CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE

ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

LESSON 3: ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
WHAT IS
CONTEMPORARY
ARTS?
Artwork that is created by
today’s contemporary
artist and has a world view
and is sensitive to
changing times.
Elements and • Appropriation
• Performance
Principles of • Space
Contemporary • Hybridity
Arts • Technology
APPROPRIATION
• These are existing
artworks that are
appropriate to prodouce
another art.
• Usage of prints, images a
and icons to produce
another art form.
APPROPRIATION
PERFORMANCE
• Performance evolved to
“emphasize spontaneous
elements of chance” -
Walker Art Center
• Interpreting various human
activities such as ordinary
activities such as chores
routines and rituals, to
socially relevant themes
such as poverty
commercialism and war.
SPACE
• Space refers to arts that
transform spaces or a
specific art form that is
performed and
positioned in a specific
space such as public
spaces.
• Examples, flash mobs,
art installation in malls
and parks.
SPACE
HYBRIDITY
• Usageof
unconventional
materials, mixing of
unlikely materials to
produce an artworks.

• Examples, coffee for

painting and miniature
sculptures using crayons.
HYBRIDITY
TECHNOLOGY
• Usage of technology in
creation and dessimination
of artworks.
• It uses modern platforms
and equipments in creating
arts.
• Examples, video posting,
live streaming and
recording performances.
 Activity 2
Direction: Interpret the following contemporary art forms in not less
than 5 sentences.

UPLIFT BY FERNANDO DESAPARECIDOS BY TOMY DE OOOOHH BY RICHARD

CANCIO LEON IMAO GOMEZ