L ESSON OBJECTIVES:

• Define ARTS using your own words

• Identify the reasons why artist create arts
• Describe the characteristics of
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
• Explain Orally the importance of arts
• Recognize our NATIONAL ARTISTS in the
different field of arts and acknowledge their
contributions
What can
you see?
Which switch will turn on the bulb?
Can you please help them settle the case?
Is she young
or old?
Which animals do you see?
Art
- from Latin word artem (nominative ars)
"work of art; practical skill; a business,
craft."
– use of various creative
disciplines produced by
human creativity and
skill to express oneself.
Artists create arts for the following
reasons:
 RECOGNITION - fame and fortune. Eg. Visual artist RONALD
VENTURA’s painting GRAYGROUND was sold for almost 47 million
pesos

 RELIGIOUS- glorify their creator. Eg. Pyramids, temples, worship

songs ( Joey Velasco’s HAPAG NG PAG-ASA)

 IMPULSE - artist are driven by their PASSION.

 SELF-EXPRESSION - it expresses ideas and emotions
Forms or Disciplines
VISUAL ARTS
Fine Arts
Decorative Arts
Contemporary Arts

PERFORMING ARTS
Music
Dance
Theater
Film
VISUAL ARTS
– wide array of artistic disciplines that are
appreciated primarily through SIGHT. It
includes different art forms & disciplines
such as Fine arts, Decorative arts and
Contemporary arts.
FINE ARTS - art forms created primarily for its APPEARANCE
rather than its PRACITICAL USE. ( drawings, paintings,
sculpture, prints, graphic art, architecture)

prints Graphic art calligraphy architecture

sculpture painting drawing
DECORATIVE ARTS - are artworks that are both
aesthetically PLEASING and FUNCTIONAL

jewelry glassware Textile arts

furniture pottery

weaving Metalwork
CONTEMPORARY ARTS - modern art
forms used by the present artists that
does NOT fall in the traditional
categories of visual arts namely FINE
ARTS & DECORATIVE ARTS while
CONTEMPORARY ARTWORKS - artworks that are made in
present whether it comes in TRADITIONAL FROMS.
(Assemblage, collage, installation, performance art, digital art,
land art, conceptual art)

Conceptual arts digital arts assemblage

collage mobile Installation art
PERFORMING ARTS
• Use of VOICE and BODY movement to communicate
artistic expression.
• Come in many kinds but all are meant to be enacted in
front of a LIVE AUDIENCE.

Categorized into four TYPES:

MUSIC, DANCE, THEATER, and FILM
MUSIC - a universal form of art, a manipulation of
sound and silence.

Basil valdez Choral singers

DANCE - regulated and deliberate order of body
movement.

ballet Contemporary dance Hip hop dance

THEATER - integration and combination of the
visual and performing arts.

mime traditional theater Musical theater puppetry

FILM - A motion picture made primarily for aesthetic reasons
rather than commercial profit. It is characterized primarily by
content and technique that reflect an artistic sensibility, by
psychological or social realism.
WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY ARTS?
• Creating art can express yourself,
enabling you to share your ideas and
emotions to others.
• Studying art teaches you to distinguish
and understand individual
differences. It make us more sensitive.
• Studying and creating art help
develop our decision and problem
solving skills.
IS ART IMPORTANT?
• It help us realize that there are
many ways of dealing and solving
obstacle.
• It help us appreciate that there are
more than one correct solution to a
problem.
• It nurtures imagination and
promotes original and innovative
concept which is a skill valued in
utmost all businesses today
 Characteristics of
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
 Practice mimesis

 Use BOLD STROKES and BRIGHT COLORS

 Not confined in the museum

 Originality is not issue

 Favorite subjects are women, children, or the environment

PERFORMANCE TASKS 1
The students are expected to present
their talents through a variety show
titled “GOT TALENT”.
NOTE: RUBRICS will be provided to the students
NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
MUSIC
- She established the
world-renowned
Philippine Madrigal
Singers & leading
the advancement
of Philippine choral
music
She combined
traditional music
with western music.
She used Filipino
indigenous musical
instruments in
orchestral
performances.
NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
DANCE
Her research entitled”
Philippine Folk Dance and
Games” documented
local forms of
celebrations and rituals . It
made the Filipino youth
more knowledgeable of
their cultural heritage.

MAJOR WORKS: Philippine

Folk Dances & Games,
Philippine National
Dance,
- Founder of Ballet
Philippines
- A dancer,
choreographer, director
and a teacher

MAJOR WORKS:
-Amada
-At a Maranaw Gathering
-Rama Hari
NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
THEATER
“Queen of Kundiman”

She believed that the Filipino

soul can be expressed
through kundiman and
sarsuela.

Major performances/works:
Dalagang bukid, Ay,ay
Kalisud, Mutya ng Pasig.

She wrote Anak ni Eba, Aking

Ina, Puri at Buhay
- An actor, director,
playwright and theater
organizer
- He established “ ARENA
THEATER” and paved the
way for legitimacy of
theater in the Philippines

MAJOR WORKS:
- Patnubay ng Kalinangan
Award from the City of
Manila
- The Pamulinawen award
(1928)
 NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
FILM & BROADCASTS
- He is a film and theatre
director and has made
more than 60 films
- One of the well known
best Filipino directors

MAJOR WORKS:
Santiago
Wanted: Perfect Mother
Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang
Maynila: Sa Kuko ng
Liwanag
- Considered one of
the geniuses of
Philippine cinema.

MAJOR WORKS:
-Tubig(1975)
-Himala (1982)
-Pinulot Ka Lang sa
Lupa (1987)
NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
PAINTING
“First National Artist”
”GRAND OLD MAN OF
PHIL ARTS”
-genre paintings,
landscapes, sketches,
historical paintings &
advertising arts

MAJOR WORKS:
Maiden in a stream, El
Ciego, Dalagang Bukid,
Planting Rice
-He is known for
historical themed
murals

MAJOR WORKS:
-Blood Compact
-First Mass at
Limasawa
-Invasion of
Limahong
NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
ARCHITECTURE
JUAN NAKPIL

- The man of many talents

- An artist, engineer, civic
leader and a teacher

MAJOR WORKS:
- UP administration building &
Library
- Reconstruction of the Rizal
Shrine
- Manila Jockey Club
PABLO S. Antonio

- Considered as the
foremost Filipino
modern architecture.
- His design aesthetic are
based on simplicity &
functionality

MAJOR WORKS
-Manila Polo Club
-Ideal Theater
NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
SCULPTURE
GUILLERMO TOLENTINO

-a premier sculptor & esteemed

professor at the U.P Diliman

MAJOR WORKS

- Bonifacio Monument
- UP Oblation, Diliman
- Ramon Magsaysay
- Various bust sculptures
of political & historical
personalities
NAPOLEON ABUEVA

“Father of modern sculpture

in the Philippines

MAJOR WORKS:
- Kaganapan (1953)
- The transfiguration (1979)
- Eternal Garden Memorial
Park (1967)
- Nine Muses of the Arts
NATIONAL ARTIST
IN THE FIELD OF
LITERATURE
- His style is defined as flowery
and Spanish
- He used his influence to fight
for intellectual freedom and
helped free imprisoned writer
during Marcos Regime

MAJOR WORKS:
- The Woman Who Had Two
Novels
- Manila, My Manila
- Summer Solstice
- One of the best
contemporary poets in
the world
- Known for using
punctuation marks in a
novel or lyrical way

MAJOR WORKS:
- Footnote to Youth
- Many Voices
- Poems 55