NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION (NCR) ART Flashcards
is the expression of ideas and emotions, with the creation of certain aesthetic qualities, in a two-dimensional visual language.
Painting
The elements of a painting
•shapes
•lines
•colors
•tones
•Textures
was a legacy of Victorio Edades
Neo-realism
is an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects.
Sculpture
Pioneered Neo-realism
in sculpture.
Napoleon Abueva
He is the youngest
Filipino National Artist.
Napoleon Abueva
He was the first
Filipino artist to mount a one-man exhibit at the Philippine Center in New York in 1980.
Napoleon Abueva
Became a prolific artist in his sculpture and monuments of embossed copper and welded brass.
Eduardo Castillo
He explains that this aesthetic, both a neo-realist and a cubist tendency.
Eduardo Castillo
is rendered in a meticulously realistic style with accurate details looking like a photograph.
Photorealism
as a technique becomes magical realism if unreal or imaginary are focused on their physical presence in the actual world.
Hyperrealism
often uses hyperrealist technique.
Surrealism
Refers to the painterly practice of activist-artist beginning 70’s.
Social Realism
Notable Activists Artists who practiced social realism
- Pablo Baen Santos use technique in dynamic figuration has unmasked the ills inequities in the Philippine politics.
- Orlando Castillo, martial-law etchings touch on the human rights abuses violence of the Marcos dictatorship.
- Renato Habulan, Al Manrique, Antipas Delotavo and Edgar Talusan Fernandez use hyperrealist techniques, the last two often with magical realist metaphors.
Can be expressive or it can be suggestive of and can be metaphor or symbol.
Abstract Art
Notable Artists who expressed through abstract
- Arturo Luz
Style in paintings and sculptures:
linear and hard edge. - Romulo Olazo
Famous work: Diaphanous series
Style: he layered shapes, one on top of another, in various tints and shades to achieve patterns of rich transparencies. - Rodolfo Samonte
Style: opaque structures of think impastos. - Ben Maramag
Style: uses aerosol paint to create colorful constructions, mixing hard edge with soft edge surprises.
Luzon Art:
-Weaving
-Binakul
-Bulul
-Woodworking
is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of varns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Other methods are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting.
Weaving
is a blanket that features designs and brighter tones that create a retinal illusion. Common among Ilocanos and Tinguians from Abra.
Binakul
• A rice deity from the
Ifugao people of Northern Luzon.
• Its art designs signify the rhythm.
• It is known as ancestral national motif, guardian of harvest, signifies fertility
and sometimes believed to house spirits ancestor.
• It is commonly carved from a log of narra or ipil, and at a times in stone.
• Western observers describe it as carved in a “cubistic “manner and it was borrowed by western cubist in 20th century from our indigenous people.
Bulul
is the activity or skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.
Woodworking
Types of art in Visayas
-Patadyong
-Bicycle
-Bukog
• Visayas national art motif
• An indigenous Philippine rectangular or tube-like wraparound skirt worn by both men and women of the Visayas islands and the Sulu archipelago
• It features primary and secondary colored designs (stripes, squares, rectangles, checkered, etc.)
Patadyong
• In his Bicycle Series, each of the 10 paintings depicts a bicycle as a central figure.
• His tubular, intestinal strokes reminiscent of his abstract works are now purposeful and take more form in wheels and chains.
• The mound of undulating
curves creates a visual tension of solidity and fluidity, absoluteness and ambiguity.
Rock Drilon (an Ilonggo contemporary painter who was born in 1956)
• Portrays the strength of women in the community of sugar workers
• It was exhibited in 2013
• Has a strong influence in contemporary art expression in the region
• Alvarado style of squat, planar, angry figures focus on the plight of sugar workers in Fabrica, Sagay City.
• He paint in his style.
Bukog
Art from Mindanao
Ukkil
•A geometric and flowing plant- based designs and folk motifs that can be usually found among in Mindanao, specifically in the Sulu Peninsula.
• It is widely used in woodcarvings, paintings, cloth designs, etc.
• It is a curvilinear motif symbolizing the mythical dragon, naga, or serpent, often enhanced with elaborate leaf and vine patterns.
Ukkil
