CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS

1. SHS DEPARTMENT
Division of Calamba City
PALO ALTO INTERGRATED SCHOOL
CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPPINE ARTS
FROM ITS REGIONS

3. ARTS
•Something that is created
with imagination and skill
and that is beautiful or that
expresses important ideas or
feelings.

4. ARTS
•Art is a diverse range of human
activity, and resulting product, that
involves creative or imaginative
talent expressive of technical
proficiency, beauty, emotional
power, or conceptual ideas

5. ARTS
• Derived from the Latin word ars/artis
which means to do or man-made.
• A medium of expression because we express
our ideas, emotions, feelings, without using
words.
• Creative activity that involves skill or
expertise in handling materials and
organizing them into something new.

6. ARTS
• Applied to express ideas by the use of skill
and imagination in the creation of objects
and experiences that can be shared to
others
• Art is the skillful arrangement of nature
such as colors sounds, lines, movements,
words, stones, wood, etc., and to express
human feelings. – Rustia

9. Importance of Art
• Satisfies the needs for personal
expression
• Develops our skills to express ourselves
• Challenges us to see things differently
• Unleashes our hidden desires and
passion

10. Importance of Art
•Can change our ways in life
•Sees the truth that we might
not understand before
•Gives pleasure, satisfaction and
gratification

11. Functions of Art
•Most important means of expression
developed by man.
•To express beauty
•To give man moment of relaxation
and spiritual happiness

12. Functions of Art
•To serve as a channel of man’s
passion
•To reform man
•To overcome the feelings of
restlessness and loneliness

13. Work of Art
•An activity that involves both
imagination and skill in
accomplishing it
•A thing of beauty having aesthetic
value; obra maestra that provides
aesthetic value to viewers

14. Work of Art
•Must have an artistic and
literary merit
•A symbolic state of meaning
rather having a practical
function

15. Elements
of Art

16. • Space
In visual arts, space pertains to emptiness
which may either be positive space or
negative space. Positive space refers to a
part which is enclosed in a shape, while
negative space refers to the opposite part
which the shape is enclosing.

18. • Line
In visual arts, a line is a series of connected points. It
may come in two characteristics: form – curved, dotted,
or broken lines; and direction – vertical, horizontal, or
diagonal lines. Different types of lines may convey
different meanings. For example, a horizontal line
usually suggests calmness, vert ical lines may convey
strength, diagonal lines create an impression of action,
curved lines create an expression of gradual change of
direction, and circular line may pertain an abrupt
change of direction.

20. • Shape and Form
Shape is an area that is enclosed by a line or lines.
Shapes are two dimensional figures with height and
width. There are different kinds of shapes and these are
geometric shapes (triangle, squares, rectangle, etc.),
organic shapes (shapes found in nature, e.g. shape of a
leaf or cloud), abstract shapes (asymmetrical and free
flowing shapes). Meanwhile, forms are three
dimensional figures. Its dimensions are height, width,
and volume. Unlike shapes, it has more depth

23. • Color
In visual arts, color is associated with
the natural phenomenon in our
environment. Scientifically, when a light
passes through a prism, it will produce
different hues of different wavelengths.
These colors may pertain to lightness,
darkness, coolness, or warmth.

26. • Value
In visual arts, value is
considered a property
of a color which
pertains to its lightness
or darkness.

29. • Texture
In visual arts, texture is the
element that appeals to our
sense of feel on things,
rough, smooth, bumpy, or
slippery. It pertains to the
surface of an art piece.

31. Principles
of Art

32. • Proportion
Proportion refers to the relationship of
the size of elements in a body of art. For
example, when drawing a human
standing beside a house, it is important
to ensure that the size of the human is
proportional to the size of the house.

34. • Harmony
In visual arts, harmony is the
unity of the artwork,
specifically about the
arrangement of the related
elements.

37. • Variety
In other terms, variety may be
referred to as diversity. This
means adding multiple, different
elements to break the monotony
of an artwork and make it more
interesting.

39. • Movement
In arts, movement is the
illusion of motion in a
painting, sculpture design, or
in a piece of art.

42. • Rhythm
This refers to the repetition of
certain elements to produce a
pattern. In visual arts,
repeated design elements may
create a certain flow and may
lead the viewer’s eyes.

44. • Balance
Balance refers to the even
and equal distribution of
elements.

46. • Emphasis
Emphasis is a principle which
may refer to the greater
impact given on a certain
element.

49. CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPPINE ARTS
FROM ITS REGIONS

50. Contemporary Arts
• Contemporary art forms refer to field of
arts such as painting, drawing, dancing,
music, sculpture, architecture, etc.
• Contemporary art is the art of today and
produced in the second half of the 20th
century or in the 21st century.

51. Contemporary Arts
• Contemporary art in most cases, defined
it as art that has been and continuously
being created during our lifetime.
• During the 21st century, these art forms
include photography, graphic design and
animation.

52. Contemporary Arts
• Contemporary art is the art of the
modern world, created in the last half of
the 21st Century.
• Contemporary or modern-day artists
work in an internationally inclined,
culturally and ethnically diverse and
technologically and scientifically forward
moving world.