Senior High School

Contemporary Philippine
Arts from the Region
Quarter 1 Module 3: (Week 5 – 6 )
Elements, Principles, and Subject
Matter of Contemporary Arts

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Contemporary Art – Grade 11/ 12
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Quarter 1 – Module 3:Elements, Principles and Subject Matter of Contemporary Arts
First Edition, 2020

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 Senior High School
Senior High School
Senior High School

Contemporary Philippine
Arts from The Regions

Quarter 1 Module 3 (Week 5 -6 )

Elements, Principles, and Subject Matter of
Contemporary Arts

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 INTRODUCTION

This module is crafted to stimulate the environment of the social media. This is to make a
challenging and complex subject less intimidating and easier to access. The imaginative and
creativity of every learners in exploring new things in the environment is given emphasis.

Through the collaborative efforts of Teachers of the different Senior High School
Contemporary Art subject handlers, this learners’ module was developed. The module is
patterned from the Most Essential Learning Competencies for Contemporary Philippine Arts
From the Regions for grade 12 students preferably.

Supplementary materials such as pictures, videos, and other online sources are embedded
as QR codes which can be accessed through mobile phones. While teachers cannot be
replaced by technology, in this way students are given an opportunity to be responsible and
take charge of their own learning.

PARTS OF THE LEARNERS‘ MODULE

For the Facilitator/Parent

This module is self-paced and self-explanatory. Take time to read the instruction and its parts
and go through with the sequential order of the module. Make sure that there is a learning
space at home provided for your assigned student/child to work on. At most, each module
should be done two hours of reading and answering time and maybe extended as necessary.
The role of the facilitator or the parent is to clarify any content that requires further guidance
and explanation. Let your assigned student/child comply all activities required for this module
and submit to the teacher/school.

For the Students

This module is self-paced and self-explanatory. Take time to read the instruction and its parts
and go through with the sequential order of the module. Comply all activities required for this
module and submit to your teacher.

This learners’ module is mapped and aligned with the DepEd SHS Curriculum and the Most
Essential Learning Competencies for Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions. It
contains notes, assessments, performance tasks and learning activities. These elements are
presented in the following parts.

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Standard Symbols used to represent some parts of the module:

It contains learning objectives to be

Introduction developed in a material. It introduces the
topic/content of the module briefly.

This is given to check what the learner knows

Let’s Find What about the lesson to take. This contains
You Know instruction in whether to proceed or skip the
module.

Connects the current lesson with the

previous lesson by going over concepts that
Review
were learned previously.

Introduces the new lesson through a story, a

Let’s Learn and poem, song, situation or an activity.
Experience

A Brief discussion of the Lesson.

Mini-Lesson

This is a Guided/Controlled Practice.

Guided/Controlled Assessment. Independent
Let’s Think Deep
Practice. Independent Assessment

A question, fill in the blank

sentence/paragraph to process what the
Let’s Remember
learner learned from the lesson.

An activity that shall transfer the

skills/knowledge gained or learned into real-
Let Me Apply It
life concerns/situations.

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 An activity in any form that can increase the
strength of the response and tends to induce
Let’s Ponder
repetitions of actions/learning.

Let’s Check It This evaluates the learner’s level of mastery

in achieving the learning objectives. The task
given shall validate the concepts and provide
more opportunities to deepen the learning.

Lesson Elements, Principles, and Subject Matter of

3 Contemporary Arts

Introduction
In this lesson, the student will be able to:
* identify different elements and principles of contemporary arts
* determine the subject matter used by Filipino artists
* employ the elements of contemporary arts by creating an original
master piece with a chosen subject matter .

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 Let’s Find What You Know

Instructions: Read each questions carefully write T if the statement is True, write F if the
statement is false.

1. Pattern is the center of interest in a work of art where the viewer focuses.

2. The repetition of elements to help the eye move around the artwork is the
art’s emphasis.

3. Unity is achieved through the effective use of the all the elements and
principles of art.

4. When there could be symmetry in the art, even if there is no balance.

5. Rhythm creates visual excitement and adds interest to the artwork through
the difference n values and color.

6. The elements of art are the building blocks of an artist to create an art.

7. Space is the area between and around objects.

8. Texture is the surface quality that can be seen and felt.

9. Contemporary artists have boundless subject matter.

10. Subject matter of the contemporary arts is confined in human

representations and landscape.
11. Hue is one of the many aspects of color.
12. Playing of light and dark color is called value.
13. A two dimensional shape possesses length, width and volume.
14. When there are two dimensional design as rhythm or progression & direction of
the eye it is refer to movement .
15. When primary colors mix with one another , they produce secondary color.

