Contemporary art in the Philippines reflects the country's diverse identity and complex social issues. Filipino artists portray subjects and use mediums in innovative ways that express Philippine culture and history, which has been influenced by colonial powers. A key contemporary artist, Ronald Ventura, is known for paintings that blend styles like realism and graffiti in layers that represent the multifaceted Philippine identity. Contemporary architecture has also emerged with a Filipino style seen in modernized traditional forms. A pioneer in landscape architecture, Ildefonso Santos designed parks and outdoor spaces that incorporated local plants and design elements. Philippine sculpture also continues traditions from ancestral carvings while adapting to modern themes.

1. PHILIPPINE
CONTEMPORARY ARTS

2. ART IS THE EXPRESSION
OF ONE’S FEELINGS
THROUGH CREATING
OUT OF THEIR
IMAGINATION.

3. CONTEMPORARY ART
Contemporary art is the art of
today, produced by artists who are
living in the twenty-first century. As
such, it reflects the complex issues that
shape our diverse, global, and rapidly
changing world. Through their work,
many contemporary artists explore
personal or cultural identity, offer
critiques of social and institutional
structures, or even attempt to redefine
art itself.

4. PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY ART
• The Philippines is a gold
mine of ART.
• Allows Filipino artists to
portray the subject and
the medium in
innovative and skillful
ways, reflecting Filipino
identity.

5. • The art of the Philippines
had been influenced by
almost all spheres of the
globe.
• It had the taste of the
Renaissance, Baroque, and
Modern Periods through the
colonizers who arrived in
the country.

6. PHILIPPINE
CONTEMPORARY
Painters

7. RONALD VENTURA
is a contemporary
Filipino artist known for his
dynamic melding of realism,
cartoons, and graffiti.
• His paintings and sculpture
feature a - complex
layering of image and
styles, symbolic of the
multifaceted national
identity of the Philippines.

14. A new form of Philippine
architecture emerged with the
filipiniozation of architecture.The
filipino style found its way in the re-
emergence of traditional motifs, the
bahay kubo and the bahay na bato
became popular forms to be copied
and modernized such as the
batasang pambansa and the national
theatre.
PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

19. ILDEFONSO SANTOS (1929-2014)
Is the father of philippine
landscape architecture. In 1967, he
designed the pedestrian walkways
that incorporated local plants and
trees, fountains, and benches for the
makati commercial center. He also
designed the "garden for the blind"
in luneta park in 1969. He was also
the creative mind behind the design
of paco park, and tagaytay highland
resort. He became a national artist
for architecture in 2006.

20. Philippine Contemporary
Sculpture

21. Philippine Sculpture is the
most familiar art forms among
Filipinos. From the
transitional carving of anitos
to the santos to Christ and
down to the saints, Filipinos
find it rather not difficult as
they are already familiar with
the ways of the wood

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