Contemporary Art

Forms and Practices

from the Regions
The Philippine contemporary art is
divided into 7 major art forms:
 7 major art forms:
1.Visual arts
2.Literature
3.Music
4.Theater
5.Dance
6.Architecture
7.Film
Characteristics of the various art forms as
they developed from the American
Colonial Period up to the present.
 VISUAL ARTS
The arts created primarily for visual perception, as dra
wing, graphics,painting, sculpture, and the decorative
arts.
 In the American period, education
was introduced to the Philippines.
3 Filipinos studied abroad and influenced the art making on the country.

Diosdado Lorenzo Victorio Edades

Juan Arellano
 “THE SKETCH”

Upon his arrival,

Victorio Edades
introduced visual art
through his art
exhibition which
shocked many
Filipino audiences
due to his different
style in painting.
Instead of using bright and happy colors, he used
dull and dark hues in his works with the life of the
laborers, workers, and lower sector of the society
as his subjects.
Hue is the correct word to use to refer to just the
pure spectrum colors
 “THE SKETCH”

After the Triumvirate had introduced art modernism,13

artists formed a group called the 13 moderns.

Thirteen Moderns:
(Victorio Edades, Arsenio Capili, Bonifacio
Cristobal, Demetrio Diego, Carlos Francisco,
Cesar Legazpi, Diosdado Lorenzo, Anita
Magsaysay-Ho, Galo Ocampo, Hernando R.
Ocampo, Jose Pardo, Ricarte
Purungganan,Vicente Manansala)