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Visual Arts and Crafts: Aklan Province Islands Philippines




The traditional weaving method of piña is called pili or sinuksuk. This is a floating weft technique accomplished after the cloth weaving. An intricate process for embellishing piña fabric before it is cut and sewn into a gown. A typical design is a cluster of five-petalled flowers surrounding a butterfly. This is repeated in a series along the borders of the cloth.

The pili or sinuksuk tradition continues to live because of weavers like Magdalena Marte and her niece Sosima de la Cruz. Marte was conferred the Manlilikha ng Bayan Award in 1990.

An Aklanon visual artist who became prominent was Telesforo Sucgang, painter and sculptor, and a contemporary of Jose Rizal, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, and Juan Luna. Born in Banga, Sucgang was sent to Manila to study at the Colegio de San Jose and Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He then studied art at the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura. In 1879, in the literary-artistic contest sponsored by the Liceo Artistico-Literario, Sucgang won in the sculpture category an award for his entry of Cardinal Cisneros’ bust, while Rizal won in the poetry category for "A la juventud Filipina." In 1884, Sucgang won an art scholarship to Madrid, where he did El desembarco de Magallanes (The Disembarcation of Magallanes), 1888, also called the First Mass in the Philippines, and La llegada de Legazpi y Urdaneta. (The arrival of Legaspi and Urdaneta), which was used as the model for the Legazpi monument at the Luneta.

Sucgang was a portraitist of such prominent people as the Young King Alfonso XIII, Victor Balaguer, Marquez de Soller, and Gen Corte. His works in sculpture were generally religious, although one piece, Un centimo señorito (Xmall change Boy), represented a street boy of Madrid. Upon his return to the Philippines in 1893, he taught modeling and engraving at the Escuela de Artes y Oficio in Iloilo.

During the Propaganda Movement, Sucgang wrote for a paper called Revolucion, published in Jaro, Iloilo; and during the Revolution he rose to the rant of Major under Gen Martin Delgado. With the American civil government established, he foudned the Instituto de Visayas, 1900, in Jaro, the Institutto Aklan, and another school in Capiz, In 1912 he founded the Colegio de Minerva in Manila. He also continued with his portraits and easel paintings, and was a favorite subjects of his genre works were fruits, wild game, and rustic scenes.


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Desserts Food, Philippine Cuisine

As a tropical oriental country it should come as no surprise there are many treats made from rice and coconuts. One often seen dessert is bibingka, a hot rice cake optionally topped with a pat of butter, slices of kesong puti (white cheese), itlog na maalat (salted duck eggs), and sometimes grated coconut. There are also glutinous rice sweets called biko made with sugar, butter, and coconut milk.

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Southern Philippine Cuisine

In Mindanao, the southern part of Palawan island, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, dishes are richly flavored with the spices common to Southeast Asia: turmeric, coriander, lemon grass, cumin, and chillies — ingredients not commonly used in the rest of Filipino cooking. Being free from Hispanicization, the cuisine of the indigenous Moro and Lumad peoples of Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago has much in common with the rich and spicy Malay cuisines of Malaysia and Brunei, as well as Indonesian and Thai cuisines.

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