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Art in the Philippines in the 1920s
Modernism in the Philippines followed the same pattern of a reaction to the establishment, yet the specific character of modernism in the Philippines far outweighs in importance the similarities it has with the general aspect of the modernist phenomenon . Thus, we are here primarily concerned with defining what modernism is in the Philippine context, since each country gave rise to its own modernism in reaction to specific artistic conditions, adapted these aspects of European modernism that it found most congenial to its soil, and finally pursued its own ways of appropriating and indigenizing a European phenomenon. Modernism, then, was not a neutral process, welcomed with a fresh and unproblematic enthusiasm as a liberating impulse to an art floundering in academic formulas. Indeed, the course it took in the Philippines was shaped by the material conditions obtaining in the country and overdetermined by Philippine culture and traditions .
