Contemporary Arts

Art 2. Space – the distance of areas around,

between, and within component
- Product of human imagination and 3. Hybridity – mixing of uncommon materials
expression to produce an artwork
- 3 sources of imagination: ideas, inspiration, 4. Performance – interpretation of various
imitation human activities such as chores, routines,
The Arts and rituals to socially relevant themes
5. Technology – involvement of technology in
- Product of human imagination and any artwork
expression, source out from ideas,
inspiration and imitation of nature Visual Arts

Standard - Visus (sight)

- Arts (the expression application of human
De Paz (1990) creative skill and imagination)
- Anyo (aesthetic value) - Primarily or solely focuses in imaginative,
- Wika (gives meaning to the art) aesthetic or intellectual content
- Ekonomiyang politikal (may aral sa human Forms of Visual Arts
society)
Drawing
Bloom
- One of the major forms of expression
- Artistry - Marking of lines and areas of tone onto
- Intellectual value paper/other material
- Suggestiveness - Accurate representation of the visual world
- Spiritual values is expressed upon a plane surface
- Moral - Medium: charcoal, pastel, marker, pen,
- Permanence paper, pencil
Philippine Art Painting
- kind of art that shows the reality of life - Practice of applying paint, color, and other
- depicts the Filipino way of living medium to a solid surface (support base)
Contemporary - Medium: brush, canvas, marker, pen,
pencil, paint
- The art of today - Forms of painting:
- Contemporary artworks are: o Still life – placed objects which are
o Globally influenced either natural or man-made
o Culturally diversed o Photographic – group of paintings
o Technologically advance that attempts to reproduce the image
- Arts from 1970s (Philippine based) realistically
- Ex. Isang Punongkahoy ni Jose Corazon de o Landscape – natural scenery such
Jesus as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers,
- Ex. Putol ni Michael M. Coroza and forests. It may be entirely
imaginary or copied from reality.
Philippine Contemporary Arts o Abstract – visual language of shape,
- Portrays subject form, color, and line to create a
- The medium in innovative and skillful ways composition which may exist with a
reflecting the Filipino identity degree of independence from visual
references in the world.
Elements of Art
Sculpture
1. Appropriateness – property to adapt,
borrow, recycle other art - “tangible piece of art”
 - concrete art piece with 3 dimensions,  castles and walls
sometimes made of materials worked by  Romanesque
removal such as carving, assembled by o Renaissance: rebirth of perspective
welding and molded and in math and science
- Types: o Modern: innovations
o In-the-Round
Visual Arts Movement and Trends
o Free-standing sculpture
o Architectural sculpture 1. Realism - exact, ordinary, life as it is
 Bas-relief 2. Impressionism - plays with light, dreamy
 Mid-relief reflection
 High-relief 3. Pointilism - pixelated, principle of dots
 Sunken-relief 4. Dadaism - nonsense to sense
o Monumental sculpture 5. Expressionism - distorting for emotional
- Purpose of Sculpture effect
o Religious purposes: worship and 6. Fauvism - Fauve - wild beast; bold brush
divine symbols strokes; vivid, strong colors; simplified forms
o Power: wealth, economy, and 7. Cubism – dimensional, folded, 3D effect
politics 8. Abstract art – free, independent, non-
o Aesthetic: display or design figurative, non-objective
9. Surrealism – irrational juxtaposition of
Architecture
images
- A general term to describe buildings and
other physical structures. The art and
science of designing buildings.
- What it takes for an architecture to be an
architecture?
o Vitruvius: “Firmitus! Utilitas!
Venustas!” (Katibayan,
mapakinabangan, kaluguran)
o Henry Wotton: “structural adequacy,
National Artist of the Philippines
functional adequacy, beauty”
o Louis Sullivan: “Form follows Insignia
function”
o Nunzia Rondanini: “Don’t forget - Medalyan sumisimbolo sa titulong
aesthetics for it promotes values and iginagwad sa mga nagiging pambasang
social development.” alagad ng sining
- Types of architecture according to history: - Pilipino na may malaking ambag sa
o Neolithic: mud, stone, bricks larangan ng sining
o Vernacular: native Pamantayan sa Pagpili
o Ancient:
