What is Integrative Art?

• Integrative art is when different art forms work together to create a unified work for a particular audience.
• This approach involves the study, development, production, and display of works that combine two or more artistic disciplines.
• The interconnection of art forms has led to a combination of various artistic disciplines leading to richer art.

Examples of Integrated Art:

• Choreography involves the arrangement and design of dance movements, usually accompanied by music, to tell a story.
• Choreography combines dance, music, visual arts, and sometimes theater, storytelling, and literature.
• Musical instruments are tools/ devices that produce sound.
• The intricate designs of musical instruments represent applied arts, while their primary function is to create music.
• Literary and Musical Compositions are literary works including prose or poetry meant to be read, sung, or performed.
• Lyrics (literature) and music create a dialogue between text and melody, enhancing emotional and narrative depth.
• Theatrical Performance is the staging and execution of productions like drama, opera, and festivals.
• Theater blends multiple disciplines, including acting, literature, music, dance, and visual arts (set and costume design), creating a multidimensional experience.
• Integrative art serves as a clear reflection of contemporary art forms.

Contemporary Art Forms in the Philippines:

• Choreography meaning dance movements arranged in a meaningful way, often to tell a story, showcases society's way of living or highlights social issues.
• It is commonly seen in street dance productions at various festivals
• Combining dance and music form together traditional art forms.
• Musical Instruments: Any tool that produces sound.
• Integration of arts is seen in their intricate designs (applied arts) and musical function.
• Lucrecia Kasilag is the National Artist for Music, known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.
• Literary works include poems, novels, and stories.
• Musical compositions are not written in text form but are notated.
• Integration Example: Songs that address social realism rather than just entertainment.

Visual Design and Applied Arts:

• Before the Contemporary Era: Visual art was mainly for aesthetic purposes and applied arts focused on functionality.
• Now: Combines aesthetic appeal with functionality.
• Traditional sculptures focused on realistic figures.
• Contemporary sculptures emphasize movement, emotions, and thoughts.
• Mike Alano's Work is a politically themed sculpture reflecting Philippine politics.
• Contemporary architecture has no fixed or recognizable style due to various influences.
• SM Seaside Cebu is notable for its 147-meter-tall tower, featuring restaurants, coffee shops, and a viewing deck with a 360-degree view of Cebu City.
• Installation Art is a 3-dimensional, site-specific art form designed to transform a space.
• Installation Art is often temporary, created to highlight social issues
• Greenpeace's Beached Whale Installation (2017, Naic, Cavite) advocates against plastic pollution, gained recognition at the Cannes Lions Festival in France.
• Interactive Art requires audience participation to complete the experience.
• The audience's involvement makes the artwork more meaningful.
• Theatrical Performance presents public presentations of dramatic or musical entertainment, and is experimental, innovative, and interdisciplinary.
• Rak of Aegis is the Longest-running original Pinoy musical, showcasing Filipino resilience.
• Ang Huling El Bimbo is a musical featuring songs from the iconic 90s rock band, Eraserheads.
• Cinema is the most popular yet youngest art form, similar to theater but recorded instead of performed live.

Characteristics of Contemporary Art Forms:

• Conceptual art is filled with diverse ideas.
• Innovative art is original and unique
• Expressive art evokes strong emotions and conveys deep messages.
• Experimental art pushes boundaries in function and purpose.
• Audience Participation encourages interaction and personal interpretation.
• Abstract Expressionism does not aim for realism but emphasizes emotion and meaning.
• Technological Influence has new tools and methods emerge, changing how contemporary art is created
• Modern photography techniques go beyond simple snapshots.
• Societal Themes addresses social realities and concerns.
• Artist's Mark reflects the artist's identity and beliefs.

Elements of Art

• The elements of art are the building blocks used by artists to create a work of art.
• Space is the area between and around objects, also refer to the feeling of depth.
• The space around objects is often called negative space; negative space has shape.
• Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art, when we create the feeling or illusion of depth, we call it space.
• Form includes three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth, such as balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids.
• Shape is a closed line that can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form or natural shapes
• Shape expresses length and width
• Color is light reflected off of objects.
• Color has three main characteristics: Hue, Value, and Intensity.
• Hue is the main property of color, what differentiates colors
• Value is how light or dark it is
• Intensity is how bright or dull it is
• White is pure light; black is the absence of light.
• Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors.
• Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet).
• Complementary colors are located directly across from each other on the color wheel.
• Complementary pairs contrast because they share no common colors.

Line:

• Is a mark is a mark with greater length than width, can have direction (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) and character (zigzag or curved, series of dots/broken lines)
• Texture is the surface quality that can be seen and felt, can be rough or smooth, soft or hard.
• Actual texture are felt and viewed

Principles of Design:

• Balance is a distribution of visual weight on either side of a vertical axis.
• Symmetrical balance uses the same characteristics on both sides, while asymmetrical balance uses different but equally weighted features.
• Contrast is the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark, rough vs. smooth, small vs. large, etc.) to create visual interest.
• Emphasis is used to make certain parts of an artwork stand out, creating a center of interest or focal point.
• It's where the artist draws the viewer's eye first.
• Movement is how the eye moves through the composition, leading the viewer's attention from one aspect to another, and can create the illusion of action.
• Pattern is the repetition of specific visual elements (shape or form) to organize surfaces in a consistent, regular manner.
• Rhythm is the regular repetition or alternation of elements to create cohesiveness and interest.
• Unity: meaning a visually pleasing agreement among the elements in a design; the feeling that everything works together and fits.
• The subject of art refers to any person, object, scene, or event described or represented in a work of art.

Classifications of the Subject of Art:

• Recognizable Art includes real objects, meaning it can be identified and represents real objects.
• Non Recognizable Art does not depict real objects and is open to interpretation.
• Recognizable Art: Is realistic, representational, and objective.
• Non-Recognizable Art: Is non-representational, and non-objective.

Art Styles:

• Realism is a subject depicted as it actually looks in real life.
• Distortion is when the artist alters the subject using imagination and personal design, in a stylized work that is a form of distortion.
• Abstraction is when the artist takes a subject and rearranges it in a different manner.
• Non-Objectivism has no identifiable subject, only an interplay of pure elements (line, shape, color, etc.).