introduction to contemporary arts

1. CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS
IN THE REGION
Quarter 1
Arts in the Philippines
Contemporary Art its definition,
characteristics and importance

2. Objectives:
1. define contemporary arts;
2. describe the art forms from the various regions through the
development of
Philippine arts; and
3. describe various contemporary art forms from the regions based
on the
elements and principles of arts.
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3. Learning Competency:
Describes various contemporary art forms and
their practices from the various
regions.CAR11/12CAP-Oc-e-1
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4. Arts in the Philippines
Art or “Sining” is defined as the different manners of expressing
human skills and
imagination in the creation of aesthetic conditions, objects and
presentations. Art is not
confined only to what is seen. Art involves the use of all the physical
senses in order to
appreciate it.
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5. Arts play a significant role in the abundant
cultural identity of the Philippines. It
reflects the people, history, and traditions
of the Philippines as a whole. With that, let
us check your ideas about Philippine arts.
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Direction: Read each item carefully and use your contemporary arts
notebook to write your answers on.
1. Name 3 contemporary art forms from the different regions in the
Philippines.
2. How do these 3 art forms contribute to contemporary arts?
3. Choose a contemporary art form in the visual arts. What are its general
characteristics?
4. Choose a contemporary art form in the performing arts. What are its
General characteristics?
5. How can Filipino artists contribute to contemporary arts?

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For this activity you have to be resourceful.
Directions: Complete the graphic organizer by supplying five
words that you think
relates Philippine Arts. Then, write three sentences that
explain why you think those
words are associated with the given main idea. Write your
answer on the answer sheet
provided

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Philippine Arts

9. Refer to this analytic rubric in making your 3-sentence
explanation about the five words associated
with Philippine Arts.
Criteria 3 points 2 points 1 points No points
Relevance The learner presented
original ideas and
explained all the words
in the graphic
organizer.
The learner was able to
present somewhat
organized and
informative manner in
a well organized and
informative manner.
The learner thought
was organized and
somewhat informative.
of the words in the
graphic organizer.
The learner was able to
present an idea but
not related to any
Lesson 1 Arts in the
Philippines PHILLIPINE
ARTS
Conciseness the learner explained
briefly his/her thought
in 3 sentences without
grammatical error.
The learner explained
briefly his/her thought
in less than three
sentences with few
grammatical errors.
The learner was not
able
to explain any of the
words written in the
graphic organizer.
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10. Philippines has diverse art forms from its different regions. These diverse art
forms, when integrated, give a clear picture of how abundant the culture and tradition
of the Philippines is. It continues to evolve up to the present and progress to
contemporary art tradition. As a Filipino, we should have the knowledge about the
different art forms in the Philippines to fully understand the culture, tradition, and
nation’s identity. In this module, you will have an understanding and appreciation of the
Philippine Arts specifically the Contemporary Philippine Arts. To start your learning of
the different art forms in the Philippines, examine the following images of arts and
process your thoughts with the help of the guide questions below
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12. These are the guide questions:
1. What do the pictures of arts present?
2. How these arts reflect the Philippine’s culture and
tradition and the
development of Philippine arts?
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13. The development of the Philippine arts
comes in four major traditions. These are
the Ethnic Tradition, Spanish Colonial
Tradition, and American Colonial and
Contemporary Arts Traditions.
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26. These art forms from various regions or from various
artists contributed to the picture of Philippine’s
identity as a country. And as a Filipino, it’s important
that we have knowledge to describe these art forms
based on its details and elements, in relation to our
country’s culture and tradition, that makes it an
artistic piece. In the field of arts, knowing the
elements and principles of arts is important, not just
to the artist but also to the viewer, to have a deeper
understanding of an artwork. Now, let us know these
elements and principles of arts.
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Word of the Lourd is a series
of short dips that poke fun at
our culture, the media, and
whatever else that can be
poked. Contemporary art is
seen in music. It influenced
our country, the Philippines
and this is reflected in the
band called Radioactive Sago
Project.

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What are the characteristics of contemporary art?
This genre of art is believed to have started in the
late 1960s by the end of modernism art era.
Characteristics: The most prominent feature of
contemporary art is the fact that it has no distinct
feature or a single characteristic. It is defined by
the artist's ability to innovate and bring out a
modern masterpiece.

