This document compares Western and Filipino concepts of art and personhood. Filipinos value interpersonal relationships and community, seeing others as "kapwa" or part of themselves. Their art reflects close social bonds and bringing people together in joy. Western art focuses more on realistic individual representation and portrayal of history and landscapes. The document suggests Philippine and Western art traditions can integrate and harmonize with one another.
This document compares Western and Filipino concepts of art and personhood. Filipinos value interpersonal relationships and community, seeing others as "kapwa" or part of themselves. Their art reflects close social bonds and bringing people together in joy. Western art focuses more on realistic individual representation and portrayal of history and landscapes. The document suggests Philippine and Western art traditions can integrate and harmonize with one another.
This document compares Western and Filipino concepts of art and personhood. Filipinos value interpersonal relationships and community, seeing others as "kapwa" or part of themselves. Their art reflects close social bonds and bringing people together in joy. Western art focuses more on realistic individual representation and portrayal of history and landscapes. The document suggests Philippine and Western art traditions can integrate and harmonize with one another.
Compare and contrast the concepts of art according to Western
thought and Filipino notion of personhood or pagkatao. Explain briefly.
Filipinos value interpersonal relationships and are content to be
together when they eat, sleep, work, travel, pray, create, or rejoice. They strive to maintain their private realm, but also desire a convergence of their life with the lives of others. This allows them to become highly skilled and creative in interpersonal relations and social interaction, and this is a hallmarks of maturity. Whereas Western thought holds that the representation of the region's history, people, scenery, and animals in 2d or 3d, in a highly realistic impressionist style, is closely related to the way of life there. The notion of "shared self" is important to the Filipino concept of "kapwa," or Filipino personhood, and it invites the other into one's heart. It links a person in their most intimate parts with anyone outside of themselves, including total strangers. Your social status or amount of income are unimportant here. One method to positively seeing Filipino identity in the arts is to perceive Philippine art as integrated with western art, and these two traditions as coming together and harmonising with one another.