CONTEMPORARY

• Philippine contemporary arts

  • Visual arts
  • Literary arts
  • Performing arts
• Visual art


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


  • Some visual artworks are integrated which means it combines several mediums to create new and unique artwork
  • Painting, sculpture, architecture, and film are examples of visual arts
• Painting


  The expression of ideas and emotions, with the creation of certain aesthetic qualities, in a two-dimensional visual language
• The first paintings here in the Philippines are commissioned works during Spanish colonization
• Paintings from

  • Luzon
  • Visayas
  • Mindanao
• Sculpture


  An art form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects
• Filipino sculptors came to be known in the middle of the 19th century
• Architecture


  The art and practice of designing and constructing buildings
• Philippine architecture was characterized as simple, rational, and functional in the 20th century
• The young Filipino who studied in American colleges and institutes introduced the neoclassic style in building structures
• After World War II, real estate development started to take place
• Architectural designs from


  • Luzon
  • Visayas
  • Mindanao
• Film


  A form of visual art used to imitate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, or feelings with the use of moving images
• The film industry in the Philippines started in 1897
• Usual subjects and themes in the Philippine films


  • Martyr wife
  • Superhero
  • Action
  • Melodramas
  • Comedies
• Performing Arts


  A person doing certain actions and movements in front of an audience that go along with sound in a space and time
• Performing Arts

  • Music
  • Theater
  • Dance
• Music


  A collection of coordinated sound or sounds
• Filipino Music had already a rich and unique musical tradition long before westerners set foot on our native land
• Contemporary music in the Philippines usually refers to compositions that have adopted ideas and elements from twentieth-century art music in the West, as well as the latest trends and musical styles in the entertainment industry
• Theatre


  A 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


  The 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
• National Artist is a 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

  The highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts

  
• The order is concurrent administered by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and conferred by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation by both institutions

  
• Seven categories under which National Artists can be recognized

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


  • Living artists who are natural-born Filipino citizens
  • The content and form of their work have procured in building a Filipino sense of nationhood
  • An artist who have developed a mode of creative expression or style and living a legend on succeeding generations of artists
  • An artist who manifest excellence in the practice of their art form
  • The artwork made has attained an international and national recognition

  
• Contemporary Artists


  • Ernest Conception
  • Ronald Ventura
  • Oscar Villamiel
  • Dex Fernandez
  • Neil Pasilan
  • Kawayan de Guia
  • Patricia Perez Eustaquio
  • Martha Atienza
  • Elmer Borlongan
  • Leeroy New