CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS

FROM THE REGION

Integrative Art As Applied To Contemporary Art

 After going through this LESSON, you are
expected to:

• Identifies various contemporary art

forms and their practices from the
various regions (CAR11IAC-0a-1)
Lesson 1
Arts and its Visual Event
In order to understand how to
describe a painting or a sculpture, it
is important to comprehend first the
visual elements of art.
Lesson 1
Arts and its Visual Event
These visual elements of art are:
1. Line 5. Color
2. Shape and Mass 6. Space
3. Value 7. Texture
4. Time and Motion.
1. Line
This refers to a prolongation of a
point or a mark on a surface. Solid
lines can be used in order to define
form while broken lines are typically
used to suggest hidden forms.
1. Line
 2. Shape and Mass
This element refers to an
area with boundaries
identified or drawing lines.
2. Shape and Mass
A shape may be natural or
living forms called an organic
shape and can be irregular or
rounded.
2. Shape and Mass
It may also be
measured forms called
geometric shape.
2. Shape and Mass
In contrast to shape which is
two-dimensional,
Mass refers to solid portions of
a three-dimensional object.
3. Value
This element refers to lightness or
darkness of an area. This is evident in
creating shadows for a two-
dimensional object to give an illusion of
depth.
4. Time and Motion
Movement in the visual arts can either be an
illusion or an actual motion. An illusion of
movement is more common in two-dimensional
artworks. On the other hand, actual motion is
easily seen in kinetic sculpture that moves with
the wind or are vibrating with the surrounding
air.
 Kinetic
Sculpture
Implied
Motion
5. Color
This refers to visual perception that
allows a person to differentiate objects due
to the way various wavelengths of light are
reflected. Color is a very important element
because it can communicate information
and emotion to the viewer.
Three properties of color:
•Hue, which refers to the
basic or pure color, and
is represented in the
color wheel.
Three properties of color:
• Value, which refers to the
lightness and darkness of color.
A light color or tint is the result of
adding white to a hue, while a
dark color or shade results from
adding black to a hue.
Three properties of color:
• Saturation, also known as Chroma which
refers to brightness and dullness of color. It is
also referred to as purity of the color. A bright
color can be produced by adding more
pigment to the same hue, while a dull color
can be produced by adding gray or the color’s
complement to the pigment.
Three properties of color:
• The color wheel isan arrangement
of primary, secondary and tertiary
colors. It is important tool to identify
which colors can work well if used in
a certain artwork which is the color
schemes or color relationships.
 Color Schemes
• 1. Monochromatic – involves using the same hue
but with different gradients of value.
• 2. Analogous – entails the use of three or four
adjacent colors in the color wheel.
• 3. Complementary – involves the use of a color
and its complement
• -meaning the color located opposite of the first
color.
 Color Schemes
4. Split-complementary – a close relative to the
complementary color scheme. But instead of using the
color’s complement, this scheme uses the two colors
adjacent to the complement.
5. Triadic – uses three colors that are of equal distance
with each other.
6. Tetradic – also known as double complementary color
scheme, this uses two pairs of complementary colors.
6. Space
Refers to the area that is occupied by an
object or a subject, as well as the area
surrounding that object or subject.
An illusion of space can still be created
in a two-dimensional surface using
perspective.
 Two types of perspective
1. Atmospheric perspective
- which utilizes the properties of
light and air in depicting the illusion
of distance.
Atmospheric
Perspective
 Linear
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 Two types of perspective
2. Linear perspective
- which involves the use of
vanishing points and receding
hidden lines.
7. Texture
This element refers to the feel or appearance
of a surface. A person may describe as actual or
implied Actual texture can be felt tangibly based
on the material that is used for the artwork while
implied texture can be exhibited, for instance, in
a painting of fur of an animal.
 Republic Act 8293, Section 176
states that: No copyright shall subsist in
any work of the Government of the Philippines.
However, prior approval of the government
agency or office wherein the work is created
shall be necessary for exploitation of such
work for profit. Such agency or office may,
among other things, impose as a condition on
Lesson 2
Painting
Painting refers to the process of
applying color on a flat surface.
Forms can be created using a wide
variety of materials such as watercolor,
acrylic, ink, oil, pastel, and charcoal.
Surfaces for painting include wood,
canvas, cardboard, and paper.
Lesson 2
Painting
Painting is considered
two-dimensional,
meaning it only has
height and width.
 FORMS OF PAINTING
1. Easel Painting
Is perhaps the most common form of
painting which involves applying color to
a board or canvas that is fixed on an
upright support called an easel.
These are meant to be framed and
hanged on a wall after creating
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2. Mural
=is described as a huge wall-
sized painting used to impart
messages to the public.
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A new form of mural which is a
Portable Mural, was developed in order
to prevent the mural from being erased
from the wall which was created by using
bold strokes in applying bright colors on
pieces of cheese cloth\or canvas.
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3. Telon Painting =
is describes as a backdrop or
background or the stage which are
used for komedya, sarswela, and
sinakulo, the popular forms of theater
in the country.
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4. Jeepney and Calesa Painting

The Calesa is typically painted using

one color. The borders of the calesa are
decorated with geometric patterns,
repetitive patterns, and/or thin lines.
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Jeepney painting
Evolved from calesa painting. In a
typical jeepney, a logo, number, or
painting is covered Near the driver’s
seat, as well as near the seats
adjacent to it
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Collage refers to a form of painting that
involves combine images in a single artwork.
This entails cutting and pasting materials
such as paper, fabric, tin foil and other
relatively flat materials onto a board or
canvas.
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1. Genre painting portrays
people in daily activities.
During the contemporary
period, genre painting took
several directions.
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One of these new approaches is folk
genre, which mainly focuses on the
everyday activities of the folk. Another
approach is using the style of cubism in
depicting folk or Urban subjects. On the
other hand, folk-naive is another style
wherein it uses a lot of color and
spontaneity.
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2. Historical Painting
The historical painting depicts a
scene from the past. It often has
a lesson concerning national
values.
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2. Interiors
This refers to painting of the space inside
of a part of a house or a building. This
usually reveals the social class of the
family living in that particular house, as well
as the traits of the people living in it.
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3. Landscapes
These painting portrays natural
scenery or urban scenes. Mixed
media is now used in creating
landscape paintings.
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Closely related to landscapes
are seascapes, which focus on
large bodies of water, particularly
the ocean or the sea.
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4. Portraits
This refers to a painting portraying one
or more specific individuals. This usually
portrays the physical characteristicsof the
subject and seeks to show an
understanding of that person’s character.
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5. Nudes
These are paintings that portray the
unclothed human figure. Nowadays, a
wide variety of materials and styles can
be used in painting nudes. Nude painting
sessions are conducted in galleries.
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6. Religious Painting
Common subjects of religious painting
includes a lone religious image, lives of the
saints, and scenes based from the Scriptures
like the Nativity scene, and the Station of the
Cross
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7. Still Life
This refers to a painting that
depicts natural or man-made
objects that form a composition
in a natural setting.
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