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Augustine’s School
Iba, Zambales
S.Y. 2021-2022

CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS

FROM THE REGIONS

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Module 1 and 2

Collated and Prepared by: Mr. Kenneth Bernard Beltran, LPT

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 Life Performance Outcome
• I am Mindful, Self-Directed learner and role model
Program Outcomes
• PO1: Describe the major economic, political, social, and
environmental challenges that they and millions of Filipinos
face in leading productive, fulfilling lives, and develop viable
alternatives for addressing them.
CURRICULUM CONNECTION

• PO2: Explain and apply the fundamental elements of effective

conflict resolution processes and use them to reduce group
conflicts and divisions, foster agreements, and promote future
collaboration.
Essential Performance Outcomes
• EPO1 Assess their unique personal qualities, thinking
processes, talents, and explain how strengthening them can
open doors to continued learning and personal fulfillment;
• EPO6 Cultivate specialized knowledge and skills in at least
one area of their lives that they apply in a variety of
situations with facility and ease
Content Standard
• The learner demonstrates understanding of the Combination
of Different Art forms as seen in Modern times.
• The learner demonstrates understanding of the significant
roles of artists from the regions.
• The learner demonstrates understanding of the materials and
techniques.
• The learner demonstrates ability to Consolidates relevant
concepts to plan for a production.

Performace Standard
• The learner presents a form of integrated contemporary art
based on the region of his / her choice.
• The learner Creates avenues to advocate the arts from the
different regions.
• The learner Designs a production using available materials
and appropriate techniques
Most Essential Learning Competencies
• Researches on various contemporary art forms, techniques
and performance practices
• Describes various contemporary art forms and their practices
from the various regions
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 Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Region

Module 1

Overview

 This Module includes

o History and Timeline of Contemporary Arts
o Characteristics of Contemporary Arts
o Elements and Principles of Contemporary Art
o Skills, Techniques and Production in Contemporary Arts
 You will be given task to be accomplish:
o Make a self-portrait applying one art style
o Discussing the Characteristics of Contemporary Art

Module Objectives

At the end of this Unit you would be able to:

o Describe the Characteristics of Contemporary Art

o Identify the subject matter and different styles
o Explain how materials are used in art making
o Make a contemporary artwork

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Introduction

Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or
performed artifacts— artworks—that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill, and are
intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or objects in fields
like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. Architecture is often
included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of
objects where the practical considerations of use are essential, in a way that they usually are
not in another visual art, like a painting.

Contemporary Art can be driven by both theory and ideas, and is also characterized by a
blurring of the distinction between art and other categories of cultural experience, such as
television, cinema, mass media, entertainment and digital technology.

Performance Task

Directions:

Create a Visual Representation or Artwork, telling a story about who you are today. Place it in a
Oslo Paper, Use the Drawing Plate Format (https://ejlirio10.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/drawing-
paper.gif ).

Lesson 1

Contemporary Arts in the Philippines

Objectives:

The Learners will be able to:

 Describe the beginnings of Contemporary Arts in the Philippines

History of Art
Art history doesn’t consist in simply listing all the art movements and placing them on a timeline. It is the
study of objects of art considered within their time period. Art historians analyze visual arts’ meaning
(painting, sculpture, architecture) at the time they were created. Also, another of art history’s mission is
to establishes authorial origins of artworks, i.e. discovering who created a particular artwork, when, when
and for what reason.

Prehistoric Art (~40,000–4,000 B.C.)

Art from this period relied on the use of natural pigments and stone carvings to create
representations of objects, animals, and rituals that governed a civilization’s existence.

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Ancient Art (4,000 B.C.–A.D. 400)

The medium of a work of art from this period varies depending on the civilization that produced
it, but most art served similar purposes: to tell stories, decorate utilitarian objects like bowls and
weapons, display religious and symbolic imagery, and demonstrate social status. Many works depict
stories of rulers, gods, and goddesses.

Medieval Art (500–1400)

The Middle Ages, often referred to as the “Dark Ages,” marked a period of economic and cultural
deterioration following the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. Much of the artwork produced in the
early years of the period reflects that darkness, characterized by grotesque imagery and brutal scenery.
Art produced during this time was centered around the Church.

Renaissance Art (1400–1600)

Painting, sculpture, and decorative art was characterized by a focus on nature and individualism,
the thought of man as independent and self-reliant. Artwork throughout the Renaissance was
characterized by realism, attention to detail, and precise study of human anatomy.

