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LESSON 1 FORMS OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART Picture is a two-dimensional image of various subjects Marcel Duchamp Fountain is a 1917 readymade rang...

LESSON 1 FORMS OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART Picture is a two-dimensional image of various subjects Marcel Duchamp Fountain is a 1917 readymade ranging from real-life images to the visually abstract. sculpture that features a porcelain urinal with the name "R. Mutt" on it. April 1917 saw the submission of a Sculpture is a three-dimensional artwork that may be common plumbing item selected by Duchamp for the created using stone, marble, wood, and concrete. Society of Independent Artists' first exhibition, which was Architecture are structures that are meant to be used as scheduled to take place at New York's Grand Central shelter. The art of architecture relies on the design and Palace. purpose of the structure. BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART Music is an art form appeals to the sense of hearing. Music is composed by combining notes into harmony. WHAT IS ART? Art came from the Latin word ars, meaning Literature is the art form of language through the “skill.” In this sense, we could say that art combined use of words, creating meaning and is a skill of using different materials or experience. media to represent an idea or concept. Theater is the art form of performance. Dramatic Contemporary art is the term used to texts are portrayed on stage by actors and represent the “art of today.” However, actresses and are enhanced by props, lights, and despite the broader sense of the word sounds. contemporary, which means “belonging to the same time,” the definition becomes Cinema is the art form is a technological problematic, especially in visual arts. translation of theater. In films, special effects are utilized to enhance the Note: “belonging to the same time,” This is storytelling. because the works labeled as contemporary can be from a wide range of decades and, therefore, do not Dance is the art of the human form. The necessarily belong to the same period body is used, mobilized, and choreographed in a specific time, form, and Contemporary art initially started and grew along with space. modernism. According to some art historians, contemporary art started when Roger Eliot Fry and his PHILIPPINE ART AS FILIPINO colleagues founded the Contemporary Art Society in 1910. The landscape paintings of Fernando Amorsolo and the historical depictions of Carlos “Botong” Francisco is Art historians considered the 1960s as the birth of genuinely Filipino. contemporary art with the emergence of pop art, an art movement that veered away from modernism The stories and poems in English written by N. V. M. Gonzales and Edith Tiempo is Filipino. MODERN ART v/s CONTEMPORARY ART LESSON 2 Modern art came before contemporary art. Most art CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENT historians and critics put the beginning of modern art in the West at around the 1860s, continuing up to the 1960s. Contemporary Art Forms Most contemporary artists use various media in creating PHILIPPINE ART their artworks to break boundaries between art forms. A mixed media approach enables artists to communicate to The Greek philosopher Aristotle provided the earliest their spectators how harmoniously different parts come assumptions of art as linked to human instincts - "most together to create a complex representation. imitative of living creatures". CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENTS Painting is the most common art form that contemporary artists create. Artists make use of color pigments and apply them on canvas or boards. Artists do not only use paints in their works, but they also incorporate different Earth Art or Land Art artists create structures in a media and other art techniques, such as ink drawings or landscape using natural materials such as rocks. The goal cutout paper, magazines, and other photos to make a of this art movement is to transform natural landscapes collage. into works of art. Sculpture is an artistic form in which hard or plastic Street Art is an art movement inspired by graffiti art, materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects. wherein artists create their artworks on public places, such The designs may be embodied in freestanding objects, in as walls of buildings, sidewalks, and highway overpasses reliefs on surfaces, or in environments ranging from in urban areas. Street artists create artworks that convey tableaux to contexts that envelop the spectator. political ideas or social commentaries. Photography is to communicate and document events, Conceptual Art this art movement rejected the idea that moments, or portraits over time. However, contemporary art is a commodity—a reaction against minimalism and photographers apply different styles in photography and pop art. even neglect or break traditional rules in photography. Digital Art - formerly referred to as computer art or cybernetic art, digital art began in Europe and the United Installation is another art form or artistic genre where States in the 1960s. Digital artists use different media and three-dimensional works are usually site-specific, technology to create multimedia installations, film-based Installation or configuration of objects in a space, where photography, and computer-generated or digital images. the totality of objects and space comprise the artwork. ART NOVEAUX Performance is the use of bodies as a medium or tool to Art in Contemporary Times communicate ideas or concepts through actions or J. Paul Getty Museum defines contemporary art as “art movements. Performances may be in the form of acting, made and produced by artists living today". singing, dancing, or oral recitation of written works. NEW ELEMENTS OR PRINCIPLES Digital and Video Art is maximizing the use of technology, artists use computers rather than traditional Appropriation contemporary artists revive interest to art tools or media to create their artworks. Artists make existing form of art. The existing artworks are use of video presentations that can be combined with "appropriated" to form another work. The practice of audio or broadcast to create works of art. artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original. MAJOR CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENTS Performance artists have tried to interpret various human activities, from ordinary activities such as chores, Pop Art is often characterized by bold colors, routines, and rituals, to socially relevant themes particularly the primary colors: red, blue and such as poverty, commercialism, and war. yellow. The colors were usually bright and similar to your typical comic strip palette. Space art transforms a space is now an occupation of contemporary artists. Have you encountered a Minimalism was first coined by an American flash mob or sculpture installations in malls and professor of philosophy Richard Wollheim to parks? describe minimalism which is to reduce paintings and sculptures to their essentials: the Hybridity in contemporary art is the mixing pure qualities of color, form, space, and of unlikely materials to produce an materials. artwork. Contemporary artists are now as innovative as ever. In traditional Photorealism is a style that employs painting, only a few materials are of a “more real than real” precision of conventional use. detail. It emerged with the aim of creating hyper realistic paintings and Technology is a reality in the drawings that usually involve a present-day world, and reproduction of photographs, contemporary artists have including portraits, landscapes, and used technology in the creation others. and dissemination of works of art.