Contemporary - Japanese Colonial

Japanese Colonial

a tradition where modern art slowed down in pace

KALIBAPI

- Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas; sponsored art competitions

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

• japanese-led foration

• a propaganda movement creating pan-asian identity that rejected western traditions

Shin Seiki

japanese sponsored publications

Liwayway and Tribune

newspapers and magazines

Hodobu

Japanese information bureau regulates information campaign

Felipe P. de Leon

- national artist - was commanded at the point of the gun to write awit sa paglikha ng bagong pilipinas

Sa Kabukiran

- 1940s, written in tagalog; sang by Sylvia La Torre and was composed by Levi Celerio

Amorsolo

his paintings were favored in the japanese colonial because his paintings showed little to no indication of war's atrocities

Jorge B. Vargas

chairman of the philippine executive commission

E. Aguilar Cruz

named the movement neorealism

Transparent Cubism

a style marked by soft fragmentation of figures using transparent planes instead of hard-edged ones

Art Association of the Philippines

- art organization that aims to "advance and foster, and promote the interests of those who work in the visual arts" in the Philippines; founded by Purita Kalaw Ledesma (1948)

Philippine Art Gallery

aka PAG

Church of Holy Sacrifice and Church of the Risen Lord

chapels found within UP Diliman Campus

Angry Christ

the mural inside the Chapel delivers pictorial overload, filling up the walls and ceiling of the altar space

Abstraction

- generally consists of simplified forms which avoided mimetic (exact copy) representation - sometimes referred to as non-representation or non-objective art