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Various Contemporary Art Forms and Their Practices From The Various Regions

1. Visual arts such as painting, sculpture, and architecture are major art forms represented in the Philippine contemporary arts. Sculptures can be made from materials like wood, metal, stone, and paper mache. 2. Painting examples include Spoliarium, Contrast, and The Builders, while murals also represent Philippine contemporary visual arts. 3. Dance and literature are also important art forms; dances described include Cariñosa, Pandanggo sa Ilaw, and Tinikling. Literature encompasses written works of artistic or intellectual value.

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Various Contemporary Art Forms and Their Practices From The Various Regions

1. Visual arts such as painting, sculpture, and architecture are major art forms represented in the Philippine contemporary arts. Sculptures can be made from materials like wood, metal, stone, and paper mache. 2. Painting examples include Spoliarium, Contrast, and The Builders, while murals also represent Philippine contemporary visual arts. 3. Dance and literature are also important art forms; dances described include Cariñosa, Pandanggo sa Ilaw, and Tinikling. Literature encompasses written works of artistic or intellectual value.

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Various Contemporary Art Forms

and their Practices from the


various Regions
Instruction:

1. Tell what art form is represented by the picture;


2. Identify the region where it belongs.
Direction: Arrange the jumbled letters to
find out the major art forms in the Philippine
Contemporary arts.
1. sart aluvis
2. aliterarute
3. cuism
4. trehate
5. acned
6. cratethicure
7. milf
Art. plays a significant part in the rich cultural identity of
the Philippines. It mirrors the Filipino people, its history, its
tradition, and the country as a whole. These art forms
developed from the early times continue to evolve up to the
present. From the ethnic tradition, it continues to progress
to contemporary art tradition.
Visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing,
printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography,
video, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture.
Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts,
conceptual art, textile arts also involve aspects of
visual arts as well as arts of other types.
Sculpture as defined and as practiced in the Philippine
Contemporary arts made use of different materials like the
variety of woods, metals, and stones. Some produced
creative works using plastics, jade, brass, and other
materials.
THE HIGANTES OF ANGONO by: Mailah Balde.
The “Higantes” is a sculpture made of paper-mache. This
paper-mache, in our native town in Paete, Laguna calls it
“taka.” The “Higantes” measures four to five feet in
diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. The “Higantes”
represents “mag-anak” (family) in the Filipino culture; a
father, a mother, and the children. The “Higantes” is one of
the main attraction in the annual festival in Angono, Rizal
in honor of St. Clement, patron saint of the fisher folks held
every 23rd of November.
It is a sculpture of the legendary
bird or artificial cock that has becomes
omnipresent symbol of Maranaw art. It is
depicted as a fowl with wings and feathered
tail, holding a fish on its beak or talons. The
head is profusely decorated with scroll, leaf,
and spiral motifs.
Bahayan – Munting Pangarap a
sculpture that depicts the reality of life in
the squatter area in Malabon.
THE MANUNGGUL Jar
It is a secondary burial jar
excavated from a
Neolithic burial site in
Tabon Caves at Lipuun
Point in Palawan.
THE BOHOL BLOOD
COMPACT sculpture was made
by the National Artist, Napoleon
Abueva, a Boholano himself. This
Sikatuna-Legaspi blood compact is
considered as the First Treaty of
Friendship between two different
races, religions, cultures and
civilizations.
“Painting is the practice of applying pigment suspended
in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a
surface (support) such as paper, canvass, or wall.

Painting is also used to express spiritual motifs and


ideas; sites of this kind of painting range from artwork
depicting mythological figures on pottery to The Sistine
Chapel and to the human body itself.”
Spoliarium - it was made by Luna in 1884
as an entry to the prestigious Exposicion de
Bellas Artes (Madrid Art Exposition, May
1884) and eventually won for him the First
Gold Medal. The painting features a glimpse
of Roman history centered on the bloody
carnage brought by gladiatorial matches.
Spoliarium is a Latin word referring to the
basement of the Roman Colosseum where the
fallen and dying gladiators are dumped.
Contrast –a painting that
captures the feeling of
heaviness and pain of a slum
dweller against the
background of a building that
looks abandoned.
The Builders (Victorio
Edades) – a painting that
depicts the struggle of each
builder to earn for the family.
“Bayanihan” is a masterpiece
of Carlos “Botong” Francisco.
It depicted the resilience of the
Filipino people in times of
need, adversity, and disaster. It
showed the true character of
the Philippine folks as a
distinct human race.
“A mural is any piece of artwork
painted or applied directly on a
wall, ceiling or other permanent
surfaces. A distinguishing
characteristic of mural painting is
that the architectural elements of
the given space are harmoniously
incorporated into the picture.”
Dance – art of the human form, body is used, mobilized
and choreographed in a specific time, form and space.
Cariñosa - is a Philippine
national dance performed by
two individuals wearing María
Clara suit and Barong tagalog ;
it is from Philippine folk
dances.
Pandanggo sa Ilaw - is a very
popular folk dance in the
Philippines. It is said to have
originated from Mindoro, the
seventh-largest island in the
Philippines. This dance of
lights simulates fireflies at
dusk and at night.
Tinikling - Philippine dance
which involves two individual
performers hitting bamboo
poles, using them to beat, tap,
and slide on the ground, in
coordination with one or more
dancers who steps over and in
between poles.
Hadalaya Festival - The
northernmost town of Cebu,
Daan bantayan, celebrates a
festival in honor of the warrior
Datu Daya of Kandaya.
Sinulog Festival - dance ritual
of the miraculous image of
Sto. Niño held annually in
Cebu.
Architecture Designs and Allied Arts- structure that meant
to be used as shelter, its art relies on the design and purpose of
the structure.
The “tsalet” is a type of house
developed in the early 2oth
century designed with a front
porch made of wood and
concrete. During this time,
steel was used in buildings as
protection for calamities like
earthquake.
Burnham Park Architectural
design named after Daniel
Burnham, an American architect
who was the city planner for
Baguio. He designed the park and
the original plans for the city
simultaneously, and construction
began around 1904. The park
played an important role when it
served as a place of refuge for the
people of Baguio following a
devastating earthquake in 1990.
Literature is any body or collection of written work. More
restrictively, literature refers to writing considered to be an art forms
or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value,
and sometimes deploys language in ways that differ from ordinary
usage.

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