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QUARTER 1

CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

Name: ____________________________ Grade Level: 11/12

Date/Week/_________________________

I.
Describes various contemporary art forms and their practices in the regions.
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Since the dawn of man, arts have been one of the means for them to
share their stories, life, and culture. Because of art, people at the present had an
inkling that the earliest humans on Earth are already capable of expression,
imagination, and creativity. Art started in a cave a long time ago and evolve from
then on to what it is now today.

Art evolved throughout the years and underwent various transformations

through its movements and styles from the different eras. Today art is generally and
collectively in the Contemporary Art Movement. Despite its lengthy and historical
journey, people’s understanding of art is still diverse and vague.

As a Senior High School student, it is part of your responsibilities to increase

and deepen your understanding of contemporary art, especially in the Philippines.

In this module you will learn about:

1. Contemporary arts and its various forms and practices from the various
regions.
2. How to appreciate the significance of contemporary arts to our life

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 Contemporary Art Forms in the Regions

Art has been around since time immemorial. It has evolved through the art
movements of the various era where artists began challenging how people
understood and view art. From the primitive art of the stone age to the art of early
civilizations, from the Renaissance Art to the Modern Art and to the Contemporary
Art. The innovative, novel, bizarre, surreal and sometime controversial works of
artists have shaped the transformation of art throughout time to what we have today
at the present, the Contemporary Arts.

What is Contemporary Art?

Defining and understanding Contemporary Arts seems easy, but a period-

based classification of defining art posed difficulty and problems, just as the case of
modern and post-modern art. Contemporary art is defined as any art made today in
the modern times, or those artworks done in the 1960s up to the present. However,
this definition seems to be very inclusive as it assumes that all arts done within the
specified time is contemporary art, but that is not the case for all artworks done in the
present.

There are works today that is still done purely in the traditional way or does
not follow the philosophy of contemporary arts or does not characterize it. How does
‘Art’ differ with Contemporary Art? If one can ask what Contemporary Art is,
therefore, it is valid to also ask what Contemporary Art is not. To fully understand
this, one needs to be familiar with the history of art.

Appropriation refers to the utilization of

old or previous existing works, objects
or images to create a new artwork. It
involves using pop images or famous
icons to criticize or create satiric work or
to challenge the view and perspective of
the spectator. An example of this is an
image below where Andy Warhol
recreated and of Venus.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Sandro_Botticelli_046.jpg
The Birth of Venus, Sandro
Botticelli, 1485.

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 Hybridity is the usage of non-
conventional materials or mixing unlikely
materials and putting them together as
part of one’s work. This material is often
referred to as found objects. The
image below shows an installation art by
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, it is an
example of hybridity since it uses found
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/alfredo-isabel-
2-768x512@2x.jpg
objects; balikbayan boxes, and an old
Photo of Passage III of Alfredo and Isabel boat.
Aquilizan, 2009. A sample of Hybridity

Space characterizes contemporary art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art#/media/
File:Whiteread_tate_1.jpg
Photo of Embankment Photo by Fin Fahey
in a way that some of them are site-
specific, meaning the location or the
space where the work is erected or
established helps by becoming part of
the immersive and spatial experience of
a specific artwork. The image at the left
is a sample of how space becomes an
essential element of contemporary art.
The work Embankment by Rachel
Whiteread utilizes space that supports
and highlights her work and at the same
time allows the spectator to interact with
her artwork.

Technology is another
component of most contemporary art
since many of them function with the aid
of technology or machineries such as
lights, laser technology, electricity, and
digitalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-
technology. They create more
holistic sensory experience thru audio-
Jacques_Rousseau#/media/File:Jean-
visual, and spatial appreciation. The
Jacques_Rousseau_(painted_portrait).jpg

image below shows the work of Pascal

Dombis, it uses technology as crucial
element of his artwork without the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dombis_1687.jpg
lighting technology and electricity, his
Irrational Geometrics, Pascal Dombis. 2008. work would not be complete.

