Contemporary Arts || 1st Midterms

Art

- tool of expression and communication

- every artwork reflects the artist and his/her society

- comes in many forms/disciplines (literature, culinary, media, visual and performing...)

- one of the earliest and most basic forms of communication

Visual Arts

- appreciated primarily through sight

Fine Arts

- appearance rather than practical use

- e.g. drawing, painting, sculpture

Decorative Arts

- decorative crafts

- aesthetically pleasing and functional

- e.g. jewelry, furniture, metalcraft

Contemporary Art Forms

- new and unusual forms

- avant-garde or experimental

- e.g. collage, digital art, performance art, conceptual art

Performance Arts

- voices and/or body movements

- enacted in front of a live audience

Music

- manipulation of sound and silence

- culturally universal art form

Art Music

- western classical

- musical notations from europe

Popular Music

- accessible and commercially available

- e.g. radios, tvs, internet

Traditional Music

- communally and culturally based

- learned and preserved thru oral comm. and actual performance

Dance

- regulated and deliberated order of body movements

- e.g. break dance, traditional, modern dance

Theater

- visual + performing arts

- real imagined experiences to live audience

- e.g. puppetry, tragedy, opera, musical theater

Why Do Artists Create Art?

1. Recognition

2. Worship

3. Impulse

4. Self-Expression

Recognition

- fame and fortune

- e.g. Ronald Ventura sold Grayground for 47 million pesos in 2011 at Sotheby's Hong Kong

Worship

- to glorify their creator

- e.g. pyramids, hindu temples, and temples of the greek and romans

Impulse

- passion-driven

- e.g. National Artist for Music Levi Celerio wrote over 4000 songs

Self-expression

- expresses ideas and emotions through artworks

Feldman Method

- developed by Edmund Feldman, an art professor at the university of Georgia

- method of art criticism which includes description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment

Description

- state the artwork information

- medium used, artist, date created, title, and the like

Analysis

- breaks down the different elements and principles used

- elements and principles of art

Interpretation

emotions, feelings, ideas, and moods that you get form the artwork

Evaluation

- pass value and judgement using what you observed from the previous 3 steps

- opinion supported by logical and educated information

Filipino Art Tendencies

-Broadest Aspect Technique

-Multiple Focal Points

-Highly Expressive

-Polychromatic

-Maximalism

-Multifunctional

-Rhythmic Patterns

Broadest Aspect Technique

show many sides of an object

Multiple Focal Points

- represent the sentiments of different members of society

- e.g. Larry Alcala (Cartoonist), created works that showed multiple scenes and events at one point in time

Highly Expressive

- filipinos are more emphatic, spontaneous, and emotional

Polychromatic

colorful

Maximalism

- filling a space with forms and ornamentation

- e.g. jeepneys

Multifunctional

- strengthens the sense of community with people of different fascination and requirements

- installations and media are often combined with indigenous materials and local objects

Rhythmic Patterns

- stylized and measured organization of patterns and forms

- individually present and different but in harmonious movement