CONTEXT OF ART

• Context


  refers to factors that surround a work of art
• Context includes a host of conditions such as

  1. historical events
  2. economic trends
  3. contemporary cultural developments
  4. religious attitudes
  5. social norms, other artworks of the time among others
• Classification of Context of Art

  • Primary Context
  • Secondary Context
• Bulul

  Hiwang Village, Banaue, Ifugao
• Gaston Damag

  Context: Exhibition System

  Domain: Contemporary art in fine arts
• Gaston Damag


  His artworks employ the bulul and other mundane objects from his native Ifugao homeland as subject matter
• Different Context of Art: Artist Background


  age, gender, culture, economic

  conditions, social environment,

  and disposition.
• In Betis Pampanga Sculpture is learned through apprenticeship with a Matekanan Mandukit or Master Sculptor
• Red Paper Mâché sculpture of Horse/ Taka 


  • Paete Laguna for export and local sale
• SOME ARTISTS DELIBERATELY FOREGROUND THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THEIR WORKS
• ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO

  • nexus of his visual world
  • uses primary colors
  • geometric and cubistic forms as well as vegetal design
• Talaandig


   Artists from BUKIDNON on the other hand, express their affinities with the land by using soil instead of pigments and painting about their present concerns.
• Julie Luchi 


  Emphasize her female identity and personal experiences in many of her terracotta works
• In “Cutting onions always

  makes me cry” (1988), her Self-portrait presents cooking --- a role associated with women in the home --- as oppressive and

  unpleasant.
• Different Context of Art: Nature


  source of inspiration and a wellspring of materials for art

  production
• T’nalak

  • uses abaca fibers
  • is evocative of the people’s belief that spirits reside with people in the natural environment
•  NELFA QUERUBIN-TOMPKINS


  has expiremented with iron-rich San Dionisio Clay sourced from her native Iloilo
• Fango, cogon, and the traditional Ivatan House


  THE TRADITIONAL IVATAN HOUSES IN BATANES ARE BUILT USING STONES AND FANGO FOR ITS WALLS, A KIND OF MORTAR FORMED BY COMBINING COGON AND MUD BITS
• Luis Yee Jr (Junyee) 


  made an ephemeral installation at the grounds of the CCP titled

  “Angud, a forest once (2000)”.
• Angud, a forest once (2000)


  This is posed as a commentary on the abuse of nature 
• Veejay Villafranca


  one of the photographers who warned the public about the alarming effects of climate change, and how it forces people to become “refugees in their own land”
• Different Context of Art: Everyday Life

  • Philippine traditional art has always been an integral part of daily life
  • Its significance lies not only in its aesthetic appearance but also in its functionality and value to the society where it’s produce.
• Lirio Salvador


  fuses easily accessible objects like machine discards, bicycle parts, and implements to form an assemblage.
• MM YU


  Primarily drawn to street photography and documenting the everyday, her photographs evoke the ever-changing cultural Texture and topology of Manila.
• Different Context of Art: Society, Politics, Economy, and History

  • Although art is a form of expression, we discern that throughout history, the works are not always created out of the artist’s own volition
  • Changes in the society, politics, and economy affects the artists, the work that they do, and the structures that support their production…
• Appropriation


  the technique of transforming

  existing materials through the

  juxtaposition of elements taken

  from context and replacing these in another to present alternative meanings, structure, and composition.
• Different context of Arts: Mode of Reception


  WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW ART IS ENCOUNTERED
• “MUSEUM’s power lies in its ability to construct knowledge for us… ”
• MIDEO CRUZ’S “Poleteismo” at the exhibit entitled “Kulo"

  
• Art should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable
• Gaston Damag’s Artwork

  
• Abdulmari Asia Imao’s Art work

  STYLE: Geometric and Cubistic style

  
• Cutting onions always makes me cry  (1988) bg Julie Lluch

  
• “Angud, a forest once (2000)” by Luis Yee Jr (Junyee)