LESSON 2

OBJECTIVES:

Direction: Read and carefully answer the questions below, choose and write your answers in your own activity answer
sheets.
1. It is founded by Cecile Guidote –Alvarez, which composed of “artists-teacher-cultural-workers’ who strive for artistic
excellence.

a. Gantimpala Theater Foundation

b. Philippine Educational Theater Association

c. Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group

d. National Center for Culture and the Arts

2. It is contemporary art form that uses unlikely materials to produce an artwork, in some traditional artwork only a few
materials are of conventional use.

a. Technology

b. Performance

c. Appropriation

d. Hybridity

3. He describes that Filipino writing in today’s world contains the diasporic experience and the incorporation of both the rural
and the urban experience.

a. Jason Buensalido

b. Paulo Alcazaren

c. Roland Tolentino

d. Patrick Flores

4. A contemporary art form that emphasizes spontaneous and unpredictable elements of chance.

a. Space

b. Performance

c. Appropriation

d. Technology

5. He said that “The feeling that all is possible in the contemporary, conceived as a constantly extending and deepening
constellation of art.

a. Jason Buensalido

b. Paulo Alcazaren

c. Roland Tolentino

d. Patrick Flores
WHAT IS CONTEMPORY ART?
Contemporary ART

• Defines as “art made and produced by artists living today”.

• Today’s artists work in and respond to a global environment that is culturally diverse, technologically advancing,
and multifaceted.
• You can picture the kind of art created by today’s contemporary artists as art that has a world view and is
sensitive to the changing times.
• Contemporary art today is not restricted to the individual experience of the artist but is reflective of the world
that we live in.
• Because art is produced by people and people are influenced by time, contemporary art is a continuing practice
that has evolved with the following new elements or principles:

New Elements and Principles:

1. Appropriation
• is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The
use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the
arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts). In the visual arts, to appropriate means to
properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made visual
culture.

Digital Appropriation

Edward Munch’s
“Scream”
2. Performance
• Has evolved to “emphasize spontaneous, unpredictable elements of chance,” according to the
Walker Art Center.
• The Walker Art Center is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the
United States and, together with the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and the Cowles
Conservatory, it has an annual attendance of around 700,000 visitors.
• Performance artists have tried to interpret various human activities, from ordinary activities such
as chores, routines, and rituals, to socially relevant themes such as poverty, commercialism and
war.

3. Space
• is a basic art element that refers to the distance between the area around and within shapes,
forms, colors, and lines.
• Sculptors, painters, and photographers all display space in their works

• Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and
designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior
spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called public art, land art or art intervention.
 4.

Hybrid nail art (using diff colors of

nail polish)

Mona Lisa was made using a

typewriter

5.
PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY ART
by: DEAN FRANCIS ALFAR