WHAT IS ART?

ART
• Is the expression or application
of human creative skill and
imagination;
• Is usually represented in many
forms like literature, media arts,
visual and performing arts.
 ART
• It is an imitation of life and the world
rendered beautifully, which gives
pleasure.
• The subject and medium are two
elements of art that help in experiencing
life, the world and its beauty.
Explain what is being imitated in the painting
and give it your own title.
Fish Vendors by Sey Perez (Pampanga)
 What is the
significance of
ART?
TO CAPTURE
HISTORICAL
EVENTS AND
PEOPLE
TO BRING
ATTENTIO
N TO
ORDINAR
Y THINGS
TO CAPTURE BEAUTY
IN NATURE
TO MAKE PEOPLE
THINK
TO
EVOKE
EMOTIO
NS AND
FEELING
S
TO TELL A STORY
TO SHOW ARTISTIC
SKILL
 TO GIVE
HOPE AND
INSPIRATI
ON
People have been creating art for
thousands of years since
prehistoric times.
Since then, man has continued to
carve, paint, draw…create different art
forms.
Art has evolved
over What
the isyears.
art for?
FORMS OF ARTISTIC
EXPRESSION
A. VISUAL ARTS
Fine Arts

Decorative Arts

Contemporary Arts
A. VISUAL ARTS
1. Fine Arts
- first used to describe the art forms created
for its appearance rather than its practical use.
- common examples are drawing, painting,
sculpture, print, graphic art, calligraphy, and
architecture.
A. VISUAL ARTS
2. Decorative Arts or Decorative Crafts
- artworks that are both aesthetically pleasing
and functional
- common examples are textile art, glassware,
jewelry, furniture, earthenware, metal craft and
interior design
a. VISUAL ARTS
3. Contemporary Art Forms
- recently conceived art style and techniques.
- common examples are assemblage, collage,
installation, performance art, digital art, land
art, conceptual art
B. PERFORMING ARTS

Music

Dance

Theater
b. Performing arts
1. Music Arts
- universal form of art
- manipulation of sound and silence
- blends the different elements (pitch, rhythm,
dynamics, timbre, & texture)
- performed by using different instruments,
vocal techniques, and styles
- can be live or recorded
b. Performing arts
1. Music Arts
- comes in a variety of genres:
Art music – music from Western Classical Music
Popular Music – music that is accessible and
commercially available to the public
Traditional Music - community and culturally
based
b. Performing arts
2. Dance
- regulated and deliberated order of body movements
- comes in many forms and styles:
Ballet
Belly Dance
Break Dance
Improvisational Dance
Hip-hop Dance
Modern Dance
Contemporary Dance
Traditional Dance
b. Performing arts
3. Theater
- involves the integration and combination of the visual and
performing arts
- a fine art where actors / actresses perform experiences (real
or imagined), in front of live audience
- common examples are:
Mime
Puppetry
Tragedy
Opera
Musical
Traditional theater
 MUSIC
 Art form that appeals to sense of hearing
 LITERATURE
 Art form of language through combined
use of words, creating meaning &
experience
 THEATER
 Art form of performance, portrayed on
stage by actors enhanced by props, lights
& sounds
 CINEMA
 The technological translation of theater;
special effects are utilized to enhance
storytelling.
 DANCE
 The art of the human form; body is used,
mobilized and choreographed in a specific
time, form and space
Modern Art vs. Contemporary Art
MEDIUMS / FORMS OF EXPRESSION
• Drawing
Modern • Painting
Art • Sculpture

• Visual Arts
• Performance Art
Contemporary • Video Art
• Site-Specific/ Land Art
Art • Installation Art
• Virtual Art
VIDEO ART
Viewers are asked to be
active participants. Using
innovative video
technologies, participants
can sit on replicas of 18th-
century French chairs and
watch television screens in
which they are virtually
inserted in historic
recreations of 18th-century
French spaces.
VIDEO ART
Video art is an art form
which relies on using
video technology as a
visual and audio medium.
SITE-SPECIFIC ART- is a modern artwork
created to exist in a certain place. The artist takes
the location into account while planning and creating
the art.

The Getty Center's Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin

SITE-SPECIFIC ART
. Kidlat Tahimik’s Restaurant in Baguio
INSTALLATION ART
.
.
INSTALLATION ART - is a modern movement
characterized by immersive, larger-than-life
works of art. Usually, installation
artists create these pieces for specific
locations, enabling them to expertly
transform any space into a customized,
interactive environment.
.
INSTALLATION ART
VISUAL ART
.
VISUAL ART is a variety of forms that can be
enjoyed using the eyes.
.
VIRTUAL ART or virtual reality art are use
to describe the virtualization of art, made
with the technical tools developed at the
end of the 1980s.
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: PHILIPPINE ART
• American Period to
Modern Postwar Period
Art • (1890’s- 1969)

Contemporary 1970’s to present

•
Art
STYLISTIC OVERVIEW: PHILIPPINE ART
• Abstractionism
Modern • Neorealism
Art •
•
Surrealism
Expressionism

• Collaborative
Contemporary •
Art Process-Oriented
• Integrative
COLLABORATIVE
PROCESS-ORIENTED
INTEGRATIVE
CULTURAL OVERVIEW: PHILIPPINE ART
• Ritual and governance
Modern • Colonial and pre-colonial
Art • Traditional

• Museum-circulated
Contemporary • Market Oriented
Art • Social / Current Issues
 CONTEMPORARY ART
• Never fixed but open to possibilities
• To appreciate the contemporary is
to experience and understand art
as a window to Philippine
contemporary life.
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ARE MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY
IDENTIFY WHETHER THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS
ARE MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY
IDENTIFY WHETHER THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS
ARE MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY
IDENTIFY WHETHER THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS
ARE MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY
IDENTIFY WHETHER THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS
ARE MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY
IDENTIFY WHETHER THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS
ARE MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY
IDENTIFY WHETHER THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS
ARE MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY