❖ Contemporary art-making is a creative
and transformative process.
The study of art must begin in one's locality,
in the regional sense. It is within this regional
location that the idea of homeland is
anchored. It is the place where personal and
group identities are nurtured as individual
experiences are accumulated and collective
memories ate commemorated.
Regionalism in art celebrates local tradition
and pride of place.
Artists and curators Continually produce arts
to show, and experiment with their available
sources and in turn, contribute to the body
of work in the region.
Negros has produced and continues to
produce, artists that have contributed to
their lively art scene.
Bacolod and Dumaguete are both hailed as
centers in the local art industry and many
galleries and artist's groups are found there.
In the north, Baguio City is recognized as the
regional center of artistic production in the
Cordillera Region.
Davao is considered the aesthetic laboratory
and cultural hub of many Mindanao artists.
• Art is akin to a language or a text
which can be read by anyone,
establishing a dialogue between the
artist and the viewer.
➢ In the interpretation of contemporary
artwork, there is no single and correct
meaning.
7 FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS OF ART
FORM INTERPRETATION
CREATIVITY POLITICAL ECONOMY
IMAGINATION IDEOLOGY
LANGUAGE
The form allows the work to be perceived
by the senses and its ideas to be
communicated through the arrangement of
elements as a whole. The form is made up
of
• formal elements such as line, shape,
color, texture, mass, volume, space,
among others
• overall composition (which is the
arrangement of those formal
elements ) which refers to its size,
proportion, and so on
• materials and technique from which
the artwork is made
To appreciate the form of art, one should
look into the transformation of raw
materials beyond the application of
mechanical techniques. Creativity and • Art as propaganda and
imagination must be taken into account. persuasive medium
Creativity, the generation of new ideas, Ideology is unearthed and revealed from
insights, and previously unimagined images the surface of the form. The ideological
and artifacts, is usually thought of as central nature of art questions through images
to the making of art. serves the interests of some, but not at all.
Imagination is a faculty that allows us to
generate mental pictures, ideas, and
sensations that do not exist in the world
and in some cases cannot exist.
Art is a language that is about meaning-
making beyond textual and verbal means.
Language is the content or the mass idea
communicated through:
❖ The image it creates
❖ The icons and their symbolic meaning
❖ The environment where it is used,
displayed, or performed
❖ The traditions, beliefs, and values of
the culture that produced it and
utilizes it
Interpretation is concerned with searching
for meaning. To interpret is to establish a
meaningful connection between what we
see and what we feel in a particular work of
art.
Political Economy is concerned with power
and the distribution of economic resources
in the context of art production.
Political economy is concerned with
production in relation to the following:
• Capital and labor
• Power structures and power
relations
• Institutions of control