Contemporary Philippine

Arts From The Regions

 Crafts from the Folk and Indigrenous
People in the Country

Weaving
One the most traditional methods of fabric production. Using two
known sets of thread that are knitted at right angle to create an essential
fabric or cloth. Hand-weaved clothes in some of our regions are
considered by many Filipinos as an art. Weaved crafts also represent our
country’s art and culture that is why this usually caught most of the
tourists’ attraction. Famous craftsman in the field of weaving is
recognized by our country and given the National Living Treasures
Award or Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (Crafts).
List of National Living Treasures
for Crafts of Weaving
• She became famous because of her abaca
Lang Dulay fiber that is weaved into T’nalak cloth
1928-2015
woven by T’boli women which usually
Awarded: 1998
symbolizes birth, life, union in marriage
and death, and shows the uniqueness and
identity of their indigenous group.

• Her artistic designs become a national

living treasure. Her widely known designs
are: kabangi( butterfly), bankiring (hair
bangs), and the bulinglangit(clouds).
 Darhata Sawabi
Birth year unknown;
died: 2005
Awarded:2005 Her textile is famous in Sulu as pis syabit, a
customized hood that is worn by Filipino
Tausugs. . The weaver strings threads
through the frame of banana and bamboo to
form the tapestry’s base. But what makes her
an outstanding artist among any others is
her choice of colours, consistency of weave,
and use of traditional designs. Due to this,
Tausug designs has caught the attention of
Filipinos as well as foreign artists around the
world.
Haja Anima Appi
1925-2013
Awarded: 2005

Well known as the master mat weaver in

her small community of Ungos Matata,
Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi. Through her sasa
and kima-kima designed with her intricate
geometric arrangements and sensitivity to
colors, Appi was highly esteemed by her
community.
Magdalena Gamayo
1924- Magdalena Gamayo’s works are of the
Awarded: 2012 finest quality. She blends complex designs
using extreme count of threads. In addition,
her accurateness in color spacing is what
makes her abel, a traditional blanketsought
after by her consumers. She became an
expert in using sinan-sabong (flowers),
kusikos(spirals), and the binakol inuritan
(geometric) patterns to her crafts. Her
outstanding work continues to flourish in
contemporary art that is now well known as
weaving tradition in Ilocos.
 Traditional Textiles in the
Philippines

Aklanon Pina Fabric -Bisaya’s red pineapple leaves is where Aklanon’s pina
fabric is extracted. Known for their floral or vegetal designs on the crossed woods.
This fabric material is most commonly preferred for our well known barong Tagalog.

Kiniray-a and Hiligaynon’s Hablon Fabric - Hiligaynon root word

hablon which means “to weave” and in their word it simply means something woven.
This kind of weave is usually plain and has striped and plaid designs. This fabric is
used for Visayan’s wraparound skirt patadyong and panuelo.

Maranaw Textile- – Maranaw of Lanao Del Norte and Lanao Del Sur is known for
their malong, a lower garment that is used in most Filipino cultural occasions. This is
made by using langkit, a specialised kind of heavy handwoven reversible textile.
Traditional Textiles in the Philippines
Week 2 Day 2
Philippines Influential Writers
Ginaw Bilog
1953-2003
Awarded: 1993 He is known in preserving the poetic
literature ambahan which is constructed of
seven syllable lines that used methapors and
imagery in conveying its messages lining up
from advice, courtship and to farewell.
FromMansalay,Oriental Mindoro, Ginaw Bilog
continuously records the ambahan poetic
literature using bamboo tubes and old, worn
out notebooks given to him by his family and
friends. His way of preserving this literature
has been the reason of its existence up to
this day.
Federico Caballlero
1938-
Awarded: 2000
His recording of our dying oral tradition
of epics in a language that is no longer
spoken is his contribution in Filipino
literary arts. He travelled to many places
in the country to encourage the
indigenous elders to read and write.
Caballero is well known as bantugan,
refers to a person who has acquired
individuality. Aside from that, he manages
to distribute justice in society through
manughusay- a mediator of
disagreements. His works enable the
scholars as well as contemporary artist to
have an access to our epics that is full of
our culture and traditions.
Francisco Arcellana
1916-2002
Year Awarded: 1990
He is considered as one of the
founders of modern Filipino short
story in English. Lyrical prose-poetic
form of short stories is the one he
usually uses. His
exceptional works in fiction include
“The Other Woman”, “To Touch You,”
and “I Touched Her” which are
country’s part of secondary and
tertiary- level syllabi.
N. V. M. GONZALES
1915-1999
Year Awarded: 1997

