CONTEMPORARY ARTS - MIDTERMS REVIEWER

CHAPTER 1 - CONTEMPORARY ART Elements of Art CHAPTER 2 - PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY

 Space - emptiness, void, ART
Introduction  Positive - space enclosed
 Humanities - study of human  Negative - open Traditional Arts and Contemporary Arts
experiences  Line - extension of a point  started in the pre-colonial times
 In contemporary art, conforming to  Direction - vertical, horizontal,  Animism - most usual theme, depicting
artistic norms is no longer significant diagonal gods and goddesses
 Character - jagged, curved, series of  (Ifugaos) - Bulul; carved, god of rice
Contemporary Art dots, broken lines  (Mangyan)- woven basketry
 Art of society’s present-day events and  Shape and Form - line’s ends meet  (T’boli)- t’nalak woven tapestry in S.
passions; newest form of art  Geometric - angular Cotabato
 From 20th century to present  Organic - curvy  (Mindanao)- pissiyabit; head cloth
 Emergence during the star of  Color - catches the eye, visible  (Lumban, Laguna)- pina jusi cloth
postmodernism in the West (1970) wavelengths; creates moods, tones, etc.  (Paete, Laguna) - toothpick and paper
 Modernism - “less is more”  Value - lightness and darkness mache
 Produced by 21st century artists living in  Texture - surface  Folk art - younger form of traditional art
the postmodern age  Sensory - can be touched, felt  Most traditional arts are representations
 Responds to contemporary social  Illusory - can be seen, not felt  Culture-bound
concerns and issues  (Eduardo Castrillo) - People Power
 Challenges tradition Principles of Design Monument 1993
 “con tempo” - with the times  Harmony - wholeness, unity  (PETA) - Philippine Educational Theater
 Variety - assortment, diversity Association
MODERN ART CONTEMPORARY ART  Rhythm - pattern
Late 1800s; grew for Postmodernism gave  Proportion - relationship of elements Contemporary Art in the Philippines
more or less a birth to this art  Balance - distribution of weight  Americans, Japanese, British, and
century  Formal - symmetrical, identical Spanish influenced Philippine arts
Paved way to Art of the present times  Informal - equal in visual weight  Happened after WW2, and again in 1970,
contemporary art
 Movement - feelings and emotions during Martial law. They protest
Slowly waned in the More socially conscious
20th century, thus
 Emphasis - giving importance  (1950s) - abstract expressionism
Never-ending originality
postmodernism  Subordination - opposite of emphasis  (1980s) - postmodernism in the
Philippines
Integrative Art  Form - what we see  Pastiche - blurring divisions between
 “Crossbreeding”, hybrid form of art  Content - what is the art about fine art and commercial art; mixture of
 Mixture of two different art forms to  Context - clarifying the subject by the ideas
have another united piece of art. relevant situations around it  Bricolage - assemblage; mass-produced
 Primary context - personal recovered materials
Subject of Art sentiments of the artist  Appropriation - borrowing
 Realism - true image form  Secondary context - the place and  Installation - 3-dimesional artwork
 Distortion - alternated with imagination period, environment, etc.
 Abstraction - artists breaks apart a
subject and rearranges
 Nonobjectivism - wala lang
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National Art Centers in the Philippines Integrative Art Applied to Philippine The Filipina Artist
 Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Contemporary Arts  Three woman graphic artists in 1970s
 1969; EO. 303  Choreography - arrangement or design and 1980s who initiated steps for
 “to promote, develop and preserve for dance movements accompanied by women artists
arts and culture in the Philippines” music  Imelda Cajipe-Endaya
 Ugnayan sa Sining - 2010; promote  Musical Instruments - any tool or device  Benda Fajardo
regional arts that produces sound  Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi
 In charge of National Art Center in  Kulintang, gangsa, kudyapi  KASIBULAN - Kababaihan sa Sining at
Mt. Makiling, Los Banos, Laguna;  (Lucresia Kasilag) - infused sounds Bagong Sibol na Kasanayan; women
home of of native instruments agenda
 Philippine High School for the  Literary and Musical Compositions -
Arts -with 135-140 population literary pieces can be sung(poems), and National Artists of the Philippines
 National Commission for Culture and be adapted to movies (novels)  Order of National Artists
the Arts (NCCA)  Visual Design - lay-out of lines, shapes,  1972; PP 1001
 1993; RA 7356 and color to form patterns on paper.  Highest award conferred by the
 Overall policy-making body and  Two dimensional - painting, drawing President to nation’s artists
coordinator  Three dimensional - installation,  Categories
 Subcommission on the Arts sculpture  Music
(SCA)  Theatrical Performance - staging and  Dance
 Subcommission on Cultural execution of a production: drama, opera,  Theater
Heritage (SCH) festivals, etc. LIVE  Visual Arts
 Subcommission on Cultural  Cinema - most popular of integrative are  Literature
Dissemination (SCD) forms; youngest.  Film and Broadcast Arts
 Subcommission on Cultural  Architecture or Allied Arts
Communities and Traditional CHAPTER 3 - PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY
Arts (SCCTA) ARTISTS
 February - National Arts Month
 Activities: The Filipino Artist
 Committee on Cinema  Fernando Amorsolo - romanticized life,
Cinema Rehiyon tranquil rural landscapes
 Committee on Dance -  Carlos Francisco - Antipolo inspired
Sayaw Pinoy  Four-fold Filipino artists’ roles :
 Committee on Literary Arts -  Personal
Literary Arts Festival  Cultural
 Committee on Music -  Physical
Tunug-tunugan  Immaterial
 Committee on Visual Arts -  Nick Joaquin - chronicled the diverse
Philippine Visual Arts Festival heritage of the Philippines, (Quijano de
 Likha Asya - conference of several Manila)
Asian countries; first Asian art  Versatile
festival
 Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan,
Thailand, Philippines