Contemporary Philippine Art Forms

Contemporary Philippine Art Forms
Visual Arts - The Visual arts are forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, craft, photography, video,
filmmaking, and architecture
Literature - Many Filipino writers went into all forms of literature like news reporting, poetry, stories, plays, essays and novels.
Music - The Philippine music during the 1960’s evolved into a combination of classical and traditional or ethnic music.
Theatre - Philippine traditional theater was mainly Malay in character, which is rituals, mimetic dances and mimetic customs.
Dance - Bodabil is a stage show introduced by the American which showcase dances like buck-and-wing, tap dancing, clog, and skirt dancing.
European classical ballet also
Architecture - Philippine architecture adopted the modern Western architectural style while taking into consideration the physical and socio-
cultural situations of the country. Philippine architecture is simple, rational and functional.
Film - Film became popular in 1912 when foreigners Edward Gross and Harry Brown produced the film about life of Dr. Jose Rizal. Jose
Nepomocenu was tagged as the Father of Philippine Movies because he produced the first Filipino film.
Elements of Art
COLOR – Hue of an object when light is reflected off to it.
VALUE – The lights and darks of a color within a work of art.
FORM – 3-D forms can be actual or implied, they have height, width, and depth.
LINE – Lines are the path of a moving point. They define the edges of shape and forms.
SHAPE- 2-D, flat, when a line connects to itself.
SPACE- The area around a subject in a work of art. Shown with size, overlap, and proportion.
TEXTURE – The way something feels or the way it looks like it feels.
Principles of Art
PATTERNS – Repeat they can be created with lines, shapes, and colors.
CONTRAST – Differences in a work of art. Light and dark, rough and smooth, curved line and straight.
BALANCE – Is the distribution of the visual weight of objects in a work of art. Color, size, texture.
EMPHASIS – Main idea, the main focus, the thing your eyes sees first.
UNITY – A similar element throughout a work of art that brings the parts together.
PROPORTION/ SCALE – The size of something compared to what is next to it.
RHYTHM/MOVEMENT – Visual elements in a work of art that create a sense of action or implied motion.
Elements and Principles of Contemporary Art
Appropriation. It is the process of making new content by taking from another source pre-existing image — books on art history, ads, the
media — and incorporating or combining it with new ones.
Performance art. It is another element of contemporary art which regularly increases drama, often acting and development to extremes of
expression and continuity that are not allowed within the theater.
Performance art. It is another element of contemporary art which regularly increases drama, often acting and development to extremes of
expression and continuity that are not allowed within the theater.
Hybridity. It is another element and principle used by contemporary artist in their artworks. It is a usage of unconventional materials, mixing of
unlikely materials to produce and artwork. For example, coffee for painting, miniature sculptures from pencils.
Technology Art. So, in this age of transition in which material and digital experience are in an unprecedented state of coexistence, our
understanding of the physical is being endlessly reshaped by advancements in technology. Consequently, the very meaning of physicality and
its apparent importance to us has become subject to questioning.
National Artists of the Philippines and the National Living Treasures Award
FERNANDO AMORSOLO - Known as the “Grand Old Man of the Philippine Art”
BENEDICT CABRERA - Tagged as the master of the Philippine contemporary art
CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO - One of the so-called “The Triumvirate”
GUILLERMO TOLENTINO - Master of Sculpture who introduced classical sculpture in the country
NAPOLEON ABUEVA - He is the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture

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