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MODERN ART - comprises creative work created during the era roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and specifies the forms and concepts of art established during that time period.
CONTEMPORARY ART - is artwork made by living artists now.
Impressionism was the foundation of contemporary art. It all began in Paris as a reaction to a rather formal and rigorous style of painting practiced in studios and dictated by conventional organizations such as the Academie des Beaux-Arts.
Contemporary Art emphasizes innovation and freedom more than Modern Art.
Contemporary art focuses on societal influence, with society as the major emphasis, whereas Modern art is an expression of personality.
Another difference is that most Modern Art was made on canvas, but Contemporary Art may be found in a wider range of materials, including object design, tech-enabled artwork, and graphical arts.
Contemporary art flourished with Modernism at first, but it is today seen as distinct from that school. The Contemporary Art Society was created by Roger Fry and his associates in 1910.
ABSTRACT IMPRESSIONISM - Artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotion and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.
Expressionism - as a distinct style or movement refers to a number of German artist, as well as Austrian, French, and Russian ones
Action painting - Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas.
Color Fields - Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that The term typically describes large-scale canvases dominated by flat expanses of color and having a minimum of surface detail.
Op art - also called optical art, branch of mid-20th- century geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion. Achieved through the systematic and precise manipulation of shapes and colors.
Kinetic Art - Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effect.
Minimalism - Minimal art, also called ABC art, is the culmination of reductionist tendencies in modern art.
Pop art - is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain. It is an art that is based on popular culture and mass media. Characterized by bold, simple, everyday imagery, and vibrant block colors.
Postmodernism - refers to a reaction against modernism. It is less a cohesive movement than an approach and attitude toward art, culture, and society. A late 21st and 20th century art style.
Neo-Pop - or Post-Pop, is a broad term that refers to a style that has been influenced by Pop Art. The first wave of Neo-Pop Art emerged in the 1980’s as a reaction to the Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 1970’s.
The Neo-Pop artists used the iconography of Pop Art to their own ends, creating commentary that mimics Pop Art, but also incorporating contemporary “kitsch” imagery and references to political and social issues that did not exist in the 60’s.
Photorealism - also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy.
Conceptualism - Conceptual art is a movement that prizes ideas over the formal or visual components of art works.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ART?
Immortalize a person
Expression
Communication
Style - refers to the distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work of an individual artist, a school, a movement, or a specific culture or time period (Fitchner-Rathus, 2013).
Asian art - The history of Asian art or Eastern art, includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions.
Chinese Art - The oldest continuous art traditions in the world are Chinese art traditions. Chinese art in 10,000 B.C.E. included pottery and sculptures.
Art Influence - Chinese art is greatly influenced by Chinese philosophies of Buddhism, Confucianism, and particularly Taoism.
Indian art - consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk.
Sculpture was a common practice among Indian Buddhists and Hindus.
Hinduism continued to be a main focus of Indian art for centuries, as sculptures of deities like Shiva were commonly produced.
Japanese Art - Art in Japan has undergone series of transitions and periodization. Japan has transitioned into a cultural mixing pot. Based on artifact such as ceramic figures and ornaments. It was influenced by Korean and Chinese artwork
Shinoism - The native religion of Japan. A practice of religious rites based on the Japanese polytheistic idea of ‘kami’ (deity).The word Shintō literally means “way of kami”.
Buddhism - Became an integral part of Japanese. Culture, Artwork such as images and sculptures of Buddha were produced.
Korean art - Korean Arts include tradition in calligraphy, music, painting, and pottery often marked by the use of natural forms, surface decoration..
The earliest example of Korean art consists of stone age works dating from 300 BCE. These mainly consist of votive sculpture, although petroglyphs have also been recently discovered.
Tibetan Art - Also called the “Himalayan art,” that refers to the art of Tibet and other present and former Himalayan kingdoms. - Also called Lamaism, which is a regional form of northern Buddhism.
One of the particular types of artwork of Tibetan artists is Sand Mandala. It is a spiritual symbol depicting the universe and the cosmos. It Has geometric patterns.
Bhutanese Art - For the Bhutanese people, each piece they create represents a religious experience, a connection with something that goes beyond them and enlightens them creatively.
Philippine Art
Philippines has had a rich history.
Various art genres have arisen in the Philippine art scene
Employed art not only for daily activities but also for religiou ceremonies and customs.
Pottery, weaving, carving, metalwork, and jewelry.
It is as an artistic design of the Maranao native inhabitants of southern Philippines beginning from the early 6th Century C.E. before the Islamization of the area.
Pottery - produced items that are of practical value for the early Filipinos, such as pots for cooking and large vases for storing.
MANUNGGUL JAR - Represent the religious beliefs and practices of early Filipino People. Serves as a burial jar, which depicts two men rowing a boat.
Weaving - a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.
People from Cordillera are one of the famous artisans of weaving.
Lang Dulay - A Filipino traditional weaver who was a recipient of the National Living Treasures Award. She is credited with preserving her people's tradition of weaving T'nalak.
T’nalak - a dyed fabric made from refined abaca fibers. Weaving tradition of the T'boli people of South Cotabato, Philippines. T'nalak cloth are woven from abacá fibers. The traditional female weavers are known as dream weavers, because the pattern of the t'nalak cloth are inspired by their dreams.
