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Contemporary arts in the Philippines
1. Contemporary Arts in the Philippines
2. The Philippines is a gold mine of ART.
3. The Philippines has a variety of many other art forms.
4. Four colonial periods in our history – the Spanish, British, American and Japanese.
5. The art of the Philippines had been influenced by almost all spheres of the globe. It had the taste of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern Periods through the colonizers who arrived in the country.
6. Philippines welcome the birth of Contemporary art when the world opened up the idea of postmodernism in the late 1900’s.
7. First appearance: After the WW II & during Martial Law Era (1970).
8. Writers broke the laws by writing screams of protest against the government. Filmmakers used their expertise in joining the bandwagon of nationalistic artists.
9. Modernism in all art forms evolved into a variety of expressions and media that turned the entire world into a “Creative Upheaval”
10. Composition No. 2 by Lee Aguinaldo 1956. Oil on lawinit board
11. Many Filipino artists and architects became adherents of the modernist style.
12. Abstract expressionism by National Artist Jose Joya (Art style of the modernist period in the 1950’s.)
13. Late 1980’s… Postmodernism appeared in the Philippines. • Postmodernism sought to contradict several aspects and ideas of modernism that had emerged earlier. • They believe that artists should no longer try to create something “new”. • All they needed to do was to “borrow, combine, explore” what was already existing to produce something new. • This gave birth to integrative art, which is being practiced in the regions at present.
14. Meta II by Louie Cordero – 2011 – Acrylic on fiberglass
