Towards a People's Art

8/11/2019 Towards a People's Art

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Towards aPeoples ArtProf. Felipe de Leon


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Specialist Art


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Art becomes fragmented into

separate narrow concerns calleddisciplines.


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Highlycompartmentalized

The Great Piece of Turf by

Albrecht Durer

Watercolor


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Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van

Eyck

Oil



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White Center (Yellow, Pink and

Lavender on Rose) by Mark

Rothko

Acrylic, abstract



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Sarah Chang

Violinist



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Wilhelm Kempff

Pianist



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Noel Cabangon

Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter



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Specialist art tends to gain an artificial

quality because it needs to be studied in

order to be practiced and appreciated.

Art for arts sake.


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Expensive


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The cost of specialization


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Elite vs. Masses

Communal participation is minimized.

There is a gap between the artists and theaudience.


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Elite vs. Masses

The masses are conditioned to subscribe

to what the elite prescribes.


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Man with a Hat

and a ViolinPablo Picasso


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The Role of Mass Media


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Peoples Art


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Art is integrated with everyday life.


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The arts tend to merge as one.


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There is a collective participation

when it comes to art. It is not

exclusive to experts or a fewspecialists.


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Emphasis is on the process of artisticcreation, and not the finished

product.


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Biodegradable art


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Absence of fixed arbitrary standards.


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Philippine Artistic Cultures

Peoples Art

Learned in the contextof daily life.

Integrated witheveryday concerns,

functions and activities

Art forms areconvergent

Specialist Art

Academic andintellectual

Self-contained andseparate from reality.

Emphasis onspecialization


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SOURCESGerard Domanguera for the photos of the saluray andkutyapi

http://blogniako.blogspot.com/2012/05/pahiyas-festival-2012-lucban-quezon.html

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Philippines/Southern_Tagalog/Quezon/Lucban/photo909625.htm

http://philvisualarts.blogspot.com/2009/12/luz-ocampo-last-of-master-wrappers.html

http://naldoandshirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/good-friday.html


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SOURCES

http://museomusiko.wordpress.com/aerophone

s/nose-flutes/

http://www.kipas.nl/Instruments/Tongali.htm

https://www.facebook.com/JeepneyArtsFestival

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1999.363.64


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SOURCES

http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/2012/12/19/the-definitive-filipino-go-bag

Documents

Towards a People's Art