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• Context


  Factors that surround a work of art
• Factors that make up the context of art

  • Historical events
  • Economic trends
  • Contemporary cultural developments
  • Religious attitudes
  • Social norms, other artworks of the time
• Classification of Context of Art

  • Primary Context
  • Secondary Context
• Inquiries about the context of an artwork

  • What key historical events occurred at the time the work was created?
  • What were the other artistic influences on the work?
  • What were the philosophical ideas that informed the artwork?
  • What were the cultural influences?
  • Who was the intended audience?
  • Is the artist identified with a particular movement, school, or style?
  • What was the original purpose of the work?
• Examples of context


  • Hiwang Village, Banaue, Ifugao
  • Bulul
• Gaston Damag


  His artworks employ the bulul and other mundane objects from his native Ifugao homeland as subject matter
• Context: exhibition system


  Domain: contemporary art in fine arts
• The artist's background


  Age, gender, culture, economic conditions, social environment, and disposition
• Betis Pampanga


  • Sculpture is learned through apprenticeship with a Matekanan Mandukit Master Sculptor
• Red Paper Mâché Sculpture Of Horse / "Taka" Paete Laguna


  • For Export or Local Sale
• In the gallery and museum setting, the uniqueness and individual expression is given much importance
• Some artists deliberately foreground their cultural identity in their works
• Abdulmari Asia Imao


  Uses primary colors, geometric and cubistic forms as well as vegetal design
• Talaandig artists from Bukidnon


  Express their affinities with the land by using soil instead of pigments and painting about their present concerns
• Julie Lluch (Iligan City)


  Emphasize her female identity and personal experiences in many of her terracotta works
• In "cutting onions always makes me cry" (1988)

  • Her self-portrait presents cooking --- a role associated with women in the home --- as oppressive and unpleasant
• Travels, training, and professional development broadens the artist's horizons
• Migration provides the artist with a different set of material conditions
• Nature


  Source of inspiration and a wellspring of materials for art production
• T'nalak


  Uses abaca fibers, is evocative of the people's belief that spirits reside with people in the natural environment
• Nelfa Querubin-Tompkins


  Has experimented with iron-rich San Dionisio Clay sourced from her native Iloilo
• The traditional Ivatan houses in Batanes

  • Built using stones and fango for its walls, a kind of mortar formed by combining cogon and mud bits
• Luis Yee Jr. (Junyee)


  Made an ephemeral installation at the grounds of the CCP titled "Angud, a forest once (2000)" as a commentary on the abuse of nature
• Veejay Villafranca


  One of the photographers who warned the public about the alarming effects of climate change, and how it forces people to become "refugees in their own land"
• Philippine traditional art has always been an integral part of daily life
• Its significance lies not only in its aesthetic appearance but also in its functionality and value to the society where it's produce
• Lirio Salvad0r


  Fuses easily accessible objects like machine discards, bicycle parts, and implements to form an assemblage
• MM Yu


  Primarily drawn to street photography and documenting the everyday, her photographs evoke the ever-changing cultural texture and topology of Manila
• Although art is a form of expression, we discern that throughout its history, the works are not always created out of the artist's own volition
• Changes in the society, politics, and economy affects the artists, the work that they do, and the structures that support their production
• Appropriation


  The technique of transforming existing materials through the juxtaposition of elements taken from context and replacing these in another to present alternative meanings, structure, and composition
• Mode of reception


  When, where, and how art is encountered
• Mideo Cruz's "Poleteismo"


  • The audience is free to make their own conclusions and interpretations about the images
• Subject


  What we see, hear, smell, taste or touch (5 senses)
• Theme


  What connects subjects to their social milieu, something that goes beyond the literal
• Heroism and identity


  • Rizal Monument in Luneta
  • Barong Tagalog
• Heroism and ecology


  • Species named after Rizal
• Medium


  The material, or the substance out of which a work is made
• Types of art forms

  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Theater Arts
  • Photography
  • Literature
• Techniques


  The manner in which artists use and manipulate materials to achieve desired formal effect and communicate the desired meaning or concept