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Contemporary Arts [cpar]
Art
is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination
Art
is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to intellect sense or emotion
Art
is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires
Art
is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts – artworks – that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power Why Study Art?1.Art is a natural human behavior.2.Art is communication.3.Art is healing.4.Art tells our story.5.Art is a shared experience.
Functions of Art
Personal or Individual Function -
Artists have their personal reasons for indulging in art.
Social Function -
Man is a social being and as such he associates with his fellow beings.
Economic Function -
Many people believe that it does not pay to be an artist. However, the belief is negated by the facts that many people earn their living in arts.
Political Function -
When Imelda Romualdez Marcos, a patroness of the arts became the Governor of Metro Manila, she promoted her political programs by means of the arts.
Historical Function -
Paintings, sculptures, architectural works, and other art forms serve to record historical figures and events.
Cultural Function -
Buildings, furniture (chairs, table, etc.), clothes, and the like form part of the country’s material culture.
Religious Function -
Almost all, if not all, art forms evolved from religion. People in olden times worshipped their Gods in the form of songs and dances.
Physical Function -
Houses and other buildings are constructed to protect their occupants and all others inside them.
Aesthetic Function -
Artworks serve to beautify.
Pre-Colonial Period: Architecture
lean-to -
is a portable shelter of the Negritos made of tree branches and twigs, using leaves and fronds for sidings
Binuronis -
an Isneg house that is regarded as the largest and among the most substantially constructed houses in the Cordilleras
traditional Ifugao house
- called as
Bale
or the “No-Nail” house have been constructed without the useof nails.
Tausug house
- typically consists of a single rectangular room, bamboo- or timber-walled, with a thatched roof, raised on posts about 2 to 3 meters above the ground
Pre-Colonial Period: Sculpture
Manunggul Jar
- at least 3 500 years old depicts on its lid two boatmen riding a banca on their way to the great divide
Bul-ul -
are carved anito figures of the Ifugaos
Ling-ling-o
- Ifugao amulet
Pre-Colonial Period: Painting
Pintados
(painted ones) - inhabitants of the Visayan Islands as described by the conquistadors used sharp metal instruments previously heated over fire in painting their bodies.
Angono Petroglyphs -
is known to be dated back from 3000 B.C.
Pre-Colonial Period: Weaving
Cordillera groups
of the north are well-known for the art of weaving.
Pre-Colonial Period: Music
Pigafetta
- the official historian of Magellan expedition
women from Cebu were harmoniously playing:
-cymbals (plan tiles)
-nose flutes
-bamboo mouth organs (aphiw)
-brass gong (gansa)
-flute (bansic)
-long drum (colibao)
-bamboo harp (subbing)
-water wistle (paiyak)
-guitar (bugtot)
-xylophone (agong)
-drum (tugo).
Pre-Colonial Period: System of Writing
Baybayin
- is a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system.
Spanish Colonial Period: Architecture
traditional Filipino
Bahay na Bato
“Stone House” style for the large houses emerged.
Barasoain Church
in Malolos
St. Augustine Church
in Paoay
Manila Cathedral
Spanish Colonial Period: Sculpture
Spanish Colonial Carved
and
Polychromed Santos
St. John the Baptist
by Alonso Cano
Spanish Colonial Period: Painting
Jose Luciano Dan’s:
Langit, Lupa, Impyerno
Spanish Colonial Period: Theater
Komedya
(comedia) – In the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) tradition, a comedia is a three-act playcombing dramatic and comic elements.
Zarzuela -
is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genrea that alternates spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance.
Senakulo -
is a play depicting the life and sufferings of Jesus Christ.
Moro-moro
- is depicted battles between Christian and Moros as Muslims in the Philippines who ar popularly known as the perpetual villains who always lost to the Christians at the end
Spanish Colonial Period: Music
Traditional
Tagalog music
, which is somewhat more Hispanic in flavor differs from Ifugao usic andIslam influenced Maranao kulintang music.
Spanish Colonial Period: Dance
The
folk dances
of today were adaptations of the old native dances.