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 Their origins can be traced to their
native region. Traditionally, the use of
said crafts and items are primarily for
functional purposes or utility and
sometimes for religious or ritual
purposes, such as the Vacul of the
Ivatans, Tinalak of the T’bolis, Vinta or
Bukay of the Zamboangeños, and
Bulul Figures of Ifugao. These crafts
are region-specific and has become part
of their culture and identity. Today as
part of the effort to preserve this identity,
they established festivals to celebrate of
commemorate this in some regions,
province and municipalities such as the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivatan_people#/media/ Masskara Festival of Bacolod City,
File:Ivatan_Woman.pngHausmann.jpg
An Ivatan Woman wearing a Vakul. Anne
Pintados Festival of Ilo-ilo and Panay.
Jimenez, April 4, 2007.

Taka-making of Paete, Laguna

is papier-mâché technique that uses
Takaan, a carved wood sculpture,as a
mold. Brown craft Paper is used as an
outer layer of Taka which creates a
thicker base and smoother layer for
File:John_Rawls.jpg painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horse_taka.jpg#/media/File:Horse_taka.jpg
Horse taka in display in Paete,
Laguna. Paete folk. Feb 16, 2014.

Tikog weaving in Basey, Samar, is a

kind of mat that is weave by Paraglara.
Tikog is a reed Plant in Basey. Mabal
weaving is also a weaving process of
the Blaan People of Southern
Mindanao, where they create a tubular
skirt called Tabih. It is made of abaca
and it is weave by hand. It is
unfortunately a dying practice in their
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AAAAAAAAJ-8/l2jsp_OpOsY/s720-Ic42/Basiao%25252C%252520Basey
region.
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Basiao, Basey SLT on Tikog Weaving
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(PMED)

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 Contemporary Arts are arts made today specifically from around the 1960s
to the present. However, not all arts made today are contemporary art, it has to
characterize avant-garde qualities, show experimental quality, and exude themes
that challenge universal world issues and our view about art itself, and it has to
utilize unconventional techniques and materials. It also must manifest the different
elements such as appropriation, hybridity, performance, space, and technology.

III.

ACTVITY NO. 1. DEFINITELY DESCRIBABLE.

DIRECTIONS: Your task is to define contemporary art in your own words and
describe contemporary arts in the Philippines by describing the practices of
traditional crafts and arts in the regions and how it revolutionized our own artworks to
develop our own distinct Philippine Contemporary Arts. Use a separate answer sheet
for your answers.

Definition of Contemporary Art:

______________________________
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Description of Traditional art and
crafts in the Philippines:
______________________________
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Description of our own Distinct
Philippine Contemporary Arts
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ACTIVITY NO. 2. MAPPING THE ESSENCE.

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DIRECTIONS: Your task is to identify the significance or the advantages of
contemporary arts in the society or in your daily life by mapping out its diverse
importance, and you will state your thoughts and how you feel after being able to
map out its importance. Use a separate answer sheet for your answers.

importance of
importance of Contemporary arts
Contemporary arts importance of
Contemporary arts

importance of
Your thoughts and
Contemporary arts importance of
feelings about the
Contemporary arts
importance of
Contemporary arts

importance of importance of
Contemporary arts Contemporary arts
importance of
Contemporary arts

ACTIVITY NO. 3. CRAFT YOUR ART.

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DIRECTIONS: Your task is to make your own small and simple artwork. Choose one
craft from any specific region, you can choose from those not mentioned in this
module. Identify and describe the craft or art that you have chosen. You will integrate
that craft that you have chosen to the artwork that you will make. You work will have
to be submitted to school. Use a separate answer sheet for your answers.

Craft/Art from a region: _________________

Description:
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
_____________________________________

ASSESSMENT
DIRECTIONS. Choose the best answer to the following questions/statements below.
Use a separate answer sheet for your answers.

1. Which of the following does not describe contemporary art?

A. Art made in the present time.

B. Art done purely in the traditional way.
C. Art that is experimental and uses novel techniques.
D. None of the above.

2. Which of the following statement is true about contemporary art?

A. It utilizes technology.
B. It appropriates already existing artworks.
C. Not all arts made today are contemporary arts.
D. All of the choices.

3. How did the various art movements contributed to the art community today?

A. They exhausted all the original ideas already

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 B. They created different styles that set different standards for art
C. They created a template that can be copied today
D. They set a universal classical standard today

4. What factor triggered the development of contemporary art in the Philippines?

A. The early traditions of pre-colonial art.

B. The arrival of the Spaniards.
C. The conflict between the followers of classical and modern art.
D. Artist became bored and started something new.

