Indigenous Philippine Art

Indigenous Philippine Art is art made by the Indigenous peoples of Philippines and Contemporary artists of the Philippines. It includes works in raw materials such as extract from trees, fruits, vegetables and even body fluids.

Traditional Indigenous art

Some of the art treasure of the Philippine found in rock in caves, trees and woods.

Rock engravings

In the cave, there are different carvings of the tribes settling in this cavern. It is the oldest, known art carvings found in caves in the Philippines. Dated approximately 1000 years B.C. Originally, there were 127 engravings of human and animal figures in stick forms.^[1]

Contemporary Indigenous art

The Contemporary Indigenous art is the modern art work produced by the indigenous people, their bloodlines and environmentalist artist advocates. Like contemporary and folk artist Elito Circa (international known for hair and blood painting) used piece of wood for painting in yearly 1970s with mix medium of extract from leaves, fruits and soy-sauce.

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