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Contemporary Philippine Arts from the
Region
What is Art?
Art is creation
Creating something new, something original and something different. Art is life. It is creating life on a material and
making inanimate objects to have life. To create art is to give life.
Why people engage in Art?
• To earn money
• To express their emptions and thoughts, real or imaginary
• To produce things of beauty and masterpiece
• to self-actualization
• To immortalize themselves
• To inform
• To persuade
• To entertain people
Functions of Art
• Personal or individual function
• Social function
• Economic function
• Political function
• Historical function
• Cultural function
• Religious function
• Physical function
• Aesthetic function
Principles of Art
• Harmony
• Balance (formal and informal balance)
• Rhythm
• Proportion
• Emphasis
HARMONY
• Most essential factor in a composition
• Also called UNITY
• Achieved when all the elements of a thing are put together to come
up with a coherent whole
Example of harmony
Balance
Contemporary- Current, now, the present
ARTS through the Ages

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