SUMMATIVE TEST 1.
2 IN CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS
I. Give what is asked on the following:
1. It is a range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing expressing the artist’s
imaginative, conceptual ideas or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their aesthetic or
emotional power.
2. It is a combination or a corporation of two or more art forms to create a work for a specific audience.
3. It refers to art made and produced at the present moment by artists living today; often incorporated with
technological advancements.
4. -10. What are the 7 major forms of Philippine contemporary art?
11. Philippine art reflects the people’s faith and religiosity towards the Catholic church; thus most of the arts
during this period propagated Catholicism and supported colonial order at the same time.
12. The main purpose of arts during this period is for rituals to anitos or anitas or for everyday use or
integral to life.
13. During this period, commercial and advertising are integrated into arts; thus, most of the artworks are
idyllic sceneries and secular in nature.
14. It is characterized by geometric designs and patterns eliciting focus from the believers.
15. It is an offshoot of social realism brought about by Martial Law; thus, arts became an expression of
people’s aspiration of democracy.
16. Creating artworks was restricted during this era especially if it is against the government; thus
emphasizing the propaganda of Asia are for Asians.
17. This era began after World War 2 and the granting of Independence. Themes of artworks are about
national identity.
18. This context refers to the artist’s personal information like age, gender, culture, disposition, etc. which
affects artist’s work of art.
19. He is a master sculpture in Betis, Pampanga who maintains a workshop where young people are trained
to make santos.
20. It is a weaving tradition of the T’boli people of South Cotabato that uses abaca fibers stripped from the
trunk of banana tree and colored with red or black dyes naturally extracted from roots of leaves and plants.
21. It refers to contexts from the environment or surroundings from which materials wellspring for art
production.
22. In Paete, Laguna, an art of paper machie sculpture of horses and other objects are made for export or
local sale.
23. A local dance originated from Palo, Leyte mimicking the movements of a local bird “tikling.”
24. These are houses in Batanes designed to resist strong winds and typhoons.
25. The first to be named as National Artist of the Philippines whose artworks are paintings of landscapes as
romantic pictures, capturing the warm glow of the sun or clear waters.
26-30. What are the five contexts of art?
II. Identify which context of art the following belong:
1. It considers time and space by which the artist’s work of art responds or engage with it in relation to
personal experience and that of the wider public.
2. Veejay Villafranca, a photographer who tackled about the alarming effects of climate change and how it
forces people to become refugees in their own land.
3. The Talaandig artist from Bukidnon express their affinities with their land by using soil instead of
pigments and by painting subject matter that are grounded on their present concerns as a people.
4. National Artist Benedicto Cabrera’s painting “Brown Brother’s Burden,” is about a look of an old
photograph which presents an aspect of colonial history from the gaze of the colonized.
5. Lirio Salvador, a Cavite- based artist whose works fuses easily accessible objects like machine discard,
bicycle parts, and kitchen implements to form something.
6. The modernist painter Lirio Puruggan depicted nature as uncontrollable force in his painting “Toilers of
the Sea,” 1980.
7. The Tausug National Artist Abdulmari Imao integrated motifs from the culture of Mindanao like
sarimanok and okir design in his paintings and sculptures.
8. Junyee’s ephemeral installation at the grounds of the Cultural Center of the Philippines titled “Angud,” a
forest ones in 2007 was posed as a commentary on the abuse of environment.
9. Crisp Ilocano bed cover with dainty ubas design, pabalat delicate pastillas wrappers from Bulacan with
intricate cutout designs, enveloping a delicate milk-based dessert.
10. Roy Lagarde’s black and white photographs documenting the effects of typhoon Yolanda shows
melancholic images suggesting loss caused by natural disaster.
