Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

Vocabulary flashcards covering Contemporary Philippine Arts, including art classifications, motives, the Feldman critique method, Filipino art tendencies, painting and sculpture genres, traditional crafts, and elements of art.

Fine Arts

Visual art created primarily for its appearance, considered the usual thought of art, which includes paintings, sculptures, architecture, and prints.

Decorative Arts

Art forms that are aesthetically pleasing and functional, such as textile art, glassware, metalcraft, and interior design.

Contemporary Art Forms

New and unusual art forms not easily recognized between fine and decorative arts that are avant-garde or experimental in nature and cannot be easily classified with traditional definitions.

Art Music

Music that stemmed from Western classical music, presented and preserved through written musical notations developed in Europe.

Popular Music

Music accessible and commercially available to the public that is played or disseminated through different mass media outlets.

Traditional Music

Music that is communally and culturally based but diverse, preserved by passing it from one generation to another through oral communication or tradition.

Theater

The use of gestures, music, song, dance, and visual arts to communicate a story with an audience.

Dance

A regulated and deliberated order of body movements that have aesthetic value, often performed accompanied by music.

Feldman Method

A systematic method developed by Edmund Feldman, a professor at Georgia University, used to critique art through four steps: description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation.

Description (Feldman Method)

The step of gathering objective information about the artwork without using adjectives to describe it.

Analysis (Feldman Method)

The critique step of breaking down the different elements and principles used in an artwork and examining how they were used.

Interpretation (Feldman Method)

The step of deriving meaning, expressing emotions, and identifying ideas based on the artwork's elements and description.

Evaluation (Feldman Method)

Passing value and judgment on whether the art is good based on the previous steps, forming an opinion grounded in logical and educated information.

Broadest Aspect Technique

A Filipino art tendency that tries to show many sides of an object.

Multiple Focal Points

A Filipino art tendency representing an effort to depict the different members of society.

Highly Expressive

A Filipino art tendency characterized by being more empathetic and emotional.

Polychromatic

A Filipino art tendency showing a love of color and bright colors in arts and crafts.

Maximalism

A Filipino art tendency showing an inclination to fill a space with forms.

Multifunctional

A Filipino art tendency where works serve various uses and strengthen the sense of community.

Rhythmic Patterns

A Filipino art tendency characterized by a stylized and measured organization of patterns and forms.

Religious Painting Theme

The primary subject during the Spaniard era of Philippine art, exemplified by Joey Velasco's "Hapag ng Pag-asa" and Renato Habulan's boceto pen and ink series.

Historical Painting Theme

Art depicting historical struggles, notably practiced by Carlos "Botong" Francisco.

Portraiture

An art form historically used as a symbol of one's rise to power and wealth, now used to commemorate personalities, started by Antipas Delotavo and practiced by artists like Rafael del Casal and Daryl de Leon Descallar.

Still Life

A painting theme that portrays inanimate objects, commonly composed of a basket or bowl of fruits and flowers, as painted by artists like Paz Paterno, Ang Kiukok, and Vicente Manansala.

Landscapes

Paintings that depict the beauty of nature and outdoors or highlight busy streets and scenes, notably created by Fernando Amorsolo.

Genres (Art)

Artworks showcasing people doing everyday activities, exemplified by the Boxer Codex miniature genre paintings, Mauro Malang Santos's fiesta scenes, and Mario Parial's figurative works.

Non-representational Art

Abstract art depicting subjects that have no resemblance to physical objects, seen in Nona Garcia's X-ray collection and Geraldine Javier's conceptual oil works.

Free Standing

A sculpture classification executed in the round, raised independently in its own space, and able to be observed from all points of view.

Bas Reliefs

Low reliefs that slightly protrude from the ground or background plane.

High Reliefs

Relief sculptures raised significantly against the background, providing more dimensionality.

Napoleon Abueva

A prominent Filipino sculptor recognized as the Father of Modern Sculpture.

Mobile Art

A sculptural work suspended from the ceiling or a protruding base, typically made with a number of balancing rods dangling at different lengths; pioneered by American artist Alexander Calder.

Burnay

A type of pottery characterized by high-temperature firing.

Gador

A decorated brass urn created using the lost-wax process in traditional metalwork.

Collage

A contemporary art form involving the method of combining printed images with other flat media and pasting them onto a board.

Assemblage

A contemporary art practice popularized by French artist Jean Dubuffet that utilizes different three-dimensional materials to create artworks.

Performance Arts

A blend of visual and performing arts where the medium is the artists themselves, enacted in front of a live audience without dialogue and centered on movements.

Installation Art

An art form that gives meaning to a space based on the specific arrangement of objects within it.

Line

An element of art associated with the body's axis as it moves in different directions; when several lines come together, they form texture.

Warm Hue

A color hue with longer wavelengths that appears more distinct to the viewer.

Cool Hue

A color hue with shorter wavelengths that visually seems to recede.

Saturation

A property of color referring to how true the color is.

Intensity

The degree, purity, or saturation strength of a color.

Brilliance

The color characteristic demonstrated when a brilliant hue is mixed with a neutral hue, which changes only the intensity or dullness rather than the hue itself.

Value or Tone

The relative brightness or darkness of a color, becoming darker when mixed with black and lighter when mixed with white.