Contemporary Philippine Arts from Regions 2

Sculpture

It originates from the Latin word sculpere which means "to carve".

Relief

Free-Standing

Kinetic

Assemblage

Kinds of Sculpture

Relief

It is a sculpture that projects in varying degrees from two-dimensional background.

Free-Standing

Known as sculpture in the round. Any work of sculpture which can be viewed from any angle around the pedestal.

Kinetic Sculpture

It is a free-standing sculpture that moves, either by mechanical power or under the power of wind or water.

Assemblage

It is a sculpture pieced together from found or scavenged items that have little or no relationship to one another.

Carving

Modeling

Casting

Construction and Assemblage

Four Basic Sculpture Techniques

Carving

It is a process in which the artist subtracts or cuts away from a solid material to reach the desired form.

Modeling

It is the process of manipulating soft materials to create a three-dimensional form.

Casting

It is a method of obtaining the permanence of a modeled work by making a mold and casting it in a durable material such as bronze.

Construction and Assemblage

It consists of combining and joining various materials to form a three-dimensional object.

Functions of the Sculpture

Many people produce sculptures that depict divinities or cultural heroes in human or animal form which would have been used in a religious or ritual context.

Hard Materials

Sound

Light

Media used in sculpture

Scale, Color, Line, Shape, Space, Texture, Value, Form

Elements of Design in Sculpture

Advertising Art

This refers to using paid space or time in any of the media to inform and influence the public.

This is used to encourage the public to patronage certain goods and services or to support policies or persons.

Bamboo Art

This refers to works made of bamboo that may be used for everyday purposes, for decorations or ornaments.

Basketry

This refers to the art of creating containers by weaving, plaiting, or braiding materials into hollow three-dimensional shapes that can either be used for carrying, storage, and trapping animals.

Book Design

It involves structuring and reproduction of bound pages that are filled with text or images, and are protected by hard or soft covers.

Costumes

These are garments, hairstyles, and accessories that are worn by individual members in a particular society

Embroidery

This refers to the art of stitching ornaments on cloth by hand

Food Art

This involves packaging and or presentation of food in an artistic way.

It involves enhancing the food itself or its packaging in an artistic way.

Furniture

These are decorative and functional objects which are typically found in a public or private dwelling or building.

These are also known as muebles or kasangkapan

Editorial Cartooning

It involves illustrations of stories or events. It is a single frame illustration that may either makes fun of political leaders or institutions, or comments on current events

Komiks

It may use single or multiple frames with conversations of people or animals placed inside "balloons".

Mat Weaving

This refers to the art of "plaiting strips of organic fibers into mats".

These mats, locally known as banig, are cool, light, and portable compared to fixed beds.

Textile Weaving

This refers to the process of creating cloth by interweaving a series of parallel vertical threads with another series of horizontal threats at right angles

Metal Craft

This includes all objects made from metal using the processes of brass casting and blacksmithing, tinsmithing, or goldsmithing and silversmithing.

Brass Casting and Blacksmithing

This process involves casting and forging pieces of brass or bronze.

Anting-anting or amulets are also created using this process

Tinsmithing

Can be easily seen in creating jeepneys, kalesas, and cariton or ice cream carts.

Goldsmithing and Silversmithing

These processes involves the use of gold and silver in creating objects and ornaments

Paper Art

This involves the processes of cutting, pasting, recycling, and or constructing of objects from paper.

It was used to be limited with folk paper art such as taka and higante from Angono, parol, pastillas, wrappings, and kites.

Personal Ornaments

These are objects that are worn on the human body.

Jewelry falls under this form

Theses are worn either to enhance a part of the body of the wearer, to exhibit rank or status, or to symbolize ritualistic and emotional states.

Photography

This refers to the process of producing images using a light sensitive chemical plate or film.

These are taken to serve as portraits and as propaganda which is highly useful medium for an artist

Pottery

It is a general term for decorative and useful objects made from clay and set off at high temperatures.

Earthenware or Terracotta

This type of pottery is made from clay and is usually fired at 1,700 - 2,000 Fahrenheit

Stoneware

This type of pottery is made from clay and feldspar

Porcelain

This type of pottery is made from kaolin, a special type of clay that is extra fine, white, and feldspar

Print Making

This refers to transferring images from a firm surface, such as metal or wood, to a pliable surface, such as cloth or paper, using pressure.

This is different from production because it involves making the plate either by hand or mixed with mechanical means.

Tattoo Art

This refers to a body adornment permanently engraved on the skin using a sharp instrument and plant dyes or inks

Multimedia

This consists of works that involves the use of other senses in appreciating those works aside from the sense of vision

Conceptual art

In this type of multimedia, a visual artist ideates or sets up a situation, placing philosophical value in the process itself while negative the importance of craftsmanship in arriving at a finished art object

Installation Art

In this type of multimedia, the artist puts together materials and object in an exhibition space to cast a new experience or idea.

