CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE

ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

Contemporary Arts: Element of Art and
Principles of Design
OBJECTIVES

• To Define Contemporary Arts

• To Identify the history and evolution of Contemporary Art
• To describe own masterpiece by using one or more elements
of art and principles of design
• Participate actively in class discussion
REVIEW / RECALL
DIRECTION: IDENTIFY THE IMAGE AND TELL IT WHAT KIND OF ART IS IN THE
IMAGE AND WHATS CATEGORY BELONG
DEFINITION OF CONTEMPORARY
ART
• Contemporary art refers specifically to the art of today. It is
produced by artists who live in our current times.
Contemporary artworks are defined by the time period in
which they were created. This is regardless of the style,
medium

(sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, or printing), or
artistic movement they belong to.
• Contemporary art provides opportunities to reflect on
society. It often reflects issues or values that are important or
talked about in the world at this time. It is part of an ongoing
conversation that touches on topics such as identity,
community, nationality, spirituality, politics, and more.
• Contemporary art relates to practices and aesthetic designs
that convey ideas or concepts (such as conceptual art). It
transcends boundaries between art and what traditionally is not
considered art (performance art). It goes beyond the borders of
art as it is understood within the modern and classical art
period
CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• The Philippines is a gold mine of ART.
• The Philippines has a variety of many other art forms.
Four colonial periods in our history –
• The Spanish
• British
• American
• and Japanese
• The art of the Philippines had been influenced by almost all
spheres of the globe.
• It had the taste of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern
Periods through the colonizers who arrived in the country.
 THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY
ART IN THE PHILIPPINES
• Philippines welcome the birth of Contemporary art when the
world opened up the idea of postmodernism in the late 1900’s.

• First appearance: After the WW II & during Martial Law Era

(1970).
• Writers broke the laws by writing screams of protest against the
government.
• Filmmakers used their expertise in joining the bandwagon of
nationalistic artists.
• Modernism in all art forms evolved into a variety of expressions and
media that turned the entire world into a “Creative Upheaval”
COMPOSITION NO. 2 BY LEE AGUINALDO
1956. OIL ON LAWINIT BOARD
• Many Filipino artists and architects became adherents of the
modernist style.
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM BY NATIONAL ARTIST JOSE
JOYA (ART STYLE OF THE MODERNIST PERIOD IN THE
1950’S.)
• Late 1980’s Postmodernism appeared in the Philippines.
• Postmodernism sought to contradict several aspects and ideas of
modernism that had emerged earlier.
• They believe that artists should no longer try to create something “new”.
• All they needed to do was to “borrow, combine, explore” what was
already existing to produce something new.
• This gave birth to integrative art, which is being practiced in the regions
at present.
META II BY LOUIE CORDERO – 2011 –
ACRYLIC ON FIBERGLASS
FEATURES OF POSTMODERNISM
PASTICHE
• Most common feature in which refers to the blurring of divisions
between fine art and commercial art, high culture and low culture. It also
means artistic, musical, and literary works that come from diverse
sources – a mixture, a medley of different ideas.

• There is a sense of fragmentation – for instance, a narrative does not

have to be complete; it can be open-ended.
 Pastiche of Leonardo da
Vinci’s Vitruvian Man

PASTICHE – STARRY
NIGHT
Bricolage or Assemblage
• Popularly used in visual arts.
• It refers to a creation or construction that uses a diverse range of
materials – from mass-produced to recovered objects.
• A simplification of collage, bricolage can also pertain to the use of
words as the central artistic element. In literary arts, it is the use of
varied sources of writing
• INSTALLATION
• It is an art made indoors or outdoors where a particular space is
transformed into a three- dimensional artwork.
• It is made of diverse materials, using a realistic or abstract style.
• It is a conceptual art that presents diverse themes, but it is usually
temporary.
New theme in all the art forms:
• Socially conscious issues which have arisen with this period:
• Feminism,
• Consumerism,
• Multiculturalism,
• Globalization,
• Health awareness,
• Migration, and so on.
• Today, most Filipino contemporary artists still deal with current
concerns that affect our country.
• They provide ways to allow the audience to participate in the
experience.
• They acknowledge their Filipino roots by using native and
indigenous materials in their artwork which show a growing
sense of pride in being Filipino.
• Philippine contemporary art is part of culture. As a reader, and viewer,
you gain a deeper knowledge about what the contemporary Filipino
artists do or did, and why and how they do or have done it. In doing so,
you get to develop appreciation and gratitude for their artistic endeavors.
Question:

• Why do need to study the contemporary arts?

• How Contemporary Arts affects our life?
QUIZ

Most common feature in which refers to the blurring of divisions between fine art and
commercial art, high culture and low culture
PASTICHE
It is an art made indoors or outdoors where a particular space is transformed into a
three- dimensional artwork.
INSTALLATION
It refers to a creation or construction that uses a diverse range of materials – from
mass-produced to recovered objects.
BRICOLAGE