Contemporary Painting and Sculpting

• Painting: refers to the process of applying color on a flat surface
• Painting: is considered two-dimensional, meaning it only has height and width
• Forms of Painting:

  1. Easel Painting
  2. Murals
  3. Telon Painting
  4. Jeepney and Calesa Painting
  5. Collage
• Easel Painting: most common form of painting
• Easel Painting: applying color to board or canvas that is fixed on an upright support called easel
• Different types of Easel:

  1. A-frame Easel
  2. H-frame Easel
  3. Giant Easel / Oversize Easel
  4. Convertible / Hybrid Easel
  5. Single Mast Easel
  6. Portable / Plein air Easel
• A-frame Easel: known as "Lyre Easel" triangular shaped
• H-Frame Easel: H shaped
• Giant Easel / Oversize Easel: for larger canvases
• Convertible / Hybrid Easel: canvases can be placed horizontally
• Single Mast Easel: for beginners
• Portable / Plein Air Easel: commonly for outdoor painting
• Telon Painting: described as a backdrop or background for the stage
• Murals: described as a huge wall-sized painting
• Murals: painting on the walls
• Telon Painting: used in presentations during carnivals, fiestas, and religious celebrations
• Jeepney and Calesa Painting: is typically painted using one color
• Jeepney and Calesa Painting: Borders of calesa are decorated using geometric patterns and jeepneys are painted with landscapes and comic books
• Collage: refers to a form of painting that involves the combination of images in a single artwork
• Collage: entails cutting and pasting materials such as paper, fabric, tinfoil, and other relatively flat materials onto a board or canvas
• Themes of Painting:

  1. Genre Painting
  2. Historical Painting
  3. Interiors
  4. Landscapes
  5. Portraits
  6. Nudes
  7. Religious
  8. Still Life
• Genre Painting: portrays people in daily activities
• Folk genre: focuses on the everyday activities of folk
• Historical Painting: depicts the scene from the past
• Historical Painting: often has a lesson concerning national values
• Interiors: refers to the painting of the space inside of building or house
• Interiors: reveals the social class of the family living in that particular house as well as their traits
• Landscapes: portray natural scenery or urban scenes
• Seascapes: focuses on large bodies of water
• Portraits: refers to a painting portraying one or more specific individuals
• Portraits: portrays the physical characteristics and seeks to show an understanding of that person's character
• Nudes: painting that portray the unclothed human figures
• Religious Painting: focuses on lone religious image, lives of saints, and scene based from the scriptures
• Still Life: refers to a painting that depicts natural or manmade objects that form a composition in a natural setting
• Contemporary Sculpture: can be 2d or 3d
• Contemporary Sculpture: requires specific techniques, materials, creative skills, and physical strength
• Petroglyphs: rock carvings
• Angono Petroglyphs: oldest precolonial carvings in the Philippines, found in Angono Rizal
• Anito or Ancestors: depicted in the wood carvings of the mountain province
• Bulul: used in rituals for good harvest and healing