Contemporary Philippine

Arts from the Regions

Quarter 1
Integrative Art as Applied to Contemporary Art
What I Know
Activity 1 YOUR ENTRY PASS

Direction :
Write your THOUGHTS, EXPECTATION and
PREVIOUS learning when we say Contemporary Arts.
Write your answer in the box.
 What I Know
Activity 1 YOUR ENTRY PASS
WHAT IS AN ART?

•Art is a creation.
WHAT IS AN
ART?

•Creating
something new,
something
original and
something
different
WHAT IS AN ART?

• Art is life. It is
creating life on a
material and making
inanimate objects to
have life.
WHAT IS AN
ART?
• Arts produce by
the national artist
and contemporary
to us.
 • Arts in the Philippines refer to the various
forms of the arts that have developed
and accumulated in the Philippines from
the beginning of civilization in the country
up to the present era. They reflect the
range of artistic influences on the
WHAT IS AN country's culture, including indigenous
ART? forms of the arts, and how these
influences have honed the country's arts.
• “Art has the power to render sorrow
beautiful, make loneliness a shared
experience, and transform despair into
hope.” Brené Brown
WHY PEOPLE
ENGAGE IN ART?
Relationship-building
• Art builds social capital
• Art promotes positive behavior that
can increase positive social
interactions
• Art facilitates positive interaction
with other.
 Expression and
communication
• Art provides age-appropriate mediums for
emotional expression
• Art creates opportunities for
communication on a larger scale
• Art facilitates understanding of new
perspectives
• Art allows for knowledge-sharing with
diverse audiences
• Art elicits solidarity
Self and social analysis
• Community art creates the
opportunity for people to examine the
social, economic and political
structures of their society and their
own roles within society in a
reflective and critical way.
WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF
ARTS?
Aesthetic Value

One of the biggest benefits of Contemporary Art is its aesthetic value. This means that the
art possesses some capacity to elicit a sense of pleasure in the viewer. Although, what is
considered pleasing to the eye may vary depending on the viewer, given the wide variety of
mediums and methods for this style of art there is likely to be some form that will appeal to
each person.
WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF
ARTS?
Relaxation and Inspiration
Research has shown that viewing art can be relaxing. This is used for some of the
mindfulness exercises that are currently so popular. Art can help to pull people out
of their mind of racing and wandering thoughts, into the present moment to
experience what is in front of them. This is helpful because it teaches people to do
this also at other times, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF
ARTS?
Personal Expression

One of the benefits of Contemporary Art is that it allows individuals a means of

personal expression. Through painting, sculpture, and performance art, anyone can
express themselves in a way that will be safely observable for others. Likewise, the
perspectives that are expressed are valuable for society because it gives a unique
window into the minds and thoughts of the art.
 WHAT IS
CONTEMPORARY ART?
• refers to current and very recent practice. It also
refers to works of art made by living artists.
• tends to be assessed thematically and
subjectively, drawing on an expanded range of
theoretical and practical disciplines.
• Contemporary Art can be driven by both theory
and ideas, and is also characterized by a blurring
of the distinction between art and other
categories of cultural experience, such as
television, cinema, mass media, entertainment
and digital technology.
Contemporary Performance

• Contemporary performance is hybrid work that integrates text, dance,

objects, music, costumes, lighting, image, sound, sets, and vocal expression
into complex interactive systems.
• Contemporary performance collages are often non-narrative, technically
rigorous, and carefully orchestrated anarchic chaos. They unsettle
perception, demand critical engagement from audiences, address conceptual
debates within aesthetics, draw on a diverse range of cultural interests, and
bring pleasure to populations across the globe.” (Morgan v. P. Pecelli)
Contemporary Performance

• Contemporary performance is hybrid work that integrates text, dance,

objects, music, costumes, lighting, image, sound, sets, and vocal expression
into complex interactive systems.
• Contemporary performance collages are often non-narrative, technically
rigorous, and carefully orchestrated anarchic chaos. They unsettle
perception, demand critical engagement from audiences, address conceptual
debates within aesthetics, draw on a diverse range of cultural interests, and
bring pleasure to populations across the globe.” (Morgan v. P. Pecelli)
Characteristics of Contemporary Art
Contemporary art mirrors contemporary culture and society, offering teachers, students, and general
audiences a rich resource through which to consider current ideas and rethink the familiar.

The work of contemporary artists is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects
that challenges traditional boundaries and defies easy definition.

Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform organizing principle,
ideology, or -ism. In a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world,
contemporary artists give voice to the varied and changing cultural landscape of identity, values, and beliefs.

Contemporary art reflects a wide range of materials, media, and technologies, as well as opportunities to
consider what art is and how it is defined. Artists today explore ideas, concepts, questions, and practices that
examine the past, describe the present, and imagine the future.
Acitivity 2 Let’s Do it!

Direction:
Give one word in each box to define the following word based
from your own idea. Write your answer inside the graphic
organizer
Acitivity 2 Let’s Do it!
ARE MODERN ART AND
CONTEMPORARY ART THE SAME?
MODERN ART
a)Up to date
b)Technologically advanced
c)Modern as opposed to
traditional and conservative
CONTEMPORARY ART
a)Art produced by artists
living today
b)Always in flux,
developing, evolving
c)What is contemporary
today may be traditional or
modern in the coming
years.
Contemporary Arts in the Philippines

•  Conceptual - focus is on the idea, which can be either abstract or

social;
•  Social – current social & political topics are dealt with, often from
critical perspective.
•  Expressive – both content & form is meaningful & communicative

• Example: „Mabining Mandirigma‟

Contemporary Arts in the Philippines

• libretto by Dr. Nicanor G. Tiongson, music by Joed Balsamo, choreography by

Denisa Reyes, set design by Toym Imao, direction by Chris Millado
•  Popular culture - issues and aspects of popular culture are dealt with, either by
conceptualizing or criticizing.
•  Poetic - content or form is poetic in nature; Ex. Ronald Ventura, 'Blind Child'
2011
•  Biographical - means of expression can be social, poetical or expressive;
•  Documentary - approach is documentary or holds elements of research; Ex.
Opera‟ : Sculpture in Dance Ballet Philippines 2016
•  Sense related - total art work, installations which are often interactive and
affect different senses.
Contemporary Arts in the Philippines

• libretto by Dr. Nicanor G. Tiongson, music by Joed Balsamo, choreography by

Denisa Reyes, set design by Toym Imao, direction by Chris Millado
•  Popular culture - issues and aspects of popular culture are dealt with, either by
conceptualizing or criticizing.
•  Poetic - content or form is poetic in nature; Ex. Ronald Ventura, 'Blind Child'
2011
•  Biographical - means of expression can be social, poetical or expressive;
•  Documentary - approach is documentary or holds elements of research; Ex.
Opera‟ : Sculpture in Dance Ballet Philippines 2016
•  Sense related - total art work, installations which are often interactive and
affect different senses.