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• Sedition law banned the writing, printing, and publication of materials advocating Philippine Independence
• Drama Simbolico are one-act plays that represent a deep yearning for freedom
• Drama Simbolico

  • Tanikalang Guinto
  • Hindi Ako Patay
  • Kahapon Ngayon at Bukas
  • A Modern Filipina
• Hindi Ako Patay was written

  1902
• Kahapon Ngayon at Bukas was written

  1903
• A Modern Filipina, the first English play, was written

  1915
• Vaudeville is a collection of slapstick, songs, dances, comedy skits, etc.
• New Urban Design


  • Employed Neoclassic architecture for government edifices, integrated parks and lawns to make the city attractive
• Architects

  • Tomas Mapua
  • Juan Arellano
  • Andres Luna de San Pedro
  • Antonio Toledo
• Landscape paintings became cherished travel souvenirs
• Landscape paintings

  • Planting Rice
  • El Kundiman
• Planting Rice was painted

  1921
• El Kundiman was painted

  1930
• Fabian Dela Rosa


  • Known for naturalist painting characterized by restraint, formality in brushwork, somber colors, and subject matter
• Ginebra Logo Design
• Fernando Amorsolo, a National Artist, known for romantic paintings capturing the warm glow of Philippine sunlight
• Artists of Amorsolo School

  • Irineo Miranda
  • Toribio Herrera
  • Cesar Buenavantura
  • Dominador Castaneda
  • Victorio Edades
• Victorio Edades influenced by the United States' modern art movement
• Japanese Occupation (1941-1945) slowed down modern art projects
• KALIBAPI sponsored art competitions during the Japanese Occupation
• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere promoted a Pan-Asia identity rejecting Western traditions
• Harvest Scene was painted

  1942
• Amorsolo's arts continued to flourish during the war, showing little indication of war's atrocities
• Evocative of Semblance of peace, idealized work in the countryside and promoted values of docile industriousness
• Genre Paintings


  • Study of An Aeta
  • Amorsolo's Bombing of the Intendencia
  • Ruins of the Manila Cathedral
• Study of An Aeta was painted

  1943
• Amorsolo's Bombing of the Intendencia was painted

  1942
• Ruins of the Manila Cathedral was painted

  1945
• After 1945, works depicted the horrors of war such as Diosdado Lorenzo's Atrocities in Paco and Dominador Castaneda's Doomed family
• 1970s Contemporary cultural projects
• Amorsolo's Bombing of the Intendencia

  1942
• Ruins of the Manila Cathedral

  1945
• After 1945, works depicting the horrors of war were painted, such as Diosdado Lorenzo's Atrocities in Paco and Dominador Castaneda's Doomed family
• During the 70's Contemporary period, many cultural projects ensued under the Marcoses
• Under Martial Marcos, a New Society or Bagong Lipunan was envisioned
• Aspects of the New Society

  • Rebirth of a long lost civilization
  • Aspiration to modernization and development
• Cultural Center of the Philippines is the premier bureaucratic entity for art acquisition, exhibition making, workshops, grants, and awards
• Folk Arts Theater hosted the 1974 Miss Universe Pageant
• Philippine International Convention Center hosted the 1976 IMF-World Bank Conference
• Tahanang Pilipino or Coconut Palace was used for the Papal Visit