Philippine Folk Arts and Crafts

Philippine folk art uses traditional motifs reflecting the land and its people. Folk art generally includes those articles that are traditionally made by communities of people to satisfy their religious, social, and aesthetic needs.

• Both statements are true

• Only the first statement is true

• Only the last statement is true

• Both statements are false

Answer explanation

Folk art and crafts are made by the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. They offer a special glimpse into the experiences and beliefs of both past and current Filipino cultures.

What do you call the element of an art that is defined by a point moving in space?

• Color

• Line

• Space

• Shape

Answer explanation

Line is a mark with greater length than width. A line may be two or three-dimensional, descriptive, implied, or abstract.

If a pleasure-giving function of the material object predominates, the artifact is called craft. If a practical function of the material object predominates, it is called art.

• Both statements are true

• Both statements are false

• Only the first statement is false

• Only the last statement is false

Answer explanation

It may be inferred that all arts have function for man since they satisfy a particular need for them, especially aesthetic or decorative purposes. A craft, on the other hand, must have or serve utilitarian purpose and be capable of serving the purpose for which it was designed.

Long before the coming of the Spaniards, the earliest people (indigenous communities) who lived in the country had created their tools and artifacts from locally available materials, e.g. leaves, wood, clay, stones, etc.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Indigenous crafts are intricately created by ethnic groups and/or local communities in the Philippines. These crafts include works in raw materials such as extract from trees or leaves, pieces of sea shells, stones, etc.

With the arrival of the Spanish colonizers, the indigenous traditions in the Philippines continued in the ethnic art of groups which resisted colonization and in the folk art of the Christianized lowlanders. Further, Philippine folk art carries two aspects.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The Philippine traditional arts and crafts carry two aspects: the indigenous with its shares of ethnic art, as well as the colonial with its Christian religious subject matter and whatever Western artistic influence it bears.

Art is the process of using our senses and emotions in making creative activities. _________ is usually employed in branches of the decorative arts or associated artistic practice which implies the application of skills through the use of bare hands.

Answer explanation

Craft or craftsmanship tends to produce things for various human purposes and tends to exhibit their prettiness around or a goal external to the object itself.

Art : artist ; Craft: ________

Answer explanation

An artisan is a skilled craftworker who makes or creates material objects, partly or entirely by hands, with practical and/or ornamental purposes.

________ is the overall organizational visual structure of the formal elements in a work of art.

Answer explanation

A design is the proper arrangement of the different art or craft elements in order to produce something beautiful and utilitarian.

This art and craft principle is synonymous to opposition or contradiction.

• Novelty or newness

• Variety or variation

• Utility, adaptability, or function

• Contrast

Answer explanation

Contrast has some relationships with balance and emphasis, e.g. two contrasting lines or colors may balance each other, or the center of interest in a composition/material object is in contrast with the subordinating parts of the same.

Folk art and crafts in the Cordillera Region, especially woodcarving, can be generally characterized as highly representational of human and animal form. Which among the following is an example of this work of art?

• Sarimanok

• Panolong

• Bulol

• Hagabi

Answer explanation

The portrayal of the human form, like the bulol artifact of the Ifugao people, is profusely illustrated in various postures and degrees of abstracttion, e.g. standing or squatting, with arms straight or crossed, with or whithout sexual characteristics, etc.