CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

NORBERT DELA CRUZ III

(Performance Art)
• Born in Bayombong Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines and raised in Los Angeles, CA Norbert De
La Cruz III is recognized for his versatility in performance and choreography.
• He is a performing and collaborative artist with roots in classical
and contemporary dance. After moving to New York, he received a BFA in Dance from
the Juilliard School followed by an MFA in Dance from Hollins University.
• He is a New York and Los Angeles based freelance dance artist.

PACITA ABAD
(Painting)

• Pacita Abad (Filipino, 1946–2004) was a Modern painter born in Basco, Batanes,
Philippines. She studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art, in Washington D.C., and
at The Art Students League, in New York, NY. Upon finishing art school, she travelled the
world painting, visiting more than 80 countries.
• Abad’s travels had a significant impact on her life and art. She was very inventive and
experimental with her painting, and her style changed continuously throughout her
career, which began in the 1970s. Her earliest paintings were mostly Figurative and
social or political, covering subjects like hunger.
• Her work then expanded to include naturalist subject matter, inspired by the places she
saw on her travels to exotic locations. This colorful work of vibrant patterns segued into
her most well-known practice as an Abstract painter.

BENEDICTO REYES CABRERA

• Benedicto Reyes Cabrera, better known as "BenCab", is a Filipino painter and was
awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006. He has been
noted as "arguably the best-selling painter of his generation of Filipino artists.”
• BenCab was born to Democrito Cabrera and Isabel Reyes in Malabon, Philippines on
April 10, 1942. He was the youngest of nine children. His first exposure and discovery of
the arts happened through his elder Brother Salvador, who was already an established
artist during Bencab's childhood.
• He went on to study at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, where he
explored different art visual forms – (photography, draftsmanship and printmaking).
 SUBJECT MATTER AND STYLES IN CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Different styles and movements in Contemporary Arts

CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS

• Contemporary Arts is NOT confined in a museum

• Many contemporary artists are self-taught and did not have formal education
• Originality is NOT an issue in contemporary arts
• What is essential for contemporary artists therefore is the process of art making

CONTEMPORARY ARTS
• It is the statement that an artist makes about life, thought, ideas, beliefs, and many
other things that define human life

Different styles and movements in contemporary arts

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
• A painting style in which the artist applies paint in a manner that expresses emotions
and feelings in a spontaneous way
• That figures may be heavy in lines and color without solid mass
KINETIC ART
• It is a sculpture that moves with the wind or is powered by a machine or electricity
OP ART
• Uses lines or images repeatedly to create an optical illusion
ENVIRONMENT ART
• Involves the artistic creation or manipulation of space such as landscape or
architectural design that may enclose its audience
PERFORMANCE ART
• Combines a variety of media and the human body to execute an artistic theatrical
expression before a live audience
FEMINIST ART
• Emerged from concerns of female artists expressed through art
• They tackle issues of identity , sexuality, gender roles, equality, and the ways in which
the female is treated in society,among others.
MINIMALISM
• had a stripped-down, pre-fabricated look, free of details and often with flat surface but
expresses a specific content or statement
VIDEO ART
• Consists of images that are recorded through a video and viewed through television,
computer, or projection screen.
GRAFFITI ART
• Is a drawing, inscription or sketch done hastily on a wall or other surface made to be
seen by the public
POSTMODERN ART
• Carries modern styles to extreme practices, often expressing an idea through a mix of
materials such as found objects welded together.
POSTMODERN ART
• Carries modern styles to extreme practices, often expressing an idea through a mix of
materials such as found objects welded together.
DIGITAL ART
• Is done with the aid of computer to create an image or design composed of bits and
bytes.
• This image can be printed on paper, tarpaulin, or other mediums
 PAINTING
v Technically, a painting is a two-dimensional art form which is made up of layers of
pigments applied onto a surface.
v The surface on which the pigment is applied varies from stone (used in Paleolithic Age)
to paper, wood, cloth and canvas.

v As the surface of paintings differ, so do the materials used to create the pigments.
During the Paleolithic Age colored earths were used, followed by plant extracts and
more recently synthetic colors.
v There are many types of paintings, but amongst the well-known are oil, acrylic, pastel,
spray paintings and water colors.

MEDIUMS OF PAINTING
1. OIL
In oil paintings, the pigments are mixed in oil. The surface used is usually canvass
although the other surfaces like wood, paper and metal may be used.
TWO METHODS OF PAINTING
A. DIRECT METHOD
The paints are opaque and applied to the surface just as they are to look in the
finished product.
B. INDIRECT METHOD
The paint is applied in many thin layers of transparent colors.

2. TEMPERA
This is a mixture of ground pigments and an albuminous and colloidal vehicle, either
egg, gum, or glue.
Tempera painting is usually done on a wooden panel that has been smooth with a
coating plaster.
The colors are mixed with egg yolk. Since the paint dries rapidly, there is a little blending
or fusing of colors in tempera painting.

3. . WATER COLOR
In water color, the pigments are mixed with water and applied to fine, white paper. The
colors are applied in very thin layers.

4. PASTEL COLOR
Pastel color possesses only surface of light, gives no glazed effect and most closely
resembles dry pigment.
The pigment is bound so as to form a crayon which is applied directly to surface, usually
a paper.
 5. FRESCO
It is the most popular type of painting.
The colors are mixed with water and applied to fresh plaster which absorb the color.
6. ACRYLIC
It is the newest and most used by painters nowadays. These are synthetic paintings
using acrylic emulsion as binder.
They combine the transparency and quick-drying qualities of watercolor and are as
flexible oil.

COLORS
1. WARM COLORS – Red, Orange, Yellow
2. COOL COLORS – Blue, Green, Violet
3. COMPLEMENTARY COLORS – Blue and Orange, Red and Green, Yellow and Purple

MOOD IN PRESENTING THE ART OF PAINTING

A. ABSTRACT

1. CUBISM – It is an abstractionism that stressed through the use of

some geometrical shapes like cylinder, triangle, sphere
and other forms.
2. DISTORTION – This is kind of abstract which natural form or condition is twisted or
distorted.
3. ELONGATION – The object that is being presented is elongated or extended.
4. MANGLING - The abstractionism presents the object as cut lacerated, mutilated or
hacked.
 B. EXPRESSIONISM

• It is the method the artist has freedom to consider his personal style in presenting his
subject or expressing his thought or feeling.
• The following are the METHODS OF EXPRESSION:

1. SYMBOLISM – It is a thing that stands for another thing. A eagle for instance stands for
leadership.
2. FAVISM – It is kind of style in painting that is characterized by a thick pigment. This is
usually used in expressing a feeling of joy, comfort or pleasure through extremely bright
colors.
3. DADAISM – It is protest movement against the traditional outworn arts and evils in
society.
4. SURREALISM – It is a style in presenting art by fantastic or incongruous produced by
unnatural combinations.
5. FUTURISM – It is a style that pictures something out in the future.