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What is the role of contemporary art in the
Philippines?
FILIPINO artists play a role in presenting and
educating the public about our history and identity
through contemporary art. Many artists are doing
work, artist collectives are thriving, and the market
is strong. The discourse is higher. One of the aims
of Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) is
“to consolidate and harness the resources of
Philippine contemporary art.”

30. The Philippine Contemporary Art Network is a
recently initiated public institution for
contemporary art. In its preliminary phase, it
focuses on three activities: Knowledge Production
and Circulation; Exhibition and Curatorial Analysis;
Public Engagement and Artistic Formation. It
endeavors to activate a network to coordinate a
range of interventions in contemporary art in the
Philippines and to cast a sharper profile for it on an
inter-local and trans-regional scale.
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Contemporary Painting Ronald Ventura’s “Grayground” (2011)
Ronald Ventura is a world renowned
contemporary Filipino artist known for his dynamic
melding of realism, cartoons, and graffiti.
Portraying scenes of chaotic disarray, Ventura culls
from science fiction, Western history, Asian
mythology, Catholicism, and popular comic book
characters, in producing his work.
Ventura’s “Grayground Painting” was sold for
nearly P47 million pesos (HK$ 8,420,000) at
Sothebys Modern and Contemporary Southeast
Asian Paintings. The auction that was held April
04, 2011 set a new record for the Filipino as the
most expensive items in an auction.

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Contemporary Architecture
Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994) was a Filipino
architect, artist, and interior designer, known for his use
of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his
various projects. He was proclaimed a National Artist of
the Philippines for Architecture in 1990 by the late former
President Corazon C. Aquino. From airport terminals to
memorial chapels, arts centers to stock exchange
structures, Locsin left his mark on the urban landscape
of the Philippines. He designed the Cultural Center of the
Philippines in 1969.
Despite the wide range of buildings Locsin created,
all of them have one thing in common: concrete. His
ability to make this most monolithic of materials appear
weightless, and to elegantly combine Western brutalism
with vernacular elements, led Locsin’s peers to dub him
the “poet of space.”

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Contemporary Sculpture Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva
(January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018) was
known as the "Father of Modern Philippine
Sculpture". Through Proclamation No. 1539,
He was proclaimed National Artist for
Sculpture in 1976 when he was 46, making
him the youngest recipient of the award to
date. Recognized as the “Father of Modern
Philippine Sculpture”, Abueva helped shape
the local sculpture scene to what it is now.
He used almost all kinds of materials for his
sculptures such as hard wood, adobe, metal,
stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron,
alabaster, coral and brass.
The Transfiguration (1979)
by Napoleon Abueva

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Contemporary Music Ryan Cayabyab (May 4, 1954), also known as Mr. C, is a Filipino
musician, composer and conductor. He was the Executive and Artistic
Director for several years for the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the
Performing Arts. He was named as National Artist of the Philippines for
Music in 2018.
His works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater
musicals, choral pieces, a Mass set to unaccompanied chorus, and
orchestral pieces, to commercial recordings of popular music, film
scores and television specials.
Cayabyab's current project includes the Ryan Cayabyab Singers
(RCS), a group of seven young adult singers comparable to his group
Smokey Mountain in the early 1990s. After Freemantle Media decided
not to renew the Philippine Idol franchise, Cayabyab transferred to rival
show Pinoy Dream Academy (season 2), replacing Jim Paredes as the
show's headmaster. PDA 2 started on June 14, 2008. He also became
the chairman of the board of judges for GMA Network's musical-reality
show To The Top.
He is the executive director of the Philpop Music Fest Foundation Inc.,
the organization behind the Philippine Popular Music Festival. This
songwriting competition for amateurs and professionals puts the
spotlight on songwriters and encourages Filipinos to preserve their
unique musical identity.

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Contemporary Literature Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011),
poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a
Filipino writer in the English language.
Tiempo was born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.
Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of
significant experiences as revealed, in two of her
much anthologized pieces, "Halaman" and
"Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally
profound. Her language has been marked as
"descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous
detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine
Literature in English. Together with her late
husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they
founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National
Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has
produced some of the Philippines' best writers.
She was conferred the National Artist Award for
Literature in 1999.

