Northeast Luzon Adventist

College
Mabini, Alicia, Isabela
Senior High School Department
SY 2020-2021

Course Title Contemporary Phil Number of Units 4

Arts from the Region
Teacher Bryan Jude M. Sulio Grade Level 12
Contact No. 09569635127 Time Allotment 80 hours/4 hours per week
E-mail address judemerculiosulio@g Semester 2nd 2020 - 2021
mail.com

Lesson 5-8 (Week 5-8)

Contemporary Fine Arts in the Philippine Region
Learning Objectives
At the end of this Lesson, the learner will be able to:
1. Describe art production in contemporary fine arts: painting, sculpture, and
architecture.
2. Explain the different devices, materials, mediums, and technique applied to
contemporary fine arts
3. Examine how art appreciation is done through description, analysis, and
interpretation which are used in sample painting, sculpture, and architecture.
4. Apply description, analysis and interpretation on selected artworks.

PRAYER: Before you start your lesson ask God’s direction.

Step 1 – Motivate
Fine arts require of the artist the mastery of use of material/medium, technique, and
craftsmanship.
 Material – designates the physical elements of art, such as paint, stone, clay, metal.
 Medium – a characteristic way of using materials for an artistic purpose. Medium is also
known as genres.
 Technique – a personal way of using a medium or a material.
 Craftsmanship – skill of doing what can be done in a medium and the ability to do it.
Example are (Search in the web for):
1. Materials use in constructing Philippine Arena
2. Tecnique of Brendale Tadeo
3. Joe Datuin works especially Dancing Rings

Step 2 – Explore
Lesson 5 : Contemporary Painting
Every art making process is dictated by the artist’s style. Style has many meanings. It can mean
the art produced in a particular historical period. It can also refer to the art of a nation or a
region within a country. The growth of a single artist’s way of working can be referred to as
“the evolution of style”. In addition, style can be a certain technical approach to the making of
art. As with all scientific classification, it is necessary to sort artworks based on common traits
or qualities. Styles of art, therefore, can be thought of as a group. The uniting element may be
visible in the use of the element of art or organization of design. As such, style may be
discerned not only by how it looks like but also based on the quality of painting.

Contemporary painting is made in many styles at one time throughout the globe. For this
reason, we cannot refer to style as the art produced in a particular historical period. Neither can
we refer to it as the art of a nation or region.

Stylistic Tendencies and Stylistic change – attributed to the creative inventions of artist
working at certain times and in specific place.
There are four styles based on Stylistic Tendencies:
1. Style Objective Accuracy
2. Style Formal Order
3. Style Emotion
4. Style Fantasy

1. Style of Objective Accuracy

Objective accuracy is not easy to achieve. Many contemporary artist face the problem of
creating an impression of reality through a selective use of visual facts. Artist imitate
appearance to convey moving drama about human life. Sometimes, artist combine their
representational skill to create a psychological impact. In their desire to do so, the
representation become an interpretation of reality which does not necessarily have objective
accuracy.
In objective accuracy, the artist can do art by being a:
 Detached observer or
 By employing a selective eye.

The artist as a Detached Observer

A technique by an artist where the artwork seems to have been made by a reporter who is
observing a subject, or a photography using a camera. The artist here presents himself/herself
as somebody who selects, arranges, and represents reality without his/her identity revealed.
Best example of this is the painting of artist Jose Marie Picornell titled R.R Landon (search in
the web). Jose is the detached observer in the painting as if he is recording life in a
neighborhood, he also includes people walking on the street early in the morning.

The artist as Selective Eye

The “illusion of reality” is created by elimination of details that the eye might see. The artist has
observed his/her subject very carefully. He/she must “know” the subject as well as see its
surface characteristic. Best example of this is the painting of Felix Catarata titled the “The
Laughter”. Here, there are 12 happy children, most of them engaged in something productive
while the younger ones are mere observer. The artist limited the characters in his painting to
happy children and depicted them skillfully.

Devices for Objective Accuracy

To achieve objective accuracy artist must possess correct drawing, control, focus, color, and
perspective.
1) Correct Drawing
Learning how to draw accurately teaches the artist to see and to understand what
he/she is looking at. He/she must learn to distinguish between imitation of surfaces and
informed representation.
Example: Marvin Natural’s Remembering Past Mistakes (see image below) shows the
human figure in correct proportion. The tensed muscle, slightly bent shoulder that
shows that it’s an elderly person. If we notice the shadow does not go to the same
direction of the person but the opposite, meaning that the painting conveys: the man
should move on and leave his past mistakes behind or suffer the consequences.

