UNIT II: CLASSIFICATION OF

VARIOUS ART FORMS IN

THE PHILIPPINES
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
IN THIS UNIT, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

1. CLASSIFY VARIOUS ART FORMS IN THE

PHILIPPINES
PERFORMING ARTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
PERFORMING ARTS involve a performer
(usually a person) undertaking certain
actions and movements usually
accompanied by sound in a particular space
and time for an audience.
PERFORMING ARTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
What sets performing arts apart from other
art forms is how it uses the human body to
the execution of the art and its dependency
on sound, time and space.
THREE KINDS OF PERFORMING
ART FORMS:

1. AUDITORY (MATERIAL: MUSIC)

2. KINESTHETIC (MATERIAL: DANCE)
3. DRAMATICS (MATERIAL: THEATRE)
MUSIC
Auditory Performing Arts
ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
1.RHYTHM
2.PITCH
3.MELODY
4.MUSICAL NOTATIONS
5.HARMONY
6.TIMBRE
RHYTHM
- refers to the movement ,
fluctuation or variation
marked by the regular
recurrence or natural flow
of related elements.
PITCH
- refers to the highness and
lowness of sound.
melody
- refers to the rhythmic
succession of single tones
as an aesthetic whole.
MUSICAL NOTATIONS
- A system or set of marks,
signs, figures, or characters
used in music.
harmony
- refers to the combination
of simultaneous musical
notes in a chord.
dance
Kinesthetic Performing Arts
Elements of dance
1. HUMAN BODY
2. ARRANGEMENT OR
PATTERN
3. TIME AND SPACE
HUMAN BODY
- The center of and the
main medium in
performing arts. It carries
out necessary movements
in a particular piece.
Arrangement or pattern
- Refers to the movements
and steps which enable the
body to perform in an
organized manner.
Space and timing
- SPACE refers to the
movement of the dancers
through physical space.
Space and timing
- TIMING refers to the
movement of the performer
through time, and with
respect to the given tempo
and rhythm of the music.
THEATRE
Dramatic Performing Arts
(DRAMATICS)
Elements of theatre

1. STAGE DIRECTION
2. NARRATOLOGY
3. SCENIC DESIGN
Elements of theatre

1. STAGE DIRECTION
2. NARRATOLOGY
3. SCENIC DESIGN
Stage direction
- Refers to the instructions
indicating movement, blockings
or positions, and other nuances
in the performers’ speaking,
movement and acting.
Narratology
- The narrative structure of the
piece. SCRIPT is the material
where the narrative or the story
of the piece is placed.
Scenic design
- Refers to the artistic design that
creates the background or scene
to compliment the performances.
 SUBJECT
• The subject matter is the most obvious aspect of
an art work. It is what the work of art depicts or
represent. It may be a person, an object, a scene,
or an event.
• The subject provides the answer to
the question:
What is the work of art all about?
 SUBJECT VS. CONTENT
The subject matter is the literal, visible image in a
work while content includes the connotative,
symbolic, and suggestive aspect of the image.

When we look at an artwork its content is what is

sensed rather than what can be analyzed. It is the
ultimate reason for creating art.
 WAYS OF PRESENTING THE SUBJECT
MATTER IN THE VISUAL ART
Subject of arts may be
classified into the
following:

