Contemporary

Arts
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 Table of Contents
• Meaning of Arts and Its forms
• Meaning of Contemporary Arts
• Example of Contemporary Art Forms
• Elements of Contemporary Arts
• Contemporary Art forms from the Philippine region
• Features of Contemporary Philippine Art

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 GAME: Picture
Association
• The reporter will show you different
pictures associated with contemporary
arts
• The audience will have to guess them
but with a twist
• It will be incorporated by the elements
from a certain game.

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 Choices

Pyro for Painting

Electro for Literature

Cryo for Sculpture

Anemo for Music and Theater
Hydro for Architecture

Dendro for Dance

Geo For Film

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 Pyro: Painting

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 Cryo: Sculpture

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 Dendro: Dance

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 Anemo: Music and
Theater

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 Geo: Film

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 Hydro: Architecture

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 Electro: Literature

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 What Is Art?
• Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which
are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.
• It is the activity or educational subject that consists of creating
paintings, sculptures, and other pictures or objects for people to look at
and admire or think deeply about.
• The arts are activities such as music, painting, literature, cinema, and
dance, which people can take part in for enjoyment, or to create works
which express serious meanings or ideas of beauty.
• Arts can also be a subject such as history, literature, or languages in
contrast to scientific subjects.

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 What Is Art?
• The beauty of arts is that is it subjective. Some may say an art work is a
masterpiece while others say it is mediocre.
• Just as the saying goes “one man’s stone is another man’s gem”
• The beauty of art refers to an interaction between line, color, texture,
sound, shape, motion, and size that is pleasing to the sense
• Art is not necessarily referring to “something” or to an action, it can
also refer to someone you love.
• Another thing about art is that it has a lot of forms. Meaning you
cannot base someone’s skills just by looking at one aspect of that
person.

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 What is Contemporary Art?
• Contemporary art is the term used for art of the present day. Usually
the artists are alive and still making work.
• Contemporary art is often about ideas and concerns, rather than solely
the aesthetic (the look of the work). Artists try different ways of
experimenting with ideas and materials.
• Contemporary artists use whatever they think illustrates their idea
most appropriately. Nowadays artists have many different methods
and materials to use. Some use painting and drawing but there is also
photography, sculpture, film, new media, live performance, light, sound
and installation.

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 Contemporary Art vs. Modern Art
Contemporary art
• This art was referenced after 1960s
by people who are still living as of
today
• Contemporary art is more about on
experimentation and freedom
• It focuses on social impact, with
society as the primary focus
• This art can be found in a much
more broader spectrum
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Modern art
• Contrary to its name, the modern
art period was from the late 19th
century to the early 20th century,
from 1800s through the 1960s
• It focuses more on the expression of
individuality
• Modern art is more traditional as it
made on canvas.
Art Forms and
Examples
 Painting
• This painting is by Vincent Van-
Gough
• This painting is dubbed as “Starry
Night”

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 Sculpture
• It is a sculpture of dubbed as “the
thinker”

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 Film

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 Architecture
• This is the picture of one of the most
beautiful structure in the world
• A picture of the “notre dame”

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 Literature
• One of the most well-known literature
in our time, the harry potter series
written by J.K. Rowling.

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Elements of
Contemporary Art
 Appropriation
When an artist creates a new work of
art by taking pre-existing images
from other source and modifies it
and/or incorporates those images
with new ones

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 Destruction
It refers to when an artist uses methods to
show damage in, or to their artwork.
Many times , their destruction is
documented as a process, which,
becomes the work it self

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 Hybridity
Artists use hybridity in their work through
the blending of new or unsual materials
with traditional mediums.
These incorporation of these materials,
such as recycled or industrial materials ,
plays an important role in the meaning of
the artwork

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 Performance
Refers to the artwork created by or
presented to an audience. Performance as
an element can also include the process
used by the artist to create this work. This
takes place when the process used to
create the artwork is more important than
the finished work itself

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 Perspective
In contemporary arts, perspective refers
to when an artist works with real space
surrounding the artwork itself
Perspective can play a role in a way the
viewer looks at the artwork or even the
way the work is perceived

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 Space
Art transforming space

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 Technology
Usage of technology In the creation and
dissemination of art works

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 Texts
Contemporary artists utilize text in their
art to push pat the concept that text is
only meant to be read. The additional
meaning from the text adds another level
of depth that cannot be created by shape
and color alone.

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Contemporary Art
forms from the
Philippine region
 EXAMPLES
• PAINTING • SCULPTURE

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 EXAMPLES
• ARCHITECTURE • FILM

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 EXAMPLES
• LITERATURE • MUSIC AND THEATER

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 Dance

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Characteristics of
Contemporary Art
 Artistic Innovation
• Contemporary artists are well-known for presenting new art styles to
the world. New sorts of art are generated at the same time as unique
art mediums are joined and diverse ideas are broadened or blended.
• Contemporary artists have been the pioneers in introducing new forms
of art to the world. Different art forms have been combined or newer
ideas employed to bring out newer types of art
• College art is an example of innovation that proved to be a great
example of modern contemporary art. Likewise, mixed forms of
assemblage , different variants of kinetic art as well as different
category

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 New Formats
• The use of various items and materials was another element that
sparked the development of modern art. Ordinary components were
recycled or reinterpreted into one-of-a-kind works of art. Painters, for
example, utilized newspapers as a framework for their canvases.
• It is basically using anything that is unthinkable years ago. Back then,
even as extreme as they are using lead as a make up, nobody would’ve
thought of using coffee as a painting material.
• It is to employ that our modern art can stand out and break-free from
the traditional set up in arts.

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 Color Schemes
• Color has always been utilized to add depth and vitality to artworks.
Contemporary artists, on the other hand, worked with colors and
employed them in unusual ways to create new textures and ideas,
which they then used in their own work. 
• Straying away from the tradition of colors just bringing reality to
paintings and art piece, contemporary artists experimented on how
they can use it more, like textures

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 New Methodologies
• Contemporary art isn't just about experimentation with colors and
textures; it's also given rise to novel techniques that are now the
foundation of the genre. When searching for contemporary art, one of
the most important factors to evaluate is whether or not the item
employs modern tactics for the time period.
• After the Second world war several movements by artists began that
gave the world newer forms of art that shaped contemporary arts now
• For example: Abstract expressionism, pop-art, Op Art, Minimalism

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