Remembering Past Mistakes

2) Control
Control and handling of illumination help in creating realistic images. The amount of
light an object receives, the shape of its shadows, the transition from light to shadow,
the source of light.
Example: Jericho Vamenta’s Katuparan ang Hiling ni Elena (as seen on top) exhibits
skillful control of illumination done in sgrafitto technique. In the painting light is
distributed throughout the frame without concealing the features of the main figure, a
lady who seems to be sitting in a dreamland. The male behind her appears to be silent
but possess an imposing presence that seems to say that he has power over the lady.
3) Focus
Katuparan ang Hiling ni Elena
Focus is achieved through sharpness or softness, distinctness or vagueness of form and
contour.
Example: Santiago Bose’s Carnivores of Session Road (as seen at the bottom) we see
several elements in the art: a collage of buildings, human beings, Mcdonalds mascots,
cars, and trees in the background – all in black and white. The most prominent are the
human figures painted in brown that renders the background dull. This was intentional
because the artist led our attention on the natives of the Mt. Province whose face are
distorted as if to play a jester while carrying Colonel Sanders KFC. The artwork is a
statement, a critique of the foreigner’s presence in Baguio City where session road is
located.
4) Color
Color is a powerful instrument. It is mainly connected with the description of the
objects. The color of the object varies depending on the amount and source of light they
receive and on their location in space.
Example: Color is rich in Imelda Cajipe Endaya’s Panimula (as seen on the bottom). The
dominance of blue, which represents water, is disturbed by the red colors, which
represents anger between forces. Colors are also used to form brown and white lights
that cover the entire frame. The human being on the right side is in its natural color,
brown.

5) Perspective
Pictorial device that relates to the artist’s ability to create the illusion of deep space
within the painting. The technical features of linear and aerial perspective, perspective
of shadows and reflections.
Example: Palmy Pe-Tudtuds Mga Pangandoy, we see cranes flying toward one direction
– the heart. Life is indicated by the tongues of fire rendered in red with some shades of
white. The perspective is that the by making the cranes near the viewer the bigger and
as they go farther they become small.

Carnivores of Session Road Panimula Pangandoy

B. The Style of Formal Order
Formal order is exhibited by its qualities: Intellectual Order, Biomorphic Order, and Aesthetic
Order. The last two are more applicable to sculpture and architecture.
Example: Romeo Gutierrez’s Rich Fulfillment uses 3 colors: Blue, green, and orange to yellow.
The blue intertwine with yellow hues and some white. This colors are not arbitrarily placed on
the canvas but are result of a careful study of the subject matter.

C. The Style of Emotion

Themes of emotion, feeling, and romance are common in painting. Romanticism and emotions
are used in paintings when the artist wishes to disclose personal feelings in relation to love.
Anxiety and despair expresses disappointment, bitterness, disturbance or uncomfortable
feelings and often look dark and chaotic. Joy are displayed through vigourous approach such as
depiction of movement and energy.

D. The Style of Fantasy

Illusionism is used in contemporary art to create a fantastic images or substitute real objects for
the illusionistic treatment of reality.
Example: Abdulmari Imao’s Sarimanok a fantastic art inspired by the legendary bird of
Maranao people in Mindanao. The sarimanok is depicted as a fowl with colorful wings and
feathered tail, usually holding a fish on its beak. Its head is decorated with scroll, leaf and spiral
motifs. Although a product of imagination, sarimanok become a symbol of fortune.

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1. The Different definition of style are:

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2. The style of formal order differs from the style of objective accuracy in the following
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3. The style of emotions differs from the style of fantasy because:

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Lesson 6: Contemporary Sculpture

Sculpture is an art form that requires of the artist creative use of balance, skill in the use of
materials, and physical strength. For many centuries, the common subject matter was the
human figure, with materials limited to marble, metal and wood. This has changed in
contemporary sculpture where new material and new technology have given sculptor more
choices and flexibility in art making.

Art Production
Sculptural process are done in most ways most suitable to the available material:
1. Stone - Can only be carved by: Drilling, Abraded, and Polished
2. Wood – same process as the stone. Its advantage is it is often seen as living
organism, disadvantage is its tendency to crack (especially when wet).
3. Metal – can be cast, cut, drilled, filled, extruded, bent, forged, and stamped.
4. Bronze - Most common casting material.
5. Wax - Not permanent and can be easily melted
6. Clay – more responsive than stone and wood
7. Resin – most popular material in our country

The Four Basic Sculpture Technique

1. Modeling - Modeled sculpture are created when a soft or malleable material (clay), is
built using an armature and then shaped to create a form.
2. Carving - Cutting or chirping away a shape from a mass of stone, wood, or other hard
material.
3. Casting - When a sculpture is formed (ex.Teracotta clay), it can be made permanent by
casting.
4. Assembling - Sculptors gather and put together diff. material. Artist usually use
adhesive, welding.

