G12 First Semester, Midterm Form of Art : Graffiti

by: Rain Joshua Malit Artists Intention : The reason why Dex
Fernandez used “garapata” instead of other
TOPICS __ animals and insects was because he wanted to
SUB TOPICS __ show the resiliency of Filipino people. Because
ADDITIONAL __ we don’t easily give up. We stand firm with our
(NOTE : All Italics Fonts is additional Info) beliefs, traditions, and cultures no matter how
many times we are invaded or conquered by
different nations. Still we stand with our identity
as Filipinos.

Fernando Amorsolo, Harvest Scene, 1942

gaREEFata by Dex Fernandex

( not the actual photo)

- A world of rural simplicity and charm
contrasts highly with the political turmoil
of the late 1800s and early 1900s
Form of Art : Sculpture
Form of Art : Painting Artists Intention : Amount of coral reefs are
Artists Intention : During the Japanese decreasing in bataan. They decided to launch
occupation, the Japanese wanted to eradicate the use of artificial reefs.
all of the memories of the Spaniard and
American colonization. They started with art
works like landscape painting which depicts pure
Leeroy New, Aliens of Manila : New York
Filipino culture.
Colony, 2019

Dex Fernandez, Garapata

- An
embodiment
of the
resiliency of
Filipino people
Form of Art : Installation Art - “Art made and produced by artists living
Artists Intention : This artwork is created out today. Today’s artists work in response
to a global environment that is culturally
of plastics. The reason why it is called “Aliens of
diverse, technologically advancing, and
Manila”, because Manila had been invaded with
multi-faceted.”
lots of plastics. This certain installation is
presented in New York, that is the reason why
Culturally Diverse
it’s named as New York Colony. Finally, In this
- Different beliefs and culture. In
artwork, Leeroy New wants to remind us of how
contemporary arts it could all be
polluted our capital is.
understood.
Technologically Advancing
- Since our world is evolving and
Napoleon Abueva, The Blood Compact developing its technology, our artworks
Monument are also evolving. It must adapt to the
changes that we have.
Multi-faceted
- Since we have different levels of
understanding, it must cater to all of our
perspectives, aspirations, and ideas.

Contemporary Arts
- Contemporary Arts is the reflection of
the world
- It represents our culture, traditions,
social issues, and other aspects of the
present world.
- Made to honor the first International
treaty between the Philippines and Difference of Contemporary to
Spain.
Traditional Arts
Form of Art: Sculpture
Contemporary
Artists Intention: The blood compact ● Current Art
happened way back March 15, 1965. Between ● Experimental in nature
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and Rajah Sikatuna. - The reason it became
This served as a peace and friendship treaty experimental is because it
between the Spaniard and the natives of Bohol, doesn’t limit their artists. Even
which was led by Rajah Sikatuna. the various types of forms and
materials an artist uses.
● Started 1970’s
LESSON 1 : “ Introduction to ● More on problems and issues
- Always have a hidden meaning
Contemporary Arts”
Traditional
● Past events, culture, and standards
Essential Question : How does art make our ● Reality through narrative
life colorful? ● Ended 1970’s to1980’s
Why did traditional art end in the
J. Paul Getty 1970’s - 1980’s, while contemporary arts
started in the 1970's?
 - There is an adjustment period, Deep in Mind , 2019 by Demi Padua
since hindi naman agad-agad Form of Art :
mawawala si traditional arts.
Artist Intention :
● Lifestyle, ideas, faith
- This wanted to remind us of how
- Direct to the point
complex or complicated our mind is.
Wherein we have different views and
perceptions that could be influenced by
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inside and outside factors. That is how
big our mind is.

Confeccion de la Estandarte Nacionale

(Spanish) or Making of the Philippine
Flag, 1955

Artist : Fernando Amorsolo

Name of the Women :
Manunggul Jar, 840-710 BC
● Marsela Agoncillo
● Lorenza Agoncillo (Anak ni marsela)
Form of Art :
● Delfina Natividad ( Pamangkin ng Purpose of the Art :
Doktor) - A burial jar that is found in the Tabon
Artist Intention : Cave, Palawan. They believe that if they
- For us to be informed about our Filipino put the corpse of their beloved ones
history, wherein this is a very important inside this jar, they would be sent off in
part of our nation. Since this flag is our the afterlife. Nililibing sa mababaw para
identity. madaling maagnas, then once na buto
nlng ung natira, ilalagay na sa
manunggul jar.
- The one who is rowing the boat is the
god/ sender, then ung nasa unahan is
the soul of the person in the burial jar.
The design represents water or wave.

