CPAR

• Traditional techniques in creating arts

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Dance
  • Architecture
  • Music
  • Textile
• There are places in the Philippines which are famous because of the extraordinary or unusual but special products that they produce
• These products become the instruments in spreading the news about this places
• These people use traditional techniques in creating one particular art or maybe more which make them famous and draw people to these places
• Manunggul Jar


  An example of a burial jar with red chip (clay mixed with water) designs embellished on the ritual pottery of the Philippines
• Evidence of pottery making in the country

  • Sanga-Sanga, Sulu
  • Laurente Cave in Cagayan
• How pottery began

  1. Making of earthenware articles for domestic use as a cooking vessel and storage container

  2. Hand-molding or the use of paddle and vessel in building the walls of pots

  3. Incised designs also appeared in the pots in Masbate
• Among the finest of early Philippine pottery designs

  • Footed dishes that were decorated with geometric cut-outs, molding, cording or finger impressions, most of these were made in Batangas
• Pottery traditions that have been maintained

  • Burnay Unglazed Clay pottery of Vigan
  • Pottery of Leyte
  • Pottery of Bohol
• Early Filipinos were referred to as the Pintados or the "Painted People" of Visayas due to their tattoo tradition
• Elito Circa


  Popularly known as "Amang Pintor", gained recognition by using his hair to make his paint brushes and reigns his painting with his blood on the right side corner
• Itneg people


  Known for their intricate woven fabrics
• Gaddang people


  Known for their "Binakol" which features designs that incorporate optical illusions woven fabrics usually bright red tones, and headed ornamentation
• Ilongot people


  Make jewelry from pearl, red horn-bill beak, plants, and metals
• Lumad people in Mindanao skilled in art of dying abaca fiber


  • B'lan
  • Mandaga
  • Mansaka
  • T'boli
• Ikat


  A method of dying abaca fiber into cloth with geometric patterns depicting human, animal, and plant leaves
• Sarimanok


  A well-known design representing a fowl with wings, feathered tail and a head decorated with ornaments of scrolled and painted motif of leaves, spiral and feather-like forms, usually stands on a fish with another one hanging from its beak, perched atop a bamboo pole and stands among decorative flags during weddings and other festive occasions
• Hagabi


  A wooden chair of Ifugao, symbolizing the wealth and power of the owner called "Kadanagyan" or a person who belongs to the higher status in their society, made of Narra or Ipil-Ipil with an original design called "Ginulding-Gulding" meaning like a goat-like head, and may have different shapes on one end called "Ngiwi" like the head of an animal with an elongated nose and two big ears
• Artistic styles of Islamic Art

  • Carved-line Woodcarving, and metal working called "Okir"
  • Geometric tapestries
• Okir


  An artistic style associated with men, featuring elaborate markings with a boat like imaging and dominant scroll and spiral forms
• Okir-a-Bay


  An artistic style associated with women, featuring dominant zigzag and angular forms
• Malong


  A popular style of clothing, with the land cap either dominantly red, yellow, green, blue or violet, with red and yellow being the favorite colors standing for royalty or aristocracy
• Bagobo people


  • Proud people with proto Malayan features, noted for their skills in producing brass articles through the ancient lost-wax process, weaving abaca cloths of earth tones, making baskets trimmed with beads, fibers and horse's hair, and producing skillfully carved weapons like the Kampilan
• Kut-Kut Art


  A technique combining Oriental and European art process like Sgraffito and encaustic, practiced by the indigenous people of Samar, characterized by delicate swirling interweaved lines, multi-layered texture and an illusion of three-dimensional space
• The early music of the Philippines featured a mixture of indigenous Islamic and a variety of Asian sounds
• Spanish settlers and Filipinos played a variety of musical instruments, including flutes, guitar, ukulele, violin, trumps, and drums, and performed songs and dances to celebrate festive occasions
• By the 21st century, many of the folk songs and dances have remained intact all throughout the Philippines
• Modern day Philippines music genres

  • Filipino rock
  • Filipino hip-hop
  • Filipino folk music
• Philippine folk dances

  • Tinikling
  • Cariñosa
  • Singkil
• The Spaniards introduced stones as housing and building materials, and the introduction of Christianity brought European Churches and architecture which subsequently became the center of most towns and cities
• Places where Spanish architecture can be found

  • Intramuros Manila
  • Vigan
  • Lipa Batangas
  • Ilo-Ilo
  • Jaro
  • Zamboanga City
  • Bacolod
• Nipa hut (Bahay-Kubo)


  The most common form of housing among the native Filipinos, characterized by the use of simple materials such as Bamboo and coconut as the main source of wood, and Cogon grass, nipa palm leaves and coconut fronds as roof thatching
• Most primitive homes are built on stilts due to frequent flooding during the rainy season
• Regional variations include the use of thicker and dense roof thatching in mountain areas
• The architecture of other indigenous people may be characterized by an angular wooden roof, bamboo is placed leafy thatching and ornate wooden carvings
• Contemporary architecture has a distinctively western style although Pre-Hispanic housing is still common in rural areas
• American style suburban gated communities are popular in the cities, including Manila and the surrounding provinces
• Islamic and often Asian architecture are depicted on buildings such as Mosque and Temples