WEEK 1 contemporary art

• Modern Art depicts what might be thought of as "ugly" and unpleasant
• Neoclassic art is "academic" as it was and continues to be taught in school
• Forms of self-expression

  • Paintings
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Fashion
• Contemporary Art is a fluid term and its use can change depending on context
• ART

  The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power
• Modern Art creates illusions of depthness, nearness, and farness, changing colors and flattening the picture instead of creating illusions of depth
• Modern artists do not aim to copy and idealize reality. They change colors and flatten the picture instead of creating illusions of depth
• Characteristics of Contemporary Art

  • Site-specific - cannot be experienced the same way if removed from their original places of exhibit
  • Process-based - integrate various mediums and art forms
  • Collaborative and Interactive - art is never complete without the audience's active input
  • Distinguishable from Modern Art in historical, stylistic, and cultural terms
  • Contemporary Art is never fixed, but open to many possibilities
  • To study and appreciate the contemporary is to experience and understand art as a window to Philippine contemporary life
• Neoclassic art is considered "academic" as it was and continues to be taught in school (UP Fine Arts) where Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino are influential
• Stylistic Overview

  • FORM: Precolonial, Spanish/Islamic Colonial, American Colonial, Modern, Postmodern/Contemporary
  • PAINTING: Religious, community-based, inter-ethnic relations, collective history, etc.
  • SCULPTURE: Abstract Expressionism, Junk/scrap, performance art, hybrid
  • ARCHITECTURE: Worship-related, Neoclassic, art deco, international industrializing, Filipino architecture, cosmopolitan, etc.
• Artworks

  • Man and Carabao (H. Ocampo)
  • Morning Dance (Cesar Legaspi)
• Modern Art

  • Referred to as "traditional" compared to Contemporary Art
  • Art of the present, continuously in process and in flux
• Neoclassic Style

  • Creates illusions of depthness, nearness, and farness
  • Familiar and comfortable
  • Changes colors and flattens the picture instead of new looking and shocking
• Imelda Cajipe-Endaya is a social realist but the style and medium of installation is markedly different
• Cultural Overview

  • FORM: Indigenous Southeast Asian, Islamic or Philippine Muslim, Folk or Lowland, Popular Urban and mass-based
  • PAINTING: Ritual and Governance, Colonial and Post-Colonial, Mass Produced and Market Oriented
  • SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE
• The term 'contemporary' is used to describe the period since World War II, but it can also be applied more broadly.
• Contemporary art refers to any work produced during our lifetime or within recent history.