CPAR

• Art


  An imitation of life and the world rendered beautifully, which gives pleasure
• Key aspects that define art

  • Creativity and Imagination
  • Skill and Technique
  • Aesthetic Impact
• Aristotle's assumptions of art

  Linked to human instincts for imitation and harmony, "lying deep in our nature"
• Humans are "most imitative of Living Creature"
• Forms of artistic expression that humans have been able to produce


  • Picture (Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography)
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater
  • Cinema
  • Dance
• Philippine Art as Filipino


  Depiction of scenes of everyday life and the surroundings without idealizing them, closest in spirit to the Filipino soul and native soil
• Paintings of Fernando Amorsolo

  • Planting Rice
  • Siesta (afternoon meal of the workers)
  • Maiden in a stream
• Amorsolo's paintings


  • Depict life in the fields
  • The men and women are portrayed in hard work but with smiles in their faces
  • The landscape paintings feature the rural lands of the Philippines
  • Scene is mostly covered by vegetation and nature
• In the case of Philippine literature in English, many regarded the work in Filipino or other regional languages more Filipino than those written in English
• Contemporary arts


  Art made and produced by artists living today, reflective of the global environment that is culturally diverse, technologically advancing, and multifaceted
• Elements and principles of contemporary arts

  • Appropriation
  • Performance
  • Space
  • Hybridity
  • Technology
• The feeling is that all is possible in the contemporary, conceived as a constantly extending and deepening constellation of art
• Philippine contemporary arts


  • Allows Filipino artists to portray the subject and the medium in innovative and skillful ways, reflecting the Filipino identity
  • Can be found in the most unsuspecting places, cannot be reduced to conventional notions of space and medium
• Philippine contemporary architecture


  Vibrant, with new and fresh structures sprouting all over the country, attributed to the designs made by Filipino architects, but globalization threatens by bringing in foreign designs
• Philippine contemporary literature


  Contains the diasporic experience and the incorporation of both the rural and the urban experience, writers have explored western genres and produced works on prose poetry, flash fiction, magic realism, and science fiction
• Notable Filipino writers and their works

  • Miguel Syjuco - Ilustrado
  • Marivi Soliven - The Mango Bride
  • Sophia Lee - What Things Mean
• Philippine contemporary theater


  Alive despite the dominance of other media, with multiple stage productions from university-based theater groups to major theater companies, advocating the use of Filipino theater in inspiring change and development in society
• Virgin Labfest


  A playwright's festival of untried, untested, and unpublished plays, a collaboration of NCCA, CCP, Tanghalang Pilipino, and The Writer's Block
• Philippine contemporary visual arts


  • The new breed of artists is becoming bold in expressing personal feelings and perspectives, influenced by radical and modern art movements, with the institutionalization of museums and galleries revitalizing the art scene
• Notable Philippine contemporary visual artists and their works

  • Ronald Ventura - Grayground
  • Kiko Escora - Paintings depicting contemporary upbringing
  • Annie Cabigting - Paintings of other people's artworks
• Angeli Bayani


  A theater and film actress who gained acclaim for her performance in Lav Diaz's "Norte: The End of History"