CONPHIL

• ART as a form of

  • Self-Expression
  • Therapy
  • Aesthetic
  • Inspiration
  • Motivation
  • Awareness
• American period (1898-1940)

  • Landscape, interior, still life
  • Free standing, relief, public
  • City planning parks, waterfronts, apartments
• ART that is current and new is also referred to as Modern as opposed to "Traditional" or "conservative"
• Pre-conquest

  • Pottery, body adornment
  • Pottery, carving, woodwork
  • Dwellings and housing, shelters, and worship areas
• Neoclassic Art

  • Depicts reality as closely as possible and idealizes it: beautiful and pastoral
  • Creates illusions of depthness, nearness, and farness familiar and comfortable
• Contemporary is a fluid term and its use can change depending on context
• Contemporary

  • 1960 - still emerging produced by artists living today
• Contemporary Art is the art of the present, which is continuously in process and in flux
• Social Realist of the 70s are considered heirs of Neorealist
• Imelda Cajipe Endaya is a social realist but the style and medium of installation is markedly different
• Neoclassic art

  • Is “academic” as it was and continues to be taught in school (UP Fine Arts) where Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino are influential
• Pre-Colonial

  • Religious, community-based, interethnic relations, collective history
• American

  • Classical, idyllic, nostalgic
  • Neoclassic Art Deco
• Cultural overview

  • Form
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
• Post Modern/ Contemporary

  • Collaborative
  • Junk/scrap, performance art, hybrid
  • Filipino Architecture cosmopolitan
• Spanish Period (1521-1898)

  • Religious secular
  • Santos, furniture, jewelry, pieta
  • Church, Lighthouse, etc.
• Modern - Being up to date and technologically advanced
• Historical overview of Philippine Art Form

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Modern art is referred to as “traditional” compared to Contemporary Art
• Comparison and Contrast of Contemporary Art and Modern Art

  • Social Realist/NeoRealist
  • Man and Carabao (H.Ocampo)
  • Morning Dance (Cesar Legaspi)
• Modern

  • 1880 - 1960 - "Traditional"
• Japanese Period (1941-1945)

  • Wartime scene for propaganda
  • Amorsolo Ocampo Etc.
  • Public Works
• Historical and Stylistic Context

  • Victorio Edades
  • Father of Philippine Modern Art
  • Initiating the Modern Art movement that challenged the Neoclassic style, which was dominant at that time
• Modern Art

  • Depicts what might be thought of as “ugly” and unpleasant
  • Modern artists do not aim to copy and idealize reality
  • They change colors and flatten the picture instead of creating illusions of depth
• Contemporary art is influenced by Social Realism
• Aside from style, it is also very useful to know where the artists are coming from and the circumstances of making and disseminating their art
• Spanish/Islamic Colonial

  • Religious, formal, naturalistic
  • Worship related etc.
• Stylistic Overview

  • Form
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Modern

  • Abstract, neorealist, surreal, expressionist
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • International Industrializing
• Types of art

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Art before colonization includes everyday expressions integrated within rituals
• Studying and appreciating Contemporary Art is to experience and understand art as a window to the Philippines contemporary type
• Ethnic Musical Instruments

  • Kudyapi - a three-stringed guitar
  • Kulintang - an array of bossed gongs
  • Gansa - flat gong
  • Agong - a large bossed gong
• Carving

  • Bulul (Cordillera) - granary god that plays an important role in rituals, anthromorphic bulul appears in containers, bowls, and spoons
  • Hagabi (Ifugao) - wooden bench that marks the socio-economic status of the owner
  • Christianized communities in Paete Laguna and Betis Pampanga are known for carving santos
  • In the Southern Philippines, curvilinear decorations called the okir are employed in woodcarving
  • Sarimanok is the stylized design of a bird holding a fish in its beak and/or standing on a base in the shape of a fish
  • Naga has the form of an elaborate mythical serpent or dragon with a vigorous S-curve and numerous curvilinear motifs to suggest its scales
  • Pako rabong is a stylized growing fern with a broad base gracefully tapering upwards
  • The sarimanok and naga are found in the panolong, the extended floor beam, and the interior beams and posts of the large sultan’s house called torogan
• Types of art in Cultural overview

  • Folk or lowland
  • Colonial and post Colonial
  • Popular urban and Mass Based
  • Mass produced and market oriented
• Types of art in Cultural overview

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Indigenous southeast asian art includes

  • Ritual and governance
  • Islamic or Philippine Medium
• Types of art in Cultural overview

  • Indigenous southeast asian art includes ritual and governance
  • Islamic or Philippine Medium
• Pre-Conquest in art historical terms is "pre-conquest", in stylistic terms "indigenous", and in cultural terms "pre-colonial"
• Characteristics of Contemporary Art

  • Site-specific
  • Process-based
  • Integrate various mediums and art forms
  • Collaborative and Interactive
  • Art is never complete without the audience's active input
  • Distinguishable from Modern in Historical, Stylistic, and cultural terms
  • Never fixed but open to many possibilities