CPAR

• Art

  • An expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires
  • Is the communication of intimate concepts that cannot be faithfully portrayed by words alone.
• Classification of Arts

  • Traditional Art
  • Modern Art
  • Contemporary Art
• Traditional Art

  • Art that is part of a culture of a certain group of people, with skills and knowledge passed down through generations from masters to apprentices
• Examples of Traditional Arts

  • Folk Architecture
  • Maritime Transport
  • Folk Weaving
  • Folk Carving
  • Folk performance
• Modern Art

  • Refers to art created from the 1880s up to the 1960-70s. While modern art is more recent than the Renaissance or classical art periods, it is by no means current
• Paul Cézanne

  • Founding father of modern arts
• Known in Modern Arts

  • Vincent Van Gogh (Sunflowers 1887)
  • Pablo Picasso (Les Demoiselles d' Avignon)
  • Andy Warhol (Campbell's Soup Cans)
• Contemporary Art

  • Is the art that springs out of the present-day events and passions of the society
• Historical TImeline of Art

  • Greek period (Techniques)
  • Roman period (Skills)
  • Christian period (Craftsmanship)
  • Renaissance period (Genius and Design)
  • Romantic period (Fine Arts)
  • Contemporary Period (New art forms)
• Historical TImeline of Philippine Art

  • Ethnic Art
  • Islamic Art
  • Spanish Era
  • American Era
  • Japanese Art 
  • Modern Era
  • Contemporary Period
• According to PLATO (427-347BC)

  • Art is merely an imitation or a copy of reality. For him, art is an illusion, a collection of reflections
• According to ARISTOTLE

  • The Greek Philosopher Aristotle may have provided the earliest assumptions of art as linked to human instincts
  • Art, then may be defined as a human pursuit to imitate life and the world into something pleasing or beautiful
• According to EUGENE VERON

  • Art is an external manifestation created and produced through lines, movements, sounds, colors and emotions
  • Art in this definition reflects human subjectivity in the form of elements that stimulates the senses
• According to LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)

  • Art is “the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” Such lines reiterates how art reveals an individual’s imagination
• Visual Arts

  • This is the art that appeals to the visual sense and may be constructed using varied mediums.
  • The plural of medium is media.
  • Some of the most common media are oil paints
  • Visual art takes a permanent form and allows appreciation by viewing the physical form of the artist’s imagination and expression.
• Types of Visual Arts

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Ceramic
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Sculpture
  • Weaving
• Drawing

  • is the creation of image, diagram or a form using tools such as pen, ink, brush, pencil, marker, charcoals, crayons. It uses hatching, scribbling, and blending.
• Painting

  • A creative expression using pigment or color on a surface for aesthetic value. Tools or implements are used to apply the coating through brush, sponge and the like.
• Ceramic

  • is an art made from materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture.
  • The term “ceramic” came from the word “keramikos” which is a Greek word meaning “Pottery”.
• Photography

  • is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation.
• Architecture

  • is the art and science of designing buildings and other physical structures
  • “Architecture” came from the Greek word “arkhitekton” which means “master builder” or “carpenter”
• Sculpture

  • an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects
• Weaving

  • is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth
  • The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling
• Literary Arts

  • This art form denotes “letters” or literature which came from the Latin word “littera” meaning “an individual written character”
  • Literature is imaginative writing with recognized artistic value. It is an art that represents a collection of writing that represents not only emotions but history, culture that surpasses time and space
• Examples of Literary Arts are the following:

  • prose, poetry and drama which may include varied genre such as fiction and non-fiction
• Performing Arts

  • The art that involves creative activity that is performed and delivered in front of spectators. This form of art which may be purposive of entertaining its audience may include dance, theatre, music, mime and opera.
• Types of Performing Arts

  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Dance
• Music

  • An art form that involves the creative use of sound to express insights and emotions.
  • Music has varied genres such as reggae, blues, country, jazz, rock, pop etc.
• Theatre

  • Originated from the Greek word “Theatron” which means “a place where spectators gather to watch a performance or a show”.
  • It is a collaborative art where performers act a real life or imagined story with their speech, dance, music, and movements
• Theatre

  • It may take the form of an opera, mime, ballet which oftentimes are representation of specific cultures such as the kabuki, Indian dance and the like.
• Dance

  • is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture
• Are the landscape paintings of Fernando Amorsolo or the historical depictions of Carlos “Botong” Francisco genuinely Filipino? Are the stories and poems in English written by N.V. M. Gonzales or Edith Tiempo Filipino? This speculation on the “Filipino-ness” of works by Filipino artists is caused by our colonial history and migrant reality.
• According to Leo Benesa

  • “The idea was that the depiction of scenes of everyday life and the surroundings without idealizing them was closest in spirit to the Filipino soul and native soil”.
  • As long as the work shows the Filipino way of living, it is “closest in spirit to the Filipino soul and native soil”
• Benesa describes Amorsolo’s works as the “most expressive of the ethos of the race and the predominantly agricultural countryside.” Most of the Amorsolo’s paintings depict life in the fields
• New Elements or Principles of Contemporary Art

  • Appropriation
  • Performance
  • Space
  • Hybridity
  • Technology
• Appropriation

  • when you see t-shirts of Jose Rizal wearing shades or the walls of Intramuros in canvas bags, existing artworks, are “appropriated” to form another artwork.
  • The use of these prints, images, and icons to produce another art form is a feature of contemporary art that combines the past with the present.
• Performance

  • Performance of contemporary artists have evolved to “emphasize spontaneous, unpredictable elements of chance”
  • according to the Walker Art Center:
  • Performance artists have tried to interpret various human activities, from ordinary activities such as chores, routines, and rituals to socially relevant themes such as poverty, commercialism, and war.
• Space

  • how art transforms a space is now an occupation of contemporary artists.
• Hybridity

  • In contemporary art is the mixing of unlikely materials to produce an artwork
• Technology

  • is a reality in the present-day world, and contemporary artists have used technology in the creation and dissemination of works of art.