Con Arts

• Art criticism


  Analyzing and evaluating works of art
• Art criticism


  • Viewing art in a business-like way, not just liking or disliking it
• Basic steps in art criticism

  • Look at the obvious
  • Analyze the artwork
  • Decide on an interpretation
  • Make a judgment call
• Look at the obvious


  Identify basic information about the artwork and artist
• Analyze the artwork

  Describe the subject matter, color, and style
• Decide on an interpretation

  Determine the meaning or hidden message
• Make a judgment call

  Evaluate whether the artwork was successful in conveying its message
• Contemporary artists

  Produce more process-based, site-specific, interactive, and collaborative artworks
• Contemporary and modern artists


  • Use color expressively to convey mood, atmosphere and symbolic potential rather than literal meaning
• Galo Ocampo's River of Life, 1954


  • Colored bodies, trees and earth intensely to create a desolate, nightmarish landscape conveying extreme suffering
• Leeroy's artworks


  • Fantasy landscapes with intense, polychromatic color schemes in painting, costume, set design, sculpture installation often paired with performance art
  • Polyp installation using industrial materials to resemble complex marine life
  • Chrysalis bamboo installation in the shape of a boat referencing a local myth
• Leeroy's Aliens of Manila


  • Immersive site-specific installation responding to the structure of Pintŏ International's Headquarters in New York's East Village
• Leeroy's artworks are slowly making their way across borders, with exhibitions in New York and Paris