WHAT IS

CONTEMPORARY
ART?
QUEST
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
• define the term “contemporary art” in art
historical, cultural and stylistic terms;
• explain the difference between contemporary art
and modern art in the context of the Philippines’
various histories, cultures, and identities;
• appreciate the role of contemporary art and
artists in Philippine contemporary life; and
• Understand contemporary issues and their
relationship to real life situations.
FLAG/CHATROOM
• Contemporary art
• Modern art
• Neo-Realism
• Social Realism
• Neoclassic
• Integrative
• Process-based
• Site-specific
• Collaborative
FLAG/CHATROOM
• Interactive
• Installation
• Mixed Media
• Performance art
THREAD
• Being modern means being up to date and
technologically advanced.
• Often, being modern is equated with being
contemporary.
FAQ: WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY? IS
IT THE SAME AS BEING MODERN?
• Here is a table suggested by Arts Studies
Professors Fajardo and Flores titled
“HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF PHILIPPINE
ART” (2002) shows a summary of the periods
of Philippine Art from Pre-Conquest to the
Contemporary.
 FORM PRE- SPANISH AMERICAN JAPANESE POSTWAR 70’S
CONQUEST PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD REPUBLIC CONTEMPO
RARY
(1521-1898) (1898-1940) (1941-45)

Painting Potter; body Religious Landscape, Wartime Modern Figurative

adornment, (icon and portraiture, scene conser- , non-
ornament ecclesiastical) genre, (aggression, vative, figurative,
interior, nationalism, bastract, art for art
still life atrocities, experi- sake,
symbolic, mental, multime-
protest, public dia, mixed
aspiration for art media,
peace transme-
dia
Propaganda

Indigenizing
and
orientilizing
works,
genre, idylls
(Amorosio,
Francisco,
Ocampo)
 FORM PRE- SPANISH AMERICAN JAPANESE POSTWAR 70’S
CONQUEST PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD REPUBLIC CONTEMPORA
-RY
(1521-1898) (1898-1940) (1941-45)

Sculpture Pottery, Santos, Free Wartime Modern Figurative,

carving and furniture, standing, scene conser- non-
woodwork, reliefs, relief, (aggression, vative, figurative,
metalwork altar public nationalism bastract, art for art
and pieces, , atrocities, experi- sake,
expression jewelry, symbolic, mental, multime-
metalwor protest, public art dia, mixed
k, fieta, aspiration media,
ornamenta for peace transme-dia
-tion
Propaganda

Indigenizin
g and
orientilizing
works,
genre,
idylls
(Amorosio,
Francisco,
Ocampo)
 FORM PRE- SPANISH AMERICAN JAPANESE POSTWAR 70’S
CONQUEST PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD REPUBLIC CONTEMPORA
-RY
(1521-1898) (1898-1940) (1941-45)

Architectur Dwellings Church, City Public Real estate, safe housing,

e and houses, plaza planning works accessories, tenements,
shelters, complex, parks, squatters, conventon arch,
worship town, waterfronts, commercial/business,
areas, planning, civic/gov’t., condos, malls,
official fortification structures, subdivisions,
residences, , civic public development, low cost
mosque, buildings works, housing
masjid, and apartments,
state installations residences,
edifices , private offices,
residences, health and
commercial public
structures, education,
cemeteries, business
bridges, chalet
lighthouse
FAQ: WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY
ART? WHAT IS MODERN ART?
• If we talk in terms of Art History, Contemporary Art
can be defined as art produced by artists living today.