4 Characteristic of Contemporary Arts

1.) Contemporary art is more

accessible
 - It could be found anywhere, we
don’t have limits in materials,
and the use of technology we
East Meets West by Jose Joya, 1983
can see artworks.
2.) Many contemporary artists are
self-taught.
- Many artists did not undergo
any formal education or had a
degree in arts.
3.) Contemporary art is collaborative
- It's not just an artist to artist
transaction, but we seek help
from other professionals, from
other people who work in
different fields.
ex.) Installation Art
- May specific location and time lng na Artist Intention :
ipapakita sa public. Also in terms of the - Even if we are diverse, there is always
materials needed, you need a supplier something in between that will unite us.
or an electrician. Collaborative in a
sense that we use different materials.

Mix Media Arts 2.) Kinetic Art

- Combining different materials to create - A sculpture that moves with the wind
one artwork. - Powered by a machine or electricity
4.) Originality is not an issue in
contemporary arts
- You can borrow someone’s Opera by Gabriel Barredo, 2015
artwork as long as you are
adding your own style on it, you
will put your signature on it.

12 Styles in Contemporary Arts

1.) Abstract Expressionism

- Artist applies paint in a manner
that expresses emotions and
feelings in a spontaneous way Artists Intention :
- Figures may be heavy in lines - Depicts human anatomy, organs, and
and color without solid mass itsura ng katawan ng tao.
- Most free style, most - Focused eye during operation
complicated to understand and
analyze

3.) Op Art
 - uses lines or images repeatedly to - In the philippines there is also a
create an optical illusion. happyland such as crime, corruption,
- We only use limited elements such as addiction or vices.
lines and patterns. - It shows how the media influences us
when it comes to our view and definition
Iris by Sergi Delgado of happiness.
- Disney portrays “always happy”, being
brainwashed with the concept that in
order to be happy “I need a prince, my
family should be complete, my clothes
should be glamorous”. (Positively is
being inclined in happiness)
- In reality, happiness comes from within.
Though we are experiencing different
hardships, It is still up to you if you will
be happy or not regardless of your
Artists Intention :
situation. (Our happiness depends on
- Tells us that our eyes can see
us)
everything and anything, even emotions.

4.) Performance Art

- combines a variety of media and
5.) Environment Art
the human body to execute an - involves the artistic creation or
artistic theatrical expression manipulation of space such as
before a live audience. landscape or architectural
- Live performance with live design
audience, videos are not - Earthworks, or art using stones,
included. leaves, trees, grass or other
- We the human being is art itself, natural element
acting, singing, playing - Artworks that are dominated by
instrument natural materials, naturally
made. We could use minimal
artificial materials for adhesive
Happyland Princess, Eisa Jocson, 2019
purposes.

Ginapos ng Agtayabon, Lagoon in Vargas

Museum, 2012

Artists Intention :
- Snow White in the theater, Disney.
Artists Intention :
Ginapos : Tinali, restriction
Agtayabon : Diyos ng bukidnon, wind Material Used : Embroidery, did not use paint,
tinahi niya ln
peacemaker.
Artist Intention :
Meaning : The god of bukidnon is being Left : Maria Isabela Lopez
restricted or being ginapos, pag ginapos si Right : Liwayway Etnika
agtayabon it will lead to disaster
Pacita Abad wants to remind us that no matter
“That is why everything that has restrictions, will what physical attributes you have, you are still
never grow. It would always lead to a Filipina. If you know to yourself, in your blood
catastrophe” that you are a Filipina

6.) Feminist Art

- emerged from concerns of 7.) Minimalism Art
female artists expressed - a stripped-down, prefabricated
through art look, free of details and often
- Tackle issues of identity, with flat surface but expresses a
sexuality, gender roles, equality, specific content or statement
and the ways in which the - Symbols, we tend to restrict
female is treated in society, ourselves to minimal details, but
among others. with symbols and meanings.
- About women empowerment, - Colors must be neutral
because way back then we
were governed by patriarchal
society, wherein everything is
bestowed to men. 8.) Video Art
- Talk about women’s strength, - consists of images that are
talents, and capabilities. recorded through a video and
viewed through television,
The Filipina : A Racial Identity Crisis, computer, or projection screen
- Anything that is recorded as
Pacita Abad, 1990 long as its moving is a video art
Small Project, 2011, Jet Pascua (Tromso
Norwegian Arctic)

