Contemporary Art Subject Grade 12

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CONTEXT OF

CONTEMPORARY
ART
Context refers to factors that
surround a work of art. It includes
a host of conditions such as
historical events, economic trends,
contemporary cultural
developments, religious attitudes,
social norms, other artworks of the
time, among others.
Historical and cultural context
refers to the historical, social, and
political.
Context of art maybe classified into
two:
PRIMARY CONTEXT SECONDARY CONTEXT
Pertains to the artist: Addresses the external condition
in which the work was produce:
His or her attitudes
 The apparent function of the
Beliefs work
Interest  Religious and philosophical
Values convictions
Education and training  Socio-political and economic
Biography structures
 Climate and geography
Fundamental Components of Art

Contemporary art-making is a
creative and transformative
process. The source of all art is
human imagination or creative
thinking.
Fundamental Components of Art

FORM
allows the work to perceived
by the senses and its ideas to be
communicated through the
arrangement of elements as a whole.
Fundamental Components of Art
FORM
FORMAL ELEMENTS OVERALL MATERIALS AND
COMPOSITION TECHNIQUE
Such as line, Which refers to From which
shape, color, its size, artwork is made.
texture, mass, proportion, and
volume, space, so on.
and among
others.
Fundamental Components of Art
CREATIVITY IMAGINATION LANGUAGE
Generation of Is a faculty that Is a medium by
new ideas, allow us to which cultural
insights, and generate mental meanings are
previously pictures, ideas, formed and
unimagined and sensations communicated.
images and that do not exist
artifacts, is in the world and
usually thought in some cases
of as central to cannot exist.
the making of
art
Fundamental Components of Art
INTERPRETATION POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
ECONOMY
Is concerned Is concerned Is unearthed and
with search for with power and revealed from
meaning. the distribution the surface of
of economic the form.
resources in the
context of art
production
ART PRODUCTION
Is the process of responding to
observations, concepts, emotions,
and other experiences that we
encounter in the world and
interpreting these responses by
creating artworks.
ART CRITICISM
Most often, people look at art
and make an instant judgement
without knowing why.
ART HISTORY
Is the study of art, past and
present, and its contributions
to cultures and society.
AESTHETICS
Refers to the nature,
beauty, and value of a work
of art.
Aesthetic inquiry deals with questions
such as:
• What is art?
• Are all people creative?
• Can something be art in one
culture and not art in another?
THE ART WORLD
The art world is composed of all the people involved in the
production, preservation, promotion, chronicling, criticism,
sale or consumption of art.
Core activities: Collateral Activities:
a.Production of art- artist and their a. Facilitation of production and
studios, collectives and workshops, exhibition- arts board, arts councils,
charitable funding bodies; art schools and
associations, clubs and societies; other educational institutions; auction
and houses; art societies and civic
organizations; art managers, art agencies
b.Exhibition of art galleria- (i) and promotional agents.
public- national, regional,
b. Dissemination of art and art
metropolitans; (ii) commercial; (iii) discourse- competitions; fairs, biennales
temporary public or private; (iv) and festivals; commercial and academic
heritage houses, heritage sites, and publishers; art libraries; art magazines;
cultural parks. specialist art journals; internet; film and
GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES AND
INSTITUTIONS
The government’s support for art
and cultural development is
particularly highlighted by the
passage of R.A. 7356 that created
the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
NATIONAL
NATIONAL
HISTORICAL
ARCHIVES OF THE
COMMISSION OF
PHILIPPINES
THE PHILIPPINES

NCCA

NATIONAL LIBRARY
NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF THE PHILIPPINES

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