Comprehensive Visual, Performing, and Contemporary Arts Overview

Art

Art is represented through different forms and disciplines.

Visual Art

Art forms that are appreciated and appealing to the sense of sight.

Fine Arts

Art forms created primarily for their appearance.

Elements of Art

The seven elements of art are line, shape, space, value, form, texture, and color.

Drawing

Creating images through the use of lines & shading.

Painting

Compilation of complex brush strokes.

Sculpture

A three-dimensional art form created by shaping or combining materials like clay, stone, metal, or wood.

Print

A method of applying color to textiles or other surfaces using pigments, which are insoluble color particles, suspended in a binding medium.

Calligraphy

An art that combines design of letters or writing instruments.

Architecture

The art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures.

Decorative Arts

Combine beauty with everyday use, unlike fine arts which are typically created for aesthetic or expressive purposes.

Pottery

Art and craft of making pots and other wares using clay or mud.

Carving

The art of shaping materials by cutting away unwanted portions.

Weaving

The art of interlacing threads or fibers to create textile, fabric, or other similar products.

Metalwork

The skilled shaping of metal into beautiful and functional objects.

Contemporary Art

Follows from modern art, which is a broad term used to define art produced between the 1850s and 1945.

Collage

A combination and mix of flat pictures, often associated with nostalgia and memories.

Mobile

A moving sculpture hung from the ceiling, made of rods and elements that balance.

Assemblage

A term used to describe artworks made from paper collages, wood scraps, and other found objects.

Performing Arts

A mix of visual and performing arts where the medium used is the artist himself.

Installation Arts

A form of contemporary art that involves the arrangement of objects in a given space.

Performance Art

A mix of visual arts and performing arts, performed in front of a live crowd.

Time-Based Art Form

A time-based art form that typically features a live presentation to an audience or to onlookers and draws on arts such as acting, poetry, music, dance and painting.

Contemporary Music in the Philippines

A product of our indigenous traditions and colonial influences.

Indigenous Music

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the indigenous music found in the country were instrumental and vocal.

Art Music

The umbrella term used to refer to music that stems from western classical music, usually presented and preserved through written musical notations that were developed in Europe.

Popular Music

Refers to music that is accessible and commercially available to the public, played or disseminated through different mass media outlets such as radio, televisions, and the internet.

Traditional Music

A musical form that is communally and culturally based, diverse with one community or group often having a different form from another.

Dance

Defined as a regulated and deliberated order of body movements, often performed accompanied by music.

Ballet

A classic dance form known for its grace and control, now often combined with new styles in modern dance and performance.

Belly Dance

A dance style with roots in the Middle East, using smooth and controlled moves of the hips and belly, often mixed with modern styles today.

Break Dance

A high-energy street dance with acrobatic moves, spins, and footwork, usually done to hip-hop music.

Improvisational Dance

A movement practice in which dancers create and perform movements spontaneously, without predetermined choreography.

Hip-hop Dance

A range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.

Modern Dance

A style of dance that focuses on free and expressive movements, breaking away from the strict rules of ballet.

Contemporary Dance

A style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres, focusing on versatility, improvisation, and freedom of movement.

Traditional Dance

Refers to the music developed from the country's historical and cultural traditions, including indigenous, folk, and early popular music.

Theater

Defined as a fine art where actors or actresses perform real or imagined experiences in front of a live audience.

Mime

A type of storytelling and performance without any words spoken, using body movements and expressions to communicate.

Puppetry

An art form combined with storytelling and performance, where inanimate objects are controlled to express feelings and act.

Tragedy

A genre of drama that focuses on human suffering, commonly about the downfall of a noble or heroic protagonist.

Opera

A theatrical form of drama where the dialogue is typically sung rather than spoken, accompanied by orchestral music.

Musical Theater

A form of dramatic performance that combines singing, dancing, and acting to tell a story.

Traditional Theater

Theatrical forms passed down through generations, incorporating elements like music, dance, and stylized movements, rooted in a specific culture or region.