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Philippine Artistic Tradition
Started…
probably THOUSANDS of years after man arrived on Philippine soil
Philippine Artistic Tradition
“ Interisland contact, facilitated by the
introduction of water crafts, resulted
in constant communication among
peoples and in the spread and
sharing of methods of producing
food, clothing and housing.”
Pottery
In the Philippines, pottery shards dated as early as 3200 + 160 B.C. and associated with human remains prove that early Filipinos have practiced tradition.
Pottery according to function
Household pottery functions as a container for water, rice and other foodstuffs. Simple in form Oftentimes undecorated
Funerary pottery used to bury human remains in or as accessories in the ritual paraphernalia. Interesting forms and motifs
The Techniques by which motifs are applied on the soft clay are incision and impression
Impressed and incised motifs are combined to form a compound pattern as in impressed punctuations applied in a bounded area to emphasize the incised patterns.
Philippine Artistic TraditionPottery
Prehistoric decorated pottery were mostly used as mortuary vessels.
Through the designs or markings on the mortuary vessels one can be able to see the prehistoric belief system that focuses on a life after death.
Carvings in the round of humanlike images such found on the “ship-of-the-dead” were done mostly on the covers of big burial jars.
But these carvings as pottery decorations are very rare.
Painting as pottery decoration is likewise rare.
Usually in red or red and black, painting is used only to emphasize incised patterns.
Traditional Pottery uses: • Red clay• Ashes• Sands
They are formed into jars, jugs, bowls and pots by hand w/ the aid of a wooden pestle and stone anvil or by a potter’s wheel.
The traditional pottery persisted among the highland as well as the lowland groups. Studies show some marked similarities in the sequence but there are also differences that necessitated the grouping of pottery manufacture by sequence categories.
Bontoc sequence- pottery is molded and shaped by hand using simple tools as paddle, anvil and, as supporting device, a broken pottery rim.
Ilocano sequence- produce turn-modelled pottery. Use of unpivoted turntable is the difference
Bagobo sequence- compromised by hand modelling, molding and coiling . Adding clay by strips in the formation of the body provides the difference in this method.
Ivatan sequence- Slab modelling is exclusive to the Ivatan of Batanes. The starting piece is flattened into a thick slab which is placed in a small, round, shallow bowl-like, wooden form and molded.
Basketry & Mat-Making
Older than pottery tradition There are as many styles as there are tribal
groups in the Philippines The only instrument used in basketry and mat-
making is a sharp instrument such as a knife.
Basketry & Mat-Making
Big sturdy & plain baskets, made into squares &rectangles, sometimes w/rounded bodies, with orwithout covers and handles, are invariably used forstoring rice or camote, for transporting clothes andother personal effects to the place of work and forpreserving all kinds of food.
Basketry & Mat-Making
Mats come in square, rectangles, triangles and circles. Rectangular mats are used to sleep on or to wrap the dead with. The other shapes in smaller versions are used in rituals or as wall decors.
Basketry & Mat-Making
Baskets used for fish traps and shrimp containers come in triangular, trapezoidal and cylindrical shapes, they are oftentimes provided w/ contraptions to prevent the escape of the prey.
Basketry & Mat-Making
Men’s headgear, lady’s bag and purses and decorative mats are applied with decorative beads, bone, feathers and tassels
Design may be embroidered or simply dyed
Regional preferences again are shown in the choice of color and ornaments used on the mats and baskets.
Carving
Existed in the Neolithic times
The earliest pieces are the boat-shaped coffins
found in Palawan
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During the Spanish campaign to Christianize the islands in the 16th century, carvings in the form of religious idols made of wood, stone, gold or ivory were found in the highlands and the lowlands of Luzon as well as of Mindanao.
Carving
Philippine Artistic TraditionCarving
Linguistically , the vocabulary of Philippine ethnic groups are-replete with words and terms associated with the carving tradition. Okir or Ukkil, a Muslim word meaning to carve or to sculpt has even extended itself to mean
Carving
The Ritualistic carvings are the direct result of
their absorption in
Gods and supernatural
beings.
Weaving
The antiquity of the weaving tradition in the Philippines is evidenced by textile imprints found to be associated with prehistoric metal materials.
Form, decoration and function of comparatively late ethnic textiles indicate at least some weaving methods which have been practiced w/ little alteration.
Weaving A tapis or a malong, well woven of good strong
materials, generally lasts for more than one generation
Sometimes the original motif would be preserved although they have been copied over and over
Weaving
Using embellishments e.g. embroidery, patchwork, beadwork, appliques, and so on, the ethnic weavers transpose local legends and myths into pattern designs of man and animal figures, stars, moon and plants.
Weaving
Not all groups weave their own cloth. There are some who have mastered the skills. Others, depend on imported textiles or bark cloth for their needs.
Internal trade permits the distribution of locally woven products.
Weaving
Weaving among the lowlanders, however, have lost some of their originality in both designs and materials. What has been lost or changed, however, is replaced w/ techniques otherwise unknown to their highland counterparts.
Philippine Artistic Tradition
The development of the artistic tradition described above is determined by such processes as diffusion, invention, patterning or integration. Each is characterized by being made using simple and oftentimes crude tools, by artists who oftentimes limit possibilities for design.
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