5. What makes contemporary art advantageous to the other art movements that
came before it?

A. Contemporary art is much easier to define and identify

B. Contemporary ideas are fresh and original
C. It does not use old techniques

D. It can create new concepts from old ones

6. How does contemporary art challenge contemporary artists today?

A. How to be distinct from other artist and develop their own style
B. There are less audience to appreciate art nowadays
C. It is more difficult to impress the art critics today
D. Artist find it more difficult to showcase their art today.

7.Which of the following statement is true about Filipino contemporary arts?

A. It started when the Spaniards came to the country

B. They remain traditional despite new technological advances
C. It is purely aesthetic

D. It highlights indigenous materials and socio-cultural themes

8. How does knowing the different art forms and early traditional crafts help promote
contemporary art?

A. We can continue the traditional crafts for business purposes

B. We can experiment with the different forms to make new ones
C. It does not help, since they just re-use the old arts and concepts
D. It does not help, since contemporary art totally rejects the old
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9. Which element of contemporary art is utilized in the sample picture of an artwork?

A. Hybridity, Space, Technology

B. Appropriation, Performance, Space
C. Space, Technology, Performance
D. Technology, Performance, Hybridity

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/dirty-white-trash-with-gulls-tim-noble-and-sue-
webster/awEWcRAxf1ieBg

Dirty White Trash, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, 1998.

10. Which element of

contemporary art is prominent in the sample picture below?

A. Hybridity.
B. Appropriation
C. Technology.
D. Performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ArtistIsPresent.jpg
Marina during "Artist is Present" at the MoMA
in May 2010, Shelby Lessig, Nov 24, 2010.

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IV.

RUBRICS IN SLOGAN MAKING.

Excellent Good Fair Needs
Improvement SCORE
(4) (3) (2) (1)

Craftsmanship The slogan is The slogan is The slogan The slogan is

exceptionally attractive in is distractingly
attractive in terms of acceptably messy.
terms of neatness. attractive
neatness. Well Good though it
constructed and construction may be a bit
not messy. and not very messy.
messy.

Creativity Slogan The slogan Slogan The Slogan The The slogan
is exceptionally slogan is slogan is does not
creative. A lot of creative and a creative and reflect any
thought and good amount some degree of
effort was used of thought thought was creativity.
to make the was put into put into
banner. decorating it. decorating
it.

Originality Exception Good Aver No

al use of use of age use of
new ideas new use new
and ideas of ideas
originality and new and
to create origin idea origin
a slogan. ality s ality
to and to
create origi create
a nalit a
sloga y to sloga
n. creat n.
ea
slog
an.

Grammar No grammatical There are 2 There are 4 There are

errors in the grammatical grammatical more
slogan. errors. errors. grammatical
errors.

TOTAL
SCORE:
Score Numerical Rating Adjectival Rating

162- 100% Excellent

15 98%
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 14 96%

13 94%

12 92%

11 906%

10 8992% Very good

9 88%

8 84% Good

7 80%

6 76% Fair

5 72%

4 68% Needs Improvement

3 64%

2 62%

1 60%

V.

ACTIVITY NO. 1. DEFINETELY DESCRIBABLE –Answers may vary.Answer may

vary.
ACTIVITYNO. 2. MAPPING THE ESSENCE Answers may vary.Answer may vary.
ACTIVITYNO. 3. CRAFT YOUR ART – Answers may vary.Answer may vary.
Answer may vary.
ASSESSMENT
1. B 6. A
2. D 7. D
3. B 8. B
4. C 9. A
5. D 10. D

VI.

