CONTEXT

- it refers to setting, conditions,

circumstances, and occurences,
affecting production and reception or
audience response to an artwork.
- It is a set of background information
that enables us to formulate meanings
about works of ART and note how
context affects form.
 DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
OF ART

a) ARTIST BACKGROUND

The artist’s age, gender, culture, economic

conditions, social environment, and
disposition affect art production.
CUTTING ONIONS ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY
by: Julie Lluch

 This painting would often

emphasize her female
identity and personal
experiences.
b) NATURE
 Nature can be seen as a source of
inspiration and wellspring of materials
for art production.
T’NALAK
 It uses abaca fibers stripped from the trunk of the banana tree, and
colored with red and black dyes naturally extracted from roots and
leaves of plants.

ANGUD, A FOREST ONCE

 Was posed as contemporary on the abuse of nature. It
involved 10,000 pieces of gathered tree stumps to
recreate a deforested landscape.

TOILERS OF THE SEA by Ricarte Purugganan

 It depicts nature as an uncontrollable force.
c) EVERYDAY LIFE

 Philippine traditional art has always

been an integral part of daily life.
PABALAT

The crisp Ilocano bed cover

with dainty Ubas designs.
PASTILLAS
Delicate pastillas wrappers from Bulacan with
elaborate cutout designs, enveloping and equally
delicate milk-based dessert.
SANDATA NI SHIVA
-Lirio Salvador
d)SOCIETY, POLITICS and ECONOMY, and HISTORY

-the changes in the society, politics and economy affect

artists, the work they do, and the structures that support
their production.

DALAGANG BUKID (1919)

-The first film ever to be directed by a Filipino.
BROTHER’S BURDEN (ca. 1970)
By Benedicto Cabrera

-it presents an aspect of colonial history

from the gaze of the colonized.
APPROPRIATION

-A technique in transforming existing materials

through the juxtaposition of elements taken from
one context and placing these in another to
present alternative meanings, structure, and
composition.
e)MODE OF RECEPTION
-art is encountered via the museum; arranged and
categorized before a public for the purpose of
education and leisure.
BULUL
-an indigenous, pre-
colonial ritual object and
motif in the everyday life
of the people of the
Cordillera region.

-makes us rethink how

cultural representations and
methods of display shape
our consciousness.
THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING :)
What does the jeepney mean to
you today?

How does it feel when you ride

on it or when you see it on the
streets?