SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

A.Y. 2024 – 2025

A LEARNING MODULE IN CONTEMPORARY

PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS
Grade 12
(Based on K-12 Most Essential Learning Competencies)

Prepared by:

LEVY P. PEDROSO
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The subject covers various contemporary arts practices of the region where the school
is located. It aims to provide students with an appreciation of a broad range of styles in
the various disciplines with consideration on their elements and principles, and engage
them to an integrative approach in studying arts.

To be able to analyze and interpret contemporary art, we have to be aware that there are
multiple views of life, ideas, and reality that are expressed by the artists. Some artists
believe that the person is affected by language, social relations and unconscious. They
think they are unable to effect change. Another group of artist who call themselves “
structuralists” believe that phenomenon can be explained in relation to other phenomena.
There are codes and signs that underlie these phenomena so the work of the artist is to
make these visible.
The Contemporary Arts

Content Standards: Appreciation of contemporary art forms, found in the various

regions by understanding the elements and principles

Performance Standards: Present a form of integrated contemporary art based on the

region of his/her choice

Lesson 5: Interpretation and Analysis

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Explain the different philosophies that guide the perception and practice of art making
2. Differentiate between modern and post-modern art
3. Analyze the method of analysis and interpretation that can be used for contemporary
art appreciation

Activity: Think-Pair-Share

What do you think the reasons why people create art?

How do Filipino artists use art technique?

Discussion

According to philosophers Immanuel Kant who laid the philosophical foundation for artistic
modernism that has influenced contemporary artists. According to Kant, the viewers of
art should put themselves in a state of sensory awareness, give up their personal interest
and not associate art with anything when they respond to it. Therefore, they should
consider art as independent of any purpose or utility other than aesthetic value. Aesthetics
is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, beauty and value of art objects and
experiences. It involves appreciating, understanding, and judging the value of art. An
aesthetic judgment should be neither personal nor relative. The viewer should rise above
time, place, and personal biases to reach a judgment of art to which all reasonable people
would agree. This is called “psychic distance”.
Contrary to Kant’s idea is the belief of Clive Bell and Roger Fry that in viewing art, the
artist’s intent or any social influence that went into the making of an artwork should be
disregarded. Instead, the “significant form” of the artwork is what should be exclusively
intended to. In this case, only the form is important and attention to other aspect of the
artwork such as its subject matter, narrative content, function to a culture or references to
the ordinary world, are considered distraction to art viewing.

After the World War II, critic Harold Roseberg declared, “painting is not a picture of a
thing; it’s the thing itself.” Artist should “just paint” and not care about anything else. To
push it up to the extreme, artist Andy Warhol claimed that everything is art. Pop art, comic
book imagery , and the other art styles that emerged claimed to have important narrative
content and demanded social and cultural interpretations.

Another point f view that has shaped contemporary art was Arthur Danto’s proclamation
that the art need not be beautiful; it need not have a pictorial subject; and not need to
deploy its forms in pictorial space. An example is artists Pable Picasso’s cubist style
where he dropped the three-dimensional forms as well as “art”, the beautiful. Picasso and
his followers eliminated the need to have an art object itself because the idea is more
imp0ortant than the finished work.

Thus, the contemporary trends in art making became pluralistic, open top many variations
in subject matter, content, form and material. The artists is free to “deconstruct” or “re-
contextualize” art. In post-modernism, artists believe that is it alright to copy masterpieces
and exhibit it as their own. The tern used for this is “ appropriating” or “borrowing”. For
them, originality has to do with raising an issue rather than with inventing a new image.
Therefore, invention and uniqueness are no longer essential to making art. Artist Sherrie
Levine’s works exemplify these qualities.

To contrast modern from postmodern artists: Modernist attempt to be pure in their Use of
medium and believe in the possibility of universal communication. Postmodernist
embrace a much wider array of art-making activities and projects and tend to eclectic
regarding media and freely gather imagery, techniques and inspiration from a wide variety
of sources, much of it from popular culture. The works of both modern and post modern
artists are classified under contemporary art.

ART ANALYSIS and INTERPRETATION

Art analysis start with description of an artwork. The viewer focuses on beauty, design
qualities and the value of an artwork. This is where we determine what the feature suggest
and decide why artists used these to convey specific ideas. Analysis requires an
understanding of the content by separating the parts of the subject matter. This can lead
to grasping the artwork’s organizational structure, nature, function, and value. The
elements various elements that constitute analysis are: (a) Determination of subject
matter through naming events or issues associated with the artwork. (b) Discussion of
how the qualities of the artwork contribute to its appearance, image, or function. (c) Effect
of the materials/medium used. (d) Your reaction to the artwork. (e) Is it a good artwork?

Art interpretation is employed by the viewer after describing and analyzing an artwork.
Hence, focus is on the expressive qualities, the meaning, theme, mood, or idea
communicated by the artist. The various elements that constitute interpretations are: (a)
Main idea and the overall meaning of the artwork. (b) Interpretive Statement: “Can I
express what I think the artwork is about in one sentence?” (c) Are there objects within
the frame that symbolize something?

After you have done the tedious work of describing, analyzing and interpretating the
contemporary artwork, you can now make a judgment.

Write your art analysis and interpretation on the artwork of Childe Hassam, The Sea,
1892. Use the elements and guide questions below

Elements Statement

Do you like/dislike the

artwork? Why?

Describe the effect of the

material/medium used?

Elements Statement

What is artwork about?

What is the meaning of

artwork?
Books

FM Datuin, R. Paulino, E.L. Ramirez, L. Marcelino, 2016 Contemporary Philippine Arts

From The Regions, Rex Book Store
A.B. Benavides-Perez M.A, Philippine Contemporary Arts Brilliant Creations Publishing
Inc.
Arch. Carlos Luis C. Ganzon, JOURNEY: Contemporary Arts of the Philippines, Phoenix
Publishing House
VERONICA ESPOSO RAMIREZ VIBAL Publishing House Contemporary Philippine
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