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CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE ARTS
FROM THE REGIONS
What is contemporary arts?
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second
half of the 20th century or in 21st century.

Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, cultural


diverse, and technologically advancing world.

Their art is a dynamic combinations of materials, methods,


concepts, and subject that continue the challenging of
boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century.
Is contemporary same as being
modern?
The first difference between the
contemporary and modern art is
historical and chronological, as
the overview of Philippine art in
Lesson 2 will show.
Contemporary art can be defined as art produced by
artists living today.

Today, modern art is referred to as “traditional”


compared to contemporary arts. Contemporary art is
the art of the present, which is continuously in process
and in flux. What is contemporary art today might
become academic or traditional at some point. The
style of the modern art for example are now part of
the art school curricula and have become academic.
The picture was taken
around 2013, in hong kong,
the photographer, zyza
bacani, who hails from
nueva vizcaya, worked as
a domestic helper, and is
now based in new York on
a scholarship.
On her day off, she shot
with her digicamera.
ZYZA BACANI
 HR’s
ocampos painting
was painted in the early
1960’s. at that time, the
painting was considered
contemporary.
 Today,we refer to these
works as examples of
modern art, produced
between the American
colonial period to the
post-war period.
 There are a number of artists-young and senior, alike– who paint in styles
associated with modern art.
 National artist Victorio Edades is credited for iniating the Modern Art movement
that challenged the Neoclassic style, whch was dominant at the time he came
home from studying in America before the war.
 The Neoclassic style depicts reality as closely as possible and idealizes it.
 The modern artists led by edades challenged what were described as
“conservative” art seen in the works of National Artists Fernando Amorsolo and
Guillermo Tolentino.
 Instead of the beautiful and pastoral, they depict what might be thought of as
“ugly” and unpleasant.
 Modern Art was considered new and shocking; Neoclassic Art was familiar and
comfortable.
 In its simplest sense Neoclassicism is “academic’ as it was and continues to be
taught in schools, particularly the then university of the Philippines School of fine
arts (no UP college of Fine Arts), where Amorsolo and Tolentino were most
influential.
What are the similarities and
differences between modern art
and contemporary art?
 Carlos franciscos depiction of fishing as a difficult process, while
amorsolos rendition emphasizes calm and placidity. Like Francisco’s
Magpupukot (1957) , HR Ocampo’s The contrast (1940), Cesar
Legaspi’s Frugal Meal, Edades’ The Builders (1928), shows the oppressive
condition of the underprivileged classes.
 as we shall learn in the historical overview in the next lesson, modern
artists like Romeo Tabuena, Hernando Ocampo, Vicente Manansala,
Victor Oteyza, Ramon Estrella and Cesar Legaspi were actively
depicting the social conditons in the aftermath of world war II. Called
neo-realists by critic Aguilar Cruz, these artists depicted society’s
problems and challenged the neoclassic rural-pastoral style associated
with amorsolo and Tolentino.
 The social realists of the seventies are considered heirs of this tradition.
 Social Realism continues to influence
contemporary artists. For example, Imelda
Cajipe-Endaya’s Filipina DH, 1995 is social
realist, but the style and medium of the
installation is markedly different.
 refer
to “The Stylistic Overview” table for
an idea of the difference in style and
medium between modern art and
contemporary art.
STYLISTIC OVERVIEW
FORM PRECOLONIAL SPANISH/ISLAMIC AMERICAN MODERN POSTMODERN/CONTEMP
COLONIAL COLONIAL ORARY

PAINTING Religious/ Incipient Collaborative, hyper-


Devotional triumvirate 13 realist, new painting
Secular moderns,
Formal abstract,
Naturalistic neorealist,
(homegrown, Classical, Idylitic, Surreal,
RELIGIOUS miniaturismo, nostalgic expressionist
SCULPTURE (animist or Islamic) guild) Abstract Junk/scrap,
Community Academic Espressinissm duchampian, arte
based inter ethic covera, neoindigenous,
relations colletive site-specific,
history performance art, hybrid

Worship related Neoclassic, art International Filipino architecture,


and residential deco (juan industrializing, ubran planning,
ARCHITECTURE Earthquake Arellano, juan electric, economic zone,
Baroque Nakpil, Pablo neovernacular, prefab,
Hispanic Revivalist Antonio) regionalist, cosmopolitan
(neogothic, Art Nouveau,
neoromanesque, California Mission
islamic_) style
 Ibn Saud Salipyasin Ahmad from Zamboanga, Mindanao
comes from a hybrid mixture of the local subanen and
traditional MaguindanaoMuslin cultures.
 He is a contemporary artist but his cultural context is
indigenous Southeast Asian and Philippine Muslim.
 His style can be considered “traditional’ as it draws on the
traition and intricacy of drafting technique, which he learned
in a trade school in Zamboanga.
 His medium is watercolor.
 His subject matter is the people of his locality.
 His depictions invite us to witness his culture and its tradtions in
the context of todays changing times.
What are the general
characteristics of contemporary
arts?
Although contemporary artists like Saudi
ahmad continue to use traditional media
such as watercolor and oil on canvas,
others like Cajipe-Endaya used mixed
media.
Some works are also site-specific, meaning
they cannot be experienced in the same
way if removed from their original places of
exhibit whether in the gallery, out on the
streets, in the forest, on the internet.
 The filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and his family perform
their life as their art and vice versa, as evident in the
art spaces in Baguio which have become associated
with a mix of performance, installation, architecture,
and culinary arts.

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