Department of Education

Region VI – Western Visayas

Division of Roxas City
DUMOLOG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Roxas City

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

Name: ________________________ Grade & Section: ____________ Date: ____________ Score: ______

I. Read and understand each item carefully. Choose and write the letter of the correct answer
on the space provided before each item.
___________ 1. Which of the following is considered a traditional art?
a. Modern Art c. Indigenous Art
b. Contemporary Art d. Revolutionary Art

___________ 2. This is considered as the art of the present, which is continuously in process or in flux
a. Traditional Art c. Modern Art
b. Revolutionary Art d. Contemporary Art

___________ 3. Which of the following is the distinction between modern and contemporary arts?
a. emphasis and focus c. context and coherence
b. space and color d. perception and reception

___________ 4. Which of the following sets are two kinds of arts?

a. Aesthetics and Practical c. Minor Arts and Major Arts
b. Fine and Utilitarian d. all of the above

___________ 5. Which of the following form of arts is primarily for aesthetic enjoyment through the
senses?
a. Major Arts c. Practical Arts
b. Utilitarian d. Minor Arts

___________ 6. It is the changing of raw materials for utilitarian purposes.

a. Minor Arts c. Major Arts
b. Fine Arts d. All of the above

___________ 7. It is the changing of raw materials into some significant product for human
consumption.
a. Industrial Arts c. Commercial Arts
b. Agricultural Arts d. Business Arts

___________ 8. Which of the following is considered business arts?

a. Shell-Craft c. Landscaping
b. Gardening d. Accounting

___________ 9. Graphic Art is considered that is anything printed from raised or sunken reliefs and
plane surfaces. Which of the following is the best example?
a. Bookkeeping c. Sculpture
b. Accounting d. Painting

___________ 10. The following are examples of agricultural arts. Which of the following is not?
a. Horticulture c. Gardening
b. Husbandry d. Management

___________ 11. This includes surgery, circumcision, medical operations, etc.

a. Medical Arts c. Scientific Arts
b. Business Arts d. Agricultural Arts

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___________ 12. During this time, arts in the Philippines became hand-maiden of religion, serving to
propagate Catholic faith and support the colonial order. What period in the
Philippine Art history best describes the statement?
a. Spanish Period c. American Era
b. Pre-Spanish Period d. Japanese Era

___________ 13. During this period, arts where given emphasis on the propaganda of Asia belonging
to Asians.
a. Japanese Era c. Revolutionary Era
b. American Era d. Pre-Spanish Era

___________ 14. Philippine Art began after World War 2 and the granting of Independence. Writers
and artists posed the question of national identity as the main theme of various
art forms.
a. Japanese Era c. Revolutionary Era
b. American Era d. Modern Era

___________ 15. It was an offshoot of social realism brought about by the Martial Law.
a. Revolutionary Era c. American Era
b. Modern Era d. Contemporary Era

___________ 16 During this period, commercial and advertising arts where integrated into the fine
arts.
a. Japanese Era c. Modern Era
b. Contemporary Era d. American Era

___________ 17. The time where idyllic sceneries and secular art forms where integrated in the
Philippine Art.
a. American Era c. Contemporary Era
b. Modern Era d. Spanish Era

___________ 18. Arts where only a form of ritual purposes and for everyday life during this period.
a. Pre-Colonial Era c. Contemporary Era
b. Modern Era d. Spanish Era

___________ 19. Which of the following statements about art is NOT true?
a. Art creates man. c. Art expresses and communicates
b. Art is created by man. d. Art exists with man.

___________ 20. It is a three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials,

typically stone such as marble, metal, glass, or wood, or plastic materials such as
clay, textiles, polymers and softer metals.
a. Painting c. Drawing
b. Clay Molding d. Sculpture

____________ 21. This refers to the process where objects are first shaped of wet clay, then
hardened by baking.
a. baking c. sculpture
b. molding d. pottery

___________ 22. This refers to a painting style in which the artist applies paint in a manner that
expresses emotions and feelings in a spontaneous way The figures may be
heavy in lines and color without solid mass.
a. expressionism c. kinetic art
d. cubism d. abstract expressionism

____________23. It is a sculpture that moves with the wind or is powered by a machine or electricity .
a. Kinetic Art c. OP Art
c. Performance Art d. Cubism

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 ____________ 24. It involves the artistic creation or manipulation of space such as landscape or
architectural design that may enclose its audience
a. Environment Art c. OP Art
b. Cubism d. Feminist Art

_____________25. It emerged from concerns of female artists expressed through art. They tackle
issues of identity, sexuality; gender roles, equality. and the ways in which the
female is treated in society.
a. Feminist Art c. Minimalism
b. Performance Art d. Environment Art

_____________26. It combines a variety of media and the human body to execute an artistic
theatrical expression before a live audience.
a. Minimalism c. OP Art
b. Feminist Art d. Performance Art

_____________27. It had a stripped down, prefabricated look free of details and often with flat surface
but expresses a specific content or statement.
a. Abstract Expressionism c. Feminist Art
b. Video Art d. Minimalism

_____________28. It consists of images that are recorded through a video and viewed through
television, computer, or projection screen.
a. Feminist Art c. Graffiti Art
b. Performance Art d. Video Art

_____________29. A drawing inscription or sketch done hastily on a wall or other surface made to be
seen by the public.
a. Graffiti Art c. Feminist Art
b. Performance Art d. Mural

_____________30. It uses lines or images repeatedly to create an optical illusion.

a. OP Art c. Environmental Art
b. Performance Art d. Minimalism

II. Analyze the following choices below. The words are related to each other except ONE. Write the letter
of the word that does not belong to the group.

1. a. bookkeeping b. accounting c. merchandising d. stenography

2. a. fishing b. aquaculture c. husbandry d. net weaving

3. a. first-aid treatments b. surgery c. operation d. rehabilitation

4. a. sculpture b. painting c. dancing d. weaving

5. a. Sarimanok b. Hagabi c. Manunggul Jar d. Panolong

6. a. Maranao b. T’boli c. Ifugao d. Mangyan

7. a. bamboo-craft b. leather-craft c. leaflets d. shell-craft

8. a. painting b. billboards c. slide presentations d. leaflets

9. a. horticulture b. husbandry c. fishing d. gardening

10. a. stenography b. salesmanship c. soap operas d. merchandising

11. a. Spanish Era b. American Era c. Contemporary Era d. Japanese Era

12. a. Ethnic Art b. Islamic Art c. Spanish Art d. Modern Era

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 13. a. Car b. Television Set c. Embroidery d. sheet-metal work

14. a. interior decoration b. dressmaking c. gardening d. embroidery

15. a. city planning b. town maintenance c. house beatification d. bridge construction

16. a. painting b. drawing c. mural d. sculpture

17. a. appropriation b. space c. harmony d. hybridity

18. a. color b. harmony c. use d. balance

19. a. Japanese b. Spanish c. Koreans d. American

20. a. Orientalizing b. Secular Forms c. National Identity d. Faith &

Catechism

Words to ponder: “Every artist was first an amateur”

Prepared by: Reviewed by: Approved by:

(SGD.)DARWIN L. CANDELON (SGD.)DONNA B. AMARILLO (SGD.)CECILIA C. BORNALES

Teacher II Master Teacher I Principal III

MR. DARWIN L. CANDELON

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