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Prepared by:
Ms. Maria Charisma Corsame
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ART?
WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY THE ARTS?
ESPECIALLY THE PHILIPPINE ARTS?
ART IS?
 ART is a natural human behavior.
 ART is communication.
 ART is healing.
 ART tells our story.
 ART is a shared experience.
WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY ART?
CONTEMPORARY ART
is a statement
that an artist
makes about life,
thoughts, ideas,
beliefs and many
other things that
define human
life.
 CONTEMPORARY ART
• Refers to art made and produced
by artists living today. Today's
artists work in and respond to a
global environment that is
culturally diverse,
technologically advancing, and
multifaceted. Working in a wide
range of mediums, contemporary
artists often reflect and comment
on modern-day society.
http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curric
ula/contemporary_art/background1.html
• Contemporary art is • Their art is a dynamic
the art of today, combination of
produced by artists who
are living in the materials,
twenty-first century. methods, concepts,
Contemporary art and subjects that
provides an opportunity challenge
to reflect on
contemporary society
traditional
and the issues relevant boundaries and
to ourselves, and the defy easy
world around us. definition.
Contemporary artists
work in a globally CONTEMPORARY
influenced, culturally ART http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/education/d
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technologically
advancing world.
 CONTEMPORARY
ART
• refers to current and very recent
practice. it also refers to works of
art made by living artists.
• tends to be assessed thematically
and subjectively, drawing on an
expanded range of theoretical and
practical disciplines.
• 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.
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WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT KIND OF ART
FORM?
 Different major
contemporary art
forms in the
Philippines
 Painting
Sculpting
Music
Dancing
Architecture
 PAINTING
In the early 19th century, wealthier, educated Filipinos introduced more secular
Filipino art, causing art in the Philippines to deviate from the religious motifs. The
use of watercolor paintings increased and the subject matter of paintings began to
include landscapes, Filipino inhabitants, Philippines fashion and officials. Portrait
paintings featured artist’s names painted ornately as well as day-to-day scenes of
average Filipinos partaking their daily tasks. These paintings were done on canvas,
wood and variety of metals. During World World War 2, some painters focused their
artwork on the effects of war, including battle scenes, destruction, and the suffering
of the Filipino people.
SCULPTING

Is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions, and one of the
plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of
material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal,
ceramics, wood and other materials, since modernism, shifts in cultural process led
to an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of
materials maybe worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or
modelling, or molded, or cast.
MUSIC

Contemporary music in the Philippines usually refers to compositions

that have adopted areas and elements from 20th Century art music in
the the West,as well as the latest trends and music styles in the
entertainment industry. This brief introduction covers only the works
written by the art music composers.
DANCE

As the popularity of the Pilipino Cultural Nights and the Folk Arts
Groups gain their ascendency, so too, does the need to create and
recreate Philippine dance forms. Among these contemporary issues are
the ideas of bringing the village dance to the stage, the connections
among the various Philippine dance, the ownership of world-influence
and the dances of Filipinos from diaspora.
ARCHITECTURE
is a reflection of the country's historical and cultural heritage. Most
prominent historic structures in the archipelago are based on a mix
of indigenous Austronesian, Chinese, American,
and Spanish influences. During three hundred thirty years of Spanish
colonialization, the Philippine architecture was dominated by
the Spanish influences. The Augustinian friars, along with other
religious orders, built a large number of grand churches and
cathedrals all over the Philippine Islands. During this period the
traditional Filipino Bahay na bató (Filipino for "stone house") style for
the large houses emerged. These were large houses built of stone and
wood combining Filipino, Spanish and Chinese style elements.
 Major Traditions in
the development of
Philippine Arts
3 Major Traditions in the Philippine Arts

 Ethnic Tradition
 Spanish Colonial Tradition
 American Colonial Tradition
 Contemporary Tradition
Ethnic Tradition

