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Philippine Art Pre-Colonial - Where art was expressed through drawings on the rocks to show their religious symbols either animistic or Islam based.
They also expressed their daily activities like fishing, farming and they also put some decorative patterns in wall rocks or wood. In these periods which is also known as Neolithic Period which is the later part of Stone Age, they make art by making stone weapons, jewelry and decorative crafts out of stone.
They also make their own shelter and has an alphabet which is Baybayin. They also have tattoos as ornamentation and rite of passage.
The Pre-Colonial period refers to the art before the Philippines had their first colonizers. The Philippines back then already had art that was considered one of a kind and rich. Traditions were orally passed than written, and their earliest form of theater was Rituals.
The Pre-Colonial Period is when our indigenous ancestors inhabited the Philippines and the time before the coming of our first colonizers. Arts in this time were for ritual purposes or everyday use only. As local communities were established, art starts to go beyond mere craft, i.e., stone weapons or jewelry but starts to have decorative elements, meaning, and context.
LITERATURE - It can be in written and oral form. Cave drawings and writings are the earliest forms of written literature, and rituals, chants, and storytelling are the earliest forms of oral literature.
VISUAL ARTS - Sculpture, paintings, and pottery were the widely known forms of visual arts in the Pre-Colonial Period, such as the tattoos from the pintados in Panay, the Bulul that is a wooden sculpture of the rice God of Ifugao’s, and the Manunggul burial jar that was found in Palawan.
ARCHITECTURE - Earliest Filipinos are known to be dwelling in caves.
MUSIC - They used wind instruments.
DANCE - They imitate the movements of animals and nature.
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