Contemporary

Philippine Arts
from the Regions
Course Description
The subject covers various contemporary arts practices of
the region where the school is located. It aims to provide
students with an appreciation of a broad range of styles in
the various disciplines with consideration on their
elements and principles, and engage them to an
integrative approach in studying arts. Through this
subject, students will broaden and acquire the necessary
creative tools that open opportunities in pursuing their
individual career goals and aspirations.
Why Arts?
The Paradox of
Choice
You are free to
choose but you are
not free from the
consequences of your
choices.
Law of Equivalent
Exchange
If one wishes to
gain something,
one must present
something of equal
value.
Great success = Great hard work
Good grades = time, effort
Be respected = respect
Listened to = listen
Introduction to
Arts
 BLUE BLACK
RED YELLOW
ORANGE GRAY
VIOLET PURPLE
GREEN PINK
 ART
• Art is the application or the principles of
application of skill, knowledge, etc., in a creative
effort to produce works that have form of
beauty, aesthetic expression of feeling etc.,
• Art is concerned in with the aesthetic
experiences of man and its expressions through
the varied approaches of presenting the subject.
• Art is expression.
 FORMS OF ARTS
•Performing Arts – arts that require
artists or performers to recreate
what is composed by the creator.
•Visual Arts – arts that we perceive
through our eyes.
Examples of Performing Arts
• Music – the art of combining and regulating
sounds of varying pitch to produce
compositions, expressive of various ideas
and emotion.
• Dance – uses the body as a medium to
express emotion through bodily gestures
and rhythmic.
• Drama - is an art where a group of people act out
a plot to get across to the audience the idea the
author is trying to express.
Examples of Performing Arts
• Motion Picture – it is also another form of
drama where a plot is being act out but the
number of audience is bigger through radio,
television and other medium.
• Play – it is a form of literature performed where
scenery and costume provide visual arts, music
may serve as background to set mood or serve
as a part of the plot.
• Opera – is a drama set to music. It combines
several arts like music, dance and acting.
 Classifications of Visual Arts
15 20
7
19
30
23

Two-dimensional Art Three-dimensional Art

• Also called the • Also called the plastic

graphic arts arts
• Flat and has two • Has three dimensions;
dimensions; the the height, width and
height and width thickness
Two-dimensional
Art
Three-dimensional
Art
 Homework:

Research for local artworks in the

Philippines. Paste the clippings of
your researches in the sketchbook.