Social Science 1

• Categories of Art

  • Fine Arts
  • Popular Art
  • Craft
• Henry David Thoreau: 'The World is but a canvas to our imagination'
• Form


  • One of the 7 elements of art
  • Connotes a 3-Dimensional object in space
  • Formal analysis of a work of art describes how the elements and principles of artwork together independent of their meaning and the feelings or thought they may evoke in the viewer
  • Used to describe the physical nature of the artwork, as in metal, sculpture, oil painting, etc.
  • In art form - medium of artistic expression recognized as FINE ART
• Style


  • Arrangement of a variety of objects into a group of categories to make them easier to recognize, understand, and talk about
  • Makes further analysis and study possible
• Types of Style

  • Medieval - Art of a particular historical time period
  • Italian Renaissance - Art of a particular Nation
  • The Pre-Raphaelites - A particular group of artists
  • Rubenesque, Titianesque, Warholesque, Muchaesque - the manner of an individual artist
  • Pointillism, Photorealism, Abstract, Realistic - A technical or artistic approach
• Fine Arts


  • Transcend average human works
  • Produced by only the best artists with unique sensibilities and academic training
  • Requires sensitivity and a level of refinement on the part of the audience
  • Includes Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
  • Displayed in Museums, Performed in Theatre, and In Art House Cinemas
• Popular Art


  • Product of popular culture
  • Appeals to a broad mass of audience
  • More accessible, inexpensive, entertaining, commercial, naïve, or colorful than fine art
  • Reflects the values and structures of our social systems, political hierarchies, and religious beliefs
• Craft


  • Specific media such as Ceramics, Glass, Jewelry, Weaving, and Woodworking
  • Often have a Utilitarian Purpose but also display Aesthetic and/or Conceptual Dimension
• Medium-based classification of art forms:

  Substance the artist uses to create a piece of artwork

  
  

  Medium:

  Used to describe a specific type of art, e.g. painting, printmaking, and sculpture
• Living Traditions/Traditional Art


  • Crafting of material arts that are passed on from one generation to the next within the context of daily life in the community
  • Forms and Styles of Pottery, Musical Instruments, Making of Attire and Accessories, Weaving of Textiles and Mats, Dancing, Oral Literature, Music, and Ritual
  • Skills and Motifs passed from master culture bearers to the next generation in the clan or tribe
• Studio Arts


  • Production of visual arts which consists of Painting, Sculpture, Graphic, and Plastic Arts
  • Emphasis on Individual meaning, Artistic Originality, and Uniqueness of Expression
• Neo-realism


  • Influenced by Western Cubism where objects and subjects are analyzed and broken down into geometric shapes and shapes viewed from a multiplicity of angles
  • Render on the Philippine daily life such as Fishermen, Jeepneys, Calesas, Boats, Fisher-folks, Vendors, Shoppers in flat shapes, patterns or stylized form
• Neo-realist Artist; Their legacy; They craft Neo-Realism to its finest peak.

  • Victorio Edades
  • Cesar Legaspi
• Victorio Edades' Paintings

  • The Builders
  • The Lavandera
• Photorealism/Hyperrealism


  • Painting that is rendered meticulously realistic style with accurate details looking like a photograph
  • Hyperrealism technique becomes Magical Realism if unreal or imaginary elements are focused on their presence in the actual material world
• Social Realism


  • Refers to the Painterly Practice of Activist-Artists in the 70s
  • Emphasizes subject matter should show a keen awareness of conflict arising from the oppressive conditions and events of the time
• Abstract Art


  • May be pure beauty, a reason for its own being
  • Can be derived from a recognizable object, expressive, and can be a metaphor or a symbol
• Abstract Artists

  • Romulo Olazo - Diaphanous- Anthuriums No, 157, 2013
  • Arturo Luz (b. 1928) - Lot 2: Cyclists
• Conceptual Art


  • Art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object
  • Emerged as an art movement in the 1960s, refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid 1970s
• Conceptual Art

  • Fountain (1917) - a standard urinal-basin signed by the artist with pseudonym "R. Mutt"
  • Waves (Cultural Center of the Philippines, 1975) and Waves (MO Space, 2017) by Robert Chabet
• Robert Chabet:

  An art is all about idea, form, taking many shapes, and sizes, only supports the idea, which is not confined to one specific explanation, but a Wide horizon of possibilities
• Luzon Traditions

  • Pottery
  • Basket Weaving
  • Textile Weaving
  • Attire Making
  • Playing Musical Instruments
  • Dance
  • Indigenous Architecture
  • Chanting of Oral Literature
  • Life Rituals
• Luzon Art Forms

  • Binakul - blanket design with abstract patterns creating an optical illusion
  • Bulul - figure representing ancestors who guard both rice from seed to granary as well as health of the cordilleran people
• Mindanao Traditions

  • Weaving and Embroidery of Attire
  • Mat Weaving
  • Dance
  • Making Musical Instruments
  • Crafting Bead Accessories ex. Malong
• Robert Chabet - Father of Philippine Conceptual Art
• Binakul - blanket design recognizable by abstract patterns
• Abstract Patterns - create an optical illusion
• "OP Art" - optical illusion called in western art
• Bulul - Figure representing ancestors who guard both rice from seed to granary as well as the health of the cordilleran people.

  -May be male/female squatting on the ground with knees folded up to support its crossed arms
• 22 Schools of living traditions in - Barangay Turun-an
• 3 Basic art forms taught in this schools (VISAYAS):

  • Epic Chanting of Suguigadnon
  • Embroidery called Panubok
  • Binanog
• Embroidery called Panubok: to adorn the Saipan
• Binanog: A courtship dance performed during Harvests and Weddings
• Binanog - dancers stamp their feet and outstretched their arms like birds' wings
• Mat Weaving - in Basey, Samar
• The Amartino Abellana School of Painting in Cebu:

  Named after the master realist of portraits and landscapes
• Chiaroscuro:

  Unique use of color progression from hues of yellow to orange, to red, to cool green, to blue, and violet.
• Patadyong: Traditional plaid textile

                  -women weave in ANTIQUE, Iloilo

                  and NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

        -colors - mostly primary and secondary colors

        -ORANGE, PURPLE, GREEN
• UKKIL/OKIR - National Symbol

                  - Mythical dragon, naga, or serpent

                  -Enhanced with ELABORATE LEAD ABD VINE       PATTERNS

                  -Can be woven, carved, incised on

                  wooden chests

                  -engraved on Handles of swords or blades

                  -Suggestive of the movements of the hand and torso

                  in the Pangalay Dance.
• Sarimanok - symbol in form of ROOSTER

                  with a HANGING FISH in its beak

                  bringing the NAGA to a RESPLENDENT flourish