Styles and Movements in Sculpture

1. Monolithic Sculpture - Carved from a slab of stone, and is limited by the materials shape
and size. This means that the sculptor can only make a form that is allowed by the
material shape and sized.
Example: Lucell Larawan’s Prostrate (See image below) – Lucell embedded a thousand
of nails on wood and painted the form with acrylic.

2. Constructivism - It make use of plastic, plexiglass, metal wire. The approach of this is the
harmony of physics, mathematics, engineering and industrial design.
Example: Wilson Baldemor’s Vise Tandem
3. Sculptural assemblage - Abandons carving, modeling, and casting. It can be made only
through welding. The sculptor is free to deal with problems of volume and contour,
movement and balance, illusion and reality.
Example: Michelles Hollanes Lua’s Broke Bag Mounted

4. Kinetic sculpture - Sculpture in mechanical motion that can be moved by wind or water.
Some use machine and generators.
Example: Imply Pilapil’s Sculptures
Example: Gabby Barredo’s machine sculptures
Prostrate Vise Tandem

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1. What are the different materials used in making Sculptures?

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2. The four basic sculpture techniques are?

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3. Technology, modern tools and materials have changed sculpture processes in the
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Lesson 7: Contemporary Architecture

Architecture is in the fields of science and art. As a science, technology techniques,
architectonics, engineering and tectonics are applied. As an art, the structure is designed
creatively, which is determined by its function and purpose, the space that it will occupy and
the people who will occupy it.

ART PRODUCTION
The elements of art and principle of design or organization also apply to architecture:
1. Size - Relates the structure and its parts to the human beings who occupy the space.
2. Scale - Relates to the proportion of an object or space to all other objects in it and also
to the human beings and their activities held in the structure.
3. Emphasis - This is where the major and subordinate elements are determined in the
structural design.
4. Pattern and ornament - Gives artistic designed by structural limits, edges and corners.

ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALS
Classic Materials – Wood, Stone, and Brick
Modern Materials:
1. Cast iron - Set the stage for steel-skeleton construction in architecture and permits the
construction of tall buildings without prohibitively thick walls.
2. Structural steel - Advanced the architecture through tubular, extruded, and corrugated
steel products.
3. Reinforced concrete - More efficient than stonemasonry piers and arches.
Materials are important because they determine how structural devices operate.

STRUCTURAL DEVICES
1. Post-and-Lintel - The most ancient of construction device and it consist of two vertical
support bridges by a horizontal beam.
2. Cantilever - A horizontal extension of a beam or a slab into space beyond its supporting
post. It’s free end is unsupported, and the point where it rest on its post acts like the
fulcrum or a lever.
3. Truss system - Application of the geometric fact that no angle of triangle can be changed
without altering the dimensions of the sides. Used in bridges, theaters, convention halls,
gymnasiums, assembly halls and roofs.
4. Arch - Used to support bridges and viaducts and in association with large domical and
vaulted structures.
5. Dome - Cylindrical drim over a foundation.
6. Shell structure - Beneficiaries of reinforced concrete and superior mathematical tools
for calculating stress and strength of material.
7. Solar panels - Generates electricity that can provide power to the entire building
anytime of the day.

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Doors, Windows, Walls, and Interior Decors

1. Doors can be made of wood or glass combined with metal. Wood door surface can be
carved with a design to look more appealing. The color of the door should match the
motif and color of the interior of the structure.
2. Windows are not just for openings into a structure. They serve as passage of light, air,
and sound. Modern windows are usually made of glass, which are transparent or
transluscent.
3. Walls are usually made of concrete reinforced with steel. In some cases, bricks or

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wooden panels are mounted on the wall to give it texture or warm and aesthetic appeal.
4. Fountains are usually located outside, but contemporary architecture have devised ways
of installing indoor fountains.

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1. Identify the different kinds of architectural materials:

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2. Architecture can promote environmental awareness through the following?

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3. What is the tallest building in your municipalitry?
Name of Building
Number of Floors
Location
Description

Requirementss

1. Painting(Individual) – The topic is all about the pandemic (Negative or Positive)

2. Sculpture(Individual) – kung ano ang gusto niyo, basta wag lang mga private parts ng tao.
3. Building a 3d house in Minecraft(As a Class) – TBA in our GC