Lectures in Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions (Senior High School subject)

1. THE BUILDERS, VICTORIO EDADES

2. INTERACTIVE
& REFLECTIVE
EXPERIENTIAL

3. MY EXPECTATIONS
ENGAGING & FUN
THOUGHT-PROVOKING

4. EXPECTATIONS FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART
CRITICAL & ANALYTICAL
INQUIRY-BASED

5. COLLABORATIVE

6. MY EXPECTATIONS
CREATIVE AND
DIVERGENT

17. IMPORTANT INSTITUTIONS
(GOVERNMENT & PRIVATE)
CONCERNING PHILIPPINE
ARTS

18. NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR
CULTURE AND THE ARTS (NCCA)1

19. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE
PHILIPPINES2

20. 3

21. 4

22. 5
LOPEZ
MUSEUM
AND
LIBRARY

23. 6 QUBE
GALLERY,
CEBU
Source: Zerothreetwo website

24. 7
856 G GALLERY, CEBU
Source: 856 G Gallery website and Zee Lifestyle magazine site
Artwork by Popo San Pascual

25. CONTEMPORARY ART IS
INTEGRATIVE. COLLABORATIVE.
PROCESS-ORIENTED.
ConArt in a nutshell

26. CONTEMPORARY
VS. MODERN ART
ARE MODERN ART AND CONTEMPORARY ART THE
SAME?

27. MODERN ART
•Up to date
•Technologically advanced
•Modern as opposed to traditional
and conservative

28. CONTEMPORARY ART
•Art produced by artists living today
•Always in flux, developing, evolving
•What is contemporary today may be
traditional or modern in the coming
years.

29. HISTORICAL AND
CHRONOLOGICAL
FIRST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ART
Lavandera, Victorio Edades

30. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: PHILIPPINE ART
Form Pre-Conquest Spanish Period
1521-1898
American Period
1898-1940
Japanese Period
1941-1945
Postwar
Republic
1946-1969
70s-
Contemporary
PAINTING body adornment;
ornament
Religious (icon and
ecclesiastical),
secular
(portraiture)
Landscape,
portraiture, genre,
interior, still life
Wartime scenes
(aggression,
nationalism,
atrocities,
symbolic, protest)
Propaganda
Indigenizing
orientilizing works
genre, idyllis
(Amorsolo,
Francisco,
Ocampo)
Modern,
conservative,
abstract,
experimental,
public art
Figurative, non-
figurative, art for art
sake, multimedia,
mixed media,
transmedia
SCULPTURE Pottery; carving
and woodwork,
metalwork and
expression
Santos, furniture,
reliefs, altar
pieces, jewelry,
metalwork,
ornamentation
Free standing,
relief, public
ARCHITECTURE Dwellings and
houses, shelters,
worship areas,
official
residences,
mosque, masjid,
state edifices
Church, plaza
complex, town
planning,
fortification, civic
buildings and
installations,
private residences,
commercial
structures,
cemeteries,
bridges, lighthouse
City planning,
parks,waterfront,
civic/government
structures, public
works, apartments,
residences,
offices, health &
public education,
business
Public works Real estate, safe housing,
accessories, tenements, squatters,
convention arch, commercial/business,
condominiums, malls, subdivisions,
development, low cost housing
Source: Contemporary Phil. Arts textbook, Rex

31. Manunggul Jar

32. Tagalog royalty Visayan royalty

33. Pintados Mga alipin Common women

34. Lavandera by Victorio
Edades
Edades was considered a
“modern” artist when he
came home from his studies
in the US. His style and bold
colors were “shocking” to
most of the art patrons who
were more inclined to the
traditional and conservative
styles of Fernando Amorsolo
and Guillermo Tolentino
known as Neoclassic Art.

35. Neoclassic Art
- Painted reality as
closely as possible
- Idealized reality
- Beautiful and pastoral
objects
Modern Art
- Does not aim to copy and
idealize reality
- Colors are changed
- The picture is flattened instead
of creating an illusion of depth,
nearness and farness
- It depicted what might be
thought of as ugly and
unpleasant
Differences between Neoclassic and Modern Art

36. A gallery at the
National
Museum of the
Philippines
housing
Academic and
Neoclassic
sculptures
Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

37. A gallery of
Guillermo
Tolentino’s works
(Guillermo is a
neoclassical
artist)
Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

38. http://noypicollections.blogspot.com/2011/07/life-and-works-of-guillermo-tolentino.html
Original UP Oblation statue at the UP Main Library
Guillermo Tolentino

39. Source: FAQ.ph
Bonifacio Monument
Guillermo Tolentino

40. Academic and
Romantic Art
Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

41. Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

42. Juan Luna, Las Damas Romanas, 1882
Source: Wikipedia – Juan Luna

43. Letras y Figuras by Jose Honorato Lozano

44. Estampas (Spanish Colonial Period) Jose Lucio Dans (Paete, Laguna)

45. Religious art of
the 17th to 19th
centuries
Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

46. ART MOVEMENTS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED PHILIPPINE ART
• Started in Italy and in the Catholic Church
• Art was more emotional and dramatic and
full of movement
• A style that used exaggerated motion in
order to produce drama and tension in
sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and
music.
BAROQUE
- Emerged during the 17th century/1600s
Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velasquez

47. BAROQUE
Trevi Fountain in Rome Source: By Diliff - Own work, CC BY 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3943

48. BAROQUE
Basilica ng Nazareno, Quiapo

49. ART MOVEMENTS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED PHILIPPINE ART
• It also started in Italy and spread
throughout Europe and across the Atlantic
• Was a reaction against the classical order
and symmetry of the Baroque
ROCOCO
- 18th century

50. ROCOCO
Basilica of St. Alexander and St. Theodore, Bavaria

51. REFERENCES
•Rex Publishing House. Contemporary Arts
•Vibal Publishing House. Contemporary Arts

52. CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Prepared by: Ophelynn (Yen) Cano