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CONTEMPORARY ARTS

Check Your Understanding

Recall

1. What do you call the conditions of the environment which affects the work of art?

Context

2. What are the elements which make-up the context of an art?

The artist, The Environment, The way of life, the society, and the audience

Application

3. Why is it important to research on the context of an artwork?

It is to be able to understand fully the aim and the feelings of the artist that he pour into the art.

4. How does an artist’s socio-economic conditions influence his art?

By the quality of his materials

5. Listen to the song “Bayan Ko” by Freddie Aguilar. What does the song say about the political

conditions of the time of its popularity?

It says that the country is blessed but its government fails to treasure what would be best in the
country.

Synthesis

1. Is it possible to come-up with an in-depth analysis of an artwork without a knowledge of its context?

Why or why not?

No, because it could only be narrow. And artwork is not that giving in terms of what the artist
impresses its also about person’s interpretation.
Check Your Understanding

Recall

1. What are the 4Ms to consider in an artistic production?

Method, Machine, Manpower, Materials

2. Whose vision is most prominent in a production?

Director

3. What do you call the main idea or message to be conveyed in a production?

Theme

Application

4. Why is it important to identify the methods of the production?

It is to be able to have easier process

5. Why should people in a production be assigned with specific tasks?

To be able to have equal job and synchronization and not having someone that would overload
the work.

Synthesis

6. In the mentioned manpower roles above, what for you is a role that you can sufficiently fulfill?

Crew, because that is what I can see to myself working with each other for the best of the
prodiction.