Mannerism (1527–1580)

Mannerist artists emerged from the ideals of Michelangelo, Raphael, and other Late Renaissance
artists, but their focus on style and technique outweighed the meaning of the subject matter. Often,
figures had graceful, elongated limbs, small heads, stylized features and exaggerated details.

Baroque (1600–1750)

Over-the-top visual arts and architecture. It was characterized by grandeur and richness,
punctuated by an interest in broadening human intellect and global discovery. Baroque artists were
stylistically complex.

Rococo (1699–1780)

Rococo originated in Paris, encompassing decorative art, painting, architecture, and sculpture.
The aesthetic offered a softer style of decorative art compared to Baroque’s exuberance. Rococo is
characterized by lightness and elegance, focusing on the use of natural forms, asymmetrical design, and
subtle colors.

Neoclassicism (1750–1850)

Neoclassical artists were influenced by classical elements; in particular, a focus on idealism.

Inevitably, they also included modern, historically relevant depictions in their works.. This translated to a
renewed interest in classical ideals of harmony, simplicity, and proportion.

Romanticism (1780–1850)

Romanticism embodies a broad range of disciplines, from painting to music to literature. The
ideals present in each of these art forms reject order, harmony, and rationality, which were embraced in
both classical art and Neoclassicism. Artists also focused on passion, emotion, and sensation over intellect
and reason.

Realism (1848–1900)

Realism was a result of multiple events: the anti-Romantic movement in Germany, the rise of
journalism, and the advent of photography. Each inspired new interest in accurately capturing everyday
life. This attention to accuracy is evident in art produced during the movement, which featured detailed,
life-like depictions of subject matter.

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Art Nouveau (1890–1910)

Art Nouveau, which translates to “New Art,” attempted to create an entirely authentic movement
free from any imitation of styles that preceded it. This movement heavily influenced applied arts,
graphics, and illustration. It focused on the natural world, characterized by long, sinuous lines and
curves.

Impressionism (1865–1885)

Impressionist painters sought to capture the immediate impression of a particular moment. This
was characterized by short, quick brushstrokes and an unfinished, sketch-like feel. Impressionist artists
used modern life as their subject matter, painting situations like dance halls and sailboat regattas rather
than historical and mythological events.

Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)

Post-Impressionist painter had similar ideals. They concentrated on subjective visions and
symbolic, personal meanings rather than observations of the outside world. This was often achieved
through abstract forms.

Fauvism (1900–1935)

Fauvism built upon examples from Vincent van Gogh and George Seurat. As the first avant-
garde, 20th-century movement, this style was characterized by expressive use of intense color, line, and
brushwork, a bold sense of surface design, and flat composition.

Expressionism (1905–1920)

Expressionist art sought to draw from within the artist, using a distortion of form and strong
colors to display anxieties and raw emotions. Expressionist painters, in a quest for authenticity, looked for
inspiration beyond that of Western art and frequented ethnographic museums to revisit native folk
traditions and tribal art.

Cubism (1907–1914)

Cubism was established by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who rejected the concept that art
should copy nature. They moved away from traditional techniques and perspectives; instead, they
created radically fragmented objects through abstraction.

Surrealism (1916–1950)

Surrealists denounced the rationalist mindset. They blamed this thought process on events like
World War I and believed it to repress imaginative thoughts. Surrealists were influenced by Karl Marx and
theories developed by Sigmund Freud, who explored psychoanalysis and the power of imagination.

Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s)

Shaped by the legacy of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York after WWII.
These painters and abstract sculptors broke away from what was considered conventional, and instead
used spontaneity and improvisation to create abstract works of art.

Op Art (1950s–1960s)

Heightened by advances in science and technology as well as an interest in optical effects and
illusions. Artists active in this style used shapes, colors, and patterns to create images that appeared to
be moving or blurring, often produced in black and white for maximum contrast. These abstract patterns
were meant to both confuse and excite the eye.

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 Pop Art (1950s–1960s)

Pop art is one of the most recognizable artistic developments of the 20th century. The movement
transitioned away from methods used in Abstract Expressionism, and instead used everyday, mundane
objects to create innovative works of art that challenged consumerism and mass media.

Arte Povera (1960s)

Translating literally to “poor art,” Arte Povera challenged modernist, contemporary systems by
infusing commonplace materials into creations. Artists used soil, rocks, paper, rope, and other earthen
elements to evoke a pre-industrial sentiment.

