CPAR

• ART is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination .
• ART as a form of:

  • self-expression (paintings, music, poetry, fashion)
  • therapy
  • aesthetic
  • inspiration
  • motivation
  • awareness
• Modern - being up to date and technologically advanced. Also called as Traditional or Conservative.
• • Contemporary (1960 - still emerging produced by artists living today)
  • Modern (1880 - 1960 "Traditional")
• The Contrast - H.R. Ocampo (1960)
• Man in Stairs - Xyca Bacani (2000)
• Arturo Luz (National Artist)

  • produced paintings in 90's and well into 21st
  • hard-edged and abstract minimalist style
• Victorio Edades

  • Father of Philippine Modern Art
  • Initiating the modern art movement that challenged the Neoclassic style , which was dominant that time
• Neoclassic Art - depicts reality as closely as possible and idealizes it: beautiful and pastoral
• "The Palay Maiden, 1920" by Fernando Amorsolo
• "Mora Girl, 1950" Victorio Edades
• Contemporary is a fluid term and its use can change depending of context
• Modern Art depict what might be thought of as “ugly” and unpleasant
• Modern Art

  • Modern artists do not aim to copy and idealize reality.
  • They change colors and flatten the picture instead of creating illusions of depth.
• Neoclassic style


  creates illusions of deepness, nearness and farness familiar and comfortable
• modern art


  they change colors and flatten the picture instead of new looking andshocking
• 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.
• Modern art is referred to as “traditional”, compared to Contemporary Art.


  Contemporary Art is the art of the present, which is continuously in process and in flux.
• Social Realist/Neo-Realist

  • Man and Carabao (H. Ocampo)
  • Morning Dance (Cesar Legaspi)
• Social Realist of the 70sare considered heirs of Neo-realist
• Contemporary art is influenced by Social Realism Neo-Realists
• Imelda Cajipe-Endaya is a social realist but the style and mediumof installation is markedly different

  Filipina DH
• 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.
• 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.

  -To study and appreciate the contemporary is to experience and understand art as a window to the Philippine contemporary life.
• I. Pre-conquest

  • In art historical terms, “pre-conquest”
  • In stylistic terms, “indigenous”
  • In cultural terms, “pre-colonial”
• ART BEFORE are everyday expressions and were all integrated within rituals
• Mayvanuvanua (Batanes) ritual that opens the fishing season of dibang (flying fish)
• Cañao or Kanyaw (Cordillera Administrative Region) officiated by a shaman or mumbaki. It involves animal sacrifice where the entrailsare read through a process of divination
• Kashawing (Lake Lanao of Mindanao) ritual to ensure abundance during rice planting and harvesting.
• Tagbanwa (Palawan) shamans go into a trance amidst ritual chanting and dancing and are believed to be taken over the goddesses themselves.
• Ethnic Musical Instruments

  1. Kudyapi- a three stringed guitar2. Kulintang- an array of bossed gongs3. Gansa- flat gong4. Agong- a large bossed gong
• Pangalay (Sulu) mimetic dance of seabirds
• Kinabua of Mandaya performs swooping movements imitating the movements of eagle
• Banog-banog of the Higaonon and B'laan courtship dance that portrays the flight of the birds
• Man manok (Bago Tribe) dance that dramatizes three roosters whocompete against one another to be able to get the attention of a hen, Lady Lien.
• Talip (Ifugaos) courtship dance mimetic of the movements of wild fowls
• Inamong of Matigsalugs and Kadaliwas (T’boli) represent the comedic movements of monkey
• Tinikling (Tagalog) evocative of the movements of the crane balancing itself on stilt-like legs or flitting away from the clutches of bamboo traps
• Bulul (Cordillera)

  • granary god that plays important role in rituals
  • anthromorphic bulul appears in containers bowls and spoons