CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE ARTS
Unit 1, Lesson 1: What is Contemporary Art? pp. 1-13
Week 2: Sun & Mon (12:50 – 1:40)
 A. Fishing Scene by Fernando Amorsolo
B. Builders by Victorio Edades

D. Filipina: DH
by Imelda
C. DH Series by Cajipe-Endaya
Xyza Cruz-
Bacani
•  Filipino printmaker, painter, mixed-media, and
installation artist, curator and art project organiser.

• An author of various texts and books, as well as the

co-founder of KASIBULAN, an artist collective in the
Philippines.

• Initiated the PANANAW
 Philippine Journal of Visual Arts, of which she was
the first editor.
Imelda Cajipe-Endaya
(1949 – present)
• Has become a main figure Filipino feminist and
national liberation movements and Philippine art.
 • Filipina street photographer and documentary
photographer

•  Known for her black-and-white photographs of 

Hong Kong and documentary projects about
migration and the intersections of labor and human
rights

• one of the Magnum Foundation's Human Rights

Fellows and is the recipient of a resolution passed
by the Philippines House of Representatives in her
honor, HR No. 1969.

• Xyza is one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the World

2015,[ 30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2016,
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2016, and a Fujifilm
Ambassador.
Xyza Cruz – Bacani •  Recipient of grants from Pulitzer Center on Crisis
(1987 – present) Reporting 2016,[ WMA Commission 2017, and part
of Open Society Foundations Moving Walls 24.
Classwork: (10 pts.)

1)Look for the definitions of the following key terms.

• Contemporary Art
• Modern Art
• Social Realism
• Neoclassic
• Installation
• Mixed media
• Performance art

2) Give an example of art from the following periods. Include a photo, the artist, and
the date of work:
• Neoclassic
• Modern
• Contemporary