Historical and Chronological

Overview
 Historical Overview: Philippine Art

Form Pre-Conquest Spanish American Japanese period Postwar Contemporary

Period Period 1941-45 Republic 70s
1946-1969
1521-1898 1898-1940
Painting Potter, body Religious Landscape, Wartime scene Modern Figurative, non
adornment, (icon and portraiture, (aggression, conservative, figurative, art for
nationalism, abstract art sake,
ornament ecclesiastical), genre, interior,
atrocities, symbolic experimental, multimedia,
secular still life public art mixed media
protest, aspiration
(portraiture) for peace) transmedia
propaganda,
Sculpture Potterey, Santos, Free standing indigenizing and
carving and furniture, relief, public orientalizing works,
woodwork, reliefs, altar genre, idyllis
metalwork pieces, (Amorsolo,
and jewelry, francisco and
ocampo)
expression metalwork,
pieta,
ornamentation

Architecture Dwellings and Church, plaza City planning Public works Real estate, safe housing,
houses, shelters, complex, town parks, accessories, tenements, squatters,
worship areas, planning, waterfronts, convention arch,
official fortification, civic/gov’t commercial/business, condos,
residences, civic buildings, structure, public malls, subdivisions, development,
mosque, masjid, and installations, works, low coast housing
state edifices private apartments
residences, residences,
commercial offices, health
structures, and public
cemeteries, education,
 Stylistic Overview
Form Pre-colonial Spanish /Islamic American Modern Postmodern/
Colonial Colonial Contemporary

Painting Religious Religious/ Incipient Collaborative,

(animist or Triumvirate 13 hyper-realist,
devotional
Islamic), Classical, Moderns, new painting
community- Secular Abstract
based, enter-
idyllic Neorealist,
Formal
ethnic nostalgic Surreal
relations, Naturalistic Expressionist
collective (homegrown,
Sculpture history miniaturismo, Abstract Junk/scrap,
duchampian, arte
guild Academic Expressionism covera, neo-
Indigenous, site-
specific,
performance art,
hybrid

Architecture Worship-related and Neoclassic, art International Filipino

residential earthquake deco (Juan architecture,
baroque Arellano, Juan
Industrializing urban planning,
Hispanic revivalist Nakpil, Pablo , eclectic economic zone,
(Neogothic, Antonio) Art neovernacular,
Neoromanesque, Nouveau prefab,
Islamic California regionalist,
Mission Style cosmopolitan
 CULTURAL OVERVIEW
Form Indigenous Islamic or Folk or Fine or Popular or
Southeast Philippine Lowland Word- urban and
Asian Muslim based mass based

Painting Colonial and Museum- Mass

Ritual and Post- circulated, produced,
Sculpture Governance colonial artist-
centered
market
oriented
Architect gallery
distributed