CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS (1ST QUARTER)

WEEK 1 (August 30, 2022)  Eugene Vernon: art is the

manifestation created and
FUNDAMENTALS OF ART
produced through lines,
Definition & Elements of Art
movements, sounds, colors, and
Objectives: emotions. Only humans have it
because only we can add meaning
1. Define arts in diff perspective or
to certain things; reflects human
aesthetic
subjectivity in the form of
2. Identify art’s elements, forms, and
elements that stimulates the
components
senses.
3. Utilize the different elements of art
4. Make a piece of art using the  Leonardo Da Vinci: “the Queen of
different form all sciences communicating
knowledge to all the generations of
Focus on: the world,”; a universal language
1. What makes art, art?  Einstein: as long as there is human
2. What are art’s elements, forms, emotion, there is art. “art is in the
and components? eye of the beholder,”
3. Why is there a need to create art?
ELEMENTS OF ARTS
4. How can art be created?
 Lines/strokes – marks distance
5. When does art begin or end?
between two points
THE NATURE OF ART  Color_ produced when light strikes
 Varied ways to define the nature an image; reflected or absorbed
and characteristics of arts. light that creates the mood of the
 Provides color and substance to artists: hue (yellow, blue),
everyday existence of humans intensity (brightness or dullness of
color), and value (the amount of
 Product of human activity or in
color)
nature.
 Space – foreground (focus of
 Stimulates our senses and
picture), middle ground (lights),
cognitive abilities.
background (emotional effects,
ART DEFINED IN VARIED WAY supports foreground);
 Plato (427-347 BC): copy or negative(background) and positive
imitation of reality; art is an space (interest)
illusion, a collection of reflections  Texture – smoothness or
 Leo Tolstoy: production of objects riggedness of the image or object;
or elements from the external may be “Real” similar to that when
environment that pleases the we touch or “Implied” which is
senses; unifies men as they artificial as when we see a painted
produce the same feelings and image.
sentiments
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 Shape- geometric, natural, WHY DO PEOPLE DO ART?

irregular, rectangle, oval, octagon,
(Craig Roland and Susan Amster)
2d
 Forms- 3d; has depth, width, and  Personal enjoyment and
height satisfaction
 Express thoughts and feelings
ARTS IN DIFFERENT FORMS  Communicate with others
 Visual arts – appeals to visual  Create more favorable
sense environment
 Drawings – creation of image,  Make others see things more
diagram or a form using tools clearly
 Painting– creative expression  Provide us with new visual
using pigment or color on a experiences
surface for an aesthetic value  Record time, place, person, or
 Ceramic – pottery, sculpture, object
figurine; term came from the  Commemorate important people
word “keramikos” which is a or events.
Greek word meaning “pottery”
 Reinforce cultural ties and
 Photography – photos taken by a traditions
photographer; produces images  Seek to affect social change
through light
 Tell stories
 Architecture – the purposive
 Adorn themselves
design of structures
 Worship
 Sculpture – uses carving models
 Create illusion
from metals, ceramics, wood or
 Predict the future and remember
stone
the part
 Weaving – production of textile or
 Earn livelihood, do something no
fabric with sets of yarn, fibrous
one else can
materials or threads
 Amuse themselves
 Literary arts – arts denoted from
 Make ordinary extraordinary, the
letters or literature; “littera”:
familiar strange
“individual written character”
 Increase our global understanding.
 Performing arts – involves
creative activity that performs
 Music – creative use of sound to
express insights and emotions
 Theatre- “theatron”; collaborative
art where performers do certain
thing to perform
 Dance – expression represented
be sequenced body movements
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WEEK 2 (September 06, 2022) tests cleverness of people

THE EVOLUTION OF PHILIPPINE ART
Philippine Historical Timeline
Objectives:
o Luwas/balagtasan or poetic
1. Identify the periods in the history f
the Philippines which greatly jousts – poems spoken by
influenced the Philippine Arts and one group against the other
Culture like a joust
2. Understand how history impacts
on nation’s life and culture
3. Analyze the art works and
contribution of early Filipinos to
Philippine culture and society o Proverbs – encapsulates the
4. Assess Filipino artistry as they rules of conduct and
unfold in history community beliefs
Focus on:
1. What are the periods in the history
o Folk Songs – folklyric
of the Philippines?
2. What are the Pre-Colonial arts? expressing the
3. Philippine art during Hispanic relationships, lessons about
conquest. aspirations of people in the
4. What were the arts during the community; e.g. Bahay
American colonization? Kubo, Leron leron sinta, ili-
5. The arts during Japanese period. ili
o Narratives – epics and folk
tales such as legends which
explains the origin of the
Pre-colonial Period (before 1521) world, places, animals, and
-Natives express their culture and culture other creations; e.g.
-Arts is proof that pre-colonial Filipinos tungkung langit
were learned people even before Spanish  Visual
came. o Pottery

 Literary
o Riddles – has the
talinghaga or metaphor;
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o Weaving – evolved from o Sculpture and architecture

pre-colonial communities – European and baroque;
and has been a traditional on churches mostly
source of living o Painting – religious icons,
saints, religious scenes
o Printing – xylographic
method