 Mesopotamian 1. Manlilikha ng sining na naging mamamayan ng
 Greek – old stronghold bansa sa loob ng 10 taon bago manomina.
 Egyptian 2. Nakatulong sa pagiging makabayan ng mga
 Romans
Pilipino sa pamamagitan ng nilalaman ng kanilang
 Byzantine mga likhang sining.
o Islamic: moon and central dome
o Asian: 3. Nakilala sa pamamagitan ng pagsisimula ng
 light and spiritual panibagong anyo ng isang malikhaing likha o istilo
 Indian na may malaking ambag sa mga susunod pang
o Pre-columbian: henerasyon ng manlilikha.
 community temples
4. Nakagawa ng likha na may halaga o
 Inca
nagpapakita ng kahusayan sa lahat ng
 Aztec – stairway to heaven
pagkakataon sa kanilang kategorya at pinapaunlad
 Mayan
ang kanilang malikhaing istilo.
o Medieval:
5. Nakatanggap ng mga karangalan at gantimpala
sa loob at labas ng bansa, nakritik at/o nabigyan ng
paglilimi ang kanilang likha, nirerespeto at
pinahalagahan ng kapwa manlilikha sa kanilang
kategorya.
 PERFORMING ARTS o Entertainment - used for entertainment
and to kill boredom by giving us the
- A form of art where artists use their voices joy of listening
and bodies
THEATRE
FORMS OF PERFORMING ARTS
- A collaborative form of art that uses live
DANCE performers, typically actors or actresses to
- Art form that is composed of actions and present the experience of a real or imagined
purposely created movements that have event before a live audience in a specific
aesthetic value place, often a stage.
- Body, culture, movement - Elements of Theatre:
- Performed with accompaniments of music or a o Script
song o Process
- General Types of Dances: o Product
o Concert Dance o Audience
 A choreographed dance - Types of Theatre Play:
performed for an audience in a o Drama - a presentation that portrays
theatre for entertainment life or character to tell a story usually
purposes involving conflicts and emotions
 Dances of boy groups, girl through action and dialogue
groups, etc. o Musical - a form of theatrical
 Practice, choreography, performance that combines songs,
viewers spoken dialogue, acting, and dance
o Social Dance o Comedy - a performance consists of
 Intended for participation jokes intended to make the audience
rather than performance laugh; a stage play that usually has a
 Not choreographed happy ending
 Disco, Bayle (for old people) o Tragedy - an event causing great
- Elements of Dance: suffering, destruction, and distress,
o Body such as a serious accident, crime, or
o Action - movement produced by body natural catastrophe
o Space - area consumed - Types of Theatre Stage:
o Time - not time bounded o Proscenium - has an architectural
o Energy - the way the movement is frame usually called the proscenium
produced arch that divides the performers and
the audience
MUSIC o Thrust - not always square but may be
semi-circular or half a polygon with
- A form of art whose medium is sound
any number of sides; often used to
organized in time
increase intimacy between actors and
- Elements of Music
the audience
o Pitch - the quality that makes it
o In-the-round - performance area
possible to judge sounds as higher or
enclosed by the audience on all sides.
lower
The arrangement is rarely round: more
o Rhythm - strong regular repeated
usually the seating is in a square or
pattern of movement or sound
polygonal formation. The actors enter
o Dynamics - the variation of loudness
through vomitories between the seats.
or softness between notes or phrases
o Open air - outdoor theatres that do not
o Texture - often described in regard to
have a roof, although sometimes parts
the density or thickness of voice
of the stage or audience seating will
- Functions of Music
be covered; may make use of the
o Worship - religious and spiritual
natural light
activities
o Traverse - the audience is
o Emotional expression - pour out the
predominantly on two sides of the
emotion of a person
stage, facing towards each other
o Strengthening nationalism - provides
avenue to help us express our deep
love for our country
FILM

- Isang uri ng likhang-sining at tanyag bilang

isang anyo ng libangan/panlibangan at
kabuhayan. Ang pelikula ay isinasagawa sa
pamamagitan ng pagrekord ng mga totoong
tao at mga bagay sa pamamagitan ng camera
at/o karikatura.
- Ang Pelikulang Pilipino ay ang isa sa
pinakabatang uri ng sining sa Pilipinas at
isang popular na uri ng libangan.