Néstor Vicente Madali González

received numerous recognitions and
one of this is being the National Artist
for Literature. Some of his excellent
works are : The Winds of April (1941), A
season of Grace (1956), and the Bamboo
Dancers (1988). These are published in
several languages including Filipino,
English, Chinese, German, Russian and
Indonesian.
 Nick Joaquin
1917-2004
Year Awarded: 1976
Also known in his pen name Quiano de
Manila for some of his works. He started
literary journalism movement in the
Philippines literature. Literary
journalism comes closest to newspaper
and magazine writing as it is a fact-
driven reporting. He became a national
artist in 1976 and some of his
well_x0002_known works are A Portrait
of the Artist as Filipino: An Elegy in
Three Scenes, Manila, My Manila: A
History
for the Young and May Day Eve.
 considered as the 20th century most
Jose Garcia Villa
influential writer in the country. His
1908-1997 unconventional style and personality in
Year Awarded: 1973 writing has caught the attention of his
readers just like how he used comma in
every word of his poem. His style observed
to be similar with Seurat’s measured
pointillism. Pointillism is a technique in
painting wherein the use of of small,
recognizable dots of pure color for an
image to be created can be seen. But with
Jose Villa, he used it in his literary works.
One of his well-known works is Footnote to
Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others
in 1933. This is his first collection of short
stories.
 Week 2 Day 3

What is Plastic art?

