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Contempora Ry Arts From The Regions: Lesson 1

The document discusses the evolution of art in the Philippines from Modern to Contemporary art, noting how Contemporary art moved beyond stylistic trends to focus more on ideas and social issues. It then outlines several qualities of Contemporary art, such as being process-based, site-specific, collaborative, interactive, and using various mediums. Contemporary art forms discussed include installation, performance, and works that incorporate mixed media.

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Contempora Ry Arts From The Regions: Lesson 1

The document discusses the evolution of art in the Philippines from Modern to Contemporary art, noting how Contemporary art moved beyond stylistic trends to focus more on ideas and social issues. It then outlines several qualities of Contemporary art, such as being process-based, site-specific, collaborative, interactive, and using various mediums. Contemporary art forms discussed include installation, performance, and works that incorporate mixed media.

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CONTEMPORA

RY ARTS FROM
THE REGIONS
Lesson 1
Fernando
Amorsolo’s
Fishing
Scene
Zyza Bacani’s
DH Series
Imelda
Felipe-
Candaya’s
Filipina DH
MODERN ART CONTEMPORARY ART
 Victorio Edades in reaction to  After WW II; social order and national
Neoclassist art identity were being rebuilt and redefined
 Neoclassic – artistic style in Europe (mid-  Issues and struggles became more
1700s), employed classical (Greco-Roman) important than stylistic trend; preferring
ideals of beauty and proportion of human idea over form
figure about history, mythology, and  Aesthetic of art is beyond “art is beauty”
literature with refined realistic rendering
*fine art has been liberated from previous
technique
constraints
 Juan Luna and Fernando Amorsolo
 Diversity of creators and their ideas,
 Precursor of contemporary art; preferring
 Artworks produced in the present or by
the expressive over the idealized
living artists
Qualities of • Process-based – how artist starts not with a
final product in mind, but instead begins with
Contempora the development of a concept, subsequently

ry Art
proceeds with realizing with the idea
• Site-specific – allows for an artwork’s
meaning to have a direct relationship to a
specific location where it is seen or
experienced
• Collaborative – end product is created with
the involvement of two or more artists
• Interactive – how the audience has the
potential to change or add to the meaning of
artwork
Qualities of • Process-based – how artist starts not with a
final product in mind, but instead begins with
Contempora the development of a concept, subsequently

ry Art
proceeds with realizing with the idea
• Site-specific – allows for an artwork’s
meaning to have a direct relationship to a
specific location where it is seen or
experienced
• Collaborative – end product is created with
the involvement of two or more artists
• Interactive – how the audience has the
potential to change or add to the meaning of
artwork
• Integrative – free to integrate any medium
Qualities of and any art form or style to express artistic
Contempora intention without being limited
• Installation – involves real space in which
ry Art elements of his/her artwork or multiple works,
in various forms and mediums, would be
arranged to effectively convey the artist’s
intent
• Mixed media – technique that uses different
materials in the creation of an arwork
• Performance– executes in live audience by
means of movement, space, spontaneity, and
the uniqueness of the moment
Neo-Realism – exemplified a new kind of
modernism emerged, observed by the artist-
writer E. Aguilar Cruz
Social Realism – started within the Modern Art
period during 1970s to 1980s, aimed to expose
the current socio-political issues by depicting
the reality of the masses, marginalized,
inequality, and forms of repression

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