Contemporary Arts: Contemporary Visual Arts

Contemporary Art in PH

paintings, sculptures, drawings

Paintings

• two dimensional form of art

• pigment on a flat surface

Religious themes

• primary subject for the artworks during the spanish colonial times

• in the present they can be seen in the murals of many churches

Renato Habulan

• boceto pen and ink series

• painter

Joey Velasco

• painter

• Hapag ng Pag-asa

Carlos “Botong“ V. Francisco

• Shows the Filipino Struggles through History

• A Historical theme

• painter

Portraiture

• paintings are used to commemorate personalities and are seen in many formal institutions such as government offices

• in the past it is a symbol of one’s right to power and wealth

Anitpas Delotavo

• ilo-ilo

• portraiture artist

Rafael del Casal

• commissioned artist to create the portrait of San Pedro Calungsod in 2000

• a favorite portraiture artist of the Philippine elite

Still Life

• portrays inanimate objects

• traditionally composed of basket or bowl of fruits and flowers in vases on a table

Paz Paterno

• one of the most notable and earliest still life artist

Ang Kiukok

• Filipino-Chinese artist

• notable still life artist

Daryl de Leon Descallar

• made the official portrait of President Rodrigo Duterte

• portraiture davao artist

Vicente Manansala

• created still life paintings that feature items and ingredients one would find in a typical filipino kitchen

• cubist and kapampangan artist

Landscapes

• depict the beauty of the outdoors

• can be natural environment such as the countryside and other rural scenery, including seascape and urban landscapes

Fernando Amorsolo

• artists made use of the academic style under his guidance

• Nudes can be seen in his works “Lavandera“

Martino Abellana

• landscape artist

• became a mentor to generations of Visayan artist and is referred to as the “Dean of Cebuano Painters“

Diosdado M. Lorenzo

• modernist take on landscape paintings

Manuel Baldemor

• landscape artist

• transformed his hometown into simple geometric forms and imbibed it with a festive vibe

Prudencio Lamarroza

• inpirsed by Amburayan River to create surreal landscapes

Nude

• a subject of painting in the philippines, was rare before but has been an accepted and popular subject

Nude Artists

• Ben Cabrera

• Cesar Legaspi

• Romulo Olazo (abstract artist)

• Vincent Manansala

Genres

• showcase people doing everyday activities and chores

• Ex: Boxer Codex

• Miniature genre paintings were popular as souvenirs

Mauro Malang Santos

• Genre artist

• collection of fiesta inspired paintings

Mario Parial

• genre artist

• colorful genre paintings that feature his distinct figurative style

Nonrepresentational

• aka abstract art

• depict subjects or objects that have little to no representative or resemblance found in real life

Nona Garcia

• Nonrepresentational/abstract artist

• “X-ray“ like paintings that portray indigenous objects, animal bones, religious artifacts arranged in a mandala like pattern

Geraldine Javier

• Nonrepresentational/Abstract artist

• known for her conceptual paintings which are often intermixed with other media

Sculptures

• three dimensional artworks

• adding or subtracting materials

• *Subtraction is used in carving while addition is seen in sculpting techniques like molding, casting and welding

  • mobiles, and three dimensional light manipulations such as holograms, are not easily classified between free standing and reliefs

Free Standing Sculptures

• aka “in the round”

• raised independently in their given space

• observed from all points of view

Reliefs Sculptures

• raised from a background

• classified into bas-belief and high relief depending on the figures stance from the background

Bas Relief

• aka “low relief“

• slightly protruding from their background

High Relief

• prominently raised against their background

Sculpture works:

• Sunduk (Maranao Royal House)

• Bulul (ifugao rice god)

• Panolongs (Torogan)

• Santos

• Black Nazarene

Guillermo Tolentino

• father of classical scultpture

• Bonifacio Monument and Oblation in UP Diliman

Napoleon Abueva

• father of Modern sculpture

• made Allegorical Harpoon

Anastacio Caedo

• Sculpture artist

• made the memorial at the MacArthur landing site

Froilan Madrinan

• Sculpture Paete artist

• master in wood carving

Renato Rocha

• Sculpture artist

• apprenticed under anastacio caedo

Ross Arcilla

• Sculpture artist

• abstraction and geometric simplification

Agnes Arellano

• Sculpture artist

• dramatic sculptures of cast, modeled plaster and synthetic marble she calls inscapes

Pottery

• art and craft of making pots and other wares using clay or mud

Burnay

• high temp pottery

Carving

• manipulating and creating objects by subtracting and shaping solid materials such as wood and stone

Weaving

• interlacing threads or fibers to create textile, fabric, or other similar products

Weaving arts:

binakol and pinilian

Metalwork

• creating and manipulating metal to create various items such as jewelry, weapons, ect

Gador

• decorated brass urns made using the lost was process

Contemporary Art forms

• cannot be easily classified and categorized following the traditional definitions

Collage

• combining printed images with other flat media and pasting them on a canva or board

Assemblage

• series of artworks made from paper collages, wood scraps, and other found objects

• term used by french artist Jean Debuffet

• started with small scale pieces then soon included larger objects and discards

Mobile

• suspended from the ceiling or protruding based

• kinetic sculpture since it moves due to its interaction with the wind

Alexander Calder

• mobile is pioneered by the american artist

Performance Art

• mix of visual and performing arts

• the medium used in performance art is the artist himself

• acting and movements of the artist

Installation

• arrangement of objects in a given space

• giving meaning to a certain space