Plastic arts are art forms which
involve physical manipulation of a
plastic medium by molding or
modeling such as sculpture or
ceramics. Materials for use in the
plastic arts, in the narrower
definition, include those that can
be carved or shaped, such as
stone or wood, concrete, glass, or
metal.
 HOW DOES IT STARTED IN THE
PHILIPPINES?
The best starting point in the history of Philippine art is probably the Sixteenth century,
with the implantation of Spanish sovereignty over the islands.
During the pre-Spanish period, the Philippines already enjoyed a certain degree of
civilization. The unit of social and political organization varied in size from 5 to 7,000
inhabitants, and was known as “barangay”.
• People fabricated different kinds of boats, fishing apparatus, and finished arts; they wove
textiles from abaca, pineapple, cotton, and silk which came from China; they embroidered
and carved sculptures symbolic of their ancestors whom they called “anitos”.
• “During the first period (pre-Spanish) Filipino art was but the shadow of that existing in the
Asiatic continent, eminently oriental
• Upon the implantation of Spanish sovereignty over these Islands, every vestige
of this Oriental art was swept away in the center of the Philippines Archipelago.
 Who are the artists known in this
field?
Napoleon “ Billy” Abueva  He was known as the "Father of Modern Philippine
(January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018) Sculpture" Through Proclamation No. 1539, He was
proclaimed National Artist for Sculpture in 1976 when he
was 46, making him the youngest recipient of the
award to date.
 He used almost all kinds of materials for his sculptures.
 He was the first Filipino artist to mount a one-man
exhibit at the Philippine Center in New York in 1980.
 Some of his major works include Kaganapan (1953),
Kiss of Judas (1955), Thirty Pieces of Silver, The
Transfiguration (1979), Eternal Garden Memorial
Park, UP Gateway (1967), Nine Muses (1994), UP
Faculty Center, Sunburst(1994)-Peninsula Manila
Hotel, the bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of
National Library, and murals in marble at the National
Heroes Shrine, Mt. Samat, Bataan.
 Guillermo Estrella Tolentino
 He was a Filipino sculptor and professor of the
(July 24, 1890 – July 12, 1976) UP.Became National Artist of the Philippines for Sculpture
in 1973, three years before his death.
 Tolentino joined a contest in 1930 to design the Bonifacio
Monument. He created Bonifacio's figure based on the
bone structure of Espiridiona Bonifacio, the Supremo's
surviving sister.
 In 1935, Rafael Palma, president of the UP, commissioned
Tolentino to sculpt the Oblation. He use
concrete to create the statue but it was painted to look like
bronze.
 The University of the Philippines Alumni Association
requested Tolentino on October 25, 1935 to construct an
arch commemorating the inauguration of the
Commonwealth of the Philippines but it was never built,
because of the war.
 Julie Lluch
(March 5, 1946- Present )
 One of the foremost exponents of
terracotta in the Philippines today.
 Her highly personal art finds perfect
expression in Philippine indigenous clay to
which she refers as a most “sensuous and
pleasurable” feminine medium.
 Her ideologically informed works of
sculptured women performing various
domestic chores.
 Her later works deal with spiritual themes,
particularly the Christian paradox of death
and rebirth, faith and vulnerability as depicted
in her praying women series.
 Abdulmari Asia Imao
January 14,1936- December 16,2014
 Became National Artist of the Philippines for
Sculpture in 2006.
 A Tausūg, Imao is the first Moro to receive the
recognition.
 Abdulmari Imao is known for using the okir,
sarimanok and the naga as motifs in his
artworks .
 Imao draws inspiration from Tausūg and
Maranao art.
 His Islamic faith is also a source of inspiration
in his art as evidenced in his sculptures
composed of elements of Allah's name through
Arabic calligraphy.
Charlie Co
1960
 He is the pride of Negros in
visual arts as he was born in
Bacolod.
 He is recognized internationally
because of his artworks that
represents surreal interpretation of
realities for more than 30 years.
 His works provoke and inspire
the contemporary artist to make
their artworks reflect the social
issues that we are facing.
 Week 2 Day 4
The Practices of the Artists in Performing
Arts
Because of Spanish and American conquerors that have been in our country for more than a
hundred years, it is no doubt that they greatly influenced Filipino’s culture from their era up until
now. One of the heavily influenced part of Filipino’s culture are their performing arts such as
dances, songs, and dramatic performances, puppetry, spoken word, recitation and public
speaking. But despite of that, there are still some natives that perform traditional performing arts
as part of their cultural heritage and identity practices.
Notable Filipinos in the Field of
Performing Arts
Masini Intaray
1943-2013
Awarded:1993  Playing customary musical instruments such as
basal, kulilal and bagit is only one among the few of
Intaray’s skills and talents.
 In addition, tuturan (myths), tultul(epics), and
sudsungit (narratives), a recognizable Palawan folk
literature, became available to the knowledge of
contemporary artists because of his countless times
vocalizing these from Makagwa Valley in Brookes Point,
Palawan as a
native of this rural area to other parts of the country.
Samaon Sulaiman
1953-2011  His dedication sharing his knowledge on playing
Awarded:1993 kudyapi is his contribution to Philippine culture and
arts. Kudyapi of Maguindanao is one of the most
refined Philippine musical instruments.
 Magonoy town, Maguindanao, Mindanao,
Sulaiman is known to be a teacher and master of
performing
kudyapi including binalig, linapu, minna, and
dinaladay.
 Aside from kudyapi, other traditional
instruments in the Philippines such as kulintang,
agong, gandingan, palendag, and tambul were also
part of his expertise in handling traditional instruments.
Alonzo Saclag
1941-
Awarded: 2000  His incredible skills and talent in Kalinga
musical instruments and dance
performance that is in accordion with his
fellow Kalingan’s practice without any
formal instruction received are what
makes Saclag lead the establishment of
reputable Kalinga BudongDance Troupe
that performs Kalinga arts. Through them,
many contemporary artists have been
inspired in their masterpiece.
  She is born in Manila and a natural Filipino
Bea Camacho well-known internationally because of her
passion, she lived most of her life outside of
the Philippines.
1983- Present  Currently works as a designer for design and
consultancy firm in Shanghai named Ideo. One
of the awardees of Thirteen Artists
 Award by Cultural Centre of the Philippines,
she is a visual and performance artist who
focuses ininstallation, performance and video.
 One of her fascinating performing arts is
recorded in a video that lasted for 11 hours
interweaving her in a red yarn untilshe was
surrounded with it like a cocoon. It is entitled
“Enclose” (2005) which is part of her “Blind
Transmission” exhibition at Cultural Center of
the Philippines.
  Through her performance arts, messages
that address migration, displacement,
Raquel D. Loyola identity and globalization in the post-
modern, post-colonial Philippines, as well
as complex landscape of ideas
concerning women and consumerism can
be unravel.
 Her masterpiece is not confined with
performances but she also use mixed
media, relief, soft fabric sculpture,
painting and in her exhibited works.
Its central focus is inspired by an intuitive
form of Filipino writing, the Baybayin in
relation to women’s fundamental
perseverance and its crucial role for life
creation.
She was also awarded the prestigious
Cultural Center of the Philippines 13
Artists Awards in 2009.