Contemporary Philippine Arts

• Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions involves appreciating diverse styles across various disciplines.
• It emphasizes elements, principles, and an integrative approach to studying arts.

Art Defined

• Encompasses activities or products with communicative or aesthetic purpose.
• Expresses ideas, emotions, or world views.
• Utilizes human creative skill and imagination, mainly in visual forms.
• It is appreciated for its beauty or emotional power.
• Filipino art is greatly influenced across generations and cultures, showcasing diversity.

Art as Self-Expression

• Art can be expressed through paintings, music, poetry, and fashion.
• Art can be used for therapy, aesthetic purposes, inspiration, motivation and awareness.

Contemporary Art

• Contemporary is a fluid term that changes with context, referring to the present or happenings now.
• Contemporary Art is in flux, constantly evolving and is different than modern art which is considered traditional..

Characteristics of Contemporary Art

• Site-specific, its experience is tied to the original exhibit location.
• Process-based as it integrates various mediums and art forms.
• Collaborative and interactive, depending on audience participation for completion.
• Contemporary Art, unlike Modern Art, is defined by historical, stylistic, and cultural factors.
• Contemporary Art is open to possibilities and never fixed.
• Studying contemporary art provides a window into Philippine contemporary life.

Traditional Arts in the Philippines

• Traditional Arts include folk architecture and maritime transport.
• Other examples are weaving, carving, and folk performing arts.
• Includes folk literature, illustrations, ornaments, textiles, pottery, and other artistic expressions.
• Art throughout the regions often draws inspiration from cultural or social issues, customs, traditions, indigenous cultures, and established fine art forms.

Context of Art

• The various forms of art can be split into the broad categories of visual, performing and literary art.
• Visual Arts include drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography
• Other forms of art are ceramics, weaving, and architecture
• The Performing Arts include dance, music, and theater.

Visual Art

• Appeals to the visual sense, constructed using varied mediums.
• It takes a permanent form for appreciation by viewing, showcasing imagination and expression.

Literary Arts

• Imaginative writing with artistic value.
• Some well known forms of literature are poems, plays and novels

Performing Arts

• Involves creative activities performed before spectators.
• This form of art may be purposive of entertaining the audience, examples include dance, theatre, music, mime, and opera

Drawing

• Creates images, diagrams, or forms using drawing tools for comic strips, animations, and visual illustrations.
• Producing images on a surface with marks of ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, or crayon.

Painting

• Creative expression using pigment or color on a surface for aesthetic expression.
• The pigment may be wet, such as paint, or dry, such as pastels.

Sculpture

• Involves carving and modeling from materials like metals, ceramics, wood, or stone.
• Modernism provides freedom in materials and processes like carving modelling and addition in stone, metal, ceramics, wood

Photography

• Images are created by light exposure on a light-sensitive material.
• It's the practice of creating durable images by recording light.
• This could be electronically or chemically with an image sensor or light-sensitive material.

Ceramics

• Take the form of pottery, sculpture, and figurines .
• Some may be created for decorative functions, industrial, or for art.

Weaving

• Fabric or textile production interlaces sets of yarn, fibrous materials, or threads.

Architecture

• Creation of science with art to designing structures.
• Functionality and aesthetic design matter for the benefit of users.

Music

• Art form using sound to express insights and emotions through rhythm, melody, or harmony.
• Rhythm organizes musical sounds and silences in a sequence.

Dance

• An expression through sequenced body movement.
• Dance involves motion and the accompaniment of certain musical genres.

Theatre

• Collaborative art where performers act a story with speech, dance, music, and movements.

Elements of Art

• Stylistic features help the artist communicate.
• Common elements include line, shape, texture,form, space, color, and value.
• Additional elements are mark making and materiality,.

Line

• A simple element, marks upon paper or canvas.
• Lines can be horizontal, vertical, curved, or any other shape.
• Art forms using lines include drawings, paintings, and other two-dimensional art forms.

Horizontal Line

• Moves from left to right or right to left on the canvas.

Vertical Line

• Moves up and down on the canvas.

