HOLY TRINITY COLLEGE

OF GENERAL SANTOS
CITY
LESSON
5 Artists and Artisans
 LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Outline the history of the emergence of artists and
artisans;
2. Recognize and critically discuss the function of state
sponsorship in the field of arts and culture through the
National Artists Award and the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng
Bayan (GAMABA);
3. Identify and define the different individuals and groups
who take on varied roles in the world of art and
culture;and
4. Classify the practices of artists in terms of
form,medium,and technique.
•Artists have treaded a long history. Their roots
can likewise be traced in one of the major
milestones in human civilizations.
• Artists were embedded in the development of
culture,and in turn, art was nurtured by the
varying cultures in which it existed.
•Art manifests in many ways through weaving
textiles, architectural structures, and among
others.
 WHAT’S THE
Artist vs Artisan DIFFERENCE?

•An artist is a person who performs any of

the creative arts. The specialty of an artist
is that he is able to create art for the sake
of art itself, they create their works of art
for the satisfaction of the society.
•An Artisan is a skilled worker who makes
things by hand. This includes various
objects ranging from jewelry to furniture.
An artisan is able to produce something
that has a functional value.
 WHAT DOES GUILD MEAN?
•A Guild is an association of artisans who
oversee the practice of their craft in a
particular area. Examples are painters,
masons, carpenters, cobblers, armorers,
carvers, weavers, glass workers and
leather workers.
•Consider the Gothic cathedral and other
mega structures that were built all over
Europe during the Middle Ages.
•The Gothic cathedral was a project made
by the guilds.
The Cologne Cathedral in Köln, Germany is an
example of a Gothic architecture.
•The culture of artisans became prevalent in
the Philippines as well, particularly during the
Spanish colonial period.
•During the propagation of the faith, Spanish
friars commissioned a lot of artisans to
carve,paint,and engrave images for churches
and public sites.
•The Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Loay,
Bohol, locally referred to as Santisima
Trinidad Parish.
THE ARTIST AND HIS STUDIO
•Today, artist studios have been a place of
interest for the public. It is interesting to see
and learn where creativity manifest itself
especially since an artist’s studio is an
extension of the artist himself.
•Studio is a place or room where an artist/s
work.
•The compendium of events released the
artists from the limitations that affected the
way in which they produced their works.
•These included the availability and portability
of materials (i.e., foldable easels and paint in
tubes) and the reliance on the wealthy
patrons to place a commission.
In Howard S. Becker’s Art Worlds (1982) he
asserted that all artistic work like all human
activity, involves the joint activity of a number,
often a large number of people.
•This network is called the art world.
•Other players in the art world compose of:
Storage Manager, Studio Assistant, Studio
Manager, Gallery Assistant, Gallery Director,
Art Handler, Owner, Curator, Museum
Director, among others.
•The last aspect is vital because the art world
doesn’t only rely on sentiments and aesthetic
values but more importantly, monetized.
•The role of the curator is more of the
interpretation and development of the
artwork/s.
•Some of the roles expected of curators are
the ability to research and write, as an arbiter
of design and layout, and deciding for the
display and hanging of materials for
exhibition.
•Buyers are those who initially assess and
survey the artwork, on behalf of the collector.
Formerly ascribed with the term”patron”,
buyers and collectors are those who acquire
and purchase artworks for a variety of
reasons.
•A collector is someone who not only
appreciates art but a key player in making an
artist’s career or shaping the course of a
museum’s collection (through plegdes of
support and donation).
 PRODUCTION PROCESS
•The process of creating an art work does not
follow a linear progression. The very reason
why different art styles, periods, and
movements were made possible, is because
there was a form of flexibility given to artist’s
in terms of how to conceptualize and execute
their ideas into reality.
•The process is essentially tripartite: (1)
preproduction, (2) production, (3) post-
production.

•Preproduction is the process which the artist

begins to conceptualize his art that he wants
to express with the audience.
•Production is a process that an artist is
creating his artwork.
•Postproduction is the last stage in which an
artwork will be circulated in the public. An
artist can decide if he wants his artwork to be
published or be private.
 MEDIUM &TECHNIQUE
•Medium are the materials used by artist’s to
express his thoughts and emotions to the
audience.

•is the mode of expression in which the

concept, idea or message is conveyed. It may
be concrete or tangible, such as paintings
sculptures, monuments, and structures
•The Technique of an art work shows the level
of familiarity with the medium being
manipulated. Example, for painting the
techniques may be; oil pastels, water color,
oil, acrylic paint and so on.
ENGAGEMENT WITH ART
•One of the most common platforms to engage
with the art is throug exhibitions either at
museums or galleries.
•Nowadays, there are other opportunities for
art engagement transpire in the classroom,
studio units, lectures, workshops, and other
events.
Art Exhibitions
AWARDS AND CITATIONS
•In history, support for the arts and culture is
not limited to the allocation of funding or
patronship.
•One of the most common measures in which
artists and other creative producers are given
incentives and honor for their work is through
state-initiated and given awards and citations.
•The two major awards given to artists in the
Philippines are the Orden ng Pambansang
Alagad ng Sining (Order of National Artists)
and Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National
Living Treasures Award).
•The conferment of the Order of National Artist
is the highest national recognition given to
Filipino individuals who have made significant
contributions to the Philippine arts.
•The very first recipient of the Order of
National Artists Award was painter Fernando
Amorsolo, who was touted as the”Grand Old
Man of the Philippine Art.” He was the sole
awardee in the year 1972, a National Artist for
Visual Arts.
Fernando Amorsolo
•The Gawad ng Manlilikha ng Bayan or the
National Living Treasures Award was created
in 1992 under the Republic Act No. 7355.
•The recipients of GAMABA are sought under
the qualification of a “Manlilikha ng Bayan”
who is a “citizen engaged in any traditional art
uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have
reached such a high level of technical and
artistic excellence and have been passed on
to and widely practiced by the present
generation in his/ her community.
The award was first conferred to the three
outstanding artists in music and poetry back in 1993.
They are Ginaw Bilog, a master of Ambahan poetry;
Masino Intaray, a master of various traditional musical
instruments; and Samaon Sulaiman, a master of the
kutyapi and other instruments.
“Art does not have to be
pretty. It has to be
meaningful.”

- Duane Hanson