American Period
 Literary
o Free verse
o Novels
o Essays
 Performing
o Theater
o Sculpture – cordillera
o Bobadil
focuses on the Anito figure
called bul-ul  Visual arts
o Jewelry making – dwellers o Illustrations and cartoons
used to adorn themselves o Sculpture paintings
with highly intricate Japanese Occupation
ornaments made of gold
o Baybayin – old writing – Filipino language was given a chance to
system used in the flourish
Philippines  Literary arts
 Performing Arts o Poetry
o Dances – performed during o Haiku
special occasions such as o Short story
birth, circumcision etc.
 Performing
Hispanic Philippine (1521-1898) o Drama
 Literary o Music
o Poetry – religious either  Visual Arts
lyric or narrative o Painting – mostly on
 Dalit – free verse; propagandas against
solemn American; dropped from
 Pasyon – suffering airplanes
and death of Jesus o Sculpture – distorted and
 Awit and Korido – emotional figures
chivalry from europe
o Prose
 Visual arts
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WEEK 3 (September 13, 2022) creative emotions using modern

tools.
PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY ART
CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTEMPORARY
a. Nature of Contemporary Art
ARTS
b. The Contemporary Period in
Philippine Art Forms  Challenges the classics as it goes
beyond the usual nature of art and
Objectives:
expression.
1. Understand the mature of  Abstraction and symbolism
contemporary art became the basic feature of the
2. Differentiate between the art of new era in artistry.
the past and in the present period  Symbolic creative expression
3. Asses the art works produced in became the fundamental nature of
the contemporary period contemporary art as it became free
4. Determine the changes that are spirited which is a distinct trait of
evident in the Filipino artistry modern environment.
5. Create one’s own art piece as an
CONTEMPORARY AS POSTMODERNIST
expression of certain sentiment
 The point where artists liberated
themselves from the nature of
Focus on:
what is considered modern after
1. What is the nature of the WWII.
contemporary art?  Signifies the Filipinos artists’
2. What are the contemporary art opportunity to curtail the limits set
pieces of each art form? by modernism.
3. How can you express your feelings  Gave rise to conceptual art, punk
through the use of the different art culture, performance art, feminist
forms? art, and installation art.
 Development of technology and
media
CONTEMPORARY ART
 Is comprised of expressive art in
 PERCEPTUAL COGNITION
several forms that are created and
produced in present, specifically (missing deets)
from the 1960’s to the current
 METAPHORICAL MODES OF
period.
THINKING
 Aside from those that we have
o Individuals recreate realties
commonly known as visual arts
according to experience.
such as paintings, sculptures, and
o Individuals construct
the like, digital art has also become
abstraction that create a
a unique way of expressing
general idea which
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consequently provides more interspersing Philippine

meaning and sentiment to the historical fact with fiction.
given reality or insights.  Readers discover faith,
 ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF truth, and human nature in
COMMUNICATION the end.
o Individuals can express their  DOG EATERS by Leoncio Deriada
sentiments, emotions, and
feelings, through varied ways.
o Traditional method can be
modified while innovative
methods can perfectly produce
the effect that the artist desired
to convey his or her message.

LITERARY ART
 RIZAL WITHOUT THE OVERCOAT
 Many Filipino writers wrote many
by Ambeth Ocampo
literary works in different
 A book adapted from the
languages and vernaculars
author’s “Looking Back”
especially during Martial Law
column in the Philippine
years around 1970’s.
Daily Globe from October
 Became a medium which Filipinos
1987 to July 1990.
clamor for freedom and
 Attempts to “translate” Jose
expression.
Rizal and his historical
 Reflects the scenario of the times
context so that he could be
where the chaos brought by the
better understood by a new
martial law.
generation – to present a
“new” Rizal that had been
obscured by school and
 CAVE AND SHADOWS by Nick
myth.
Joaquin
 First published in 1983
 Literary whodunit that is a VISUAL ARTS
must-read by students of
 Reflected dynamism in styles and
Philippine Literature
trends in the 1960’s.
 The novel is set in motion
 Confronted social, economical, and
by a mysterious death, and
political issues.
thrust onwards by the
 Emergence of nationalistic
search for truth and the
consciousness.
solution of the crime.
 Author expertly weaves
multi-layered meanings by
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 High degree of expressionist works  Become a significant

revealed the anxiety and tensions contemporary from of
of the period. artistic expression.
 Focuses on images that project  Journalists have utilized the
power and agitation. camera as instrument and
tool to record major events
and even personalities for
 DAMA DE NOCHE, 2008 by Jose advertising.
Tence Ruiz

PERFORMING ARTS
 CONTEMPORARY THEATER
 Laid down the foundations
of psychological realism in
the theater.
 Traditional forms of drama
brought contemporary
 IS HE THE MAN, 1960 by Jeremias message sin urban
Elizalde Navarro playwrights that respond to
contemporary issues and
concerns.
PARAISONG
PARISUKAT by Orland
Nadres 1974
BAYAN-BAYANAN by
Bienvenido Noriega Jr.
1975
 CONTEMPORARY DANCE
 SUPPORT LOKAL, 2020 by  A popular form of dance
Margaux Blas which developed during
the middle portion of the
20th century; has since
grown to become one of
the dominating
performance genres for
formally trained dancers
throughout the world.
 Particularly popular in the
U.S. and western Europe;
 PHOTOGRAPHY originally informed by and
borrowing from classical,
modern, and jazz styles, it
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has since become to

incorporate elements from
many styles of dance.
 Often perceived as being
closely related to modern
dance, ballet and other
classical concert dance
styles due to popularity
amongst trained dancers
and some overlap in
movement type.
 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
 Original Pilipino Music or
OPM – referred largely to
Philippine pop or popular
songs specifically ballads.
OPM Artists: Freddie
Aguilar, Lea Salonga,
Nora Aunor, etc.
Original Filipino bands
in 1990’s: Rivermaya,
Eraserheads, etc.