Minimalism (1960s–1970s)

Minimalist art instead focused on anonymity, calling attention to the materiality of works. Artists
urged viewers to focus on precisely what was in front of them, rather than draw parallels to outside
realities and emotive thoughts through the use of purified forms, order, simplicity, and harmony.

Conceptual Art (1960s–1970s)

Conceptual art completely rejected previous art movements, and artists prized ideas over visual
components, creating art in the from of performances, ephemera, and other forms. this type of art
focused on ideas and concepts, there was no distinct style or form.

Contemporary Art (1970–present)

Contemporary Art tends to be assessed thematically and subjectively, drawing on an expanded range of
theoretical and practical disciplines.

It tends to be assessed thematically and subjectively, drawing on an expanded range of theoretical and
practical disciplines. It can be driven by both theory and ideas, and is also characterized by a blurring of
the distinction between art and other categories of cultural experience, such as television, cinema, mass
media, entertainment and digital technology.

History of Art In the Philippines

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
COLONIAL PERIODS INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC
PRE - SPANISH AMERICAN JAPANESE POST- WAR CONTEMPORY
VISUAL ARTS
CONQUEST 1521 – 1970’S -
189-1940 1941-1945 1946-1969
1898 PRESENT
PAINTING Pottery Religious Landscape Wartime Modern Figurative
Body Portraiture portrait Scenes Conservative
Adornment Still pictures Non- Figurative
Propaganda Abstract
Sculpture Pottery, Wood Religious Free Standing Art for art sake
and Metal figures and relief, Public Indigenizing Experimental
Carving carvings and Multimedia
Orientalizing Public Art
Works Mixed media

Trans media

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 Architecture Dwellings and Church City Planning Public Works Safe Housing Real Estate,
Bahay Kubo Plaza Public Works Commercial Safe housing,
Fortress Buildings Condominiums,
Roads Structures Subdivisions,
Lighthouse Infrastructures Villages, Mall,
Commercial/
Business/
Convention
Buildings

Stylistic Overview
Spanish / Islamic American
Form Pre-Colonial Modern Contemporary
Colonial Colonial
Painting Incipient
Triumvirate
Classical, Collaborative
Religious/ 13 moderns,
Idyllic, Hyper-realist
devotional Abstract
Nostalgic New Painting
Secular Surreal
Naturalistic Expressionist
Sculpture Academic Junk scrap
Abstract
Religious Neoindegenous
Expressionism
(Animalist or site
Architecture Islamic) Workshop-related
Filipino Architechture
Community and Residential
Urban Planning
based Earthquake
Neoclassical International Economic Zone
Inter-ethnic Baroque
art and Industrializing Neovernaculr
relations Hispanic Revivalist
decoration Eclectic Prefac
Collective (Neogothic.
Regionalist
history Neoromanesque,
Cosmopolitan
Islamic)

Cultural Overview
Indigenous Islamic or
Fine or World Popular or Urban
Form Southeast Philippine Folk or Lowland
based and Mass based
Asian Muslim
Painting Museum
Sculpure Colonial and circulated, artist Mass Produced,
Rituals and Governance
Post-Colonial centered, Gallery Market Oriented
Architecture
distributed

What is contemporary art in the Philippines?

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first
century. As such, it reflects the complex issues that shape our diverse, global, and rapidly
changing world. Through their work, many contemporary artists explore personal or cultural
identity, offer critiques of social and institutional structures, or even attempt to redefine art
itself.

The Philippines is a gold mine of ART. It allows Filipino artists to portray the subject and the
medium in innovative and skillful ways, reflecting Filipino identity. The art of the Philippines had
been influenced by almost all spheres of the globe. It had the taste of the Renaissance,
Baroque, and Modern Periods through the colonizers who arrived in the country.

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 Period Architecture Painting Sculpture Plays Music Publication
Burnham Park Fabian Dela Rosa Guillermo Tanikalang
- El Tolentino Ginto
Post Office Kundiman - Up
and the - Panting Oblation Hindi ako
Americal
Legislative Rice - Bonifacio Patay
Colonial Period
Building Ferdinand Amorsolo Monument
(1898 – 1940) to
(Currently the - Antipolo Kahapon,
Post War
National Fiesta Ngayon at
Republic (1946 –
Museum) - Man with a Bukas
1969)
cockerel
Victor Edades A Modern
- The Filipino
Builders
Metropolitan Carlos Francisco
Theater - The Filipino
Struggles
Galo Ocampo
Modern Art
- Brown
Madonna

