Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Sorsogon City Campus
College of Teacher Education and Midwifery
Magsaysay St., Sorsogogon City

TOPIC: Philippine Contemporary Arts and Future of Philippine Arts

NAME OF DISCUSSANTS: Rivin Atenciana Domo
PROGRAM/BLOCK: (1A)
COURSE: Bachelor of Physical Education
Instructor:
Academic Year: 2nd Sem, AY 2022-2023

Philippine Contemporary Arts and Future of Philippine Arts

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ART- is the expression of one’s feelings through creating out of their imagination.
CONTEMPORARY ART- contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artist who are living
in the twenty-first century. As such, it reflects the complex issues that shape our diverse, global,
and rapidly changing world. Through their work, many contemporary artists explore personal or
cultural identity, offer critiques of social and institutional structures, or even attempt to redefine
art itself.

PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY ART

The Philippines is a gold mine of art
Allows Filipino artist to portray the subject and the medium in innovative and skillful
ways, reflecting Filipino identity

The art of the Philippines had been influenced by almost all sphere of the globe.
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It had the taste of the Renaissance, baroque, and modern periods through the colonizers who
arrived in the country

RONALRD VENTURA
Is a contemporary Filipino artist know for his dynamic melding of realism, cartoons, and
graffiti.
His painting and sculpture feature a- complex layering of image and styles, symbolic of
the multifaceted national identity of the Philippines.

ALFREDO AND ISABEL AQUILIZA

Their works speaks of community, personal experience, memory, displacement
and emotional psychological affects of migration.

ELMER BORLONGAN
Is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter best known for his distinctive use if
figurative expressionism.
He is one of the CCP thirteen artist awardees.
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Ramon Orlina is a contemporary Filipino glass sculptor. Born on January 27,

1944 in Manila, Philippines, Orlina studied architecture at the University of Santo
Tomas in Manila before beginning his art career. “Glass is indeed an endlessly
intriguing material,” Orlina has said. “This gives me a greater challenge to
explore its possibilities.” Using his own method and homemade tools, Orlina
carves his figures from green glass blocks without heat. His monoliths, often very
large in scale, have shifted in subject from abstractions to the female body in
recent years. The artist lives and works in Manila, Philippines.
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College of Teacher Education and Midwifery
Magsaysay St., Sorsogogon City

SCULPTURE
Filipino sculptors came to be known in the middle of the 19th century. Classical
Philippine sculpture reached its peak in the works of Guillermo Tolentino (1890-1976).
His best known masterpiece is the Bonifacio Monument, which is a group sculpture
composed of numerous figures massed around a central obelisk. The principal figure is
Andres Bonifacio, leader of the revolution against Spain in 1896. Behind him stands
Emilio Jacinto, the brains of the Katipunan. The Bonifacio Monumen t - completed in
1933 -- marked the apex of Tolentino'’s career.

Bonifacio Monument

Napoleon Abueva (born 1930), one of Tolentino'’s pupils, is one of the

pioneering modernists in sculpture. He used various media. And his stylization
bordered on the abstract as in Allegorical Harpoon, in which the dominant
horizantal thrust of the figure evokes the vitality of primitive forms.

Allegorical Harpoon,  Art Philippines

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Abueva'’s more famous work is Fredesvinda , which was included in the First ASEAN
Sculpture Symposium held in Fort Canning Hill, Singapore, from March 27 to April 26,
1981.

Fredesvinda, The Asean Sculptures