A RESEARCH ABOUT REGIONAL INITIATIVES AND PRACTICES IN DOING,

PROMOTING, AND PRESERVING CONTEMPORARY ARTS

In Partial Fulfillment

Of the Requirement for the Subject

CPAR – 122

(CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGION)

Presented by:

Zandrea Lyn Macaraeg

ICT Programming – FVT3 (Topaz)

November 2018

Presented to:

Mr. Mark Angelo Lazarte

Transcript of Philippine Contemporary Art. Contemporary art is produced

at the present period in time. Contemporary art includes, and develops from,

Postmodern art, which is itself a successor to Modern art. It reflects to its society

and non-Filipinos the wide range of cultural influences on the country's culture

and how these influences honed the country's arts. The art of the Philippines can

refer to the visual arts,performing arts, textile art traditions, literature,dance,

pottery, and other art forms in the country.Philippine Contemporary Art was an

offshoot of social realism brought about by Martial Law. Arts became expression

of people’s aspiration for a just, free, and sovereign society.

Contemporary artists continue to use a varied vocabulary of abstract and

representational forms to convey their ideas. It is important to remember that the

art of our time did not develop in a vacuum; rather, it reflects the social and

political concerns of its cultural context. For example, artists like Judy Chicago,

who were inspired by the feminist movement of the early 1970s, embraced

imagery and art forms that had historical connections to women.

In the 1980s, artists appropriated the style and methods of mass media

advertising to investigate issues of cultural authority and identity politics. More

recently, artists like Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial

Wall in Washington D.C., and Richard Serra, who was loosely associated with

Minimalism in the 1960s, have adapted characteristics of Minimalist art to create

new abstract sculptures that encourage more personal interaction and emotional

response among viewers. These shifting strategies to engage the viewer show
 how contemporary art's significance exists beyond the object itself. Its meaning

develops from cultural discourse, interpretation and a range of individual

understandings, in addition to the formal and conceptual problems that first

motivated the artist. In this way, the art of our times may serve as a catalyst for

an on-going process of open discussion and intellectual inquiry about the world

today.

II. CONTENT

It's ironic that many people say they don't "get" contemporary art because,

unlike Egyptian tomb painting or Greek sculpture, art made since 1960 reflects our

own recent past. It speaks to the dramatic social, political and technological changes

of the last 50 years, and it questions many of society's values and assumptions—a

tendency of postmodernism, a concept sometimes used to describe contemporary

art. What makes today's art especially challenging is that, like the world around us, it

has become more diverse and cannot be easily defined through a list of visual

characteristics, artistic themes or cultural concerns.

There were different institutions, museums, galleries and organization that

supports and promotes art. These support systems are the ones that Filipinos and

those in other countries can look to when they want to learn about the Philippine’s

rich culture and art. They hold conferences, talks and workshops to enrich artists

and the public’s knowledge on Philippine culture and arts.

development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates

and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for

the purposes of education, study, and enjoyment”, as defined by the International

Council of Museums. The UK Museums Association definition (adopted 1998) is:

Museums enable people to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment.

They are institutions that collect, safeguard and make accessible artifacts and

specimens, which they hold in trust for society.

A gallery is an area of a building that's usually long, narrow, and has a specific

function. You might visit an art gallery to check out a row of paintings hung on its walls.

There are a few kinds of galleries, but the first is a part of a house or building that's

unusually long and narrow. A gallery also has some sort of purpose: in a theater, a

gallery is a place where additional seats are located. A gallery is also somewhere art is

shown and sold. Art galleries can be one room of a larger place, a series of rooms, or a

whole building devoted to art.

Art market, physical or figurative venue in which art is bought and sold. At its most basic

an art market requires a work of art, which might be drawn from a very wide range of

collectible objects; a seller; and a buyer, who may participate directly in negotiations or

be represented by agents.

Historically, some of the most significant art transactions have taken place outside the

framework of what is now understood as an art market. The most common of these

transactions involved the artist or craftsman and a patron, who might be either a private

individual or, as was often the case in the European Middle Ages (approximately 450–
1400 CE), an institution such as the Roman Catholic Church. In such cases the work of

art might be site-specific, as with a fresco or an altarpiece. These works of art would

not, and indeed could not, be traded on the open market, and the artist was not the

“owner” in the modern sense. Instead, the patron and the artist would draw up a

contract in which the price of materials, the subject of the piece, and the number of

figures were generally determined in advance. In addition to these and other direct

commissions, there was an open market of growing importance in more portable

commodities, such as textiles, curiosities, and antiquities.