Contemporary

Philippine
Arts from the
Regions
What is Contemporary Arts?
• Art made and produced
by artist living today.
• The newest form of art,
amusing people from 1970 up
to this very moment.
• This art functions in a global
society that is culturally diverse
and technologically oriented.
• It has become a collaborative
process and the audience plays
an active role in reacting and
constructing meaning about the
art.
• This art portrays the social
issues and problems of the
country.
SOCIAL REALISM
 Why study
contemporary art?
 Modern vs.
contemporary art
 Elements/Principles of
Contemporary Philippine Arts
Elements/Principles
of Contemporary
Philippine Arts
1.APPROPRIATION
➢Existing artworks are
appropriated to produce
another artwork.
To appropriate is to
borrow.
Is appropriation in art acceptable?
Why?
Marcel Duchamp
• He devised the
concept of the
‘readymade’
2. PERFORMANCE
➢Performance art refers to art
activities that are presented to a live
audience and can combine music,
dance, poetry, theater, visual art
and video.
3. SPACE
➢Arts transforming space.
How art transforms a space
is now an occupation for
contemporary artists.
➢Examples are
flash mob or
sculpture
installations in
malls and parks.
• Site Specific Art Forms
–art forms that is performed and
positioned in a specific space such as
public places.
4.HYBRIDITY
➢Usage of unconventional
materials, mixing of unlikely
materials to produce an
artwork.
The concept of hybridity
can be applied to two
aspects of art today.
1. Artists today are comfortable
using whatever seems best to fully
investigate and express their ideas or
concepts and often move among
different media and techniques to
express new things in their work.
2. One approach to understanding
art today involves identifying
what media and materials the
artists chose and considering why
they chose to work with them.
• “Amang Pintor”
5. TECHNOLOGY
➢Usage of technology in the creation
and dissemination of artworks.
Contemporary artists have used
video and the internet as a way of
propagating art.
➢3D modeling, Illustrator,
or Photoshop.