CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS &

PRACTICES FROM THE REGIONS

SEVEN MAJOR CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS

• 1. Visual
• 2. Dance
• 3. Music
• 4. Architecture
• 5. Theater
• 6. Literature
• 7. Film/Cinema
 VISUAL ART

• is an umbrella term for a comprehensive classification of art

which consists of several artistic disciplines. But commonly,
these are primarily visual in nature such as picture (painting,
drawing, and printmaking) and sculpture. A picture is two-
dimensional image produced by using different media such
as ink, oil paint, charcoal and watercolor. Sculpture, on the
other hand, is three-dimensional that may be shaped by
means of a stone, wood, and marble. Some of the
contemporary art techniques are:
• 1. Collage
• 2. Digital Arts
• 3. Graffiti
• 4. Print Making
• 5.Mixed Media
• 1. Collage is made by pasting different materials
such as pictures and pieces of paper or textile.
• 2. Digital arts describe technological arts which
include digital photography and digital painting.
• 3. Graffiti are either serious, rude, political,
humorous words or drawings printed on public
walls or structures.
• 4. Print Making is the creation of images,
typically on paper, fabric and plastic materials.
• 5. Mixed media are artworks made by combining
two or more art materials or medium.
• 2. Dance is an instance of moving the human
body to the beat of a music choreographed in
definite time, form and space.
• 3. Music is an art that appeals to sense of
hearing. It is composed of ordered tones or
sounds in succession
• 4. Architecture is an art form of planning and
erecting structures especially habitable ones.
• 5. Theater is an art form of presentation. Scripts
are represented on stage by actors and are
boosted by props, lights and sounds.
• 6. Literature is a written work having form or
expression of thoughts of permanence or
universal interest.
• 7. Film/Cinema is a technological transformation
of a theater. Scripts are portrayed but are pre-
taped and edited before its showing.
 VISUAL ARTIST

JUAN ARELLANO, DIOSDADO LORENZO & VICTORIO

EDADES WERE AMONG THOSE WHO STUDIED OUTSIDE
THE PHILIPPINES. THESE THREE ARTISTS WENT BACK
AND INTRODUCED THE CONCEPT OF MODERN ART IN
THE COUNTRY.
 JUAN ARELLANO
JUAN MARCOS ARELLANO Y DE GUZMÁN - ARCHITECT
 JUAN ARELLANO

MANILA METROPOLITAN
THEATER MANILA CENTRAL POST OFFICE
 DIOSDADO LORENZO
PAINTER

WOMAN WITH JAR RURAL LIFE

 VICTORIO EDADES
PAINTER

SHOCKED MANY FILIPINO AUDIENCES DUE TO HIS DIFFERENT

STYLE OF PAINTING. INSTEAD OF USING BRIGHT & HAPPY COLORS,
HE USED DULL & DARK HUES IN HIS WORKS
 VICTORIO EDADES

THE SKETCH
 THIRTEEN MODERNS

A GROUP THAT BROKE AWAY FROM THE

CONSERVATIVES.

LED BY FERNANDO AMORSOLO.

THE GROUP USHERED IN A NEW ERA IN

PHILIPPINE ART.
 FERNANDO AMORSOLO
FERNANDO AMORSOLO Y CUETO – PORTRAITIST & PAINTER
 VICENTE MANANSALA

HIS PAINTINGS ARE DESCRIBED AS VISIONS OF REALITY

TEETERING ON THE EDGE OF ABSTRACTION. 
WOMAN SEWING
CESAR LEGASPI
PAINTER, ART DIRECTOR
 CESAR LEGASPI

THE WALL MORNING DANCE

ANITA MAGSAYSAY-HO
PAINTER

THE ONLY FEMALE MEMBER OF THE THIRTEEN

MODERNS.
ANITA MAGSAYSAY-HO

VILLAGE WOMEN AT SUNSET

HERNANDO OCAMPO
SELF-TAUGHT PAINTER
HERNANDO OCAMPO
CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO
CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO

MUSLIM BETROTHAL ROMEO AND JULIETA

GALO B. OCAMPO

(WATERCOLOR)
DEMETRIO DIEGO
PAINTER, ILLUSTRATOR
 DEMETRIO DIEGO

BANGKA
 JOSE PARDO
ARCHITECT, TEACHER

HIS BODY OF WORKS SPAN OVER SIX DECADES

WHICH INCLUDES DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, EDITORIAL
CARTOONS, & POETRY.
 JOSE PARDO

MARIKIT WITH CALADIUM PALADIUM IN HANGING RED POTS

RICARTE PURUGANAN
PAINTER
 RICARTE PURUGANAN

ZIGZAG RHYTHM
BONIFACIO NICOLAS CRISTOBAL
PAINTER
BONIFACIO NICOLAS CRISTOBAL

FLYING WILD DUCKS SABLAYAN ISLAND, SORSOGON

ARSENIO ROXAS CAPILI
PAINTER
MOTHERS OF PHILIPPINE MODERN ART

PURITA KALAW-LEDESMA

LYDIA VILLANUEVA-ARGUILLA
WRITER AND PAINTER

WRITER & ART CRITIC

 AMERICAN PERIOD

• After World war II, artist started creating proletarian art which
depicts the life after the war, social issues, and economic
problem.
• It was also during this period PARIS CUBISM took its scene.
– it is a kind of cubism showing gragmented figures in larger
planes, color harmonies, and texture.
• 3 known cubist during their times.
• VICENTE MANANSALA
ROMEO TABUENA
CESAR LEGAZPI
 SCULPTURE

• Napoleon Abueva- famous for his modern works

• made use of different material like variety of woods, metals

and stones.
• He combine these materials to produce unique sculptures
• Ang kiukok- painted in expressionistic cubistic style.
• BenCab- worked with realism and experimental devices
• Ramon Orlina and Impy Pilapil- explored the use of glass in
making sculptures-
• “Surrealism” emerged which explored the world of dream.
• Known surrealist Galo Ocampo and Juvenal Sanso.
• Magic Realism_ refers to style in painting showing minute
details of the subjects and highlighting their texture and color.
• Ex. BIGAS artwork by Nestor Leynes