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Most contemporary Filipino artists make use of different subject matter may it be
obvious (such as women, nature, children, etc.) or abstract (culture, poverty,
politics). In this activity, try to analyze what could be the subject matter in each
artwork presented below. Explain your answer in your notebook.

1.

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The art of Emmanuel Garibay
2.

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The painting of Anita Magsaysay-Ho

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 Let’s Learn and Experience

Look at the two artworks of famous and awarded artists below. Analyze if there
is balance, contrast, pattern and movement in each painting. Explain your
answers briefly.

Napoleon’s Abueva’s Mother and Child

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Jovy Mallari's 'A Sword of a Thousand Truths

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 Mini-Lesson

Elements of Art

The elements of art are the building blocks

used by artists to create a work of art.

Line is a mark with greater length than width.

There are different variations of line. It can be
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curved; thick or thin.

Color - according to dictionary.com, it is the
property possessed by an object of producing
different sensations on the eye as a result of
the way the object reflects or emits light. It has
three main characteristics: hue (the name of
the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.), value
(how light or dark it is), and intensity (how
bright or dull it is).
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Shape is a flat, enclosed area of

an artwork created through lines. There are
two variations of shapes. They can be
geometric or organic .

Image taken from https://drawpaintacademy.com/a-

comprehensive-guide-to-color-theory-for-artists/

Texture is the surface quality that can be seen

and felt. It can be rough or smooth, soft or
Image taken from hard. This property doesn’t always feel they
https://www.tes.com/lessons/tKw7Dt6dtbtG2A/elements-of-art-shape
way they appear. Let’s take for example when
you draw a succulent, it looks prickly but when
Forms are three-dimensional shapes
you touch the drawing, the surface is plain .
expressing length, width, and depth. Balls,
cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms.

Image taken from

https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/form-in-art
Image taken from
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/element-texture
Space is an area within, around, above or
below an object.

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Image taken from https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/278308451949655832/

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 Subject Matter of the Philippine Contemporary Arts

If the traditional artists’ art consisted of portraits, landscapes, still life and human
interest mostly as naturally as possible, the contemporary artists’ works are
expressions of freedom, experimentation and exploration of patterns, figures, objects,
and a combination of many things that are important to them.

Subject matter in contemporary art is not confine to representations of human

figures and landscapes. The favourite subjects in contemporary art are children,
women, or the environment such as Juan Alcazaren’s Flora and Fauna. It can also be
a combination of any of these.

Tokwa Penaflorida’s “Diwata”

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In some artworks, the subject matter is not easily recognized. If the artwork is
an experiment on technique, the subject matter is the technique itself. In others, such
as those in conceptual art, the viewer has to engage in thinking and exploring the
meaning of the artwork.

Dan Matutina’s work

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 “Pierro”
image taken from https://www.slideshare.net/shinpaiwa/subject-matter-in-contemporary-arts
Robert Chabet, The father of Philippine Conceptual Art

Some artworks are intended to make a statement about an issue so the viewr is
guided by a written explanation. In Plet Bolipata’s Cat Dolls, the subject matter
combines human figure and cat head. The artist constructed a human skeleton made
of wires and covered it with textile. The cat head is made of resin. Several of these are
found in front of her house to serve as “guards”.

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 Let’s Think Deep

Search the internet for artworks by Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan,Pacita Abad, or
Impy Pilapil. Choose one artwork that you like. Study the elements and principles
employed in the artwork. Then answer the following questions. Write your answers
in your notebook.

1. Describe the work?

2. What is the subject matter of the artwork?
3. What are the dominant colors?
4. How does the size of the repeated elements vary?
5. Is it beautiful? Why do you think so?

Let’s Remember

What are the most common subject matter in

Philippines contemporary arts? How can
unity and emphasis be achieved in art
production?

Let Me Apply It

Direction: Create a 2D or 3D art that has a unique subject matter which

reflects your experiences as a Senior High School student. Apply the
elements and principles necessary to achieve a creative output. Record a
2- to 3-minute video presentation of your output.

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Read each question carefully and answer them in complete sentences.

1. What the subject matter of your 2D or 3D art piece?

2. How did you make us of the elements and design in your

output? Explain and describe it according to

2.1 balance

2.2 emphasis

2.3 texture

2.4 shape and form

2.5 color

3. How can this artwork reflect your own identity?

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 Let’s Check It

Direction : Based on what you have learned in this module, complete

the sentences in the figures below to make a meaningful statement.

Reflect Me or Not !

Today I have learned that

______________________
______________________
______________________
_____________

I found out that the

principles and
elements of arts
are
________________
_ because they are
________________
______________

The most interesting art is the

________________________________________
___ because its subject matter is
________________________________________
________________________________________
____________________________

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Prepared by:

Charmaine B. Do-ong
Teacher II
Babag NHS – SHS
District 8
Division of Lapu – Lapu City

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