AMERICAN- CONTEMPORARY

• Sedition law banned the writing, printing, and publication of materials advocating Philippine Independence
• Drama Simbolico


  One-act play came to represent a deep and profound yearning for freedom
• Drama Simbolico


  • Tanikalang Guinto or Golden Chain by Juan Abad (1902)
  • Hindi Ako Patay or I am not Dead by Juan Matapang Cruz (1903)
  • Kahapon Ngayon at Bukas by Aurelio Tolentino
• Vaudeville


  • Motley collection of slapstick, songs, dances, acrobatics, comedy skits, chorus girls, magic acts, and stand-up comic acts
• New Urban Design


  • Employed Neoclassic architecture for government edifices and integrated parks and lawns to make the city attractive by making its buildings impressive and places more inviting for leisure amid urban light
• Architecture


  • Tomas Mapua, Juan Arellano, Andres Luna de San Pedro, and Antonio Toledo
• Paintings - Landscape


  • Became cherished travel souvenirs
• Fabian Dela Rosa


  • Known for his naturalist painting characterized by restraint and formality in brushwork, choice of somber colors, and subject matter
• Paintings - Fabian Dela Rosa


  • Planting Rice 1921
  • El Kundiman 1930
• Fernando Amorsolo


  • 1972 National Artist known for his romantic paintings that captured the warm glow of the Philippine sunlight
• Paintings - Fernando Amorsolo

  • Ginebra Logo Design
  • Amorsolo School
• Paintings - Victorio Edades


  • The Builders
• Guillermo Tolentino


  • National Artist (1973) sculptor studied Fine Arts in Rome and was influenced by classical tradition
• Guillermo Tolentino Sculptures


  • Oblation 1935 original 1958
  • Bonifacio Monument 1933
• Napoleon Abueva


  • National Artist modern artist who has worked with a variety of mediums from hardwood to precious alabaster
• Modern Art project slowed down during the Japanese Occupation (1941-1945)
• Art competitions sponsored by KALIBAPI

  • Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a propaganda movement that sought to create a Pan-Asia identity rejecting Western traditions
• Slogans like “Asia for Asia”


  Made its way to the public through posters, ephemera, comics, and Japanese sponsored publications such as Shin-Seki, Liwayway, and Tribune
• Amorsolo Paintings


  • Harvest Scene 1942
  • Rice Planting 1942
• Amorsolo Paintings


  • Evocative of semblance of peace, idealized work in the countryside, and promoted values of docile
• Amorsolo Paintings


  • Harvest Scene 1942
  • Rice Planting 1942
• Amorsolo's arts showed little or no indication of war's atrocities and continued to be favored
• Amorsolo Paintings


  • Evocative of semblance of peace, idealized work in the countryside, promoted values of docile industriousness
• Sa Kabukiran is Sylvia La Torre's hit song written in Tagalog in the 1940s by the acclaimed composer Levi Celerio, National Artist for Music and Literature awarded in 1997
• His Excellency, Jorge B. Vargas, was Chairman of the Philippine Executive Commission in 1943
• His Excellency, Premier Tojo: '“Independence this Year” 1943'
• Types of Paintings


  • Genre Paintings
  • Showed indigenous and pre-colonial traditions
  • Portraits of ethnolinguistic groups
  • Scenes of war that remained neutral focusing on the aesthetic qualities of ruin and disaster
• Scenes of war paintings

  • Amorsolo's Bombing of the Intendencia 1942
  • Ruins of the Manila Cathedral 1945
• Post-1945 war paintings


  • Diosdado Lorenzo's Atrocities in Paco
  • Dominador Castaneda's Doomed family
• Many cultural projects ensued during the helm of the Marcoses in the 1970s
• Under Martial Marcos


  Envisioned a New Society or Bagong Lipunan
• Aspects of Bagong Lipunan

  • Rebirth of a long lost civilization
  • Aspiration to modernization and development
• Cultural Center of the Philippines is the premier bureaucratic entity through which art acquisition, exhibition making, workshops, grants, and awards were implemented
• Components of CCP Complex

  • Folk Arts Theater (1974 Miss Universe Pageant)
  • Philippine International Convention Center (1976 IMF-World Bank Conference)
  • Tahanang Filipino or Coconut Palace (Papal Visit)
  • Manila Film Center (Manila International Film Festival)
• National Arts Center in Mt. Makiling was designed by Architect Leandro Locsin appropriated the style of vernacular houses like the Ifugao fale
• Coconut Palace was designed by Architect Francisco Manosca utilized indigenous building materials and fashioned the roof to look like a salakot