Contemporary
Philippine Arts from
the Regions
Nature of ART
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activity that involves skill or expertise in handling materials
technique. - A.Tan
Art is a product of man's need to express himself. – R. Zulueta
and organizing them into something new.
Art is the communication of ideas and feelings by means of medium, color, sound, bronze, marble, words, and film. -C.
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Art is the skilful arrangement of nature such as colors sounds, lines, movements, words, stones, wood, etc., and to
express human feelings. – Rustia
Importance of Art
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Functions of Art
Most important means of expression developed by
man.
To express beauty
happiness
To serve as a channel of man’s passion
To reform man
To overcome the feelings of restlessness and loneliness
Contemporary Philippine Art
Contemporary Arts began during the 1950s, after World War II. Artists began to
experiment various procedures and various methods of communicating their feelings,
perspectives, thoughts, and different things that they needed to communicate through Arts.
They were viewed as contemporary artists in light of the fact that their styles and methods of
making artworks veered away from that of customary workmanship.
As times change, innovation, individual’s thoughts, issues, needs, and so
forth change as well. Contemporary art would now be able to be
discovered any place artist can put their work. It isn't kept in historical
centers.
Contemporary Philippine Arts tends to be found in the various displays,
art schools, side lanes and open spaces like train or transport stations,
shopping centers, parks and malls. Along these lines, what is basic in
contemporary arts is the procedure of art-making. For most, it is not how
much cash they make from their last work but the message it wants to
convey.
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But if one has an eye that can see beyond this painting made in oil, this lady
actually has a "geographical likeness" to the mirror-image or the
map of the archipelago of the Philippines. You put a map of the
Philippines over her and it seems she is really the Philippines at that time.
Her knees (we kneel when we pray) matched to Cebu in the map where
Roman Catholicism started and on her navel (means birth) is the Kawit,
Cavite map where our First Independence was declared and a lot more
coincidences! Her left arm a bit detached in a downward slant signifies the
Palawan islands! She appears to be strangled too as there is a line on top of
her head because that time Philippines is under colony.
Contemporary Art Forms from the Region
It refers to art forms that are developing in various regions of the
Philippines that relied on the existing materials in specific region or
province.
For example, 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. This particular headgear is also a substitute to umbrella in
rainy season.
DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS OF ART FORMS
By the Audience - focus on how audience classify arts
Performing Arts - involves the use of an artist’s body as a medium; an art form
that requires movement from one place to another (e.g. plays, movies, live music,
movies/TV shows, operas, mimes, puppet shows,acrobatics, dances, and ballets)
Visual Arts - usually exists in two-dimensional form and stays in one place;
something that we see and hear
Literature - narratives or works that are literary in nature and primarily deals
with imaginative and artistic writing (e.g. prose and poetry)
Sculptural - a three-dimensional form that we can touch, see, and climb. It
stays in one place. (e.g. monuments, architectural designs, rice terraces, rock
gardens, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, flower gardens, water fountains, and
buildings)
By an Artist - Characterized by physical and special sensing
Sight Art - something that you can see, imagine, and create (e.g.
painting, drawing, mosaic crafting, drafting, stage designing, and
graphic designing)
Sound Art - something that you can hear (e.g. prose, poetry,
play, and music)
Touch Art- something that you can feel or touch (e.g. sculpture,
curving, wood craft, pottery, and dance movement)
Other Classifications
Real Art - something that is understandable, “what you
see is what you get”, objective and representational (e.g.
photography, stageplay, dance, sculpture, and
architecture)
LOCAL FILIPINO CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
This list of local Filipino Contemporary artists includes awardees from Gawad ng
Manlilikha ng Bayan or GAMABA who are considered as our “National Living
Treasures”. These awardees produce art forms that are woven into everyday life. These
artists elucidate how pre-colonial traditions and cultural aspects survive though the
contemporary times.
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