Thirteen Moderns
Crispin Lopez Awit sa Liwayway
Paglikha
Diosdado Lorenzo ng Bagong The
Pilipinas Tribune
Japanese Dominador
Occupation(1941 Castañeda Sa
– 1945) - Bombing of Kabukiran
the
Intendencia
- Doomed
Family
Church of Holy Vicente Manasala
Sacrifice - Begggars
Church of the - Tuba
Risen Lord Drinkers
Cesar Legaspi
Chapel of St. - Bad Girls
Joseph the - Gadgets
Neo – Realism, Worker HR Ocampo
Abstraction and - The
other Modern Alfonso Contrast
Styles Ossorio - Genesis
- Angry Fernando Zobel
Christ - Carroza
Arturo Luz
- Street
Musicians
Nena Saguil
- Cargadores

Lesson 2

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 Characteristics and Materials used in Contemporary Arts

Subject Matter and Style

Objectives:

This Lesson will enable you to:

 Discuss the Characteristics of Contemporary Art

 Explain the importance of process in contemporary art-making
 Identify the materials used in Contemporary Art

Contemporary art mirrors contemporary culture and society, offering teachers, students, and general
audiences a rich resource through which to consider current ideas and rethink the familiar.

Characteristics:

1. Dynamic - Combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenges traditional
boundaries and defies easy definition.
2. Diverse and Eclectic - distinguished by the very lack of a uniform organizing principle, ideology,
or -ism. In a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world,
contemporary artists give voice to the varied and changing cultural landscape of identity, values,
and beliefs.
3. Variety - Contemporary art reflects a wide range of materials, media, and technologies, as well as
opportunities to consider what art is and how it is defined. Artists today explore ideas, concepts,
questions, and practices that examine the past, describe the present, and imagine the future.

Materials Used in Contemporary Art

Contemporary Artist salvage materials that can be recycled and made into creative forms. Artist
can make artworks that combine structure and wood and interact with the wind to create music. Some
artist combine indigenous materials with textile and mount these on a painted flat surface. Paper as an
art medium is also explored by artist.

In outdoor sculpture, there is a lot of use brass welded together and mounted on concrete. Wood
and glass are used for indoor sculpture. Found Objects are combined and are covered with resin.

Painting is no longer confined to canvas hung on the wall. They can also be found on ceilings and
floor.

In architecture, there is extensive use of glass and steel. Color Combination is either
complementary or strong contrast

In performance art, artist uses variety of props such as rope, plastic textile, and found objects.
Paint is also used for body.

Technology has refined art in many ways. Because of the usefulnes of new materials to art-
making, artist have to upgrade their skills and learn the us of computer programs and its applications.

The availability and variety of materials and the responsibilities offered by technology expand the choices
of artist. This is essential to the development of contemporary art.

Subject Matter and Style

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If the traditional artists’ art consisted of portraits, landscapes, still life and human interest mostly as
naturally as possible, the contemporary artists’ works are expressions of freedom, experimentation and
exploration of patterns, figures, objects, and a combination of many things that are important to them.

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

- a painting style in which the artist applies paint in a manner that expresses emotions and feelings
in a spontaneous way The figures may be heavy in lines and color without solid mass. Example
Artist: Alfonso Ossorio, Nasser Lubay

KINETIC ART

- Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion
for its effect. Canvas paintings that extend the viewer's perspective of the artwork and
incorporate multidimensional movement are the earliest examples of kinetic art. Example Artist:
Alexander Calder, Lucky Salayog

OP ART

- a form of abstract art that gives the illusion of movement by the precise use of pattern and color,
or in which conflicting patterns emerge and overlap. Example Artist: Karl Pilkington, Galleries: 3D
Art Museum, Trick Eye Museum

PERFORMANCE ART

- form of art in which artists use their voices and/or their bodies, often in relation to other objects,
to convey artistic expression. It is different from visual arts, which is when artists use
paint/canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Example Artist: Lilibeth
Rasmussen

ENVIRONMENT ART

- a range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more
recent ecological and politically motivated types of works. Involves the artistic creation or
manipulation of such space such as landscape or architectural design that may enclose its
audience. Earthworks or art using leaves, stones, tress, grass, or other natural elements are
included in this category.

FEMINIST ART

- Emerged from concerns of female artists expressed through art. They tackle issues of identity,
sexuality, gender roles, equality. Example Artist: Barbara Kreuger

MINIMALISM

- Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and
music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject
through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.

VIDEO ART

- Consist of Images that are recorded through a video and viewed through television, computer, or
projection screen.