Artists Intention : Artists Intention :

- Originated from the University of the - Untitled artwork
Philippines. Gumawa ay activist and - Pow Wow Worcester is an exhibition of
journalist student murals and graffiti.
- Video that shows the poverty in the - Created in Hawaii
Philippines, It needs awareness to be - Exhibit on August 25 to September 3,
addressed. 2017 (1 week exhibitions)

MEANING
9.) Graffiti Art - About different perspectives, kid
(everything is colorful). But as we grow
- a drawing, inscription or sketch
older, we tend to view things from a
done hastily on a wall or other
different perspective.
surface made to be seen by the
public
- Our wall is our canva
- Freedom to draw whatever they 10.) Post-modern Art
want. The difference with murals - carries modern styles to
is that murals have themes. extreme practices, often
expressing an idea through a
Den Fernandez, A Pow Wow Worcester mix of materials such as found
Entry in 2017 objects welded together.
- Mixed media arts (one artwork,
but multiple materials)

Water Bearer, Sandro Chia, 1981

Artists Intention : Artists Intention :
- Technically fishermans are water bearer, - It is connected in a sense that it shows
because he is holding a fish which life cycle in connection with music
represent the habitat - From the beginning, the birth of the
- Sandro Chia tends to make artwork baby (there is already a music which is
the “cry”). In growing up there is always
about muscular and working males. For
music.
him he perceives men as industrious,
- “Everything that we do, though our life is
provider, and strong.
only a cycle. The presence of music will
1st Inspiration never leave us, with music we can find
- Sculpture ng manggigisda na naka top refuge”
less (originality is not an issue)
2nd Inspiration
- It came from the Apocrypha, which talks
12.) Digital Art
about things written with divine origins.
- done with the aid of computer to
- Book Tobit 6 (Jewish Bible) , the man is
create an image or design
Tobias, then sinabi sa kanya ng god
compose of bits and bytes
“maghanap ka ng mapapangasawa mo”,
- image can be printed on paper,
need mo dalhin ang pinakamalaking
tarpaulin, or other mediums
isda sa dagat. Then, bibigay sa family
- Any artwork that is digitally
ng mapapangasawa
manipulated, computerized, and
altered. Adding filters is not
counted as digital art.

11.) Body Art

- art form that uses the body as
the medium or main material
- can be painted or clothed and
used to perform artistic act in 7 Techniques in Contemporary Arts
public
- tattooing and piercing are 1.) Collage
examples of body art - Made by adhering flat elements
- Our body is our canvas, and - such as newspaper or magazine
also our fashion. The way we cut-outs, printed texts,
dress. Illustrations, photographs, cloth,
string, etc. to a flat surface to
Connected, 2016 create a thick layer that is
almost like a relief structure
- We cut images from other
resources, then assemble those
cut outs to create another figure.
Could be manipulated and
altered.

2.) Decalcomania
- process of applying gouache to
paper or glass
 - Transferring a reversal of the
image onto canvas or other flat
materials.
- Half of the image should be
drawn, then fold to create a
reflection of the thing you
painted.

3.) Decoupage
- done by adhering cut- outs of
paper
- Coating these with one or more
coats or transparent coating of
varnish
- “Dey-kofudge” Any object could
be our canva, cut out then dikit
sa item. Uses transparent
coating.

4.) Frottage
- a technique of rubbing with a
crayon on a piece of paper that
has been placed over an object
or an image.

5.) Montage
- used for photography or film
where a pictorial image is
juxtaposed or placed
overlapping to make another
picture or design.

6.) Trapunto
- the word “Trapunto” is derived
from the Italian word “to
embroider”
- a painting technique where
canvases are padded, sewn,
and often filled with sequins,
beads, shells, buttons, tiny
mirrors, etc.
7.) Digital Application
- a technique where artists use
digital technology in creating an
artwork.