CPAR: 3rd Quarter

• Contemporary Art

  The art that springs out of the present-day events and passions of the society. It is the newest form of art, amusing people from the middle to the late 20th century up to this time
• Contemporary Art


  A statement that an artist makes about life, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and many other things that define human life
• Characteristics of Contemporary Art

  • Not confined in the museum
  • Practices a different way of selling art works
  • Many contemporary artists are self-taught and did not have formal education
  • Has a variety of materials or medium to choose from
  • Artists sometimes employ the help of fabricators, carpenters, electricians, or welders in "constructing" artworks
  • Originality is not an issue
• Process in Contemporary Art

  The process, rather than sale, which is essential in contemporary art-making. The experience while they are doing it that matters most. They put more value to transmittal of the artwork's message than to the compensation that they will receive for the piece
• Subject Matter


  Any person, animal, thing, or issue that is described or represented in a work. It usually generates the question, "What is it?"
• Subject matter is not confined to representation of human figures and landscapes. Commonly, the subjects in this art are children, women, the environment, or a combination of any of these. There are also artworks where the subject matter is not easily recognized
• If an artwork is an experiment on technique, the subject matter is the technique itself. In conceptual arts, the viewer has to engage thinking and exploring the meaning of the art work
• Techniques in Contemporary Arts

  • Collage
  • Decalcomania
  • Decoupage
  • Frottage
  • Montage
  • Trapunto
  • Digital applications
• Order of the National Artists

  Highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts
• Order of the National Artists

  • Established under Proclamation No. 1001, s. 1972
  • Administered by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
  • The president of the Philippines grants this award to a person that is recommended by both institutions every three (3) years
• National Artists


  • Architecture: Pablo S. Antonio, Juan F. Nakpil, Ildefonso P. Santos, Jose Maria V. Zaragoza, Leandro V. Locsin
  • Visual Arts: Fernando Amorsolo, Cesar Legaspi, Hernando Ocampo, Arturo Luz, Jose T. Joya, Benedicto Cabrera, Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, Francisco Coching, Victorio Edades, Guillermo Tolentino, Vicente Manansala
• Edades' colors

  • Dark and somber
  • Favorite subject matter are laborers, factory workers or the simple folk in all their dirt, sweat and grime
• Guillermo Tolentino


  Hailed as the "Father of Philippine Arts"
• Guillermo Tolentino's famous works

  • Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan
  • UP Oblation in Diliman, Quezon City
• Other works by Guillermo Tolentino


  • Gold and bronze medals for the Ramon Magsaysay Award
  • Seal of the Republic of the Philippines
• Vicente Manansala


  • Cubist painter and illustrator from Macabebe, Pampanga
  • His paintings are described as "visions of reality teetering on the edge of abstraction"
• Manansala's view on art

  The beauty of art is in the process, in the moment of doing a particular painting, closely associating it with the act of making love. "The climax is just when it's really finished."
• Manansala's works


  • A Cluster of Nipa Hut
  • San Francisco Del Monte
  • Banaklaot
  • I Believe in God
  • Market Venders
  • Madonna of the Slums
  • Still Life with Green Guitar
  • Via Crucis
  • Whirr
  • Nude
• Carlos "Botong" Francisco


  A poet from Angono who single-handedly revived the forgotten art of mural and was best known for his historical pieces
• J. Elizalde Navarro


  A versatile artist, being both a proficient painter and sculptor, with a devotion to the visual arts spanning 40 years of drawing, printmaking, graphic designing, painting, and sculpting
• J. Elizalde Navarro's major mixed media works

  • I'm Sorry Jesus, I Can't Attend Christmas This Year (1965)
  • Homage to Dodjie Laurel (1969: Ateneo Art Gallery collection)
  • A Flying Contraption for Mr. Icarus (1984: Lopez Museum)
• Napoleon Abueva


  • The "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture"
  • Adept in either academic representational style or modern abstract, he has utilized almost all kinds of materials
• Napoleon Abueva's major works

