Lesson 1 Contemporary Arts
Lesson 1 Contemporary Arts
Lesson 1 Contemporary Arts
INC.
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
1.1 INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION OF TERMS
1.ARTS- Something that is created with imagination and skill that is beautiful or that
expresses important ideas or feelings.
- The expression or appreciation of human creative skill and imagination
- Its origin came from:
a. Aryan root AR, ,meaning “ to put together”
b. 2 Greek words, ARTIZEN (to prepare)& ARKISKEIN (to put together)
c. Latin terms ARS, ARTIS (everything that is artificially made or composed by
man)
2.CONTEMPORARY
a. Existing or occurring at the present time
b. Kontemporaneo (UP Diksyonaryong Filipino): nabibilang o umiiral sa
kasalukuyang panahon; sumusunod sa modernong ideya o modang estilo o disenyo
c.In vernacular English, it is synonymous with the word modern.
3. CONTEMPORARY ARTS
a. Art produced at the present period in time
b. Art of today, produced by artists who are living in the 21st century
c. Refers to the recent & current practice of art ranging from the 1970's up to the
present
4. INTEGRATIVE ARTS
a. Integrating: to bring together or incorporate [parts] into whole
b. Integrated : in arts, used to denote integration of the arts experience in to the
learning process
c. Integrated Arts Practice: refers to the inter-disciplinary art, art research,
development, production, presentation, or artistic creation of work that fully uses 2 or
more art disciplines to create a work for a specific audience (e.g. music & drama =
opera)
PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY ART
The Philippine Contemporary Art is divided into seven (7) major forms namely:
- Visual Arts - Music -Dance -Film
- Literature - Theater - Architecture
The Development of Philippine Art comes in three (3) major traditions namely:
- The Philippine Art has its unique characteristic based on its period of development.
Exercise 2:
DIRECTION: Write “T” if the statement is true write “F” if the statement is false.
___1. The Spaniards greatly influenced the Filipinos that the arts in the country
resulted to pure Western Art.
___2. The piano is 1 of the instruments that the Spaniard introduced in the field of
Philippine music.
___3. Contemporary art refers to the recent and current practice of art ranging from
the 1960s up to the present.
___4. Folk songs, speeches, and narratives were the forms of literature in the Spanish
Era with religious and secular contents.
___5. Modern Art refers to the practice of art in the 1860s-1960s.It was in these years
that the western world was significantly developing.
___6. Modern Art is totally the same with Contemporary Arts since modern and
contemporary are synonymous to each other.
___7. Valse, fandango, polka, and minuet are examples of theatrical performances in
the Spanish period.
___8. Before colonization, the Philippines already has its indigenous art.
___9.Modern art continuosly develop even after after World War II, which led to the
contemporary way of art making today.
___10. Artists used wood carvings and metal works with intricate decorative designs
as embellishments for buildings in the pre-colonial period.
Reference:
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGION
REX/www.google.com
Prepared by:
MIKEE R. MARCELO
AANSWER KEY:
EXERCISE 1: EXERCISE 2
1. E 1. T
2. AC 2. T
3. E 3. T
4. S 4. F
5. E 5. T
6. S 6. T
7. AC 7. T
8. S 8. T
9. AC 9.T
10 AC 10.T