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 REFERENCES:
Ganzon, Carlo Luis C. , Journey: Contemporary
Arts of the Philippines, 2017.

Palencia, Marjueve M. et.al., Contemporary

Philippine Arts
from the Regions, 2017.

Ramirez, Veronica E., Contemporary Philippine

Arts
from the Regions, 2016
Contemporary?
•1656, Latin contemporaneous com- +
tempor- tempus time
•Marked by characteristics of the present
period
•Happening, existing, living or coming into
being during the same period of time
 Art?
•Greeks: Imitation of reality (mimesis)
•Plato: “Art is an imitation of an imitation
of reality”
•Aristotle: “Art is a reflection or a mirror of
reality.”
 Art?

•Art is a tool for communication; a

venue to convey artist’s thoughts,
emotions or aspirations
 Art?

•Art is the manifestation or use of the

various creative disciplines.
Why do people create Art?
• Art is one of the earliest and
most basic form of
communication
• People express themselves
and share their individual
insights to others
• They catch people’s attention,
imagination and admiration
 Why do artists
create art?
1. Recognition
Ronald Ventura’s “Grayground” sold for a
whopping $1.1 million USD at an auction in
Sotheby’s Hong Kong.
Why do artists
create art?
2. Worship
“Hapag ng Pag-asa”, Joey Velasco
Why do artists
create art?
3. Impulse
Levi Celerio has
written over 4,000
songs which have
become timeless
classics: “Sa Ugoy
ng Duyan”, “Pasko
na naman”, “Ang
Pasko ay sumapit”
Why do artists
create art?
4. Self-expression
Benedicto Cabrera’s
“Sabel”is a melancholic
symbol of dislocation,
despair and isolation, the
personification of human
dignity threatened by
life’s vicissitudes and the
vast inequities of Phil.
society
 Art and the Filipino
Filipino Integral Art has the
following attributes:
• Art is ingrained with beauty and
function.
• It is holistic in nature.
• Art is part of our everyday life.
• Art makes use of the available
resources
• Everybody is an artist and
everybody is given equal chance
to contribute and participate
• Freedom in technique and use of
mediums
• The creative process is more
important
• Prof. Felipe De Leon
Filipino Art
Tendencies
Broadest
Aspect
Technique
Multiple
Focal
Points
 Highly
expressive
Polychromatic
Maximalism
Multifunctional
Rhythmic
Patterns
 The Contemporary Arts
• Abstract Expressionism • Environmental Art
• Fluxus • Identity Art
• Post Impressionism • Feminist Art
• Kinetic Art • Post-minimalism
• Conceptual Art • Video Art
• Op Art • Graffiti Art
• Performance Art • Postmodern Art
• Digital Art • Body Art
There are more than 100 art styles and movements!
The Contemporary Arts
• New, still-emerging and
continually expanding unusual art
forms that could not be easily
categorized.
• Includes traditional art works that
are produced in our lifetime &
recently conceived art styles and
techniques
Assemblage
Collage
Installation
Biboy Royong, Dead Whale Project of
Greenpeace Philippines
 “Art imitating death”
• It is inspired from a 38-foot-long juvenile sperm
of whale found near the shore of Samal Island in
2016. Reportedly, the cause of the premature
death was plastic, hooks and fishnets, along with
several stomach worms. The whale replica also
has resonating features of a 50-foot-long whale
who died as a result of plastic waste.
Performance
Art
Digital Art
Best Animation Motion Picture award,

• “Brave” and Dory in “Finding Nemo.” “Coco”,

“Brave”,
“Finding
Nemo.”
Land Art
Conceptual
Art
 “Post-object art or Art-as-idea”
• In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most
important aspect of the work…all of the planning
and decisions are made beforehand and the
execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes
a machine that makes the art.
Let’s go back from the beginning

1950s-1960s
• Martin Luther King
• Moon landing
• Vietnam War
• Beatles, Beach Boys • Social change
• Political change
• Andy Warhol vs. Arthur
Danto • Technological change
Let’s go back from the beginning

In the Philippines…

•Victorio Edades •Abstraction

•Carlos “Botong” •Expressionism
Francisco
•Galo Ocampo •Surrealism
The Contemporary Arts
• The art of now, art works that are
produced in the present
• Visual Arts
• Fine Arts
• Decorative Arts
• Performing Arts
• Music
• Dance
• Theater / Film
 Visual Arts
•Painting
•Sculpture
•Architecture
•Photography
 Visual Arts
•Spatial arts,
perceived with
our eyes and
occupies space
 Auditory Arts
•Music