Diagonal Lines

• Slanted at any angle between horizontal and vertical.

Curved Lines

• Have natural ease and flexibility that can evoke an illusion of movement.

Wavy Line

• Undulates smoothly up and down or side to side.

Spiral Line

• Winds around a central point, getting progressively farther or closer to the end.

Zigzag Lines

• Convey chaos or disorder, often used in abstract or surrealist paintings.

Color

• Made up of hue, value, and intensity.
• Intensity describes the quality of brightness and purity.

Texture

• Refers to the physical appearance or feel of an object.
• Seen through bumps, ridges, grooves, and other physical details.
• Texture can also refer to the illusion of physicality creating depth to a painting or sculpture.

Volumes

• Refers to the amount of space occupied by an object.
• In art, it creates the illusion of depth and solidity on a two-dimensional surface.
• Masses represent the perceived weight and solidity of the form.

Value

• Value is the lightness or darkness of a color adding dimension.
• It can be created in line drawings through shading techniques with different lines.

Shape

• A two-dimensional, enclosed area created by lines, colors, or textures.
• It is geometric or organic.

Geometric Shapes

• Precise and based on mathematical formulas,
• Examples are circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and polygons.
• They create order and structure.

Organic Shapes

• More irregular, found in nature and defined by curves
• Examples are leaves, clouds, or animal figures.

Movement

• Adds excitement, drama, and compositional interest to an artwork.
• An artist directs eye movement by arranging elements in a certain way.
• Rhythm, line, color, balance, and space also create movement.

Principles of Design

• Describe how artists use the elements of art in a work of art.
• Balance is the distribution of visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space, creating stability.

Contrast

• Using opposites or different elements to create an arresting effect.
• Juxtaposition is placing contrasting elements side by side.

Balance

• How elements are weighted against each other, vertically, horizontally, diagonally or in the background against the foreground.

Symmetrical Balance (Symmetry)

• The work of art is the same on both sides, a mirror image.

Asymmetrical Balance (Asymmetry)

• The two halves of the work are different while still creating balance.

Unity (Harmony)

• Gives the artwork a sense of cohesion or coherence.
• The wholeness or completeness of a picture.
• Artists create ties a composition together, helping it make sense.

Movement

• Gives artists the ability to lead a viewer's eyes around an art piece.
• Artists create pathways so a viewer will automatically look in a certain direction.

Proportion

• The size of elements in relation to one another.
• Proportion signals what's important.
• Larger elements are more important, smaller elements less.

Emphasis

• Part of the design that catches the viewer's attention.
• The artist makes one area stand out by contrasting it with other areas.
• This could be accomplished through size, color, texture, shape, etc.

Repetition

• Repetition of the same or similar elements in a certain design.
• May include color, shapes, lines, fonts, and other elements.

Contrast (Principle of Design)

• A juxtaposition that accentuates differences through color, types of things, size, texture, darks and lights, color, and line.

Balance (Principle of Design)

• Balance is found in the distribution of equal visual weight.
• Symmetrical balance involves mirrored images.
• Asymmetrical balance involves different weighting.

Movement (Principle of Design)

• Directed path of optical motion.
• Directed by lines, change in color, or scale.

Proportion (Principle of Design)

• Scaling of objects in relation to each other.
• Tweaking proportion can change the effect.

Emphasis (Principle of Design)

• Accentuates importance, drawing the eye first.
• Often uses color, shape, size, and placement.

Repetition (Principle of Design)

• Sets up a feeling of rhythm by repeating shapes, texture, color, strokes, etc.
• The style, use of line, color, or shading is often repeated.

Pattern

• Orderly repetition of an object.
• Artists repeat an element over and over in their artwork.

Harmony

• Combines elements to accent their similarities.
• A picture is bound together when the elements are harmonious.

Proximity

• Placement of objects, whether near or far from each other.
• Elements near each other are perceived as related and elements spaced apart are perceived as belonging to separate groups.

Rhythm

• Repetitive organized movement or visual flow within an image.
• Repetition forms a type of rhythm.