Contemporary Art

Forms and Practices

from the Regions
The Philippine contemporary art is divided
into 7 major art forms:
 7 major art forms:
1.Visual arts
2.Literature
3.Music
4.Theater
5.Dance
6.Architecture
7.Film
Characteristics of the various art forms as they
developed from the American Colonial Period
up to the present.
 VISUAL ARTS

The arts created primarily for visual perception, as drawing, 
graphics,painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts.
 In the American period, education was
introduced to the Philippines.
3 Filipinos studied abroad and influenced the art making on the country.

Diosdado Lorenzo Victorio Edades

Juan Arellano
 “THE SKETCH”

Upon his arrival, Victorio Edades introduced visual

art through his art exhibition which shocked many
Filipino audiences due to his different style in
painting.

Instead of using bright and happy colors, he used dull

and dark hues in his works with the life of the laborers,
workers, and lower sector of the society as his subjects.
Hue is the correct word to use to refer to just the pure
spectrum colors
 “THE SKETCH”

After the Triumvirate had introduced art modernism,13 artists formed a group
called the 13 moderns.

Thirteen Moderns:
(Victorio Edades, Arsenio Capili, Bonifacio
Cristobal, Demetrio Diego, Carlos Francisco, Cesar
Legazpi, Diosdado Lorenzo, Anita Magsaysay-Ho,
Galo Ocampo, Hernando R. Ocampo, Jose Pardo,
Ricarte Purungganan,Vicente Manansala)