DANIEL NACORDA
GRADE 12 – HUMILITY
CONTEMPORARY
DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS:
TERRACOTTA -terra cotta or terra-cotta (pronounced [ˌtɛrraˈkɔtta]; Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cocta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.
NEOREALISM - refers to a few movements.
SOCIAL REALISM - is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real sociopolitical conditions of the working class as a means to critique of the power structures behind these conditions.
INSTALLATION - art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.
DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS: Mayvanuvanua, which. literally means “making the port”, is a sacrificial rite that commences the. fishing season in early March/ to do two other things in order to fish effectively.
Cañao is a socio-religious ritual where chickens, pigs, and/or carabaos are butchered or feasted on. ... The rituals in the cañao are perceived to heal because these have been performed to appease spirits that cause sickness to a person.
Kashawing - ritual to ensure abundance during rice planting and harvesting is still observed and performed. This ritual involves a reenactment of the pact made by the ancestors of the community and the unseen spirits that inhabit the lake. Kudyapi a three stringed guitar,
Pangalay is the traditional "fingernail" dance of the Tausūg people of the Sulu Archipelago and Sabah. The dance also means offering from its Sanskrit origin pang-alay. Mangalay, which also means dance, is very similar to classical Balinese and Thai dances.
Kadaliwas Dance - dance of the T’bolis represent the comedic movements of monkeys.
Bulul - also known as tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao (and their sub-tribe Kalanguya) peoples of northern Luzon. The sculptures are highly stylized representations of ancestors and are thought to gain power from the presence of the ancestral spirit.
Hagabi – (bench), from Ifugaos of Luzon. A status symbol, rich historically. In a dark read wood, mahogony from the Philippines (shorea negrosensis) length 4,04 m.Despite its apparent lightness, this piece is a dugout of more than 100 kilos, which has undergone three local restorations (or repears) casualty bombings (carpet bombings) and other shellings in 1945, for the capture of General Yamashita (the tigre of Malaysia).
Santos - sculptures of saints as well as other wooden sculptures of secular or non-religious orientation.
Okir (also spelled as okkil, okil, or ukkil) is the term for geometric and flowing designs (often based on an elaborate leaf and vine pattern) and folk motifs that can be usually found in Maranao, Maguindanao and Muslim-influenced artwork, especially in the southern Philippines, and in some parts of Southeast Asia. Okir a dato refers to the ornamental design for men and okir a bay to that for women. Sarimanok is a legendary bird of the Maranao people who originate from Mindanao, an island in the Philippines. It comes from the words "sari" and "manok." "Sari" means cloth or garment, which is generally of assorted colors. manok means "chicken". Torogan- is a traditional house built by the Maranao people of Lanao, Mindanao, Philippines. A torogan was a symbol of high social status. Such a residence was once a home to a sultan or Datu in the Maranao community.
Manunggul Jar -discovered at Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan is dated to the late Neolithic period (890–710 BC). It is a secondary burial vessel, where buried and exhumed bones are placed. Glazed with reddish hematite and incised with curvilinear designs, it has two anthropomorphic or human forms atop the lid: a boatman paddling to transport his deceased charge, whose journey through water is interpreted as a metaphor of travel to the afterlife.
Pis Siyabit - is a hand woven cloth made of silk or cotton and square in form with geometric patterns. This is a multi-purpose headdress. It may be worn on the shoulder, knotted around the hilt of the sword or kris or tied around the head among the Tausug men in Sulu Archipelago, Philippines.
Malong - is a traditional "tube skirt" made of handwoven or machine-made multi-colored cotton cloth, bearing a variety of geometric or okir designs. The malong is directly akin to the sarong worn by peoples in other parts of Maritime Southeast Asia.
Boxer Codex- sometimes known as the Manila Manuscript, is a manuscript written c. 1590, which contains illustrations of ethnic groups in the Philippines at the time of their initial contact with the Spaniards.
Kendi - is a vessel used for pouring liquids. It has a round body with no handle; while the gadur is a container with a tapered top, a round body, and a flared base.