PHIL ARTS:

CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS

FROM THE REGIONS
“Art is not what you see, but
what you make others see.”

EDGAR DEGAS
 “Art washes away from the
soul the dust of everyday life.”

PABLO PICASSO
 “Art enables us to find
ourselves and lose ourselves
at the same time.”
THOMAS MERTON
HUMANITIES: The study of values
• Definitions:
Medieval Period: Distinguished what
pertained to humans and what pertained to
God

Studies directly concerned with human values

• What do we need to study then?

Humanists say, “What we need is a study that
will get us closer to ourselves.”
HUMANITIES: The study of values
• What do we need to study then?

ART

SUBTLE AND ENDURING

VALUES
 ART: Definition
• Etymologies:
“Arvan”: Join or put together

“Arkiskein”: To put together

“Artizein”: To prepare

“Ars”: Everything that is artificially made or

composed by man
 ART: Definition
• Aristotle defines it as:
“The right reason of making things”

Any kind of human activity when directed to

change or transform things under the parts of
right reasons can be called art.
 ART: Definition
• Modern definitions:
Collective group of fine arts such as visual,
performing arts, and literature

Connotes the doing of things that have form

and beauty

Concerns itself with the communication of

certain ideas and feelings by means of
sensuous medium – color, sound, bronze,
word, marble, film, etc.
 ART: Importance
• A means of expression
 ART: Importance
• It preserves culture, history and traditions of
mankind.

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 ART: Importance
• It provides entertainment, enjoyment and
leisure.
 ART: Importance
• It satisfies the creative and imaginative
desires of man.

• It turns abstract ideas to reality.

• It turns concrete ideas to abstract ideas.

• It molds an individual.
 ART: Purpose
• To improve art • To immortalize

• To create beauty • To express fantasy

• To provide • To express religious

decoration values

• To reveal truth • To stimulate the

intellect
 ART: Purpose
• To express or create order and harmony

• To record experience

• To express social and cultural context

• To protest injustice

• To elevate the commonplace

 ART: Purpose
• To express the universal

• To sell products

• To express emotions and feelings

• To influence the behavior of people for cause

• To serve a utilitarian need

 ART: Nature
• Art is ageless.

• Art is made by man.

• Art is a product of experience.

• Art is universal.