MODERN VS CONTEMPORARY

• 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
• Forms of self-expression


  • Paintings
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Fashion
• Contemporary Art is a fluid term and its use can change depending on context
• 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
• Neoclassic art creates illusions of depthness, nearness, and farness. Modern Art changes colors and flattens the picture instead of creating illusions of depth
• Neoclassic art is "academic" as it was and continues to be taught in school
• Contemporary art is still emerging

  1960
• Modern art is referred to as "Traditional"


  1880 - 1960
• HR Ocampo created "The Contrast"
• Xyca Bacani created "Man in Stairs"
• Xyca Bacani created "Man in Stairs" in the 2000s
• HR Ocampo created "The Contrast" in the 1960s
• Arturo Luz produced paintings in the 90s and well into the 21st century in a hard-edged and abstract minimalist style. He is a National Artist
• Neoclassic Art


  Depicts reality as closely as possible and idealizes it: beautiful and pastoral
• Modern Art


  Depicts 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 depthness, nearness, and farness. Familiar and comfortable. They change colors and flatten the picture instead of creating illusions of depth
• Victorio Edades


  Father of Philippine Modern Art. Initiating the Modern Art movement that challenged the Neoclassic style, which was dominant at that time
• Historical overview of Philippine Art

  • Pre-Conquest
  • Spanish Period 1521-1898
  • American Period 1898-1940
  • Japanese Period 1941-1945
  • Postwar Republic 1946-1969
  • 70s
  • Contemporary
• Art forms in Philippine Art

  • Painting
  • Pottery
  • Body adornment
  • Religious secular
  • Landscape
  • Interior
  • Still life
  • Wartime scene for propaganda
• Art forms in Philippine Art

  • Pottery
  • Carving
  • Woodwork
  • Santos
  • Furniture
  • Altar
  • Jewellery
  • Pieta
• Art forms in Philippine Art

  • Free standing
  • Relief
  • Public
• Art forms in Philippine Art

  • Dwellings and houses
  • Shelters
  • Worship areas
  • Church
  • Lighthouse
  • City planning parks
  • Waterfronts
  • Apartments
  • Public works
  • Real estate
  • Safe housing
  • Condos
• Neoclassic Style


  • Creates illusions of depthness, nearness, and farness
  • Familiar and comfortable
  • Changes colors and flattens the picture instead of new looking and shocking
• Neoclassic art


  Considered "academic" as it was and continues to be taught in school (UP Fine Arts) where Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino are influential
• Modern Art


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


  • Man and Carabao (H. Ocampo)
  • Morning Dance (Cesar Legaspi)
• Social Realist of the 70s


  Considered heirs of Neo-realist
• Contemporary art


  Influenced by Social Realism
• Imelda Cajipe-Endaya is a social realist but the style and medium of installation is markedly different
• Stylistic Overview


  • FORM: Religious, community-based, inter-ethnic relations, collective history
  • PAINTING: Religious, formal naturalistic
  • SCULPTURE: Abstract Expressionism
  • ARCHITECTURE: Neoclassic, art deco
  • etc.
• 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
• 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: Abstract Expressionism
  • ARCHITECTURE: Filipino architecture, cosmopolitan, etc.
• Characteristics of Contemporary Art

  • Site-specific - cannot be experienced in the same way if removed from their original places of exhibit
  • Process-based - integrate various medium and art forms
  • Collaborative and Interactive - the art is never complete without the audience's active input
  • Distinguishable from Modern Art in historical, stylistic, and cultural terms
  • 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