THE BUILDERS, VICTORIO EDADES

INTERACTIVE
& REFLECTIVE

EXPERIENTIAL
MY EXPECTATIONS

ENGAGING & FUN

THOUGHT-PROVOKING
EXPECTATIONS FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART

CRITICAL & ANALYTICAL

INQUIRY-BASED
COLLABORATIVE
MY EXPECTATIONS

CREATIVE AND
DIVERGENT
 IMPORTANT
INSTITUTIONS
(GOVERNMENT &
PRIVATE) CONCERNING
PHILIPPINE ARTS
1 NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR
CULTURE AND THE ARTS
(NCCA)
2 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE
PHILIPPINES
3
4
 5

LOPEZ
MUSEUM
AND
LIBRARY
 6 QUBE
GALLERY,
CEBU

Source: Zerothreetwo website

 7
856 G GALLERY,
CEBU

Artwork by Popo San Pascual

Source: 856 G Gallery website and Zee Lifestyle magazine site

CONTEMPORARY ART IS
INTEGRATIVE.
COLLABORATIVE. PROCESS-
ORIENTED.

ConArt in a nutshell
CONTEMPORARY
VS. MODERN ART
ARE MODERN ART AND CONTEMPORARY ART THE
SAME?
MODERN ART
•Up to date
•Technologically advanced
•Modern as opposed to traditional and
conservative
CONTEMPORARY ART
•Art produced by artists living today
•Always in flux, developing, evolving
•What is contemporary today may be
traditional or modern in the coming
years.
 HISTORICAL AND
CHRONOLOGICAL
FIRST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ART

Lavandera,Victorio Edades
 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: PHILIPPINE ART
Form Pre-Conquest Spanish Period American Period Japanese Period Postwar 70s-
1521-1898 1898-1940 1941-1945 Republic Contemporary
1946-1969
PAINTING body adornment; Religious (icon and Landscape, Wartime scenes
ornament ecclesiastical), portraiture, genre, (aggression,
secular interior, still life nationalism,
(portraiture) atrocities,
Modern, Figurative, non-
symbolic, protest)
conservative, figurative, art for art
SCULPTURE Pottery; carving Santos, furniture, Free standing, Propaganda
abstract, sake, multimedia,
and woodwork, reliefs, altar relief, public Indigenizing
experimental, mixed media,
metalwork and pieces, jewelry, orientilizing works
public art transmedia
expression metalwork, genre, idyllis
ornamentation (Amorsolo,
Francisco,
Ocampo)
ARCHITECTURE Dwellings and Church, plaza City planning, Public works Real estate, safe housing,
houses, shelters, complex, town parks,waterfront, accessories, tenements, squatters,
worship areas, planning, civic/government convention arch, commercial/business,
official fortification, civic structures, public condominiums, malls, subdivisions,
residences, buildings and works, apartments, development, low cost housing
mosque, masjid, installations, residences,
state edifices private residences, offices, health &
commercial public education,
structures, business
cemeteries,
bridges, lighthouse Source: Contemporary Phil. Arts textbook, Rex
Manunggul Jar
Tagalog royalty Visayan royalty
Pintados Mga alipin Common women
Lavandera by Victorio
Edades

Edades was considered a

“modern” artist when he
came home from his studies
in the US. His style and bold
colors were “shocking” to
most of the art patrons who
were more inclined to the
traditional and conservative
styles of Fernando Amorsolo
and Guillermo Tolentino
known as Neoclassic Art.
 Differences between Neoclassic and Modern Art

Neoclassic Art Modern Art

- Painted reality as - Does not aim to copy and
closely as possible idealize reality
- Idealized reality - Colors are changed
- Beautiful and pastoral - The picture is flattened instead
objects of creating an illusion of depth,
nearness and farness
- It depicted what might be
thought of as ugly and
unpleasant
 A gallery at the
National
Museum of the
Philippines
housing
Academic and
Neoclassic
sculptures

Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

 A gallery of
Guillermo
Tolentino’s works
(Guillermo is a
neoclassical
artist)

Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

 Guillermo Tolentino

Original UP Oblation statue at the UP Main Library

http://noypicollections.blogspot.com/2011/07/life-and-works-of-guillermo-tolentino.html
 Guillermo Tolentino

Bonifacio Monument

Source: FAQ.ph
 Academic and
Romantic Art

Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

Source: National Museum of the Philippines website
Juan Luna, Las Damas Romanas, 1882
Source: Wikipedia – Juan Luna
Letras y Figuras by Jose Honorato Lozano
Estampas (Spanish Colonial Period) Jose Lucio Dans (Paete, Laguna)
 Religious art of
the 17th to 19th
centuries

Source: National Museum of the Philippines website

ART MOVEMENTS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED PHILIPPINE ART

BAROQUE
- Emerged during the 17th century/1600s
• Started in Italy and in the Catholic Church
• Art was more emotional and dramatic and
full of movement
• A style that used exaggerated motion in
order to produce drama and tension in
sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and
music.

Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velasquez

 BAROQUE

Trevi Fountain in Rome Source: By Diliff - Own work, CC BY 3.0,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3943
 BAROQUE

Basilica ng Nazareno, Quiapo

ART MOVEMENTS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED PHILIPPINE ART

ROCOCO
- 18th century
• It also started in Italy and spread
throughout Europe and across the Atlantic
• Was a reaction against the classical order
and symmetry of the Baroque
ROCOCO

Basilica of St. Alexander and St. Theodore, Bavaria

REFERENCES
• Rex Publishing House. Contemporary Arts
• Vibal Publishing House. Contemporary Arts
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Prepared by: Ophelynn (Yen) Cano