Plastic Arts

• Plastic Arts - art forms involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics.
• Plastic art (sculptural art) - visual art form in which 3 dimensional objects are crafted from various materials.
• Eduardo Mutuc - "Silver plating of Relegious and Secular Art"

  -Kapampangan / Apalit, Pampanga, Central Luzon island, northern philippines
• Teofilo Garcia - "Tabungaw Hat"

  -Ilocano / San Quintin, Abra 2012
• Tabungaw hats - also known as kattukong - hats made from bottle gourds and white pumpkins.

  top halves of the vegetables are used to make the hats and the bottom halves can be used to make storage containers.
• FACTORS AFFECTING THE TRADITIONAL ARTIST'S PRODUCTION PROCESS:

  1. Tourism
  2. Mining & Infrastructure projects
  3. Militarization
  4. Christianization
• Tourism - land areas are converted into sites for tourist

  • Dances and rituals are staged