Lesson for Contemporary Arts in the Philippines

2. •ART is a natural human behavior.
•ART is communication.
•ART is healing.
•ART tells our story.
•ART is a shared experience.

5. 1. Art is creation - Creating something new,
something original and something different.
2. Art is life - It is creating life on a material and
making inanimate objects to have life. To create art
is to give life according to Ramon Orlina, glass
Scupltor. Arts produce by the national artist and
contemporary to us.
3. Art is power - Art has the power to render
sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared
experience, and transform despair into hope.
(Brené Brown)

6. Arts in the Philippines
- Refer to the various forms of the arts that have
developed and accumulated in the Philippines from
the beginning of civilization in the country up to
the present era.
- They reflect the range of artistic influences on the
country's culture, including indigenous forms of the
arts, and how these influences have honed the
country's arts.

7. WHY PEOPLE ENGAGE IN ART?
1. Relationship-building
• Art builds social capital
• Art promotes positive behavior that can
increase positive social interactions
• Art facilitates positive interaction with other.

8. 2. Expression and communication
• Art provides age-appropriate mediums for
emotional expression
• Art creates opportunities for communication on a
larger scale
• Art facilitates understanding of new perspectives
• Art allows for knowledge-sharing with diverse
audiences
• Art elicits solidarity

9. 3. Self and social analysis
• Community art creates the opportunity for people
to examine the social, economic and political
structures of their society and their own roles
within society in a reflective and critical way.

10. WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF ARTS?
1. Aesthetic Value
• One of the biggest benefits of Contemporary Art
is its aesthetic value. This means that the art
possesses some capacity to elicit a sense of
pleasure in the viewer.

11. 2. Relaxation and Inspiration
• Research has shown that viewing art can be relaxing.
• This is used for some of the mindfulness exercises that
are currently so popular.
• Art can help to pull people out of their mind of racing
and wandering thoughts, into the present moment to
experience what is in front of them.

12. 3. Personal Expression
• One of the benefits of Contemporary Art is that it allows
individuals a means of personal expression.
• Through painting, sculpture, and performance art,
anyone can express themselves in a way that will be
safely observable for others.
• Likewise, the perspectives that are expressed are
valuable society because it gives a unique window into
the minds and thoughts of the art.

13. WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY
ART?
• refers to current and very recent practice.
• refers to works of art made by living artists.
• Today's artists work in and respond to a global
environment that is culturally diverse,
technologically advancing, and multifaceted.
• Working in a wide range of mediums,
contemporary artists often reflect and
comment on modern-day society.

14. • Contemporary artis the art of today, produced by
artists who are living in the twenty-first century.
• Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect
on contemporary society and the issues relevant to
ourselves, and the world around us.
• Contemporary artists work in aglobally
influenced,culturally diverse, and technologically
advancing world.

15. • Contemporary Art can be driven by both
theory and ideas, and is also characterized by
a blurring of the distinction between art and
other categories of cultural experience, such
as television, cinema, mass media,
entertainment and digital technology.

16. Contemporary Performance
• Contemporary performance is hybrid work that integrates
text, dance, objects, music, costumes, lighting, image,
sound, sets, and vocal expression into complex
interactive systems.
• Contemporary performance collages are often non-
narrative, technically rigorous, and carefully orchestrated
anarchic chaos. (Morgan v. P. Pecelli)

17. Characteristics of Contemporary Art
• Contemporary art mirrors contemporary
culture and society, offering teachers,
students, and general audiences a rich
resource through which to consider
current ideas and rethink the familiar.

18. • The work of contemporary artists is a dynamic
combination of materials, methods, concepts, and
subjects that challenges traditional boundaries and defies
easy definition.
• Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art is distinguished by
the very lack of a uniform organizing principle, ideology, or
-ism. In a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and
technologically advancing world, contemporary artists
give voice to the varied and changing cultural landscape
of identity, values, and beliefs.

19. • Contemporary art reflects a wide range of materials,
media, and technologies, as well as opportunities to
consider what art is and how it is defined. Artists today
explore ideas, concepts, questions, and practices that
examine the past, describe the present, and imagine the
future.

20. ARE MODERN ART AND
CONTEMPORARY ART THE SAME?

23. Contemporary Arts in the
Philippines

24. 1. Conceptual -
focus is on the idea,
which can be either
abstract or social;
One of his most iconic
artworks is the famous One
and Three Chairs (see
image above) from 1965.

25. 2. Social – current social & political topics are dealt
with, often from critical perspective.
Social art is the application of
arts and creativity towards the
transformation of individuals,
groups and societies by working
with your target audience as
opposed to for them.

26. 3. Expressive – both content & form is meaningful &
communicative.
Example: “Mabining Mandirigma” libretto by Dr.
Nicanor G. Tiongson, music by Joed Balsamo,
choreography by Denisa Reyes, set design by Toym Imao,
direction by Chris Millado.

27. 4. Popular culture - issues and aspects of popular
culture are dealt with, either by conceptualizing or
criticizing.
5. Poetic - content or form is poetic in nature;
Ex. Ronald Ventura, 'Blind Child' 2011 Biographical
- means of expression can be social, poetical or
expressive;

28. 6. Documentary - approach is documentary or
holds elements of research;
Ex. Opera: Sculpture in Dance Ballet
Philippines 2016

29. 7. Sense related - total art work,
installations which are often interactive and
affect different senses.

30. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ART IN THE
PHILIPPINES