Contemporary Arts 3rd Quarter

• Art is the expression or application of humancreative skill and imagination, typically in avisual form such as painting or sculpture,producing works to be appreciated primarilyfor their beauty or emotional power.(Oxford Dictionary)
• Art as a form of • Self-expression(paintings, music, poetry,fashion, etc)• Therapy• Aesthetic• Inspiration• Motivation• Awareness
• Modern being up to date and technologically advanced. Art that is current and new is also referred to modern as opposed to ”traditional” or “conservative”
• Contemporary Art - 1960 –still emergingProduced by artists livingtoday
• Modern Art 1880 - 1960“Traditional”
• Xyca Bacani- Man in Stairs (2000)
• HR Ocampo- The Contrast (1960)
• • Arturo Luz- produced paintings in 90's and well into 21st hard edged and abstract minimalist styleNational Artist
• Contemporary is a fluid term and its use can change depending of context
• Neoclassic Art depicts reality as closely as possible and idealizes it: beautiful and pastoral
• "The Palay Maiden, 1920” Fernando Amorsolo (Neoclassic Art)
• "Mora Girl, 1950” Victori Edades (Modern Art)
• • VICTORIO EDADES- Father of Philippine Modern Art Initiating the Modern Art movement that challenged the Neoclassic style, which was dominant that time (Artist in Modern Art Styles)
• Modern Art depict what might be thought of as “ugly” and unpleasant
• • Modern Art- Modern artists do not aim to copy idealize reality. They change colors and flatten the picture instead of creating illusions of depth.
• Neoclassic Style -creates illusions of depthness, nearness and farness familiar and comfortable
• Modern Art- they change colors and flatten the picture instead of new looking and shocking
• Neoclassic art is “academic” as it wasand continues to be taught in school (UPFine Arts) where Fernando Amorsoloand Guillermo Tolentino are influential.
• Modern art is referred to as “traditional”,compared to Contemporary Art.
• Contemporary Art is the art of thepresent, which is continuously in processand in flux.
• Social Realist of the 70s are considered heirs of Neo-realist
• Contemporary art is influenced by Social Realism
• Imelda Cajipe-Endaya - is a social realist but the style and medium of installation is markedly differentFilipina DH
• Joe Bautista’s “Bubong” installation- His work recreates a roof and invites visitors to interact with it by climbing up and walking around.
• Danilo Dalena’s “Tulo” Installation- His work is composed of jars, pots, basins, and rusty corrugated steel. In doing so, Dalena makes real, palpable, and memorable the act of using these pots, jars, and basins to collect rainwater from a leaky roof.
• Ibn Saud- Salipyasin Ahmad The Wedding (2015)
• Characteristics of Contemporary Arts:

  
  

  Site-specific - they cannot be experienced in the same way if removed from their original places of exhibit whether in the gallery, out on the streets, in the forest, on the internet, etc.

  
  

  Process-based

  - integrate various medium and art forms. The artists doesn't start with a final product in mind.

  
  

  Collaborative and Interactive

  - the art is nevercomplete without the audience’s active input.
• Characteristics of Contemporary Arts:

  • Site-specific: cannot be experienced the same way if removed from their original places of exhibit (gallery, streets, forest, internet, etc.)
  • Process-based: integrate various medium and art forms, with the artist not starting with a final product in mind
  • Collaborative and Interactive: the art is never complete without the audience’s active input
• Contemporary Art is distinguishable from Modern Art in historical, stylistic, and cultural terms
• Contemporary Art is never fixed, but open to many possibilities
• Studying and appreciating the contemporary is experiencing and understanding art as a window to the Philippine contemporary life
• • Pre-conquest art-The Art before the coming of the first colonizers. The term “Indigenous” was used to emphasize the idea tha our ancestors have been makin art before the colonization. In cultural term, the period was called “pre-colonial”.
• ART BEFORE Are everday expressionsand were all integratedwithin rituals
• Mayvanuvanua (Batanes)

  Ritual that opens the fishing season of dibang (flying fish)
• Art before are everyday expressions and were all integrated within rituals
• Pre-conquest art


  • Art before the coming of the first colonizers
  • The term “Indigenous” was used to emphasize the idea that our ancestors have been making art before the colonization
  • In cultural term, the period was called “pre-colonial”
• Cañao or Kanyaw (Codillera Autonomous Region)


  Officiated by a shaman or mumbaki. It involves animal sacrifice where the entrails are read through a process of divination
• Tagbanwa (Palawan)


  Shamans go into a trance amidst ritual chanting and dancing and are believed to be taken over by the goddesses themselves
• Kashawing (Lake Lanao of Mindanao)

  Ritual to ensure abundance during rice planting and harvesting
• Art before Colonization - Native dance forms

  • Pangalay (Sulu) - mimetic dance of seabirds
  • Kinabua of Mandaya - performs swooping movements imitating the movements of an eagle
  • Banog-banog of the Higaonon and B'laan - courtship dance that portrays the flight of the birds
  • Man-manok (Bagobos) - imitate the movements of predatory birds
  • Talip (Ifugaos) - courtship dance mimetic of the movements of wild fowls
  • Inamong of Matigsalugs and Kadaliwas (T’boli) - represent the comedic movements of monkeys
  • Tinikling (Tagalog) - evocative of the movements of the crane balancing itself on stilt-like legs or flitting away from the clutches of bamboo traps