American Colonial Period: Architecture
Manila Central Office
Philippine National Art Gallery
American Colonial Period: Sculpture
UP Oblation
Bonifacio Monument
Lapu-Lapu Shrine
American Colonial Period: Painting
Women Working in a Rice Field - Fabian Dela Rosa
Antipolo Fiesta - Fernando Amorsolo
The Builders - Victorio Edades
Brown Madonna - Galo Ocampo
Bayanihan - Carlos Francisco
Prayer Before Meal - Vicente Manansala
Bountiful Fish Harvest - Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Bagong Taon - Arturo Luz
Post-Colonial Period: Sculpture
Church of the Holy Sacrifice
Phil Atomic Research Center
The Pegaraw by Napoleon Abueva
Filipino in Bondage by Guillermo Tolentino
Post-Colonial Period: Architecture
UP International Center by Victor Tiotuycos
Union Church by Jose Zaragosa
Ramon Magsaysay Building by Alfredo Luz
Picache Building by Angel Nakpil
Insular Life Building by Cesar Concio
Post-Colonial Period: Painting
Antipolo Market Scene by Fernando Amorsolo
Wawa by Carlos Francisco
Street Musicians by Arturo Luz
Barrio Scene by Victorio Edades
A Sonata for September by Hernando Ocampo
Sea of Gold by Cesar LegazpiMODERN ARTCONTEMPORARY ART
Art created from the 1880s to about the 1970s
Art created by living artists or artists who have recently passed away or retired but have still created artworks.
Modern art style is intended to express individuality
Contemporary art looks at the societal impact as its primary theme.
It is a popular design era during the 1950s and 60s to place items in the mid-century modern style.
Contemporary design is more concerned with the now and the future than modern design, which is related to an age in the past.
Technologically advanced
Always in flux, developing, evolving
Modern as opposed to traditional and conservative
What is contemporary today may be traditional or modern in the coming years.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY ART?
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century.
Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing the world. Contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or "-ism".
Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community and nationality.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Conceptual
- focus is on the idea, which can be either abstract or social;
Social
– current social & political topics are dealt with, often from critical perspective.
Expressive
– both content & form is meaningful & communicative.
Popular culture
- issues and aspects of popular culture are dealt with, either by conceptualizing or criticizing.
Poetic
- content or form is poetic in nature.
Biographical
- means of expression can be social, poetical or expressive;
Documentary
- approach is documentary or holds elements of research
Sense related
- total art work, installations which are often interactive and affect different senses.
Seven MAJOR ART FORMS
Music
- art form that appeals to the sense of hearing, composed by combining notes into harmony.
Literature
- art form of language through the combined use of words, creating meaning and experience.
Theater
- Art form of performance. Dramatic text is portrayed on stage by actors and actresses
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and are enhanced by props, lights and sounds. form of art in which artists use their voices and/or their bodies, often in relation with other objects, to convey artistic expression.
Film
- a technological translation of theater, special effects are utilized to enhance the story telling
Dance
- art of the human form, body is used, mobilized and choreographed in a specific time, form and space.
Architecture, Designs and Allied Arts
- structure that meant to be used as shelter, its art relies on the design and purpose of the structure.
Visual Arts
- Artwork, such as painting, photography, or sculpture, that appeals primarily to the visual sense and typically exists in permanent form.
DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF PHILIPPINE ARTS
Natives of
Batanes
or the
Ivatans
use a headgear called
Vacul
, made from the fibres of
vuyavuy
palm, to protect them from the scotching heat of the sun while working on their farmlands.
Vases
and
statues
crafted in the Cordillera region, particularly in Baguio and Benguet area.
Marinduque province
, those who partake in the celebration of
Moriones Festival
use
morion
masks
to portray the Roman soldiers and Syrian mercenaries in the story of the Passion of the Christ.
Visayan
Region,
maskara
, which means Mask is prominent feature of the festival which also bears the same name. Maskara are always designed with smiling faces, giving rise to Bacolod being named the "City of Smiles”
, the legendary bird that has become an ubiquitous symbol of Maranao art. It is depicted as a fowl with colorful wings and feathered tail, holding a fish on its beak or talons. The head is profusely decorated with scroll, leaf, and spiral motifs. It is said to be a symbol of good fortune.
VARIOUS ARTS IN THE PHILIPPINES