South East Asian Art and Architecture: Philippines

helped define the forms of our hazy pre-colonial culture

Palawan and Batangas

Tabon Cave

country’s earliest human remains

Art in Pre-Colonial

Colonizers used art as a tool to propagate Catholic faith through beautiful images

Paete Artists

Langit Lupa at Impierno and Purgatoryo

Josef Luciano Dans

earliest recorded painter

Damian Domingo y Gabor

opened the first formal fine arts school, Academia de Dibujo and created Tipos del Pais

Jose Honoranto Lozano

developed a style combining tipos del pais and genre paintings by forming letters from figures of people

Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo

first international filipino artists that won the gold and silver medals in the Madrid Exposition

Retablo

houses of tabernacle and cabinet of saints

Relleves

carved images in relief that may only show holy images or religious scenes

Juan de los Santos

earliest known sculptor

La Doctrina Christiana en la Lengua Española y Tagala

first book printed in the country published by dominicans

Estampas and Estampitas

prints of miraculous images featuring portraits of saints and religious scenes

Bahay na Bato

an evolved bahay-kubo with improved air circulation and lighting

Zaguan

storage are for carriages

Entresuelo

mezzanine found on the floor of the master of the house, and the door is found underneath his bed

Caida

all purpose room or hall in front of the stairs

Aljibe

cistern used for storage of collected rainwater

Peinadora

vanity table

Escritorio

writing table

Bastonero

hat rack

Baul

storage for linens

Laoag Church

known for its sinking bell tower

Paoay Church

Earthquake Baroque style architecture

Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene

known as Quiapo Church built with bamboo and nipa materials

San Agustin Church

built out of adobe stone and lime mortar in Neoclassical-Baroque style

Minor Basilica of San Sebastian

example of Gothic Revival architecture and it is the only steel building church

Taal Church

biggest Spanish church in the country

Fort Santiago

one of the oldest fortifications in Manila

Baluarte de San Diego

soade-shaped bulwark inside the historic district if Intramuros

Nester Senora de Guia

Intramuros first stone fort in the country

Fort San Pedro

first fort as the military defense structure

Plaza Complex

known as Pueblo, the center if social and religious activities

Chalet

a single-storey and simple respectable house for those moving up to the middle class

California style bungalow

distinguished by horizontal appearance, wide eaves, large porches and multi-light doors and window

Burnham Plan

planned by David Burnham and executed by William Parsons. Street System from one district to another

Classic Revival Style

adopted by architects Juan Arellano and Antonio Toledo

Fabian dela Rosa

realistic portraits, genre and landscapes in subdued colors

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto

first among the few Filipino painters that captured the different striking colors and character of the country’s magnificent sunlight

Carlos “Botong” Francisco

his trademark fluid lines and brilliant colors defied the rules if linear perspectives set by the local academy, seen in the History of Manila mural at the Manila City Hall

Victorio C. Edades

his painting The Builders will be known as the first ever Modernist painting in the country

Galo B. Ocampo

Filipinized western canonical iconography

Thirteen Moderns

a group of artists who were reacting ti the academic style of Luna and Hidalgo and to the sweet style of Amorsolo

Anita Magsaysay-Ho

only woman in the group, her works are sharply outlined figures of bandanna wearing peasant women

Jose Joya

pioneered abstract expressionism

Ang Kiu Kok

unconventional paintings that bordered on the disturbing expressed nationalism and social consciousness

Mauro “Malang” Santos

his works always come out in vivid colors. Images of colors that remind us if the homeland

Arturo Luz

best known for his linear art and his series in street musicians, vendors, cyclists, and carnival performers

Abdulmari Imao

first filipino muslim ti be recognized as national arts

Benedicto Cabrera

solitary figures of scavengers

J. Elizalde Navarro

mastered the use of various media like hard wood, metal and other objects. also created mixed media works

Contemporary Architecture

Seeds of Sullivan and Bauhaus School took roots in the Philippines

The first licensed architect in the Philippines

Arcadio Arellano

the first registered architect recognized by Americans

Tomas Mapua

Scupltured the Oblation in UP

Guillermo Tolentino

Produced highly stylized, simplified and eventually abstract works

known for his Bronze sheet monuments

Eduardo Castrillo

used glass blocks as materials

Ramon Orlina