Philippine Arts

The Philippines has a larger and more vigorous artistic community than any other South East Asian nations because it has four cultural heritages - Asian, European, Mexican, and American.

The people of the Philippines are the heirs of an artistic tradition that dates back to long before the first European stepped foot on the island soil. Some of these ancient arts, such as wood carving, weaving and pottery, are still practiced today.

However, Filipino art has also expanded over time to include more Western and other foreign practices, such as painting in both classical and modern styles. Today, the blend of different cultures found in the Philippines nourishes a thriving art scene.

- have undergone changes in terms of shape, form, content as well as the mediums used. - First sculptures were primitive and native materials used are stones and clays which depicts normal life and acts of worship and colors were also limited.

- Ethnic sculpture has been done using traditional media of wood and stone, by carving, molding using clays and casting when using metals. - transitional sculpture movements in the Philippines from primitive to the modern ones were influenced by foreign cultures and internal evolutions.

BONIFACIO MONUMENT Guillermo Tolentinos known masterpiece which is a group sculpture composed of numerous figures massed around a central obelisk.

BLOOD COMPACT MONUMENT Napoleon Abuevas work which commemorates the pact of friendship sealed by Datu Sikatuna, a native Chieftain with Don Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, a Spanish Conquestador representing the King of Spain, for the purpose of fostering friendly relations between two countries.

BULUL a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Igorot which highly stylized representations of ancestors, and are thought to gain power from the presence of the ancestral spirit.

Changit or Hangit ( Sculpture of Head Hunting)

Filipino
Paintings
Nuestra Seora del Santisimo Rosario by Damian Domingo, Father of Filipino Painting.

SPOLIARIUM Juan Lunas painting which shows fallen gladiators being dragged to an unseen pile of corpses in a chamber beneath the Roman arena.

PLANTING RICE by Fernando Amorsolo

The Jeepney by: Vicente Manansala

Filipino
Music
 Indigenous originating or occurring naturally in an area or environment; existing; born  has been influenced by the cultures that have migrated to this nation.

 first type of music that developed in the Philippines was indigenous music brought here by native tribes that migrated from Taiwan. BASIC GROUPS OF INDIGENOUS MUSIC 1. Southern Styles features Kulintanga, a native orchestra which involves five different instruments including the kulintang, the agong (a bass gong), the gandingan, the dabakan and the babandil.

2. Northern Styles - reflect Asian gong music. Their music usually features the unbossed gong called the Gangsa. 3. Other styles - other instruments used in the Philippines include log drums, flutes, bamboo zithers and the Kudyapi.

Kulintang

Agong

Gandingan

Dabakan

Gangsa

FILIPINO
LITERATURE
- associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory, and the colonial legacy of the Philippines. - Writtenin Spanish, English, Tagalog , and other native Philippine languages.

Michaelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

HADRIAN s WALL

Stonehedge

Parthenon

Art in Latin America has many forms from the ancient Inca and Mayan sculptures to the modern Constructivist and Murilasimo art movements. The influence of European art in general, and Spanish, Portuguese and French artists in particular is apparent. Here are some representative samples of famous art of South America.

Pre-Columbian art in Bolivia

"Gate of the Sun" is a stone gateway constructed by the Tiwanaku culture 375 to 700 AD. It is located near Lake Titicaca in La Paz, Bolivia.

Mayan Art
Mayan art can be separated into paintings and sculpture. The stela were large stone slabs covered with carvings and was a common form of Maya sculpture. The stelae contained hieroglyphs which were used to determine the significance and history of Maya sites.

 Paintings have also survived. The paintings "Bonampak" and "El Tajin Cacaxtla" represent the Maya Blue color, a dominant style of the use of color in the culture.

Modern Era The Constructivist Movement

The Constructive Movement originated in Russia dismissing 'pure' art in favor of art used for social purposes, specifically the construction of a socialist system. In Latin America, Joaqun Torres Garca of Uraguay used this form with his paintings "Arte Universal" and "Construction with Belltower."

 Manuel Rendn Seminario was another practitioner of the constructivist style. He was an Ecuadoran. One of his more famous works is "Tiza."

Modern Era The Muralist Movement

The term 'Muralist' became famous with the Mexican Muralista art movement whose most important proponents were Diego Rivera, David Siqueriros and Jose Orozco. Diego Rivera is known for his "Detroit Industry," "North Wall" and "South Wall." Because his murals are on the side of buildings they have wide exposure to the surrounding audience.

 David Siquerios is known for many murals of a revolutionary political bent. One of his largest is "The March of Humanity on Earth" and "Toward the Cosmos." Other outside murals were "University to the People, The People the University" at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. And the massive 4,500square-foot commission for Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, "The Revolution Against the Porfirian Dicatorship" is a sight to behold.

 Jose Orozco, like the previously mentioned muralists, was a socialist; the themes of his murals focused on human suffering. He was critical of the Mexican Revolution and his murals "The Elements," "Man in Battle Against Nature," and the "Destruction of the Old Order" depicted that skepticism.

Brazilian Art
Candido Portinari was a major proponent of the Neo-Realism style in painting. One of his best known paintings is "O lavrador de Caf." The painter Emiliano di Cavalcanti, who was a contemporary of Portinari's, was also well known. His style was reminiscent of Picasso. One of his masterpieces is "O Nascimento de Vnus."

Native American Art Includes Water, Oil and Sand Painting, Leather, Wood, Pottery and Baskets. Native American creativity is boundless and sacred. Artistic expression has been a way to worship the gods. Art for art's sake is not part of the Indian psyche. Their artistic designs have beauty and care motivated by their love for nature. Sacred beliefs of American Indians hold that everything living or inanimate shares a place in the universe, and that no one thing is above the other. They were the first ecologically aware people anywhere, long before pollution became a serious and popular issue.

Native Americans created many shapes and geometric designs for their art and these were repeated and became representative symbols that transcended tribal language barriers. Native art designs became a language in themselves, a form of communication. The harmony and oneness sensed in their art is real, and it provides serenity to those who experience it. We hope you enjoy our collection of Native American artwork, which is beautiful and expressive of all Native American art.

POTTERY

BASKETS

CLOTHING

TOTEMS and WOOD CARVINGS

LEATHER ART

RUGS, BAGS and ACCESSORIES

PAINTINGS and SAND PAINTINGS