ELIZA CHAWI - The oldest weaver of traditional Kankanaey cloth in the Cordilleras.
Woodcarvings - from Palawan also depict animals like birds, which are representations of their religious beliefs. •
In Mindanao, the Tausug and Maranao people are known for their okir (motif) Their common subjects include the sarimanok, naga and the pako rabong.
Pako Rabong - An ancient indigenous form of the Maranaw artistic design is the Pako rábong. The "pakô", or "piyako", refers to the beautiful motif that copied from "Salimbayan-pilipit" design of the leaf. It literally means "sumisibol o yumayabong na pakô."
Sarimanok - is the legendary bird that has become an ubiquitous symbol of Maranao art. It is depicted as a fowl with colorful wings and feathered tail, holding a fish on its beak or talons.
Spoliarium - Large-scale academic painting garnered a gold medal and signified that the reformists could come at par with their European counterparts.
José Honorato Lozano
Was a Filipino Asian Antiquities artist who was born in 1815.
Known today as the visual chronicler and ethnographic painter par excellence of life in the Philippines in the second and third quarters of the 19th Century.
He is also renowned as the father of the art form known as Letras y Figuras - literally 'Letters and Figures.' Mostly watercolors on Manila paper, these artworks depict views of quotidian Philippine life in the 19th century.
Kut-kut art - is another technique of combining ancient Oriental and European art process.
Juan De Los Santos
The earliest known sculptor in the Philippines is the 17th century sacristan, sculptor and silversmith.
few of his extant works may be found at the San Agustin Convent museum.
One of his famous work is the “Retablo” Retablo
“retablo” (altarpiece) - was executed in 1617 by the carver Juan de los Santos, as the main altarpiece of San Agustin Church in Manila.
Guillermo Tolentino
He is consider as the “Father of Philippine Arts” because of his great works like the famous “Bonifacio Monument” symbolizing Filipinos cry for freedom located in intersection of EDSA and Rizal Avenue and “The Oblation” in UP signifying academic freedom.
represents the National Artist Awards for Sculpture in 1973
Bonifacio Monument
It was built way back November 30, 1933.
It was designed by the National Artist Guillermo Tolentino to commemorate Philippine revolutionary Andrés Bonifacio, the founder and Supremo of the Katipunan
Napoleon Abueva
Recognized as the “Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture”, Abueva helped shape the local sculpture scene to what it is now.
Was the youngest National Artist awardee.
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla
was a Filipino artist.
He is acknowledged as one of the greatest Filipino painters of the late 19th century
Hidalgo won a silver medal for his entry in large canvas, Christian Virgins Exposed to the Populace (Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho) at the Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts.
In 1984 Madrid Exposition, he set up residence in Paris to serve a quieter life.
He painted Charon’s Boat and Oedipus and Antigone.
Juan Luna (1857-1899)
Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century.
He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists.
He won a gold medal in the 1984 Madrid Expositionof Fine Arts, along with the silver win of fellow Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo
Fernando Amorsolo
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines.
Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.
National Artist Awardee.
Vicente Manansala (1910-1981)
Vicente Silva Manansala was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator.
He was a member of the prominent Cruz, Manansala, Lopez family clan.
He is considered one of the 13 Moderns, a group of modernists associated with Victorio Edades.
He was given a posthumous recognition as a National Artist 1982.
Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco (1912-1969)
One of the best mural artist the country was ever had.
He created enormous canvasses that chronicled the mythical world of the Filipino and its history, often seeking inspiration from tradition, folklore, myths, legends, and customs.
He also painted vital events in Philippine History.
Bayanihan - means being a hero to one another. As in the classic tradition of carrying a house.
Mauro Malang Santos (1928)
Mauro (Malang) Santos, commonly known as just Malang, is a Filipino cartoonist and illustrator.
He was born on January 20, 1928, in Santa Cruz, the Philippine Islands and, at the age of 19, dropped out of formal education in order to begin working in the art department of the Manila Chronicle.
Jose Joya (1931- 1995)
graduated as a Magna Cum Laude at the University of the Philippines in 1953.
He was also a recipient of the fullbright Scholarship at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957
Col. Antonio Buenaventura (1904-1996)
Obtained a Teacher’s Diploma in Composition and Conducting from the University of the Philippines and later on became a faculty member of the UP Conservatory of Music.
Lucrecia R. Kasilag (1917-2008) - Obtained a Music Teacher’s Diploma major in Piano from St. Scholastica’s University in 1949.
Felipe Padilla (1912-1992) - Felipe Padilla de Leon was a composer, conductor and a former student of Col. Buenaventura at the UP Conservatory of Music.
Antonio Molina (1894- 1980)
born in 1894 and faculty member of the UP Conservatory of Music where he taught harmony, compositions, and music history as well as violoncello.
composed the zarzuela Ate Maria and hatinggabi.
Lucio D. San Pedro (1912-2002)
born in 1913 and married to Gertudes Diaz and had 5 children.
During his graduation in Grade VII, he played the Poet and Peasant Overture on the banjo.
started composing songs in college and conducted the UP ROTC Band.
was assistant conductor and later, conductor of the Musical Philippines Philharmoni Orchestra and a musical presented at the Metropolitan Theat