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Fortaleza, Ryan. 2020. Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions. Quarter 1
Module 2

ARTICLES:
Benesa, Leo. “Philippine Contemporary Art as a Post-War Phenomenon - National
Commission for Culture and the Arts.” National Commission for Culture and
the Arts, June 2, 2015.
https://ncca.gov.ph/about-ncca-3/subcommissions/subcommission-on-the-
arts-sca/visual-arts/philippine-contemporary-art-as-a-post-war-phenomenon/.
Esaak, Shelly. “Contemporary Art Is Defined by Globalism, Diversity, and
Technology.” ThoughtCo, July 24, 2019. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-
contemporary-art-182974.
Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia. “Artist Eyes’ Views of Filipino History (Published 2009).”
The New York Times, November 23, 2009, sec. Arts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/24iht-jessop.html.
Magante, Joem. “Contemporary Art Elements and Principles.” Slideshare, December
1, 2016. https://www.slideshare.net/JoemMagante/contemporary-art-
elements-and-principles.
Malabonga, Royce Lyssah. “Pambabatok: A Tattooing Technique of the Butbut Tribe
in the Philippines – ICHCAP.” unesco-ichcap.org, August 16, 2018.
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butbut-tribe-in-the-philippines/.
“Manifesto - Pablo Baens Santos.” Google Arts & Culture. Accessed September 27,
2020. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/manifesto-pablo-baens-
santos/TAF-7AVkhSYCTA?hl=en.
“NCCA - School of Living Traditions (SLT).” National Commission for Culture and the
Arts, October 22, 2019. https://ncca.gov.ph/school-of-living-traditions/.
Pantelić, Ksenija. “What Is Contemporary Art and How Can We Define It Today? |
Widewalls.” www.widewalls.ch, March 31, 2016.
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/what-is-contemporary-art.
Roelstraete, Dieter. “What Is Not Contemporary Art?: The View from Jena.” www.e-
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not-contemporary-art-the-view-from-jena/.
“Timeline of Art History.” Identifythisart.com, 2015.
https://www.identifythisart.com/timeline-of-art-history/.
Wikipedia Contributors. “Arts in the Philippines.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation,
October 15, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_in_the_Philippines.
———. “Blaan People.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, July 25, 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaan_people.
———. “Contemporary Art.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 3, 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_art.
———. “Fabián de La Rosa.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, August 30, 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabi%C3%A1n_de_la_Rosa.
———. “Performance Art.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, September 17, 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art.
———. “Taka (Paper Mache).” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, October 3, 2020.
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taka_(paper_mache).
———. “Victorio Edades.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, August 30, 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorio_Edades.
———. “Whang-Od.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, September 24, 2020.
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DICTIONARY:
The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. “Chiaroscuro | Art.” In Encyclopædia
Britannica, October 13, 2015. https://www.britannica.com/art/chiaroscuro.
Wikipedia Contributors. “Art Movement.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, March 4,
2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_movement.
———. “Conceptual Art.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, November 17, 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art.
———. “Mannerism.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, May 18, 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism.
———. “Modern Art.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, September 28, 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art.
———. “Postmodern Art.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, October 30, 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_art.

PICTURES:
Aquilizan, Alfredo, and Isabel Aquilizan. Photo of Passage III. 2009.
Thisiscolossal.Com.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/alfredo-isabel-2-
768x512@2x.jpg.
Botticelli, Sandro. Birth of Venus. 1485. Https://Commons.Wikimedia.Org/.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sandro_Botticelli_046.jpg.
Dombis, Pascal. Irrationnal Geometrics. March 18, 2010. En.Wikipedia.Org.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dombis_1687.jpg.
Fahey, Fin. “‘Embankment’” by Rachel Whiteread. Turbine Hall, The Tate Modern,
Bankside, London. November 13, 2005. En.Wikipedia.Org.
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Hariboneagle927. Horse Taka in Display in Paete, Laguna. Paete Folk Art. July 14,
2014. En.Wikipedia.Org.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horse_taka.jpg#/media/File:Horse_taka.jpg.
Jimenez, Anne. An Ivatan Woman Wearing a Vakul, a Headgear for Sunlight and
Rain Protection Made from Vuyavuy Palm Fiber. April 4, 2007.
En.Wikipedia.Org.
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usmann.jpg.
Lessig, Shelby. Marina Performing “Artist Is Present” at the MoMA in May 2010.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ArtistIsPresent.jpg.
NCCA. Basiao, Basey SLT on Tikog Weaving (PMED). Ncca.Gov.Ph. Accessed
September 27, 2020.

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-8/l2jsp_OpOsY/s720-Ic42/Basiao%25252C%252520Basey%252520SLT
%252520on%252520Tikog%252520Weaving
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pg.

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