Contemporary Philippine Arts From The Region PDF

CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGION  PAINTING  Refers to the process of applying color on a flat surface.  Forms can be created using a wide variety materials such as watercolor, acrylic, ink, oil, pastel, and charcoal.  Surfaces for painting include woo...

CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGION  PAINTING  Refers to the process of applying color on a flat surface.  Forms can be created using a wide variety materials such as watercolor, acrylic, ink, oil, pastel, and charcoal.  Surfaces for painting include wood, canvas, cardboard and paper.  It is considered two-dimensional.  FORMS OF PAINTING 1. EASEL PAINTING – it is the most common form of painting which involves applying color to a board or canvas that is fixed on an upright support called an easel. These are meant to be framed and hanged on a wall after creating them.  FORMS OF PAINTING 2. TELON PAINTING - a Telon is describes as a backdrop or background for the stage which are used for komedya, sarswela, and senakulo, the popular forms of theater in the country.  FORMS OF PAINTING 3. COLLAGE – this refers to a form of painting that involves combine images in a single artwork. This entails cutting and pasting materials such as paper, fabric, tin foil, and other relatively flat materials onto a  FORMS OF PAINTING 4. MURALS – a mural is described as a huge wall- sized painting used to impart messages to the public. A new form of mural which is a portable mural, was developed in order to prevent the mural from being erased from the wall which was created by using bold strokes in applying bright colors on pieces of cheesecloth or canvas. 5. JEEPNEY AND CALESA PAINTING Calesa Painting is typically painted using one color. The borders of the calesa are decorated with geometric patterns, repetitive patterns and/or thin lines. Jeepney Painting evolved from Calesa painting. In a typical jeepney, a logo, number, or painting is covered near the driver’s seat as well as near the seats adjacent to it.  THEMES OF PAINTING 1. HISTORICAL PAINTING – depicts a scene from the past. It often has a lesson concerning national values.  THEMES OF PAINTING 2. INTERIORS – this refers to painting of the space inside of a part of a house or a building. This usually reveals the social class of the family living in that particular house, as well as the traits of the people living in it.  THEMES OF PAINTING 3. LANDSCAPES – these painting portrays natural scenery or urban scenes. Mixed media is now used in creating landscape paintings. Closely related to landscapes or seascapes, which focus on large bodies of water, particularly the ocean or the sea.  THEMES OF PAINTING 4. PORTRAITS – this refers to a painting one or more specific individuals. This usually portrays the physical characteristics of the subject and seeks to show an understanding of that person’s character.  THEMES OF PAINTING 5. NUDES – these are paintings that portray the unclothed human figure. Nowadays, a wide variety of materials and styles can be used in painting nudes. Nude painting sessions are conducted in galleries.  THEMES OF PAINTING 6. RELIGIOUS PAINTING – common subjects of religious painting includes a lone religious image, lives of the saints, and scenes based from the scriptures like the Nativity scene and the Station of the cross. 7. GENRE PAINTING – portrays people in daily activities. During the contemporary period, genre painting took several directions. One of these new approaches is folk genre, which mainly focuses on the everyday activities of the folk. Another approach is using the style of cubism in depicting folk or urban subjects. On the other hand, folk-naïve is another style wherein it uses a lot of color and spontaneity. 8. STILL LIFE – this refers to a painting that depicts the natural or man-made objects that form a composition in a natural setting. A lot of styles can be used by artists in painting, ranging from Baroque and Rococo, to impressionism, expressionism and abstract. NEO-REALISM involves creating representational figures that also look abstract; HYPERREALISM OR MAGIC REALISM, the subject is painted in a highly realistic way that it resembles a photograph and SOCIAL REALISM entails creating paintings that depicts socioeconomic and political problems.