Contemporary Philippine Arts

LECTURE/PPT AND HANDOUTS-BASED

VISUAL ARTS 3. Installation
CONTEMPORARY ART 4. Digital art
- An art that is defined as “NOW” 5. Land art
and manifestation or use of the 6. Conceptual art
various creative disciplines. WHAT IS ART?
FINE ARTS Aristotle - He defines art as the
- It is used to describe a wide “right reasons for making things.”
array of artistic disciplines that are In which, AESTHETICS is the
appreciated primarily through principles and definitions of art. In
sight. Ancient Greece, art is defined as
Examples: MEMISIS or IMITATION OF THE
1. Drawing REAL WORLD.
2. Painting Leo Tolstoy - According to him,
3. Sculpture art must create a specific
4. Print emotional link between the artist
5. Graphic art and the audience, one that
6. Calligraphy “infects” the viewer. Thus, real art
7. Architecture requires the capacity to unite
DECORATIVE ARTS people via communication
- They are also decorative crafts, (clearness and genuineness are
aesthetically pleasing, and therefore crucial values.)
functional artworks. COMMUNICATION OF
Examples: FEELINGS must be present.
1. Textile art WHAT IS ART?
2. Glassware - It is the expression or application
3. Jewelry of human creative skill and
4. Furniture imagination, producing works to be
5. Earthenware appreciated primarily for their
beauty or emotional power. It is
6. Metal craft
the form of influencing others
7. Interior Design
through painting, music, literature
CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS
dance, etc.,
- New and unusual art forms that > PRE-HISTORIC
could not be easily categorized > BAROQUE
between fine arts and decorative > CIVILIZATIONS
arts. > NEOCLASSIC
Examples: > MEDIEVAL
1. Assemblage > ROMANTIC
2. Collage > RENAISSANCE
Contemporary Philippine Arts
LECTURE/PPT AND HANDOUTS-BASED
> MODERN

WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY
ART?
- These are the new and unusual
art forms that spring out of
society's present-day that could
not be easily categorized between
the fine arts and the decorative
arts. Contemporary art forms
include recently conceived art
styles and techniques that are
avant-garde or experimental in
nature. Such as collage, digital art,
conceptual art, etc.
- This art functions in a global
society that is culturally diverse
and technology-oriented.
- It has become a collaborative
process and the audience plays an
active role in reacting and
constructing meaning about the
work of art.
- Contemporary art is essential to
you not only because it belongs to
your time, but it also serves as a
form of expression of people's
present feelings and longings.