Performance Art

In this type of multimedia, an artist converts himself or herself into an art object in motion and sound

Architecture

It is considered to be one of the most functional branches of the visual arts

It involves designing the form of a building while allowing the building to serve its function

It is considered to be the art to inhibit

Domestic Buildings and Houses

Ethnic Houses

Commercial Buildings

Government Buildings

Forms of Contemporary Architecture

Apartment

Bahay na Bato

Barong-Barong

Types of Domestic Buildings and Houses

Apartment

This refers to a building composed of many residences called units.

This is usually build in populated urban areas.

Condominiums

These are larger offshoots of apartments

Bahay na Bato

It is considered to be a residence of the wealthy.

The typical two-storey bahay na bato generally has a ground floor that is made of brick or stone and has a wooden upper level.

The windows and the level have grilles, while the windows at the upper level have sliding shutters.

The roof of a typical bahay na bato slants on four sides.

Barong-Barong

Are houses of the landless poor that are built on any land or area.

These are usually found near the esteros, riverbanks, and bayshores; spaces along high walls, railroad tracks; spaces near abandoned buildings, and garbage dumps; or any vacant lot.

Bahay Kubo

Houseboat

One-and-a-half story house

Split-Level House

Tsalet

Ethnic Houses

Bahay Kubo

It is considered as an ethnic house of Christian peasant families living in lowland areas

This is typically owned by families belonging in low-income groups.

Houseboat

It is basically a boat that also serves as dwelling

The Badjaos or Sama Laut typically reside on these

One-and-a-half story house

It is characterized by an upper level or story covering just a half of the lower level.

Split-Level House

This type of house in the Philippines has two main levels.

These levels separated by about half or less-than-half a story

Tsalet

It refers to a suburban house that has one story, a two-story house with living quarters on the upper level, or an elevated one-story house.

Peasant House

The Tsalat came from the word "Chalet" which refers

Commercial Building

Palengke

Palengke

It is a permanent wet market in the Philippines

Kapitolyo

Munisipyo

Government Buildings

Eskwelahan

Kamalig

Masjid

Sementeryo

Simbahan

Sinehan

Teatro

Public Buildings and Structures

Contemporary Arts

are arts which are being created NOW

• derived from the Latin prefix con, which means "together" or "with", plus tempus, which means "time".

• emerged in the Philippines in reaction to social and cultural realities during the 1970's whích is an era of repression and censorship of artistic expressions.

Chronological View

defines contemporary art as related to this current period in art history

refers to art that is new, recent, modern, or pertains to the present moment.

Historical Usage

regards contemporary art as a specific stage in the story of the evolution of art, referring to a specific location in space and time.

Socio Realism

is an art movement which sought to expose the real condition of Philippine society and used art to transform it.

Progressive Art

developed a culture that would convey the authentic aspirations of the Filipino people.

Facts of Contemporary Art

The end of Martial Law in the wake of EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986 brought the Philippines into the contemporary period, and the art produced in this period is regarded as contemporary art.

Contemporary Art as Breaking of Norms

It can be seen as a transgression of established norm and rules.

Established art forms are scrutinized and contemporary art reworks them to see them with fresh eyes.

Contemporary art is ruled by the cult of the new, endeavoring to create works of art that are "radical" and "interdisciplinary".

Appropriation

is an important preoccupation in contemporary art which is the practice of creating a new work by taking a pre-existing image or from another context and combining the borrowed image with new ones.

Contemporary Art and Local Heritage

Professes an awareness of local heritage which is something that can be passed from one generation to the next, can be conserved or inherited, and has historic or cultural value.

These are physical objects, places of heritage and the various practices of heritage unique to the region or locality that are conserved or handed down from one generation to the next.

these are Contemporary Arts for:

-Pleasure

-Profession

-Commentary

-Spirituality

-Remembrance

-Self Expression

Functions of Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art for Pleasure

A visual delight in the work of art, can take many forms including an appreciation of beauty or decoration, or delight in an element of surprise.

Most cultures that have a definition of beautiful, define it as something pleasing to the eye, and often resembling an ideal of some sort.

Contemporary Art as Profession

Artists earn a living through their art since art and ideas are never free.

They possess value in the complex web of the creative industries that combine the creation, production and commercialization of creative contents which are tangible and cultural in nature.

Contemporary Art as Commentary

Art has been used to answer our need for information.

Artists who fulfill our need for commentary often speak in a language easy to understand, they view art as primary goal to communication by means of subject matter.

Contemporary Art in Spirituality

Artists may create art to express spiritual beliefs about the destiny of life controlled by the force of a higher power.

Contemporary Art as Remembrance

Art can be a remembrance which is something done as an aid to memory.

We need to commemorate important events and people that have shaped our history and show reverence for those who have gone before us.

Contemporary Art as Self-Expression

Art fulfills an expressive function when an artist conveys information about his or her personality, feelings or worldview.