6.Portrait
1.History
7.Nude
2.Religion
8.Still life
3.Mythology
9.The Surreal
4.Nature
10. Abstract
5.Genre
 1. HISTORY
History painting is a genre in painting defined by
subject matter rather than an artistic style.
 Historical painting depicts a moment in history
rather than a stationary subject such as a portrait.
 2. RELIGION
There are many ways of defining religious art. Religious art is:
1.Any artwork that has a Christian or Biblical theme (Christian Art)
2.Any artwork which illustrates the worship of any God, or deity; or
3.Any artwork with an Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Juche Judiac,
Bahai, or Jainist theme or any art depicting themes of the Shinto,
Cao Dai or traditional Chinese Religions
4.Any artistic Imagery using inspiration and motifs and is often
intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual.
 3. MYTHOLOGICAL
• Mythological art is a term used to
describe art forms that draw on myth
for their subject matter.
• The characters in myths are usually
Gods, supernatural heroes, and
humans involved in extraordinary
events or circumstances.
 4. NATURE
a.Landscape- is a painting, drawing, or
photographs, which covers the depiction of
outdoor or natural scenery such as
mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forest.
b.Cityscape- is a painting, drawing, or
photographs with urban scenery or the
urban environment as its primary focus
 4. NATURE
c. Seascape- is a photography, painting, and
other work of art which depicts the sea as its
primary subject.
 4. NATURE
d. Flora- A floral art is a painting,
drawing, or photograph with
flowers as its primary focus.
 4. NATURE
e. Fauna- can refer to the animal life
or classification of animals of a certain
regions, time, period, or environment.
 5. GENRE
A genre is a painting,
photograph, or other
artistic representation
of subject from
everyday life, usually
small in scale.
6. PORTRAIT
A portrait is a painting,
photographs, sculpture, or
other artistic representation
of a person.
The intent is to display the
likeness, personality, and
even the mood of the person.
 7. NUDE
A nude figure is mainly a
tradition in western art and has
been used to express ideals of
male and female beauty and
other human qualities.
The nude is a work of fine art
that has as it’s a primary subject
the unclothed human body.
 8. STILL LIFE
A still life is one of the principal genres or subject
types of Western art. So still life includes all kind of
man-made or natural objects, cut flowers fruit,
vegetables, fish, game, wine and so on.
 9. SURREAL
• Surrealist feasted on the unconscious. They believe
that Freud’s theories on dreams, ego, superego, id
opened doors to the authentic self and a truer reality
(“the surreal”).
• By giving subconscious, surrealists composed dream
liked scenes that show an irrational arrangement of
objects.
10. ABSTRACT
Abstract art applies to art
in which the artist has
started with some visible
object and abstracted
element from it to arrived
at a more or less simplified
or schematized art form.
 FUNCTION
Function refers to the direct and
practical usefulness of the art.
The function of art normally falls into
three categories. These are personal,
social, or physical functions. These
categories can and often overlap in any
given piece of art.
The physical function of art are most easily dealt
with. Work of art that are created to perform some
service have physical function.
The social function when it addresses collective
life, as opposed to one person’s point of view or
experience.
The personal function of art are the most
difficult to explain in any great details. There are
many of them and varies from one person to
another.
MEDIUM AND TECHNIQUE
The term medium refers to the material
which are used by an artist to create work of
art to interpret his feelings or thoughts.

• Techniques on the other hand, is the

manner in which the artist controls the
medium to achieve the desire effect.
 TWO DIMENSIONAL MEDIA
• Artist use many different materials, or media, to create art. In
two dimensional artwork, such as drawing and painting,
artist use media such as crayons, paints, pastel, and pencil.
• Drawing is often the first step in making an artwork. The
most common drawing media are graphite pencil, colored
pencil, crayons, colored markers, pen, pastel and chalk.
• Painting is the process of applying to the surface such as
canvas, paper or woods, using tools such as brush, a painting
knife, a roller, or even your fingers.
 THREE DIMENSIONAL MEDIA

• In three dimensional media artist used media like

clay and plastic to make a solid forms that have height,
width, length.
• The sculpture is a three-dimensional work of art, which
sculptors can use clay, glass, plastic, wood, stone, or
metal.
 TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIA

Artist constantly seek out new media, leading to many new forms
of art such as photography, film, video, and computer art.
 WHAT IS ORGANIZATION?

• Organization refers to the “order” in a work of art.

It refers to the way elements are arranged,
combined, and configured to make a whole.
• The arrangement of parts, the over all design, or
plan of a work must make sense.
 ORGANIZATION OF VISUAL ARTS

The design is the overall organizational visual

structure of the formal elements in a work of art.
These principles are:
1. Rhythm
2. Emphasis
3. Unity
4.Balance
5. Proportion