Styles of Philippine Art

• Christian Philippine Art


  Works of sculpture and paintings that have developed after the introduction of the Christian religion by the Spaniards
• Secular Art


  Art that originated outside the confines of the Spanish Christian Church, mostly meant for the illustrado class
• Romantic Realism


  • Shows an aspect of beauty
  • Subjects are the idyllic and exotic rural sceneries
• Modernism


  Western Art and interpreted it in the local contexts in terms of the subjects as well as artistic forms
• Social Realism


  The art that depicted the social reality in the country during the Martial Law years
• Magic Realism


  Subjects are taken from the everyday lives of people; suggest a fascination with the ordinary
• Prehistoric Art


  • Angono Petroglyphs (Cave painting found in Rizal province)
• Indigenous Art


  • Art by the indigenous people and ethnic groups
  • Expressions of religious belief
  • Used for rituals and ceremonies