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• Contemporary art is important in FILIPINO lives as every work reflects feelings, ideas, and perspectives, serving as a means of personal expression
• PETROGLYPHS - the first and oldest form of prehistoric art which appeared throughout the world during the lower PALEOLITHIC age
• LECTURE#02: 'ART is essential. You may exist without it, but you can't truly live without it. Art is essential and necessary for HUMAN SURVIVAL, but artists are just copycats of nature's beauty. Without ART, we would be living on a blank slate, where there is no CREATIVITY. Without CREATIVITY, there is no INDIVIDUALITY, and without INDIVIDUALITY, there is no TRUE HUMAN BEING'
• Common subject matter in contemporary art

  • Children
  • Women
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Flora and fauna (flowers and animals)
• ABSTRACT ART - painting that portrays designs that are non-presentational and do not depict recognizable forms
• EVERYONE CAN BE AN ARTIST - it doesn't matter
• In some artwork, the subject matter is not easily recognized. If the artwork is an experiment or technique, the subject matter is the technique itself
• COLLAGE - a picture made by painting objects of different textures into canvas, may be representational or abstract
• Studying contemporary art

  • Allows students to broaden their understanding of themselves, their community, and the world
  • Helps in becoming critical thinkers by considering influences like socio-political climate, artist's training, and cultural influence
• Characteristics of contemporary art

  • Based on Abstract Expressionism
  • Heritage of artistic vanguards and seeks different forms of expression
  • Works are original, artistic, and leave the mark of the author who makes them
• MODERN ART came before CONTEMPORARY ART, with the beginning around 1860s up to the 1960s. CONTEMPORARY ART means art made in the present time
• Everyone can be an artist
• Ways to appreciate art when you're not an artist

  • Learn a little bit every day
  • Try doing simple works of art
  • Write what you know
  • Try to see the beauty that surrounds you by looking from different angles
  • Analyze one thing
• Examples of Visual Arts

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Calligraphy
  • Photography
• Everyone is an artist - it doesn't matter what your means of expression are
• A better artist is creative, but you don't have to be an artist to be creative
• Examples of Performing Arts

  • Dance
  • Music
  • Theatre and Film
  • Literature
  • Circus
  • Opera
  • Pantomime
  • Puppet Show
  • Drama
  • Singing
  • Motion Pictures
• Without art, we would be living on a blank slate where there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no individuality, and without individuality, there is no true human being
• Art is communication, a natural behavior, healing, a skill or mastery, a universal language of one's soul, shared experiences, tells a story
• Survival: 'Artist are just copycats of nature's beauty'
• Artistic ability


  Includes skill and talent to create fine works of art like painting, drawing, sculpting, musical composition, etc.
• Categories of various art forms

  1. Visual Arts

  2. Performing Arts

  3. Applied Arts
• Creativity ability


  The skill and talent to use our imagination to create and solve problems
• Examples of Applied Arts

  • Architecture
  • Fashion Design
  • Potteries
  • Jewelry Design
  • Interior Design
• Non-Representation Art or Non-Objective Art


  • Abstract Arts
• Color


  Refers to the product of light of different wavelengths
• Painting refers to the process of applying color on a flat surface like canvas and walls
• Technique


  How well an artist knows and uses his medium in achieving what he wants in his creation
• Content


  What the art is about, containing the message that the artist is trying to express or communicate
• Subject Matter


  Any person, animal, thing/s, or issue depicted in an art work
• Shape and Form

  A two-dimensional figure formed when ends of a line meet
• Texture


  Refers to the surface quality, either rough or smooth, described as actual or implied
• Forms of Painting

  • Easel
  • Mural
  • Telon
• Line


  The most fundamental of all elements, a prolongation of a point or a mark on a surface
• Forms


  The specific quality of an artistic expression which includes all the visual aspects of the works that can be isolated and described
• Space


  Refers to the distance between, around, above, below, and within things
• Types of Subject Matter

  • Representation Art or Object Art
  • Non-Representation Art or Non-Objective Art
• Time and Motion

  Movement in the visual arts can be an illusion or actual motion
• Medium


  The instrument of the artist in translating his feelings and thoughts into form
• Value and Tone


  Refers to the relative lightness or darkness in anything that is visible, related to the amount of light in an artwork