya - Movements of eagle
  • Banog-banog of the Higaonon and B'laan - Courtship dance portraying the flight of birds
  • Man manok (Bago Tribe) - Dance dramatizing competing roosters
  • Talip (Ifugaos) - Movements of wild fowls
  • Inamong of Matigsalugs and Kadaliwas (T’boli) - Represent comedic movements of monkeys
  • Tinikling (Tagalog) - Movements of the crane balancing itself on stilt-like legs or flitting away from bamboo traps
• Carving


  • Bulul (Cordillera)
• Movements of wild fowls

  • Inamong of Matigsalugs and Kadaliwas (T’boli)
• Comedic movements of monkey

  • Inamong of Matigsalugs and Kadaliwas (T’boli)
• Tinikling


  • Movements of the crane balancing itself on stilt-like legs or flitting away from the clutches of bamboo traps
• Carving


  • Bulul (Cordillera)
  • Hagabi (Ifugao)
• Bulul (Cordillera)


  • Granary god that plays important role in rituals
  • Anthropomorphic bulul appears in containers bowls and spoons
• Hagabi (Ifugao)


  • Wooden bench that marks the socio-economic status of the owner
• Locations known for carving santos

  • Paete Laguna
  • Betis Pampanga
• Decorations in woodcarving in Southern Philippines

  • Okir
• Sarimanok


  • Stylized design of a bird holding a fish in its beak and/or standing on a base in the shape of a fish
• Naga


  • Elaborate mythical serpent or dragon with a vigorous S-curve and numerous curvilinear motifs to suggest its scales
• Pako rabong


  • Stylized growing fern with a broad base gracefully tapering upwards
• The sarimanok and naga


  Found in the panolong
• Torogan


  The extended floor beam, and the interior beams and posts of the large sultan’s house
• Art before colonization includes the Manunggul Jar (Manunggul Cave Lipunan Point Palawan) from the Late Neolithic Period with two anthropomorphic or human forms atop the lid
• Metal Age produced another type of anthropomorphic jars where the human figure is more pronounced with the lid as the head and the base as the body
• Types of pottery


  • Palayok (clay pot) for cooking
  • Banga and tapayan (clay pot) for storing liquids
• In Vigan Ilocos, the making of burnay pottery continues as a lively tradition
• Respicio: '"Textile weaving has a long history, Philippine ethnolinguistic groups have a rich textile weaving tradition"'
• Textiles are not only functional, they also impart knowledge about people's belief systems and the society's sociopolitical structure
• Woven textiles


  • Pis syabit
  • Malong
• Weaving


  • Tepo Mat
  • Ovaloid Baskets
  • Bubo
• Tattoos


  • Visayas “Islas de los Pintados”
  • Kalinga, Kankanay, Ibaloy, and Ifugao
• Jewelry


  • T'boli for wearing brass chains, bells, and colorful beads