RESEARCHES ON VARIOUS
CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS
Philippine Art Timeline Highlights
PRE COLONIAL ART PERIOD Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
(6185BC – 1520 AD) Espinosa Ranch Site, Cagayan 16000-
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) 8000 BC . The proof of earliest man’s
Age of Horticulture/ presence was
Neolithic Period recovered from a ranch site in Cagayan
Metal Age Province-two flake tools dated about 9
Iron Age million years, the oldest man-made object
associated with the fossils of a
proboscidean, a prehistoric elephant.
Other flake tools are recovered in Tabon
Caves, Palawan and some stone tools in
Bolobok Cave, Sanga-Sanga in Tawi-Tawi.
Philippine Art Timeline Highlights
Shell Bracelets and Pendants (Neolithic)
Cagayan, Palawan, and Sorsogon 4854
BC
Shells were fashioned into tools, as well
as
ornaments. The oldest known ornaments
made from cone shells were found in the
early 1960’s in the grave of an adult
male
in Duyong Cave in Palawan. A shell disk
with a hole in the center was found next
to
his right ear and a disk with a hole by
the
edge was found on his chest. The shell
ornaments were dated 4854 B.C.
Philippine Art Timeline Highlights
Agono Petroglyphs are oldest
known work of art in the
Philippines located in the
province of Rizal. There are
127 human and animal figures
engraved on the rockwall
probably carved during the
late Neolithic (3000 BC).
Philippine Art Timeline Highlights
Lingling-o (2000 BC – 1000 AD)
Duyong
Cave, Palawan, a kind of ear
pendant
fashioned from green nephrite
(jade) is the
characteristic trait of the Early Metal
Age.
One of the finest jade ornaments
found to
date is the double- headed pendant
recovered from Duyong Cave,
Palawan. It is
an example of the superb
craftsmanship of
Philippine Art Timeline Highlights
Manunggul Jar Burial jar excavated
from a
Neolithic burial site in Manunggul
cave of
Tabon Cave at Lipuun Point at
Palawan
dating from 890–710 B.C.
Maitum Jar (Metal Age: 190 BC to
500
AD)
In 1991, the National Museum
archaeological team discovered
anthropomorphic secondary burial
jars in
The La Pintura is a painting by Félix
Resurrección Hidalgo done in the style of
Impressionism. The painting depicts a
woman holding an paintbrush while
turning back to the viewer, as she gazes
towards an unfinished canvas.
Two Filipino Art Style
developed during the
Spanish Era
• Miniaturismo art style that
pays attention to the
embroidery and texture of
the costume.
• Letras y Figuras art style
that fuses letters with figures
in every day activity amidst
a common
background. Usually used in
painting a patron’s full name
AMERICAN COLONIAL ART PERIOD
(1898-1946)
The American brought in Education and
Values Formation, with both following the
“American way of life” (Alice Guillermo,
Sining Biswal, 1994, p. 4)
• Art Illustration, Advertising and
Commercial Design gained popularity and
incorporated in Fine Arts.
• Painting themes still largely favored
Genre Paintings, Landscapes and Still Life.
Portraits are reserved for high ranking
officials with a more academic approach to
make the subject more formal.
Philippine Post Modern Art (1970 –1980s)
The support of the Philippine Government for the arts via the
creation of the Cultural Center of the Philippines during 1969
gave a venue for all artists to experiment and explore different
art medium tying closely to the Post Modern Art Period of the
West with Pop Art, Installation Art, Performance Art, dominating
the scene. In contrast, social realism became a heavy theme by
most Filipino Artist as a social commentary of the problem
brewing in the Philippine political and social landscape.
Philippine Contemporary Art (1980s to
Present)
It was on the on-set of the sudden rise of
personal computers and new technology
created a new art medium for the arts
and human expression. But there were
also countless revivals of old styles being
done. This started a new direction for the
arts thus, setting the name momentarily,
the Philippine Contemporary Period
Modern art is characterized by the
artist's intent to portray a subject as it
exists in the world, according to his or
her unique perspective and is typified by
a rejection of accepted or traditional
styles and values.
Postmodern art is a body
of art movements that
sought to contradict some
aspects of modernism or
some aspects that
emerged or developed in its
aftermath. In general,
movements such as
intermedia, installation art,
conceptual art and
multimedia, particularly
involving video are
DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS OF
ART FORMS
By the Audience - focus on how audience classify arts
Performing Arts - involves the use of an artist’s body as a
medium; an art form that requires movement from one place
to another (e.g. plays, movies, live music, movies/TV shows,
operas, mimes, puppet shows, acrobatics, dances, and
ballets)
Visual Arts - usually exists in two-dimensional form and stays
in one place; something that we see and hear
Sculptural - a three-dimensional form that we can touch, see,
and climb. It stays in one place. (e.g. monuments,
architectural designs, rice terraces, rock gardens, Eiffel Tower,
Statue of Liberty, flower gardens, water fountains, and
buildings)
