art

• Contemporary art


  The term used for art of the present day, where the artists are alive and still making work. Artists try different ways of experimenting with ideas and materials.
• Art is not Art to Everyone
• Art comes from the latin word "ars" which means skill. It is synonymous with skill, cunning, artifice, and craft, which all mean the faculty of what is devised.
• Purpose of Art


  A way to communicate ideas, politically, spiritually, or philosophically; to create a sense of beauty to explore the nature of perception; for pleasure; or to generate strong emotions.
• Functions of Art


  • Personal or Individual
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Historical
  • Cultural
  • Religious
  • Physical
  • Aesthetic
• Personal or Individual function of art


  Artists have their personal reasons for indulging in art. Some do their thing because of their passion for their respective art forms.
• Social function of art

  Man is a social being and as such he associates with his fellow beings. Individuals and their society are dynamically related.
• Economic function of art


  Many people believe that it does not pay to be an artist. However, this belief is negated by these facts.
• Economic function of art

  • "Camote Diggers" by Carlos "Botong" Francisco (P 23,400,000.00)
  • "Lavanderas" by Fernando Amorsolo (Php 21,500,000)
• Political function of art

  When Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, a patroness of the arts became the Governor of Metro Manila, she promoted her political programs by means of the arts.
• Historical function of art

  Paintings, sculptures, architectural works, and other art forms serve to record historical figures and events.
• Cultural function of art


  Buildings, furniture (chairs, table, etc.), clothes, and the like form part of the country's material culture.
• Religious function of art

  Almost all, if not all, art forms evolved from religion. People in olden times worshipped their Gods in the form of songs and dances. The earliest dramatic forms were religious in nature.
• Physical function of art

  Houses and other buildings are constructed to protect their occupants and all others inside them.
• Aesthetic function of art

  Artworks serve to beautify.
• Integrated arts integrates two or more of the arts (dance, drama, media arts, music, and visual arts), giving students the opportunity to produce and present integrated art works created individually or collaboratively.
• Philippine Arts History Timeline

  • Pre-Colonial Art Period
  • Spanish Colonial Art Period
  • American Colonial Art Period
  • Post War Colonial Art Period
  • Contemporary Art Period
• The Golden Tara is a 1.79 kilogram, 21 carat Madjapahit period gold image discovered in Esperanza, Agusan in 1918
• Pre-Colonial Art Period


  • #1
• Spanish Colonial Art Period

  • #2
• American Colonial Art Period

  • #3
• Post War Colonial Art Period

  • #4
• Contemporary Art Period


  • #5
• Tampuhan


  An 1895 classic oil on canvas painting by Filipino painter and revolutionary activist Juan Luna depicting a Filipino man and a Filipino woman having a lovers' quarrel
• Liwayway


  A leading Tagalog weekly magazine published in the Philippines since 1922
• The Last Judgement (Angry Christ)


  A 1950 painting by Alfonso Ossorio
• Krista


  A 1984 painting
• Pablo Baen Santos


  A Filipino artist
• Pre-Colonial Art


  • Local communities are being established and art starts to go beyond mere craft, i.e. stone weapons or jewelry but starts to have decorative elements, meaning and context
• Pre-Colonial Art


  • Flake tools and cobble tools from the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) Period
  • Polished stone adzes from the Early Neolithic period
  • Manunggul Jar from the New Stone Age
  • Lingling-o ear pendants from the Metal Age
  • Anthropomorphic Maitum Jars from the Metal Age
• Baybayin


  A Tagalog ancient script derived from Brahmic scripts of India and first recorded in the 16th century
• Other Pre-Colonial Art Forms

  • Pottery
  • Weaving
  • Tattoo
  • Jewelry
  • Carving
  • Metal Crafts
• Okir


  An artistic design of the Maranao before the Islamization of the area, often rendered or curved in hardwood, brass, silver and wall painting in curvilinear lines and Arabic geometric figures
• Sarimanok


  A legendary bird that has become an ubiquitous symbol of Maranao art, depicted as a fowl with colorful wings and feathered tail, holding a fish on its beak or talons, with the head profusely decorated with scroll, leaf, and spiral motifs, said to be a symbol of good fortune
• Sarimanok and Fish


  A modern interpretation of the Okir rendered in an artwork by Abdulmari Asia Imao, National Artist for Painting in 2011
• Spanish Colonial Art


  • Introduced formal Painting, Sculpture and Architecture which was inspired by the Byzantine, Gothic, Baroque and Rococo art styles
  • Most art works are Religious (Catholic) based
• Spanish Art as adopted by Filipino Artists

  • Byzantine Painting Style: Basi Revolt by Esteban Villanueva, 1821
  • Byzantine Frescoes: Langit, Lupa at Impierno by Josef Luciano Dans, 1850
  • Baroque Aesthetics: Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Parish Church, Miagao, Iloilo
  • Rococo Aesthetics and Gothic Aesthetics
• Colonialism in Filipino antiques and carving designs

  Baroque inspired wood carvings of table and relief statue made by Juan Flores, Father of Pampanga Sculpture and Woodcarving
• Uprising of the Philippine Arts

  • In the formation of the elite Filipino class, the Ilustrado, paved way for the rich locals to study abroad, a more "academic" and "western" approach has been learned
• Damian Domingo


  • First Filipino to paint his face, the first Self-Portrait in the Philippines
  • Founder of the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura, the first school of drawing in the Philippines (1821)
  • One of the known artist of the decorative art illustrations tipos del pais watercolor paintings that depict local costumes