POP CULTURE

ARTS IN THE
PHILLIPINES
 What is art?
• IT IS A DIVERSE RANGE OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN
CREATING VISUAL, AUDITORY OR PERFORMING
ARTIFACTS (ARTWORKS), EXPRESSING THE AUTHOR'S
IMAGINATIVE, CONCEPTUAL IDEAS, OR TECHNICAL
SKILL, INTENDED TO BE APPRECIATED FOR THEIR
BEAUTY OR EMOTIONAL POWER.

THE EXPRESSION OR APPLICATION OF HUMAN

CREATIVE SKILL AND IMAGINATION, TYPICALLY IN A
VISUAL FORM SUCH AS PAINTING OR SCULPTURE,
PRODUCING WORKS TO BE APPRECIATED PRIMARILY
FOR THEIR BEAUTY OR EMOTIONAL POWER.

THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF CREATIVE ACTIVITY,

SUCH AS PAINTING, MUSIC, LITERATURE, AND
DANCE.
 HISTORY OF ARTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
BRANCES OF ARTS:
PAINTING
MUSIC
DANCE
DRAWING
SCULPTURE
THEATRE
SOCIAL MEDIA ARTS
 HISTORY OF ART PAINTING
I. ARTISTIC PAINTINGS WERE INTRODUCED TO FILIPINOS IN THE 16TH CENTURY
WHEN THE SPANIARDS ARRIVED. IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, WEALTHIER,
EDUCATED FILIPINOS INTRODUCED MORE SECULAR FILIPINO ART, CAUSING ART
IN THE PHILIPPINES TO DEVIATE FROM RELIGIOUS MOTIFS.

DAMIÁN DOMINGO Y GABOR (FEBRUARY 12, 1796 – JULY 26, 1834) WAS THE
FATHER OF PHILIPPINE PAINTING. DOMINGO ESTABLISHED THE OFFICIAL
PHILIPPINE ART ACADEMY IN HIS RESIDENCE IN TONDO IN 1821.

THE SPANIARDS USED PAINTINGS AS RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA TO SPREAD

CATHOLICISM THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES. THESE PAINTINGS, APPEARING
MOSTLY ON CHURCH WALLS, FEATURED RELIGIOUS FIGURES APPEARING IN
CATHOLIC TEACHINGS.
GUILLERMO TOLENTINO
HE IS CONSIDER AS THE “FATHER OF PHILIPPINE ARTS” BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT WORKS
LIKE THE FAMOUS “BONIFACIO MONUMENT” SYMBOLIZING FILIPINOS CRY FOR
FREEDOM LOCATED IN INTERSECTION OF EDSA AND RIZAL AVENUE AND “THE
OBLATION” IN UP SIGNIFYING ACADEMIC FREEDOM . GUILLERMO TOLENTINO WAS
BORN IN MALOLOS, BULACAN.

FERNANDO AMORSOLO (1892-1972)

LABELLED THE COUNTRY’S FIRST NATIONAL ARTIST IN 1972 BY THEN PRESIDENT
MARCOS, FERNANDO AMORSOLO IS OFTEN KNOWN AS THE ‘GRAND OLD MAN OF
PHILIPPINE ART’.
THE FRUIT GATHERER, 1950 FERNANDO AMORSOLO
JOSÉ JOYA (1931-1995)
A FILIPINO PIONEER OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, MULTI-MEDIA PAINTER
JOSÉ JOYA USES BOLD AND VIBRANT COLOURS WITH A VARIETY OF PAINTING
TECHNIQUES, LAYERING, LOOSE IMPASTO STROKES AND CONTROLLED DRIPS.
HIS MOST NOTABLE PAINTING FROM 1958, CALLED GRANADEAN
ARABESQUE, IS A LARGE SCALE YELLOW HUED MURAL THAT FEATURES
CLUSTERS OF SAND AND IMPASTO. IT CAN BE VIEWED AT THE ATENEO ART
GALLERY IN MANILA.
GRANADEAN ARABESQUE, 1958
ANG KIUKOK (1935-2005)
BORN TO CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, ANG KIUKOK IS THE PIONEER OF
PHILIPPINE MODERN FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM. REWARDED AS THE
COUNTRY’S NATIONAL ARTIST IN 2001, HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIAL FIGURES ON THE LOCAL ART SCENE FROM THE
1960S UNTIL HIS DEATH FROM CANCER IN 2005.
HIS NOTABLE WORKS ARE REPRESENTED IN THE CULTURAL CENTER OF THE
PHILIPPINES, THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF TAIPEI AND THE
NATIONAL MUSEUM IN SINGAPORE.
'THE FISHERMEN', 1981 © ANG KIUKOK
HISTORY OF MUSIC ART
MUSIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ARE PERFORMANCE ARTS COMPOSED IN
VARIOUS GENRE AND STYLES. THE MUSIC OF THE PHILIPPINES IS A
MIXTURE OF INDIGENOUS, OTHER ASIAN, EUROPEAN, LATIN
AMERICAN, AND AMERICAN INFLUENCES.

GONG MUSIC
PHILIPPINE GONG MUSIC CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO TYPES: THE FLAT GONG
COMMONLY KNOWN AS GANGSA AND PLAYED BY INDIGENOUS GROUPS IN
THE CORDILLERA REGION OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES AND THE BOSSED
GONGS PLAYED AMONG THE ISLAM AND ANIMIST GROUPS IN THE
SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES.
HARANA AND KUNDIMAN

THE HARANA AND KUNDIMAN ARE LYRICAL SONGS POPULAR IN THE

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS DATING BACK TO THE SPANISH PERIOD. HARANA
ARE TRADITIONAL COURTSHIP SONGS IN THE MEXICAN-SPANISH
TRADITION BASED ON THE HABANERA RHYTHM WHILE THE
KUNDIMAN, WHICH HAS PRE-COLONIAL ORIGINS FROM THE TAGALOG
REGION, USES TRIPLE METER RHYTHM. KUNDIMAN IS ALSO
CHARACTERIZED BY A MINOR KEY AT THE BEGINNING AND SHIFTS TO
A MAJOR KEY IN THE SECOND HALF. ITS LYRICS DEPICT A ROMANTIC
THEME, USUALLY PORTRAYING LOVE, PASSION, OR SADNESS.
 Philippine Choral Music
In the forefront of choral music in the Philippines, the Philippine
Madrigal Singers has from its ranks produced more than 200 choral
arrangers and composers who have contributed to the wealth of
Philippines choral literature. They are the first and only two-time
champions in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing (1997, and
2007), widely considered the most prestigious choral competition in the
world.