Artist and Artisan

• Artist


  • Art practitioner
  • Creative individuals who use their imagination and skills to communicate in an art form
  • Exhibit the courage to take risks
  • Self-taught and have been called folk-artists because they are not educated in traditional artistic methods
  • Someone devoted only to the creative part, making visually pleasant work only for the gratification and appreciation of the viewer but with no practical value
• Artisan


  • Who produces directly functional and/or decorative arts
  • They craft everything that makes our life easy
  • Their works are useful, relevant and essential in our everyday life
  • They serve us for a long time, supplying us directly functional arts
  • A physical worker who makes objects with his or her hands and who through skill, experience, and ability can produce things of great beauty, as well as usefulness
• Key components of the art market

  • Curator
  • Art Buyer
  • Art Dealer
  • Private Collection
• The creative process


  1. Conceive

  2. Know what currently exists

  3. Take actions

  4. Develop your creativity

  5. Learn the rhythms of the creative process
• Three stages in the creative process

  1. Germination (Idea)

  2. Assimilation

  3. Completion
• Three stages in art making

  1. Pre- production or subject development

  2. Production or medium manipulation

  3. Post production (completion) or exhibition
• Technique

  The artist's ability and knowledge or technical know-how in manipulating the medium
• Medium


  The materials that are used by an artist to create a work of art
• Strengths


  • There is universal appeal
  • Uses organic/indigenous materials
  • Accessibility and supply of the material within the community
  • Indigenous
  • Uniqueness
  • Passion for the art (successor)
  • Traditional/indigenous
  • Culture preservation/Empowerment
  • Aesthetic appeal
• Weaknesses


  • Might diminish through times
  • Tedious
  • Time consuming
  • Effort (clientele)
  • Proximity of the location
  • Clientele's preference in terms of design
  • Exclusivity
  • Consequences of removing/changing the tattoo design
• Gawad sa Manlilikhang Bayan (GAMABA) National Living Treasures Award
• How does one become a Manlilikha ng bay?


  • Inhabitant of an indigenous/traditional culture community anywhere in the Philippines
  • Engaged in a folk art tradition that has been in existence and documented for at least fifty (50) years
  • Consistently performed or produced over a significant period
  • Possess a mastery of tools and materials needed by the art
  • Must have passed on and/or will pass on the other members of the community their skills in the folk art/ traditional art
• National Artists (National Artists of the Philippines)
• Criteria for the order of National Artist

  • Living artists who are Filipino citizen at the time of nomination
  • Have contributed in building a Filipino sense of nationhood
  • Pioneered in a mode of creative expression or style, earning distinction and making an impact on succeeding generations of artists
  • Created a substantial and significant body of work and/or consistently displayed excellence in the practice
  • Enjoy broad acceptance through different recognitions (CCP Artists, Gawad, NCCA)
• Music


  • Considered to be the least tangible of the arts
  • Defined as an arrangement of sounds to create a continuous and unified composition
• Elements of music

  • Melody
  • Rhythm
  • Harmony
  • Texture
  • Dynamics
  • Timbre
  • Form
• Melody


  • A succession of consecutive notes or tones changing in pitch and duration
  • It is also considered to carry the overall theme of music
  • Inseparable from rhythm
• Rhythm


  • Something to do with the patterns in time
  • Has three qualities (tempo, meter, and rhythmic pattern)
  • Tempo describes how fast or slow the music is
  • Meter refers to the unit of time that is made up of a group of accented and unaccented beats or pulses
• Harmony


  • May refer to a combination of different tones or pitches played or sung together
  • These notes played or sung together at the same time is called a chord
  • May also involve playing chords successively
• Texture


  • Element refers to the relationship of melodic and harmonic lines in music
  • Music is considered to have thicker texture if it has more melodic lines
• Dynamics


  • Refers to the degree of softness and loudness of music
  • May include the way of changing from soft to loud or vice – versa
• Timbre


  Also known as tone color, this refers to the quality of sounds generated by an instrument or by a voice
• Form


  • Element refers to how the other elements of music are organized
  • Music can be described if there are repeating sections or melodies
  • If there are contrast among musical instruments and rhythm or if there is variation of the musical composition
• Forms and types of Philippine music

  • Ethnic Traditional Music
  • Ballad
  • Chant
  • Song debate
  • Art Song
  • Habanera/Danza
  • Liturgical Music
  • Kumintang
  • Pasyon Chant
  • Classical Music
  • Solo Instrumental Literature
  • Symphonic Literature
  • Band Music
  • Marcha/March
  • Popular Music
• Ethnic Traditional Music


  Music that has similar elements with music from our Southeast Asian neighbors
• Ballad


  • Refers to a song that explains an event occurring in a community
  • Some ballads were influenced by the Spaniards "the composo" and Pampanga's "Ing Bangkeru"
  • Ballad is loosely described as a popular romantic song in the urban areas
• Chant


  • This refers to a song with an unaccompanied melody and variable rhythm
  • Usually found in epic songs
• Song debate


  • A song involving male and female singers who try to outsmart each other about a certain topic
  • Themes usually include love, courtship and marriage
• Art Song


  • Composition characterized by merging the voice part, lyrics and the accompaniment together to achieve an artistic musical whole
  • "Kundiman" as the signature love song of the Philippines
  • Its usual theme is about "the faithful and true, but often forlorn, pleadings of a lover who knows nothing but sacrifice in behalf of his beloved"
  • Also resolve on self-pity, sentimentally, desire for freedom and wishing for a better future
  • Also used to denote a particular musical style
• Habanera/Danza


  • Refers to a social dance in duple time
  • Originally from Cuba usually performed on a stage or in a ballroom
• Liturgical Music


  • Refers to vocal and instrumental compositions that go together with the official rites of Christian churches
  • Simple repetitive songs were used during prayer meetings, while there were some instances when people in these churches sang Gospel music, which refers to a group of contemporary musical styles with religious lyrics
• Kumintang


  Originally documented as a war song, a dance of love accompanied by a guitar and bajo de unas (string bass)
• Pasyon Chant


  Refers to the various styles used throughout the country for the singing of the "pasyon"
• American-inspired music


  • Classical Music
  • Solo Instrumental Literature
  • Symphonic Literature
• Classical Music


  Chamber of Music, Choral Music, Opera
• Solo Instrumental Literature


  Concerto, Sonata
• Symphonic Literature


  Symphony, Suite, Concert Overture, Symphonic Poem
• Semi-classical music


  • Band Music
  • Marcha/March
  • Popular Music
• Band Music


  Refers to a compositions created for the band
• Marcha/March


  Refers to composition with music played in regular phrases and a strongly accented rhythm