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Contemporary Performing Arts/Dance
Ramon Arevalo Obusan
(June 16, 1938 – December 21, 2006) He was a Filipino dancer,
choreographer, stage designer and artistic director. Obusan is
credited for his work in promoting Philippine traditional dance
and cultural work. He is also an acclaimed archivist, researcher
and documentary filmmaker who focused on Philippine culture.
He also founded Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group in
1971, a folk dance company. He incorporated into it the vast data
artifacts he had accumulated through his decades of doing
research on Philippine folkdance.
Among the awards Obusan received was the Patnubay ng
Kalinangan award by the City of Manila in 1992, the Gawad CCP
Para sa Sining award in 1993 and the prestigious National Artist
of the Philippines for dance in May 2006.

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Contemporary Arts in Film
Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog (1977) is a Filipino film director, screenwriter,
producer, editor, and composer. He is best known for directing Heneral
Luna (2015), Bliss (2017), Goyo: The Boy General (2018), and the
upcoming film Darna. His first feature film was the independently-
produced Confessional (2007), followed by Mangatyanan (2009) and
Sana Dati (2013). He directed segments for the Shake, Rattle & Roll horror
series.
While a student at the UP Diliman, Tarog developed an interest in
filmmaking and began taking film classes at the UP Film Center, which is
located near the College of Music building. He recalled watching classic
films that were directed by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese and Woody
Allen. After graduation, Tarog played the drums for a heavy metal band. He
has called his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".
In 2015 Tarog co-wrote, directed, edited and scored Heneral Luna, a
historical biographical film which chronicled the leadership of General
Antonio Luna of the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine–
American War. The film was a commercial success in the Philippines,
having earned ₱256 million nationwide (about three times its production
costs). The film garnered praise for its cinematography, writing, acting and
plot, as well as critical acclaim from Filipino professional critics and
historians alike. It has since been regarded as the most expensive
Philippine historical epic film ever made. The Philippine edition of Esquire
considered Heneral Luna as Tarog's breakthrough film due to its successful
run.

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Make your own contemporary art which shows what changes you would suggest to a
modern day issue in our society. Paint it on long bond paper using black ink and watercolor,
or color from any color-producing plant like alugbati. You can also use coffee (not 3-in-I but
pure coffee) for a sepia effect. Put your name and section on the upper right hand corner of
the paper.
Refer to the rubrics provided below:
VISUAL ART RUBRIC:
Relevance ……………………………………..………… 40%
Artistry (Color/Proportion/Contrast/etc.) ……………… 30 %
Impact …………………………………………………….. 20%
Time Management (Submitted on time) ………………. 10%
Total ……………………………………………………… 100%

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Contemporary Philippine Painting - aims to provide students with an appreciation of a
broad range of styles in the various disciplines with consideration on their elements and
principles, and engage them to an integrative approach in studying arts. Working in a
wide range of mediums, contemporary artists often reflect and comment on modern-day
society.
Contemporary Architecture - the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is
dominant; contemporary architects are working in several different styles, from
postmodernism and high-tech architecture to highly conceptual and expressive forms
and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale. The classic material used in
architecture are wood, stone and brick . Modern materials include cast iron, structural
steel and reinforced concrete.
Contemporary Sculpture - a form of art which creates 3 dimensional artwork achieved
by shaping certain materials. Modern and contemporary sculpture involves techniques
developed over time as well as elements of popular culture.
Contemporary Music - in the Philippines it 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.

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Contemporary Literature - is defined as literature written after World War II through the
current day. The horrors of the war, including bombs, ground wars, genocide and
corruption, are the pathways to this type of literature. It is from these real-life themes that
we find the beginning of a new period of writing.
Contemporary Film - film that is produced today by artists are living in the 21st century.
Contemporary art in film generally gives us the opportunity to reflect on our society and
issues relevant to ourselves and the world around us.
Contemporary Performance Arts - artworks that are created through actions
performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous
or scripted; are hybrid performance works and artists that travel between the fields of
experimental theatre & dance, video art, visual art, music composition and performance
art without adhering to one specific field's practice.Types of Performing arts may include
dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, magic, illusion, mime, spoken word,
puppetry, circus arts, performance art. There is also a specialized form of fine art, in
which the artists perform their work live to an audience. This is called performance art.

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Assess what you have learned
1. What is the role of contemporary art in the Philippines?
2. State the aim of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN)
3. The Philippine Contemporary Art Network focuses on three activities:
A. ______________________
B. ______________________
C. ______________________