CONTEX OF

ART
 CONTEX
 Refers to, setting,conditions,circumstance and
occurrences affecting the production reception or
audience response to an art work
 A set of background information that helps us
formulate meanings about works of art and notehow
contexts affrects from.

CONTENT
The emotional and intellectual meaning of an artwork
DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
OF ART
 A) ARTIST’S BACKGROUND

 Age, gender, culture, economic conditions, social

environment and desposition.

A traditional artist’s resources differ fro an artist

reared in highly urbanized environment
Traditional art are shared among members of
community, resulting works that is very similar in
character.
 RED PAPIER – MACHE or TAKA- from Paete Laguna
PAPIER- MACHE a french word which means ‘chewed paper’
Some artist’s deliberately foregroung their
cultural identity in ther works

 ABDULMARI ASIA IMAO

 He is a national artist awarded on 2006
 integraded motifs from culture of
 mindanao like, Sarimanok and other
 okir designs in his painting
IS A ROOSTER CARRYING A FISH ON
ITS BEAK
ORKIR OR OKKIL IS THE TERM FOR GEOMETRIC AND FOLLOWING
DESIGNS(OFTEN BASED ONA ELABORATE LEAF AND VINE
PATTERN) AND FOLKS MOTIFS THAT CAN BE USUALLY FOUND IN
MARANAO AND MUSLIM – INFLUENCED ARTWORK
 JULIE LLUCH
 Julie Lluch is one of the foremost exponents of terracotta in the Philippines
today. Her highly personal art finds perfect expression in Philippine indigenous
clay to which she refers as a most “sensuous and pleasurable” feminine medium.
Her ideologically informed works of sculptured women performing various
domestic chores, mostly auto-biographical in origin, are sharp feminist
commentary on the circumstances of women’s lives. Her later works deal with
spiritual themes, particularly the Christian paradox of death and rebirth,faith
and vulnerability as depicted in her praying women series .
 This work shows a woman crying as she cuts up
onions. Why is she crying? There must be something
in the social environment that makes her — an alter
ego of the artist herself — cry. The artist's interest
lies in recreating the reality of women as they suffer
from customs and systems in a male dominated
society.All of the parts in this work, including the
woman, chicken, eggs and vegetables are made of
ceramics. Ceramics has historically been separated
from fine art and categorized as crafts, similarly to the
positioning of women. By taking ceramics into the
context of contemporary art, the role and status of
ceramics are also being reinstated.
 B) NATURE

 SOURCE AND INPIRATION AND THE WELLSPRING OF

MATERIALS FOR ART PRODUCTION
 T'nalak is a traditional cloth found in Mindanao island
made by a group of people in Lake Sebu, South
Cotabato called T'bolis, Tboli people. This traditional
cloth is hand-woven made of Abaca fibers which
traditionally has three primary colors, red, black and
the original color of the Abaca leaves
TINIKLING- IMAGINS THE TIKLING TRYING TO ESCAPE
FIELDS TRAPS SET BY FARMERS
IVATAN HOUSES OF BATANES –
MADE OF STONE AND FANGO
FERNANDO CUETO AMORSOLO
 The first named as A National
 Artist painted landscape
 romantically that gives warm and
 cool feeling.
The painting is set on a rice field wherein farmers, regardless
of their gender, are on with their usual work under a bright
sunny day. its visual weight is light because the colors used
weremostly pastel in nature. No dark colors were used to
produce a feeling of calm and peace. Even though rice
planting is definitely hard work, the painting made it look like
a simple work and fine day to be out.
 C) EVERYDAY LIFE

Philippine traditional art has

always been a part of our daily
lives. Its importance lies not
only to its aesthetic appearance
but also its function.
PABALAT OR BORLAS DE PASTILLAS
 BULACAN USING THE PABALAT
FOR YEARS CAUSED IT TO
TRANSFORM A LOCAL FOLK
TRADITION TO A POPULAR ART
 D) SOCIETY, POLITICS AND
ECONOMY AND HISTORY

 Art was employed to advance a political agenda as in

case of edifices built during the marcos regime

 Changes in the society, politics and economy affects

artists.
KODAK-is a technology
company focused on imaging
 DALAGANG BUKID
(country maiden) is a 1919 filipino silent film
directed bi Jose Nepomuceno. It is the first filipino
feature film to be locally produced in the
philippines.
BROWN BROTHER’S BURDEN

 Showing the colonized view of

his relationship to the white
colonizer

 The painting highlights the pain

of the brown man carrying the
white who has his face deleted
 WHITE MAN’S BURDEN
RUDYARD KIPLING
 BENCAB SHOWED THE FALSEHOOD OF THE WHITE
MAN’S BURDEN WITH HIS PAINTING
 APPROPRIATION- transforming
existing materials through the
juxtaposition of elements taken
from one context and replacing it
to present meanings, structure and
composition