Contemporary Philippine Arts From the Region

1. Integrative Art as
Applied to
Contemporary Art

2. Lessons for Today:
•Definition of Art
•Functions of Art

3. What is Art?

4. Why People Engage
in Art?

5. Why People Engage in Art?
• To earn money
• To express their emotions and thoughts, real
or imaginary
• To produce things of beauty and
masterpieces
• To self-actualize
• To immortalize themselves
• To inform
• To persuade
• To entertain people

6. Functions of Art

7. Functions of Art
• Personal or Individual Function
• Social Function
• Economic Function
• Political Function
• Historical Function
• Cultural Function
• Religious Function
• Physical Function
• Aesthetic Function

8. Personal or Individual Function
• Artists have their personal
reasons for indulging in art.
e.g. The poet, Edwin Markham,
wrote the poem “The Man with the
Hoe” because he was inspired by
the painting of a farmer that he had
seen earlier.

9. Personal or Individual Function

10. Personal or Individual Function
Others do their thing because of
their passion for their respective art
forms.
e.g. Gary Valenciano renders
concerts for free because he loves
singing.

11. SOCIAL FUNCTION
• Man is a social being and as
such he associates with his fellow
beings.
• Artists may produce art to
reinforce and enhance the shared
sense of identity of those in
family, community, or civilization.

12. SOCIAL FUNCTION

13. ECONOMIC FUNCTION
• Many people believe that it
does not pay to be an artist.
However, this belief is negated
by these facts.

14. ECONOMIC FUNCTION

15. POLITICAL FUNCTION
• When Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, a
patroness of the arts became the
Governor of Metro Manila, she
promoted her political programs by
means of the arts.

16. POLITICAL FUNCTION

17. HISTORICAL FUNCTION
• Paintings, sculptures,
architectural works, and other
art forms serve to record
historical figures and events.

18. HISTORICAL FUNCTION

19. CULTURAL FUNCTION
• Art serves as an aperture
towards skills, knowledge,
attitudes, costumes and traditions
of different group of people.
• The art helps, preserves, share
and transmit culture of people
from one people generation to
another.

20. CULTURAL FUNCTION

21. RELIGIOUS FUNCTION
• Almost all, if not all, art forms
evolved from religion. People
in olden times worshipped
their Gods in the form of songs
and dances.

22. RELIGIOUS FUNCTION

23. RELIGIOUS FUNCTION
• The earliest dramatic forms
were religious in nature.

24. RELIGIOUS FUNCTION

25. PHYSICAL FUNCTION
• Houses and other buildings
are constructed to protect their
occupants and all others inside
them.

26. AESTHETIC FUNCTION
• Artworks serve to beautify.
• An artwork functions
aesthetically when it
becomes instrumental for
man to be cognizant of the
beauty of nature.

27. AESTHETIC FUNCTION

28. AESTHETIC FUNCTION

29. Group Activity

30. That’s All . . .
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