CPAR

• Contemporary Art


  Art is everywhere - from the simplest designed objects we use, to the space and structures we inhabit
• Contemporary Art


  Art enriches our lives with meaning that we often overlook
• Contemporary Art


  Art responds to our human desire to experience beauty and explore the unknown
• Contemporary art


  Generally refers to art being created now
• Contemporary


  Derived from the latin prefix "con" meaning "together" or "with", plus "tempus" meaning "time"
• Contemporary art


  • Legacy of modernism - a radical break from tradition, challenging and breaking traditions to establish a new order
• Modern art


  Art theory and practice predominantly in Western Europe and North America from 1860s-1960s, characterized by significant social, cultural, technological, and political developments
• Contemporary art in the Philippines


  Emerged during 1970s, an era of repression and censorship, as a means to oppose the regime and the political art of social realism flourished
• Contemporary art in the Philippines


  • Emerged due to the return of democracy, improved economic and political environment, and advent of new technologies and free access to media
• Contemporary art as a breaking norms


  Transgression of established norms and rules, ruled by the cult of the new, endeavoring to create radical and interdisciplinary works
• Appropriation


  The practice of creating a new work by taking a pre-existing image or work from another context and combining it with new ones
• Contemporary art and local heritage 


  Professes an awareness of local heritage - physical objects, places, and various practices that can be passed from one generation to the next
• Examples of abandoned heritage structures given new life through contemporary architectural approaches

  • Old Sabungan or cockpit arena become community theater
  • Destroyed Old Churches of Bohol
  • Raha Sulayman Theater redesigned and re-structured
  • Carabao tradition from central Luzon agriculture becomes the focal point of art making
• Contemporary art as a critique of society 


  • Emerged as a powerful medium for artists to express their thoughts, ideas, and critiques of society, challenging societal norms, questioning established systems, and provoking meaningful conversations
• Examples of creative exhibit spaces carved from space

  • Ukay-ukay Dome in Baguio
  • Ang paglalakbay ng Apoy at Dugo in Faculty Center and Vargas Museum
  • The Bamboo Theater installation art
  • Salabay Installation
  • Agap Iglap Lindol
• Audience or viewer


  Contributes to or even completes the artwork by contributing personal reflection, experiences, opinions and interpretations
• Contemporary art as remembrance


  Something done as an aid to memory, to commemorate important events and people that have shaped our history
• Contemporary art for persuasion


  Art form with a persuasive and ideological function used to spur political change or modify behavior and thinking of large groups of people
• Contemporary art as self-expression


  Artist conveys information about their personality, feelings or worldview, where viewer feels empathy for creators and gains an understanding of creator's personality
• Context


  It refers to the actors that surround a work of art, including historical events, economic trends, contemporary cultural developments, religious attitudes, social norms, and other artworks of the time
• Primary context


  Artist's intentions and purposes for making their art
• Secondary context


  External conditions in which the work was produced
• Functions of contemporary art

  • Catalyst for social change by challenging norms and questioning dominant ideologies
  • Platform for artists to express thoughts, ideas, and critiques of society, provoking meaningful conversations and reflections
  • Raises awareness about pressing social and political issues, shedding light on inequalities and inspiring action
• Functions of contemporary art


  • Providing pleasure and escape from everyday concerns
  • As a profession where artists earn a living
  • As commentary on conditions, facts, or politics
  • In spirituality to reinforce shared beliefs
• Fundamental Components of Art

  Akin to a language or text that can be read by anyone
• Formal elements of art

  • Line, shape, color, texture, mass, volume, space
  • Overall composition - size, proportion
• Creativity


  The generation of new ideas, insights, and previously unimagined images and artifacts, central to the making of art
• Imagination


  The faculty that allows generating mental pictures, ideas and sensations that do not exist in the world
• Language


  Medium by which cultural meanings are formed and communicated
• Interpretation


  Concerned with the search for meaning
• Political economy


  Concerned with power and the distribution of economic resources in the context of art production
• Ideology


  Unearthed and revealed from the surface of the artwork
• Fundamental Components of Art


  A creative and transformative process that brings forth something new that has value
• Contemporary art-making


  • A creative and transformative process
• Creativity


  The ability to bring forth something new that has value
• Formal elements


  Line, shape, color, texture, mass, volume, and space
• Overall composition


  Size, proportion and so on
• Materials and technique


  From which the artwork is made
• Imagination


  A faculty that allows to generate mental pictures, ideas and sensations that do not exist in the world
• Language


  A medium by which cultural meanings are formed and communicated