  • Kaganapan (1953)
  • Kiss of Judas (1955)
  • Thirty Pieces of Silver
  • The Transfiguration (1979)
  • Eternal Garden Memorial Park
  • UP Gateway (1967)
  • Nine Muses (1994)
  • UP Faculty Center
  • Sunburst (1994)-Peninsula Manila Hotel
  • Bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of National Library
  • Murals in marble at the National Heroes Shrine, Mt. Samat, Bataan
• Ang Kiukok


  • A painter from Davao City who fused influences from cubism, surrealism, and expressionism in his style
  • Favored subjects such as fighting cocks, rabid dogs, and people enraptured by rage
  • Also painted multiple depictions of the crucified Christ
• Ang Kiukok's works


  • Geometric Landscape (1969)
  • Pieta, which won the bronze medal in the 1st International Art Exhibition held in Saigon (1962)
  • Seated Figure (1979), auctioned at Sotheby's in Singapore
• Abdulmari Asia Imao


  • A native of Sulu, he is a sculptor, painter, photographer, ceramist, documentary film maker, cultural researcher, writer, and articulator of Philippine Muslim art and culture
  • Through his works, the indigenous ukkil, sarimanok and naga motifs have been popularized and instilled in the consciousness of the Filipino nation and other peoples as original Filipino creations
• Abdulmari Asia Imao's works

  • Industry Brass Mural
  • Mural Relief in Filmmaking
  • Industrial Mural
  • Sulu Warriors
• Ramon Valera


  A fashion designer from Abra, known for his tradition of excellence in his works and his commitment to his profession, performing his magical seminal innovations on the Philippine terno
• Jose Garcia Villa


  • Considered as one of the finest contemporary poets
  • Introduced reversed consonance rhyme scheme, including the comma poems that made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way
• Jose Garcia Villa's published works


  • Footnote to Youth
  • Many Voices
  • Poems by Doveglion
  • Poems 55
  • Poems in Praise of Love: The Best Love Poems of Jose Garcia Villa as Chosen By Himself
  • Selected Stories
  • The Portable Villa
  • The Essential Villa
  • Mir-i-nisa
  • Storymasters 3: Selected Stories from Footnote to Youth
  • 55 Poems: Selected and Translated into Tagalog by Hilario S. Francia
• Nick Joaquin


  • Considered as the most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing
  • Critics have coined "Joaquinesque" to describe his baroque Spanish-flavored English or his reinventions of English based on Filipinisms
• Nick Joaquin's works


  • The Woman Who Had Two Navels
  • A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
  • Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young
  • The Ballad of the Five Battles
  • Rizal in Saga
  • Almanac for Manileños
  • Cave and Shadows
• Francisco Arcellana


  • Pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form
  • Believes that the pride of fiction is "that it is able to render truth that is able to present reality"
• Francisco Arcellana's published works


  • Selected Stories (1962)
  • Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977)
  • The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990)
• Francisco Arcellana's short stories and poems


  • Frankie
  • The Man Who Would Be Poe
  • Death in a Factory
  • Lina
  • A Clown Remembers
  • Divided by Two
  • The Mats
  • The Other Woman
  • This Being the Third Poem This Poem is for Mathilda
  • To Touch You and I Touched Her
• Levi Celerio


  • National Artist for Literature and Music
  • Prolific lyricist and composer for decades
  • Made it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the only person able to make music using just a leaf
  • Effortlessly translated/wrote anew the lyrics to traditional melodies
• Levi Celerio's traditional melodies with new lyrics

  • "O Maliwanag Na Buwan" (Iloko)
  • "Ako ay May Singsing" (Pampango)
  • "Alibangbang" (Visaya)
• Rolando S. Tinio


  • National Artist for Theater and Literature
  • Playwright, thespian, poet, teacher, critic, and translator, marked his career with prolific artistic productions
• Rolando S. Tinio's works


  • Sitsit sa Kuliglig
  • Dunung – Dunungan
  • Kristal na Uniberso
  • A Trick of Mirrors
  • Film scripts for Now and Forever, Gamitin Mo Ako, Bayad Puri and Milagros
  • Sarswelas Ang Mestisa, Ako, Ang Kiri, Ana Maria
  • Komedya Orosman at Zafira
  • Musical Larawan
• Folk Architecture


  • Simple structures built of local materials and available tools to provide shelter for its inhabitants