- Elemento ng Pelikula:
o Tema – paksang nais na talakayan o
pag-usapan
 Romansa – pumapatungkol sa o Balangkas – kabuoang takbo ng
pagmamahalan ng dalawang kuwento
pangunahing tauhan o Iskrip – batayan sa kabuoang takbo
 Komedya – nagpapatawa o ng kuwento subalit sa paraang
sadyang nakakatawa ang detalyado
paraan ng pag-arte o Actor/aktres – pinakamahalagang
 Katatakutan – pumapatungkol element sapagkat sila ang
sa mga pelikulang gumaganap sa mga karakter na
kababalaghan o makikitaan ng itinatalaga sa iskrip
mga elemento ng pananakot o Tagpuan – lugar na pinangyayarihan
 Aksyon – ang pangunahing ng kabuoang kaganapana sa kuwento
tauhan ay may mga pagsubok o Costumes – kasuotan at/o mga
na pagddaanang pakikidigma kagamitan na ipnapabihis sa mga
 Drama – layunin nitong gumaganap
magpaiyak at kadalasang o Make-up – mga kolorete sa mukha na
nangangaral nagbibigay o nagdadagdag sa
 Pakikipagsapalaran – kaigihan sa pagbibigay ng emosyon
paglalakbay ng pangunahing o Sound effects – kaagapay na mga
tauhan; kadalasang may mga tunog na nakatutulong para sa mas
pagsubok na kahaharapin na nakapupukaw na atensyon na mga
dapat malagpasan kaganapan
 Pantasya – piksyon o walang o Cinematography – ang malikhaing
bahid ng katotohanan sa paraan ng paggamit ng kamera
dahilang nababahiran ito ng  Close-up
mahika  Medium shot
 Kasaysayan – pinapaksa ang  Wide angle
mga pangyayari sa nakaraan;  Low-angle
maaring piksyon o di-piksyon  High-angle
 Magic realism – paggamit ng
elementong di kapani-
paniwala ngunit ibinabatay sa
realidad ng buhay
 PRACTICAL ARTS
FORMS OF PRACTICAL ARTS HORTICULTURE
PHOTOGRAPHY - The art or practice of garden cultivation and
management
- From the Greek word Photos - Types
o Phos – light o Woodland – a natural looking planting
o Graphe - representation by means of – what you would see in the natural
lines or drawing forest
- Drawing with light o Water – planting in and around a
- The art of producing images by using a watery place
camera o Zen – a garden composed
- Types of Photography: arrangements of rocks, water features,
o Fashion – devoted in displaying moss, pruned trees and bushes, and
clothing and other fashion items uses gravel or sand that is raked to
o Landscape – captures the presence of represent ripples in water
nature and also the manmade o Urban – the practice of cultivating
landscapes plants in urban areas, it includes
o Wildlife – documenting various forms rooftop gardening and container
of wildlife in their natural habitat gardening
o Action/sports – documentation of any o Vertical – using vertical space to grow
sporots event (usually it deals with big vegetables, herbs, flowers, root crops
amount of movements) o Edible – a garden that provides
o Architectural – captures buildings and eatable products, aesthetic, and
other structures that are aesthetically economical benefits
pleasing
o Macro – producing images of small
items larger than life size
o Food – a still life photography used to
create attractive still life photographs
of food
FASHION

- A popular style, especially clothing, footwear,

lifestyle, accessories, make-up, and hairstyle
- Fashion Trends:
o Technology – wearable technology
o Social – society’s impact
o Consumer’s need
CULINARY
- Culinary arts, in which culinary means “related
to cooking,” are the arts of preparation,
cooking, and presentation of food
- Types of Culinary Arts:
o Baking – uses prolonged heat,
normally in an oven
o Bartending – formulation of alcoholic
or soft drink beverages
o Cookery – the mixing of ingredients
usually by using a piece of meat or
vegetable