CONTEMPORARY LESSON 1: ART - Examples: Sultan Kudarat statue, EDSA
People power statue
WHAT IS ART? -
- A natural human behavior - Architecture
- A form of communication - Structures meant to be used as a shelter.
- Healing - Relies on the design and purpose of the
- Tells our story structure
- A shared experience - Music
- Art forms that appeals to the sense of hearing.
MODERN ARTS VS CONTEMPORARY ARTS - Composed by combining notes into harmony.
MODERN ARTS – came before contemporary arts
- Began in the West in 1860’s -1960’s
- Relating to the present times
LTCD
CONTEMPORARY ARTS – arts are made in the present - Literature
day - Art form of language
- 1960’s and 70’s - Combined use of words, creating meaning and
- Happening or beginning now or in recent times experience
- Refers to the artworks made after WWII - Theater
- Contemporary artists are still alive or still creating - Art form of performance
artorks now. - Dramatic texts are portrayed on stage by actors
- Has a social impact and actresses
- Examples: Macli-ing Dulag (Horrors of the
ART FORMS SPAM Martial Law), Pilipinas Circa(1907), Bodabil (Life
of Canuto Francia)
- Picture - Cinema
- 2D, images of various subjects ranging from - Technological transition of theater.
real life images to visually abstract - Dance
- Sculpture - Art of the human form
- 3D, created using stone, marble, wood and - The body is used, mobilized and choreographed
concrete. in specific time, form and space.
LESSON 2: CONTEMPORARY ARTS
CONTEMPORARY ARTS LESSON 3: ARTS PROMOTION AND
PRESERVATION
- Art made and produced by artists living today.
- J. Paul Getty Museum - Part of the democratic thrust of Corazon Aquino
- Not restricted to individual experience but administration, Executive order 118 created the
reflective of the world we live in. Presidential Commision on Culture and the
- Events in the world having an effect to the Arts in 1987.
Philippines
- Republic Act 7356 established the National
ELEMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
1. APPROPRIATION NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND
- Use of these prints, images, and icons to produce ARTS (NCCA)
another art form.
- Combines the past and present. - Country’s overall policy making body
- Existing artworks are appropriated to produce - Coordinates and grants agency for preservation,
another artwork. development and promotion of Philippine arts and
- Contemporary artists revives interest to existing culture.
forms of art. - The State’s initiative to promote and develop art
2. PERFORMANCE and awareness in our country.
- “Evovle spontaneous unpredictable elements of - Through committees and subcommittees, ensures
chance.” – Walker Art Center interests of the various regions are represented.
- Interpret various human activities (ordinary
activities, rituals, socially relevant themes) ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE NCCA
3. SPACE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
- Site-specific art forms
- Art form is performed and positions in specific THE SECRETARIAT
spots, especially in public places.
4. HYBRIDITY
- Mixing of unlikely materials to produce an artwork HEADS OF THE 19 NCs SHALL FORM THE
5. TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD (NAB)
- Used by contemporary artists in propagation of
arts. SCA SCH SCD SCCTA
Architecture Archives Communication North - Promotes, “Philippine history and cultural heritage
& Allied Cultural through research and dissemination, conservation,
Arts Communities site management and heraldry works.”
Cinema Art Cultural Central National Museum of the Philippines
Galleries Education Cultural - Located at the heart of Manila.
Communities - Repository of archeological artifacts, national
Dance Historical Language and South treasures, and rare specimens found and produced
Research Translation Cultural in the country.
Communities - Main task is to solicit, document, preserve exhibit
Dramatic Libraries and promote the natural and artificial wonders of
Arts and Infor the Philippines.
Services - Responsible for putting up networks of museum
Literary Arts Monuments around the country to serve as a local destination
& Sites of diverse natural and cultural heritage of the
Music Museums country.
Visual Arts
2 DIVISIONS OF NATIONAL MUSEUM
1. National History Museum
SIX ARTS AND CULTURAL GOVERNMENT - Tree of Life
AGENCIES UNDER NCCA - Features the country’s rich flora and fauna
species
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
2. National Art Gallery
- Serves as premier venue.
- Features the Spolarium painted by Juan Luna
- Hoster numerous shows and exhibitions on both
and other artworks throughout our history
performance and visual arts.
- Responsible for bringing together different arts
from different regions to the entire country and the National Library of the Philippines (NLP)
whole world. - Established 1901
- Called as American Circulating Library to serve as
National Historical Commission of the Philippines
a memorial to American servicemen who died in
(NHCP)
the Philippine soil.
- Created to inform the Filipino society about their
- Mandate to serve as a repository of printed and
history, love their country and take pride of their
recorded cultural heritage of the country and other
cultural heritage.
intellectual literary information sources.
- Guardian of 400 documents from Spanish era
dating 1552-1900 and records from American
period to the Republic.
- A fire began on May 28, 2018. However according
to the historians and scholars from University of
the Philippines, only the admin office was affected.
Actual archives are within Kalaw and Paco.
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)
- Created through the Republic Act No. 7104: Congress shall
establish a national language commission composed of
representatives of various regions and disciplines.
- Promotes and develop our national language.
- Anually give the Talaang Ginto: Makata ng Taon for Filipino
Poetry, Aklat ng Bayan and other grants of programs.
