(CPAR) Lesson 1

• we LEARN ART through history, criticism, production, and aesthetics.
• ART is a S - skill, E - expression, EX - experience, C - conscious and D - deliberate
• ART THINKING is about Vision and Philosophy.
• ART THINKING provides creative questions.
• DESIGN THINKING is about Product and Service.
• DESIGN THINKING provides creative solutions.
• DESIGN THINKING It is about understanding possibilities and UTILIZING possibilities.
• ART THINKING - It looks for new directions and is about SEEING the possibilities.
• DESIGN serves a purpose
• DESIGN provides a conclusion to find solution for a need
• DESIGN is manifested by its visuals
• CONTEMPORARY - existing/happening in the same time period or recent times
• REALISM - the standard before modernism
• MODERN - of/relating to the present time/recent past
• Victorio C. Edades - Father of Modern Philippine Painting.
• Galo Ocampo - Known for embracing western modernism.
• Galo Ocampo often blended Christian themes with references to Filipino indigeneity and subjects
• Victorio C. Edades - earned national artist for painting
• Carlos Francisco - known as "Botong", a muralist from Angono Rizal
• Carlos Francisco - conferred the title National Artist in Visual Arts
• Carlos Francisco - one of the first Filipino modernists
• NEO REALISM - artists used their subjective, internal vision of reality
• SOCIAL REALISM - involved themes relating to commentaries on socio-political issues
• FIGURATIVE - art is representational, meaning it is derived from real object sources
• CONCEPTUAL - idea is more important than the object
• POP -

  • underground visual art movement
  • based on punk music, comic books and other alternative pop culture
• (CharacteristicS of Contemporary Art) SITE-SPECIFIC - allows an artwork’s meaning to have a direct relationship to a specific location where is is seen/experienced
• (CharacteristicS of Contemporary Art) Collaborative - not limited to fellow artists, it can include the whole community
• (CharacteristicS of Contemporary Art) PROCESS-BASED - art that focus son the actual experience and process of creation than the final product
• (CharacteristicS of Contemporary Art) INTERACTIVE - involves the viewer in the creative process
• (CharacteristicS of Contemporary Art) INTEGRATIVE - combines two or more disciplines of art to produce a work for a specific audience
• FINE ART -

  • products are to be appreciated primarily for their imagination, aesthetic/intellectual content
  • (aesthetic value)
• FOLK ART -

  • defines as classic decorative/practical art
  • unique to people of a specific location
  • used as an expression of society
  • (cultural signifance)
• COMMERCIAL ART -

  • any reproduction/purpose that is marketed, promoted/sold
  • incorporates a financial transaction