•Literature
 Auditory Arts
•Temporal arts,
can be heard &
expressed in
time
 Combined Arts
•Theater
•Dance
•Film
 Combined Arts
•Performing
Arts, seen &
heard, unfolds
both in space
and time
 What are the
Humanities?
• Humanus – human,
cultured, refined Refined sense of knowing,
thinking and finer feeling

• Humanism - variety of
Western beliefs, methods,
and philosophies that
place central emphasis on
the human realm.
• Prefers individual thought
and evidence
 What are the Humanities?
•As a singularity, it is an
ocean of all of humanity’s
deeper, inward awareness,
knowledge and sensitivity
 What are the
Humanities?
•It is the collective pooling
together of the legacy of a
given culture’s values,
ambitions, and beliefs.
 What are the Humanities?
•Art is the tangible
expression of the human
quest for the good life: the
sacred, the ceremonial, &
the communal
 What are the Humanities?
•Art awakens our
imagination in the quest for
survival, commonality and
self-knowledge.
 How to study the
Humanities?
•Text
•Context
•Subtext
 Text
• The text of any primary source
refers to its medium (what is it
made of), its form (its outward
shape), and its content (the
subject it describes)
 Context
• Describes the historical and
cultural background or
1. In what time and
environment of the art work place did the
artifact originate?
Context
2. How did it
function within the
society in which it
was created?
Context
3. Was the purpose
of the piece
decorative, didactic,
magical,
propagandistic?
Context
4. Did it serve the
religious or political
needs of the
community or
both?
 Subtext
• Secondary and implied
meanings
4. Did it serve the
• Embraces the emotional or religious or political
intellectual messages needs of the
embedded in, or implied by a
work of art community or
both?
 The concept of “aesthetic
value” refers to that value
which causes an object to
1. Aesthetic be a “work of art”. This is a
quality which appeals to our
Value sense of beauty.
 The Values of Art

2. Intellectual An art work stimulates

thought. It enriches our
Value mental life by making us
realize fundamental
truths about ourselves,
about other human
beings, and about the
world around us.
 The Values of Art

3. Suggestiveness This is the quality associated

with the emotional power of
art. Great works of art move
us deeply and stir our feeling
and imagination, giving and
evoking visions above and
beyond the plain of ordinary
life and experience.
 The Values of Art

4. Spiritual Art elevates the spirit

by bringing out moral
Value values which makes
us a better person.
The capacity to
inspire is part of the
spiritual value of art.
 The Values of Art

5. Permanence A great work of art

endures. It can be viewed
again and again as each
encounter gives fresh
delight and new insights
and opens new worlds of
meaning and experience.
Its appeal is lasting.
 The Values of Art

6. Universality Great art is timeless and

timely. It is forever relevant
and appeals to one and all,
anytime, anywhere
because it deals with
elemental feelings,
fundamental truths, and
universal conditions.
 The Values of Art

7. Style • This is the peculiar way in

which an artist sees his
subject, forms his ideas, and
expresses them. Great art
works are marked as much by
their memorable substance as
well as by their distinctive
style. Style should suit
content.
 The Values of Art
8. Form
• It is the organization,
arrangement, or framework of an
artwork; the manner or style of
constructing, arranging and
coordinating the parts of a
composition for a pleasing or
effective result.
The Four Coordinates of Art Criticism

1.Subject matter
2.The artist
3.The audience
4.Its own form
 The Four Principal Approaches to Art
Criticism and Appreciation
1. Mimetic (based on
the subject matter)
2. Expressive (based on
the artist)
3. Pragmatic (based on
the audience)
4. Aesthetic or formal
(based on the form)
 Subject matter
• 1) Representational or
Figurative Art portrays or
depicts something other than its
own form. Examples are Venus de
Milo, Da Vinci’s Monalisa,
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf,
Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake.
Literature is principally
representational.
 Subject matter
• 2) Non-representational
or Non-objective Art
represents nothing except its own
form. Examples: the Pyramids of
Egypt, Mondrian’s non-figurative
paintings, the symphonies of
Mozart. Among the major arts,
architecture is most nearly always
non-objective. In non-objective
art, subject matter and form are
one: the form is the subject.
QUESTIONS?