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Contempora Ry Arts From The Regions: Lesson 1
Contempora Ry Arts From The Regions: Lesson 1
RY ARTS FROM
THE REGIONS
Lesson 1
Fernando
Amorsolo’s
Fishing
Scene
Zyza Bacani’s
DH Series
Imelda
Felipe-
Candaya’s
Filipina DH
MODERN ART CONTEMPORARY ART
Victorio Edades in reaction to After WW II; social order and national
Neoclassist art identity were being rebuilt and redefined
Neoclassic – artistic style in Europe (mid- Issues and struggles became more
1700s), employed classical (Greco-Roman) important than stylistic trend; preferring
ideals of beauty and proportion of human idea over form
figure about history, mythology, and Aesthetic of art is beyond “art is beauty”
literature with refined realistic rendering
*fine art has been liberated from previous
technique
constraints
Juan Luna and Fernando Amorsolo
Diversity of creators and their ideas,
Precursor of contemporary art; preferring
Artworks produced in the present or by
the expressive over the idealized
living artists
Qualities of • Process-based – how artist starts not with a
final product in mind, but instead begins with
Contempora the development of a concept, subsequently
ry Art
proceeds with realizing with the idea
• Site-specific – allows for an artwork’s
meaning to have a direct relationship to a
specific location where it is seen or
experienced
• Collaborative – end product is created with
the involvement of two or more artists
• Interactive – how the audience has the
potential to change or add to the meaning of
artwork
Qualities of • Process-based – how artist starts not with a
final product in mind, but instead begins with
Contempora the development of a concept, subsequently
ry Art
proceeds with realizing with the idea
• Site-specific – allows for an artwork’s
meaning to have a direct relationship to a
specific location where it is seen or
experienced
• Collaborative – end product is created with
the involvement of two or more artists
• Interactive – how the audience has the
potential to change or add to the meaning of
artwork
• Integrative – free to integrate any medium
Qualities of and any art form or style to express artistic
Contempora intention without being limited
• Installation – involves real space in which
ry Art elements of his/her artwork or multiple works,
in various forms and mediums, would be
arranged to effectively convey the artist’s
intent
• Mixed media – technique that uses different
materials in the creation of an arwork
• Performance– executes in live audience by
means of movement, space, spontaneity, and
the uniqueness of the moment
Neo-Realism – exemplified a new kind of
modernism emerged, observed by the artist-
writer E. Aguilar Cruz
Social Realism – started within the Modern Art
period during 1970s to 1980s, aimed to expose
the current socio-political issues by depicting
the reality of the masses, marginalized,
inequality, and forms of repression