CONTEMPORARY ART

• Generally refers to art being created now.

• It derived from the latin prefix con, which means “together” or “with”, plus tempus which means
“time”.
• The chronological view defines contemporary art as related to this current period in art history
and refers to art that is new, recent, modern or pertains to the present moment.
• It emerge in the Philippines in reaction to social and cultural realities during the 1970’s which is
an era of repression and censorship of artistic expressions.
• The end of martial law in the wake of EDSA people power revolution in 1986 brought in the
Philippines into the contemporary period, and the art produced in this period is regarded as
contemporary art.
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ART
• Contemporary art for pleasure
• Contemporary art as Profession
• Contemporary art as Commentary
• Contemporary art in Spirituality
• Contemporary art as Remembrance
• Contemporary art as Self-expression
• Contemporary art as a breaking norms
• Contemporary art and local heritage.
NATIONAL ARTIST OF
THE PHILIPPINES
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR
VISUAL ART
 FERNANDO AMORSOLO

•He is the first National Artist in the

country and was known for using
backlighting technique in painting,
making his creations bright and
beautiful.
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 CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO

• He revived the art of mural and was

considered to be the most distinguished mural
painter for about 3 decades and was known
for using historical events as subject matter
for his murals.
 GUILLERMO E. TOLENTINO

• Honored as national artist for sculpture in

1973 and was known for designing the seal
of the Republic of the Philippines, and the
gold and bronze medals for the Ramon
Magsaysay award. Tolentino’s works include
the UP Oblation.
 NAPOLEON V. ABUEVA

• Abueva was considered to be the Father of

Modern Philippine Sculpture. He is skillful in
creating both representational and modern abstract
sculptures using a wide variety of materials. He
was also known for creating “Bouyant
Sculpture,” a type of sculpture to be viewed from
the surface of the pool
•Recognized as the Father
of Modern Philippine
Painting and was known
for using dark somber
colors in his paintings.
His works focused on
factory workers, laborers
or other simple
townspeople.
 VICENTE MANANSALA

• He was known for his paintings depicting

realistic themes using an abstract or a
cubist style. He believed that the beauty of art
is in the process, in a moment of doing a
particular painting, closely associating it with
the art of making love.
 HERNANDO R. OCAMPO

• He was largely known for his abstract

paintings. His works featured shapes bounded
with curved lines painted in intense colors. His
masterpiece “Genesis” was used as the basis of
the design of the curtain of the Cultural Center
of the Philippines (CCP) Main Theater.
 CESAR LEGASPI

•Legaspi was known for utilizing and

refining cubism, a style involving
breaking parts into geometric shapes, in
his paintings.
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 ELIZALDE NAVARRO

• He was known for his hardwood mask reflecting

the human and the animal, abstract painting in
oil and watercolor, and assemblage. He was also
known for his fiction works for This Week of the
Manila Chronicle, and for his figurative drawings
for Lydia Arguilla’s Juan tamad.
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 ANG KIUKOK

• He was known for his paintings expressing

nationalism and sociological agenda during
the 60’s through vivid cubistic figures. His
works include “Geometric landscape,”
“Pieta,” and the “Seated Figure.”
 BENEDICTO CABRERA

Known as “Bencab”
He was noted as the bestselling painter of his
generation of Filipino artists and also known for his
sketches of a scavenger named “Sabel, a symbol
of dislocation, despair and isolation-the
personification of human dignity threatened by life’s
circumstance.”
 ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO

• Imao was instrumental in popularizing the

ukil, sarimanok and naga motifs in the
country as original Filipino creations. He helped
in developing trust and confidence among
cultural groups, which is needed in building a
more humane community and society.
 FEDERICO AGUILAR ALCUAZ

•He was mainly known for his oil

and acrylic paintings, and sketches
in ink, pencil, and watercolor
 FRANCISCO COCHING

• Tagged as the “Dean of Filipino

Illustrators,” coching is best known for his
work on comics and illustrations which lead
to its recognition as popular art. He has
influences cartoonists such as Larry Alcala,
Ben Infante and Nestor Redondo.
 JOSE T. JOYA

Joya is known for pioneering

abstract expressionism in the
Philippines. His most notable work is
the Grabadean Arabesque (1958). He
also represented the Philippines in the
1964 Venice Biennale.
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