CPAR Lesson 5

• Contemporary art - represents the recent or present art.
• Traditional art - represents the historical culture, skills and knowledge.
• Sculpture - is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
• Carving and modelling - originaly used in durable sculpture processes, using stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials.
• Modernism - during this time there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process in sculpture.
• Higantes - also known as "taka" in Paete, Laguna. Measures 10 to 12 feet in height.
• Manunggul jar - it is a burial jar made from clay with some sand soil.
• The two prominent figures at the top handle of the manunggul jar represent the "journey of the soul to the afterlife"
• Bohol blood compact - made by Napoleon Abueva. A Sikatuna-Legaspi blood compact.
• Painting - is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas or wall. Is also used to express spiritual motifs

  and ideas
• Bigas - an artwork by Nestor Leynes. It shows early times routine and traditional way of preparing food. It unfolds the simplicity of living back in the days when this painting was created.
• Genre painting - showing the lives of town folks, legends, and traditions, that stayed in the Philippines' contemporary period.
• Mural - any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surfaces. A distinguishing characteristic it is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.
• Decorative arts - arts or crafts whose objective is to design and manufacture objects that are both beautiful and functional. It includes interior design, but not usually architecture.
• Cloth weaving - one of the most valuable living traditions that are still preserved until this day.
• Piña clothing - It is commonly used in the well known Barong Tagalog, the traditional Philippine Clothes for Filipino Men. Created through looms everywhere in the province of Antique. A fine and elegant handwoven fabric that is produced from the fibers of pineapple plants.
• Jewelry making - is another demonstration of the skilled craftsmanship of Filipinos that dates back during the pre-colonial period.
• Bagay - a form of poetry that uses colloquial language and is built on concrete images which tend to describe tendencies.
• Ang Bayang Malaya - is a long narrative piece about a peasant leader with oppression and fighting for human rights being the main theme which is written by Amado V. Hernandez.
• Spoken word poetry - is a poetic performance art that is word-based. It is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play such as  voice inflection.
• With the development of Pinoy pop, Manila sound was born. This music is Western-derived with English lyrics but with pure Filipino spirit. Later on, the Original Pilipino Music (OPM) became popular.
• The OPM was followed by another form of popular music called “alternative music”.
• Theatre or theater - is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live nperformers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
• Bodabil - Another presentational style of stage plays highlights discussion of social ideas since realistic portrayal is prohibited during the Marcos regime. This style made use of dance, song, and mime to summon the ideas from audience.
• Philippine dance - has played a tremendous role in Filipino culture. From none of the oldest dated dances called the Tinikling, to other folkloric dances such as the Pandanggo, Cariñosa, and Subli, and even to more modern-day dances like the ballet.
• Tinikling - is a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated during the Spanish colonial era. The dance involves two people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance.
• Cariñosa - a Philippine dance of colonial era origin from the Maria Clara suite of Philippine folk dances, where the fan or handkerchief plays an instrumental role as it places the couple in romance scenario.