GRAFFITI ART

- A drawing inscription or sketch done hastily on a wall or other surface made to been by the
public

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POSTMODERN ART

- Carries modern style to extreme practices, often expressing an idea through a mix of materials
such as found objects welded together.

BODY ART

- Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of
body art are tattoos and body piercings. Other types include scarification, branding, subdermal
implants, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body
painting.

DIGITAL ART

- Is done with the aid of computer to create an image or design composed of bits and bytes.

1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000

Abstract Abstract Arte The Kitsch
Body Art Electronic Art
Expressionism Expressionism Intervention Movement
Renewable
Environmental Environmental
Color Field Color Field Body Art Energy
Art Art
Structure
Fantastic
Computer Art Feminist Art Graffiti Art Bio Art Street Art
Realism
Installation Videogame
Conceptual Art Live Art Cyberarts
Art art
Happenings Video Art Post Modern Art Digital Arts
Pattern and
Neo- Conceptual
Kinetic Art Decoration Hyperrealism
Art
Neo-
Light and Space Internet Art
Expressionism
New Media
Minimalism Neo-Pop
Art
Neo-dada Sound Art
Video
Op Art
Installation
Performance Art

Performance Task

A. As you have learned, originally is not an issue in contemporary art, An artist can get an artwork
done by another artist and use it as his/her own by adding to the image according to his/her
design.

Search the internet for contemporary artworks that are based on one that has a been done in the
past. Prepare the original and new image side by side and do the following in writing:

1. Describe the artwork done by an artist in the past.

2. Describe the new artwork based on the previous work
3. Compare the two. What qualities of contemporary art are manifested in the new
artwork?

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 B. Choose two styles describe in the lesson. Make your own portrait applying your chosen style. It
can be done digitally or on other materials of your choice. Label your artwork indicating the title,
style, materials, and size. Be prepared to discuss the style of your self-portrait in class.

Lesson 3

Elements and Principles of Contemporary Art

Skills, Techniques and Production in Contemporary Arts

Objectives:

The Learners will be able to :

 Identify the subject matter that are common to contemporary arts

 Differentiate among major styles and movements in contemporary arts
 Name and Describe different types of techniques in art making
 Make a self-portrait applying one art style

Elements
Appropriation - Existing artworks are appropriated to produce another artwork. Usage of prints, images,
and icons to produce another art form.

- Combines past from the present. Revives interest to existing forms

Performance - Interpreting various human activities such as ordinary activities such as chores, routines
and rituals, to socially relevant themes such as poverty, commercialism and war.

Space - Art transforming space. Can also be an art form that is performed and positioned in a specific
space such as public places.

Hybridity - Usage of unconventional materials, mixing of unlikely materials to produce an artwork

Technology - Usage of technology in the creation and dissemination or art works.

Many contemporary artist do not have formal studies in the fine arts but are self –taught. Concerned with
the development of their talent and skills in art making, they study on their own ,interact with artists and
read a lot about lives of artists and their artworks.

Types:
Collage - Is made by adhering flat elements such as newspaper or magazine cut-outs, printed text,
illustrations, photographs, cloth string etc. to a flat surface to create a thick layer that is almost like a
relief sculpture.

Decalcomania - The process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a reversal of that
image onto canvas or other flat materials

Decoupage - Done by adhering cut-outs of paper and then coating these with one or more coats or
transparent coating of varnish. • the art or craft of decorating objects with paper cut-outs

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Frottage - a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk,
charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relief like surface. Compare rubbing (def 2). 2. a work of
art containing shapes and textures produced by frottage.

Montage - the process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to
form a continuous whole.

Trapunto - From the Italian for "to quilt," is a method of quilting that is also called "stuffed technique." A
puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilize s at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded,
producing a raised surface on the quilt.

Performance task

Online activity, Paper and Oral Presentation

Each group will research for artworks that that follows the elements/ principles of contemporary Art. The
group will report it during the Online class and answer the following guide questions.

1. What makes the artwork contemporary?

2. How does this artwork reflect the people of today?
3. How does the artwork reflect the period that it has been created?

Format:

Element: _______________

Name of art work: ___________________

Name of Artist ___________________

Source: ______________________

References
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/what-is-art/

https://www.newmandala.org/historical-perspectives-on-philippine-contemporary-art/

https://www.slideshare.net/PennVillanueva/the-introduction-to-contemporary-arts

https://www.slideshare.net/kentabuclao/contemporary-arts-in-the-philippines-79476188

https://prezi.com/p/pafd2_n25eg5/materials-in-contemporary-art/

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