LESSON 2- ART:
MEANING AND ITS
ART FORMS
GRADE 12- VALKYRIE
GRADE 12- VANGUARD
GRADE 12- ALTAIR
INTRODUCTION:
• Different kinds of local artworks have sprung
not only in the urban centers of the country and
in schools of arts of different educational
institutions but also a lot more of never seen or
heard art forms from the countryside have made
known and have become renowned.
INTRODUCTION:
• It is essential to know and understand the
meaning of the term contemporary when used in
defining Contemporary Philippine Arts.
Understanding it would pave the way for better
appreciation of the arts in the Philippine context.
INTRODUCTION:
• Understanding Philippine Arts would provide a better
perception of the details, context, meaning and significance of
the artworks placed in a cultural, political and historical
context.
• It is also important to differentiate Modern Philippine Arts
from Contemporary Philippine Arts. It would be easy to
misunderstand the two by treating them as interchangeably
the same.
The artworks and styles of the past have evolved
and have adapted to a dynamic changing world, a
world immersed in the latest technology and
emerging ideologies. These artworks and styles
are created, witnessed and experienced in our
lifetime by artists and style experts catering to
Millennial and Gen Z viewers, and techy
CONTEMPORARY clientele.
ART:
The term contemporary has been defined as
something “happening, existing, living, or
coming into being during the same period of
time” (Merriam-Webster).
CONTEMPORARY ART:
• Contemporary Art refers to art of any form
and genre that produced in our
contemporary time, simply put as “art
created today.” It should not be confused
with Modern Art which ranges from the end
of the 19th Century until the 1970’s or
1980’s or the late 20th Century. It will put
Contemporary Art from the late 20th
Century to the present.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN THE PHILIPPINES:
• Contemporary Arts in the Philippines is as diverse as our people.
Contemporary Philippine Art is not confined to the usual genres of
the four main art forms, namely, visual, literary, applied and
performing arts. Genres are categories of artistic creation and are
characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. Many
other genres came up which include pure are forms as well as mixed
art forms.
EXAMPLES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
FORMS:
VISUAL ARTS PERFORMANC APPLIED ARTS LITERARY
E ARTS ARTS
Appropriation, this relates to the
modifications made by the artist.
Hybridity, this refers in the use of different
art mediums that are put together
ELEMENTS OF
Technology, its application highlights the
CONTEMPORARY creativity of the artist.
ART:
Performance, carried out for viewers to
experience.
Space, intricate use of space.
INTEGRATIVE ART:
• These elements are combined in different ways
to produce Integrative Art. Integrative Art
employs the use of different art elements used
together in distinct different expressions.
• Examples of Integrative Art include the use of
INTEGRATIVE computer applications combined with other
media, the use of non-traditional art materials
ART: in creating artworks usually done with mixed
art forms.
1. Communal nature, as it reflects the
relationships build around the bonds of
DISTINCT FEATURES community and society.
OF CONTEMPORARY 2. Intuitive, as Filipinos are immersed in their
ART FORMS FROM consciousness of themselves, their community
THE PHILIPPINE and their culture.
REGIONS: 3. Holistic, as individuals, groups of people and
events are perceived in their entirety as well as
the unitive use of art materials and forms.
4. Creative process, as the artist puts more
emphasis on now their artwork was made than
DISTINCT FEATURES on the artwork itself.
OF CONTEMPORARY 5. Integrative, as it encompasses religious,
ART FORMS FROM moral, spiritual, social, and environmental
THE PHILIPPINE concerns.
REGIONS: 6. Multi-focal, as it considers everything and
everyone, the wide perspective of the artwork as
well as both artist and viewer.
