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• Contemporary Arts


  21st-century art created by Filipino artists originating from the different regions in the Philippines reflecting technological progression and cultural diversity
• Philippine Contemporary Arts


  • Visual arts
  • Literary arts
  • Performing arts
• Visual Arts


  • Expression of artistic ideas through images, structures, and tactile work
• Painting


  • Expression of ideas and emotions, with the creation of certain aesthetic qualities, in a two-dimensional visual language
• Sculpture


  • Art form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects
• Architecture


  • Art and practice of designing and constructing buildings
• Film


  • Form of visual art used to imitate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, or feelings with the use of moving images
• Literary Arts


  • Expression of ideas through writing
• Literature


  Written and sometimes spoken material, including poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, and in some instances, journalism, and song
• Performing Arts


  • Person doing certain actions and movements in front of an audience that go along with sound in a space and time
• Music


  • Collection of coordinated sound or sounds
• Theatre


  • Collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place
• Dance


  • Movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself
• Line


  • Artists use the different lines in order to express ideas and feelings in their painting
• Space


  Distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece. Positive space refers to a part which is enclosed in a shape. Negative space refers to the opposite part which the shape is enclosing.
• Color


  Artists use color to convey feelings and moods within their painting. Warm colors: red, orange, yellow. Cool colors: blue, green, violet. Complementary colors: blue and orange, red and green, yellow and purple.
• Shapes


  • Artists use shapes to convey ideas. Geometric and organic shapes.
• Texture


  Element that appeals to our sense of feel on things- rough or smooth, bumpy or slippery. Real texture is the actual texture of an object. Implied texture made a piece of art to look like a certain texture.
• Value


  Lightness or darkness of a color in a given artwork. Tint refers to the lightness of a color. Shade refers to the darkness of a color.
• Form

  Three-dimensionality of an object, with dimensions of height, width, and length.
• Principles of Art


  • Rhythm
  • Movement
  • Balance
  • Proportion
  • Contrast
  • Variety
  • Emphasis
  • Harmony
• National Artist


  Filipino who has made a significant contribution to the development of Philippine arts in the fields of Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film and Architecture
• Order of the National Artists Award

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

  • Literature
  • Film and Broadcasting / Broadcast Arts
  • Architecture, Design and Allied Arts
  • Music
  • Theater
  • Visual Arts
• Qualifications for National Artist Award

  • Living artists who are natural-born Filipino citizens
  • Content and form of their work have procured in building a Filipino sense of nationhood
  • Developed a mode of creative expression or style and living a legend on succeeding generations of artists
  • Manifest excellence in the practice of their art form
  • Artwork made has attained an international and national recognition
• Insignia of the Order of the National Artists

  Grand Collar featuring circular links depicting the arts and an eight-pointed sunburst suspended from a sampaguita wreath in green and white enamel. Center divided into three equal portions in red, white and blue representing the Philippine Flag with three stylized letter K's that stands for the CCP's motto "Katotohanan, Kabutihan at Kagandahan" (The true, the good and the beautiful).