 Pre-Colonial Arts (ETHNIC Arts) In

Pre-colonial Philippines, arts are for
ritual purposes or for everyday use.
Spanish Colonial Tradition
 When the Spaniards arrived in the
Philippines in 1521, the colonizers
used art as a tool to propagate the
Catholic faith through beautiful
images. With communication as
problem, the friars used images to
explain the concepts behind
Catholicism, and to tell the stories of
Christ's life and passion. While it is
true that Spain subjugated the
Philippines for more mundane
reasons, this former European power
contributed much in the shaping and
recording of our literature. Religion
and institutions that represented
European civilization enriched the
languages in the lowlands, introduced
theater which we would come to know
as komedya, the sinakulo,
the sarswela, the playlets and the
drama. Spain also brought to the
country, though at a much later time,
liberal ideas and an internationalism
that influenced our own Filipino
intellectuals and writers for them to
understand the meanings of “liberty
and freedom.”
American Colonial Tradition
 Filipinos struggled for independence, first in
the revolution against Spain, and later in the
war against the United States. While they
succeeded in ridding themselves of the first
colonizers in 1898, the new colonizers would
set their government in place in 1901.
 The American colonial order defined its
priorities as education and value formation,
with both following the “American way of life.”
It hastened to set up a public school system,
and in the process transplanted images
through the flooding of imported textbooks
and publications, leaving little demand for
native creativity in the graphic and publication
arts. However, with the corporations emerged
the need for advertisingand for commercial
design which eventually became integrated
into the fine arts curriculum.
 As with all historical conjunctures, a shift in art
patronageagain took place. As the new
patrons, American officials, merchants, and
tourists lorded it over the arts; the range of
subjects for art expanded considerably.
Landscapes, genre, and still life which had
risen in the 19th century—were greatly favored
by the American patrons who sought “exotic,”
tropical scenes of their new colony. Portraits
continued to be in vogue, mainly
commissioned by public officials. The detailed
miniaturist style gave way to academic
portraiture that strove to capture physical
likeness and endow it with the appearance of
dignity and benevolent authority.
Contemporary Tradition
 refers to an art produced at the
present period of time that reflects
the current culture by utilizing
classical techniques in drawing,
painting, and sculpting. Practicing
artists are mainly concerned with the
preservation of time-honored skills in
creating works
of figurative and representational
forms of fine art as a means to express
human emotions and experiences.
Subjects are based on the aesthetics of
balancing external reality with the
intuitive, internal conscience driven by
emotion, philosophical thought, or the
spirit.
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PLEASE STUDY.
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.
 AMERICAN
COLONIAL PERIOD
(1898-1940) to the
POSTWAR
REPUBLIC (1946-
1969)
PLAYS
Tanikalang Ginto (Golden Chain) – Juan Abad 1902
Hindi ako Patay (I Am Not Dead) – Juan Matapang
Cruz 1903
Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas (Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow) –
Aurelio Tolentino 1903
A Modern Filipina – Lino Castillejo & Jesusa Araullo
1915 [First
Filipino play written in English]
ARCHITECTURE

Architect William Parsons Urban Planner Daniel Burnham

ARCHITECTURE : BURNHAM PARK BAGUIO CITY
ARCHITECTURE : BURNHAM PARK BAGUIO CITY
THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR BAGUIO CITY BY DANIEL BURNHAM
ARCHITECTURE: THE MANILA POST OFFICE
• Tomas Mapua
• Juan Arellano
• Andres Luna de San
Pedro
• Antonio Toledo
PAINTINGS BY Fabián de la Rosa

Planting rice, oil in canvas 1921

El Kundiman, oil in canvas 1930

PAINTINGS BY Fernando Amorsolo

Antipolo Fiesta, oil in canvas 1947

Man with a cockerel, oil in canvas 1939

SCULPTURE: Guillermo Tolentino (July 24, 1890 –
The Father of Philippine Art July 12, 1976)

Bonifacio Monument, 1933 The Oblation, 1935