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Arts of the Philippines is diverse. It includes painting, dancing, weaving, sculpting, poetry, and many other art forms. Weaving is popular in the northern part of the Philippines. Pottery is also common in pre-Hispanic societies. Ornate carvings are found in the southern Philippine islands. Similarly, wooden art is also quite popular and is displayed in various parts of Filipino homes.

Paintings
Artistic paintings were introduced to the Filipinos in the 16th century when the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines. During this time, the Spaniards used paintings as religious propaganda. Paintings were a way of teaching and communicating Catholic ideas in an attempt to spread Catholicism throughout the Philippines. These paintings, appearing mostly on the church walls, featured religious figures appearing in Catholic teaching. Due to the Catholic church's supervision of Filipino art and Spanish occupation of the Philippines, the purpose of most paintings from the 16th-19th century were to aid the Catholic church.

In the early 19th century, educated Filipinos with more money began the secularization of Filipino art and the deviation of religious paintings. The use of watercolor paintings increased and the subject matter of paintings began to include landscapes, Filipino inhabitants, Philippine fashion, and government officials. Paintings were done on canvas, wood, and a variety of metals. Portraits featured the painters themselves, Filipino jewelry, and native furniture. The subject of landscape paintings included artists' names and average Filipinos partaking in typical day-to-day situations.

During World War II, some painters focused their artwork on the effects of war, including battle scenes, destruction, and suffering peoples.

Dance
There are many different types of Filipino dances varying in influence and region. Types of Filipino dance include Cordillera, Muslim, tribal, rural, and Spanish style dances.

Within the cordillera dances, there is Banga, Bendayan, Lumagen/Tachok, Manmanok, Ragsaksakan, Salisid, Salip, Tarektek, and Uyaoy/Uyauy. The Banga dance illustrates the grace and strength of women in the Kalinga tribe. Women performing the Banga balance heavy pots on their heads while dancing to wind chimes. This mimics Kalinga women collecting and transporting water. Lumagen or Tachok is a dance performed to celebrate happy occasions. This dance mimics flying birds and is musically-paired to the beat of gongs. Salisid is a dance to show courtship. A male and female pair perform the dance and represent a rooster attempting to attract a hen.

Tribal dances include Malakas at Maganda, Kadal Blelah, Kadal Tahaw, Binaylan, Bagobo Rice Cycle, and Dugso. Malakas at Maganda is a national folklore. It tells the story of the beginning of people on the Philippine islands. The Binaylan dance tells the story of a hen, the hen's baby, and a hawk. The hawk is said to control a tribe's well-being. In the Binaylan dance, the hawk is killed by hunters after attempting to harm the hen's baby.

Two examples of traditional Filipino dances are Tinikling and Binasuan and many more. Filipinos have unique folk dances like tinikling where assistants take two long bamboo sticks rapidly and in rhythm, clap sticks for dancers to artistically and daringly try to avoid getting their feet caught between them. Also in the southern part of the Philippines, there is another dance called singkil using long bamboo poles found in tinikling; however, it is primarily a dance showing off lavish Muslim royalty. In this dance, there are four bamboo sticks arranged in a tic-tac-toe pattern in which the dancers exploit every position of these clashing sticks. Dancers can be found trying to avoid all 4 bamboo sticks all together in the middle. They can also try to dance an entire rotation around the middle avoiding all sticks. Usually these stick dances performed in teamwork fashion not solo. The Singkil dance is identifiable with the use of umbrellas and silk clothing.

Weaving
Before Spanish colonization, native Filipinos weaved using fibers from abaca, pineapple, cotton, and bark cloth. Textiles, clothes, rugs, and hats were weaved. Baskets were also weaved and used as vessels of transport and storage, and for hunting. These baskets were used to transport grain, store food, and catching fish.

Philippine weaving involves many threads being measured, cut, and mounted on a wooden platform. The threads are dyed and weaved on a loom.

During Spanish colonization, Filipinos used the nipis fabric to weave white clothing. These were weaved with decorative, flower designs.

Pottery
Native Filipinos created pottery since 3500. Filipinos used ceramic jars to hold the deceased.

Anthropomorphic earthenware pots date back to 5 BC. - 225 A.D. These pots had covers shaped like heads. The pots were also used to hold the remains of the deceased.

During the Neolithic period of the Philippines, pottery was made for water vessels, plates, cups, and for many other uses.

Traditional pottery-making in certain areas of the Philippines would use clay found near the Sibalom River. Molding the clay required the use of wooden paddles, and the clay had to be kept away from sunlight.

Other Art
Tanaga is a type of Filipino poetry. Kut-kut is an art technique used between the 15th and 18th centuries. The technique was a combination of European and Oriental style and process mastered by indigenous tribes of Samar island.

Past Filipino Artists
Past notable Filipino artists include Juan Luna, Fernando Amorsolo, Augusto Arbizo, Félix Hidalgo, David Cortés Medalla, Rey Paz Contreras, and Nunelucio Alvarado. Present-day Filipino artists featuring Filipino culture include Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Fred DeAsis, Daniel Coquilla, Ang Kiukok, Mauro Malang Santos, Santiago Bosé and Francisco Viri. The Arts or Paintings by Zóbel, Amorsolo and many more could be seen in most of the art museums in the Philippines. Zobel's paintings can be seen in the Ayala museum.