CPAR

• Art


  Linked to human instincts, which are "lying in our deep nature"
• Aristotle

  
  

  He argued that human beings are "the most imitative of living creature"
• Important elements of artwork

  • Subject
  • Medium
• Forms of artistic expression

  • Picture (drawing, painting, printmaking, photography)
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater
  • Cinema
  • Dance
• Forms of arts


  • Visual arts
  • Literary arts
  • Performing arts
• Carlos "Botong" Francisco


  • Represents "Filipino-ness"
• Leo Benesa


  • Scenes of everyday life and the surroundings without idealizing them was closest in spirit to the Filipino soul and native soil
  • Most expressive
  • Agricultural countryside
• Fernando Amorsolo


  • The landscape in his paintings features the rural lands of the Philippines, making his artworks representative of the Filipino
• Contemporary art


  Art made and produced by artists living today
• New elements or principles of contemporary art

  • Appropriation
  • Performance
  • Space
  • Hybridity
  • Technology
• Dr. Patrick Flores is a renowned art critic and metropolitan museum curator
• National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)

  
• Carlos A. Santos-Viola


  • Best known for designing and building churches for Iglesia ni Cristo religious group
• Jason Buensalido


  • Architectural, interior, and urban design
• Angelo Manosa


  • Explained how perfect the Philippine Bahay Kubo is as a disaster resilient structure (katatagan)
• Roland Tolentino: "The Filipino writing in today's world contains the diasporic experience and the incorporation of both the rural and the urban experience."
• Dean Francis Alfar


  • Award-winning, pioneered the speculative fiction movement and has been publishing the Philippine Speculative Fiction series
  • Writes flash fiction, with stories of 1000 words or less
• Miguel Syjuco


  • Won the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel ILUSTRADO
• Marivi Soliven


  • Author of the novel "The Mango Bride" (2013)
• Sophia Lee


  • Won the 2014 Scholastic Asian Book Award for her novel "What Things Mean"
• Cecile Guidote-Alvarez


  • Founder of PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association) in 1967, advocates the use of Filipino theatre in inspiring change and development in society
  • Established Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident drama company of Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
  • Universities have their own theatre companies like Dulaang UP, Ateneo Blue Repertory, and Teatro Tomasino
  • Created Virgin Labfest, a playwright's festival of untried, untested, and unpublished plays
• Notable contemporary Philippine visual artists

  • Leomar C. Conejos (Child Trafficking)
  • Ferd Angelo A. Failano (Juan's Struggle sa Mundong Nobody's Perfect)
  • Rene S. Sibulangcal (Tragic Bangus, digital art)
• Dr. Nicanor Tiongson


  • Creating art that will contribute to social change by enlightening viewers and audiences about the nature and causes of the problems they face as Filipinos today
• National Artist Award


  The highest honor given to a Filipino whose life and works have contributed to the advancement of the country's arts and letters
• Requirements to be a National Artist

  • Natural Born Filipino or Dual Citizenship Status
  • Content and works contributed in Filipino nationhood
  • Has impact on succeeding generations
  • Display excellence in practice of their art
  • Enjoyed national and international awards, great reviews, and respect and esteem from peers
• The Grand Collar awarded to the National Artist

  The highly stylized three letter Ks stand for "katotohanan, kabutihan, at kagandahan"
• GAMABA (Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan)


  The highest awards for culture and the arts bestowed by the NCCA, awarded to Traditional Arts based on indigenous peoples' cultures that are largely honed by oral tradition
• Napoleon Abueva (Father of Modern Sculpture) designed the "waiting sheds" of the University Gateway of UP, an example of the use of lines in visual arts
• GAMABA (Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan)


  Awarded to Traditional Arts based on indigenous peoples' cultures that are largely honed by oral tradition
• GAMABA recipients

  • Teofilo Garcia (Tabungaw hat or Upo) – named as Manlilikha ng bayan or National Living Treasure (2023)
• (NCCA) bestows the highest awards for culture and the art
• Unlike National Artist GAMABA is awarded to Traditional Arts is based on indigenous peoples' cultures that are largely honed by oral tradition
• Elements of Art

  • Lines
  • Color
  • Texture
  • Shape
  • Composition in Space
  • Movement
• Lines


  In the visual arts, it also refers to the quality of the line, whether thin, broken, thick, or blended, among others
• Color


  • Associated with our experiences of cold and warmth
  • Hues has to do with how light waves of various lengths and rapidity of vibrations bounce off objects and enter our eyes
  • Warm hues have longer wavelengths, and are more distinct and easily discernible, for example red, orange, and yellow
  • Cool hues such as blue or violet have shorter wavelengths, and seem to merge into each other
  • Hues vary in saturation, intensity, or brilliance – another aspects of color
• Value


  • Another aspect of color, refers to the hue's brightness or darkness
  • Gradations of tone from light to dark
  • Play of light on an object or a scene
• Texture


  • When several lines come together, they create texture - how objects and surfaces feel
  • Sense of touch or tactility
• Shape


  • Two-dimensional shapes exist as planes having length and width
  • Three-dimensional shapes possess length, width, and volume
• Composition in Space


  • Involves the relationship between figures and elements
  • Often space is not clearly shown in a piece, but it is an illusion
  • Found in almost all art forms
  • Elements are organized and composed according principles of organization, among them balance, proportion, rhythm, unity in variety, dominance and subordination
• Movement


  • May occur in two-dimensional design as rhythm or through the recurrence of motif, their alternation or progression unfolding in a series
  • Related to line, and the direction of the eye