Various Art Forms in Philippines

• Painting introduced by Spaniards

  16th century
• Painting


  The process of applying color on a flat surface
• Forms of painting

  • Watercolor
  • Acrylic
  • Ink
  • Oil
  • Pastel
  • Charcoal
• Surfaces for painting

  • Wood
  • Canvas
  • Cardboard
  • Paper
• Painting is considered two-dimensional, meaning it only has height and width
• Easel Painting


  • The most common form of painting which involves applying color to a board or canvas that is fixed on an upright support called an easel
  • Meant to be framed and hanged on a wall after creating them
  • Examples: Landscape and Portrait
• Mural Painting


  • A piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface
  • A huge wall-sized painting used to impact messages to the public
  • Example: Heaven, Earth, and Hell (1850) a mural in Paete Church, Laguna
• Telon Painting


  A backdrop or background for the stage which are used for komedya, sarswela, and sinakulo, the popular forms of theater in the country
• Collage Painting


  • A form of painting that involves combine images in a single artwork
  • This entails cutting and pasting materials such as paper, fabric, tin foil and other relatively flat materials onto a board or canvas
• Calesa Painting


  Typically painted using one color with its borders decorated with geometric patterns, repetitive patterns, and/or thin lines
• Jeepney Painting


  • Evolved from Calesa painting
  • Includes a logo, number, or painting is covered near the driver's seat, as well as near the seats adjacent to it
• Dance


  The movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself
• Banga

  • Illustrates the grace and strength of women in the Kalinga tribe of the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR)
  • Involves balancing heavy pots on their heads while dancing
  • Originates in Kalinga Apayao
• Lumagen/Tachok

  • Performed to celebrate happy occasions
  • Meant to symbolize flying birds and musically paired with gongs
  • Originates in Kalinga Apayao
• Salisid

  • Dance to show courtship
  • A male and a female performer represent a rooster attempting to attract a hen
  • Originates from Kalinga Apayao
• Malakas at Maganda

  • National folklore dance
  • Tells the origin of the Filipino people in the islands
• Tinikling Dance

  • Cultural Dance
  • Originates from Leyte, Region 8
  • Take two long bamboo sticks rapidly and in rhythm, clap sticks
  • for dancers to artistically and daringly try to avoid getting their feet caught between them.
• War Dance

  •A dance involving mock combat, usually about tribal warrior societies was performed as a ritual connected with endemic warfare.
• Maglalatik Dance

  • An all-male dance with coconut shells used as props.
  • Originated in Laguna.
  • Usually performed during religious processions at the town fiesta of Binan
• Binaylan Dance

  • A mimetic dance
  • Tells the story of a hen, the hen's baby, and a hawk.
  • In this dance, the hawk is said to control a tribe's well-being and is killed by hunters after attempting to harm the hen's baby
  • Originated from the CARAGA region
• Pangalay Dance

  • A mimetic dance
  • Traditional Tausug dance from Sulu/Tawi-Tawi, Bangsamoro
  • Commonly referred to as the fingernail dance
  • This is usually performed during weddings and other festive
  • celebrations.
  • Characterized by elaborate body postures and gestures and the graceful arm movements
• Singkil Dance

  • A mimetic dance
  • Originated from Lanao del Sur, Bangsamoro
  • Four bamboo sticks arranged in a tic-tac-toe pattern in which these dancers exploit every position of these clashing sticks.
  • This is identifiable with the use of umbrellas and silk clothing.
• Weaving


  A method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth
• Other textile production methods

  • Knitting
  • Crocheting
  • Felting
  • Braiding or plaiting
• Weft, woof, or filling


  The lateral threads in weaving
• Weft


  An old English word meaning "that which is woven"
• Textile Weaving


  Creating interweaving a series of parallel vertical threads with another series of horizontal threads at right angles

  • Example: Malong Malong
• Mat Weaving


  The art of plaiting strips of organic fibers into mats
• Banig


  Mats that are cool, light, and portable compared to fixed beds
• Basketry


  Creating containers by plaiting, or braiding materials into hollow three-dimensional shapes that can be used for carrying, storage, and trapping animals
• Kalakat sheets


  • Cheap but durable construction material
  • Cool and insulator characteristic
  • Environment friendly as it utilizes an agricultural waste material
• Kalakat is famous in Mindanao and useful in many ways like ceiling and walling in a traditional house of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs)
• Kalakat Weaving

  • the process used on the oil palm fronds into finished product is thru pruning the green stalk, then splitting and cleaning the fronds, drying, weaving and cutting or trimming the edges
• Sculpture is a branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
• Warp

  • Longitudinal threads used in textile weaving
• Free Standing Sculpture


  • Can independently stand in space
  • Has a flat horizontal base made of metal, wood, stone, or glass
  • All its sides contribute to the overall form of the sculpture
• Free Standing Sculpture


  • Statue of Lapu-Lapu
• Assemblage Sculpture


  • Formed by putting together materials such as found objects, pieces of paper, sponges, wood scraps, and other materials
• Kinetic Sculpture


  • Sculpture in motion
  • The entire sculpture or some parts of the sculpture are moving with the wind or are vibrating with the surrounding air
• Welded Sculptures


  • Created by connecting sheets of metal together using an acetylene or electric torch