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The document discusses Philippine contemporary art, including literature, architecture, and visual art. It describes Philippine contemporary art as constantly evolving and boundary-pushing. It provides examples of influential contemporary Filipino architects like Carlos Santos-Viola and Jason Buensalido. It also notes that contemporary Filipino literature explores diverse genres like prose poetry, flash fiction, magic realism, and science fiction. However, contemporary Filipino writers still struggle with low domestic readership and market domination by foreign titles.

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Module 3

The document discusses Philippine contemporary art, including literature, architecture, and visual art. It describes Philippine contemporary art as constantly evolving and boundary-pushing. It provides examples of influential contemporary Filipino architects like Carlos Santos-Viola and Jason Buensalido. It also notes that contemporary Filipino literature explores diverse genres like prose poetry, flash fiction, magic realism, and science fiction. However, contemporary Filipino writers still struggle with low domestic readership and market domination by foreign titles.

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MODULE 3:

PHILIPPINE
CONTEMPORARY
ART
Renowned art critic and
Metropolitan Museum
curator Dr. Patrick Flores
describes Philippine
Contemporary Art with
"the feeling that all is
possible in the
contemporary, conceived
as a constantly extending
and deepening
constellation of art."
Metropolitan Museum curator Dr.
Patrick Flores
The Metropolitan Museum of
Manila is one of the major
museums in the city located within
the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Complex along Roxas Boulevard in
the Malate district of Manila, the
Philippines.
 Philippine contemporary art can
be found even in the most
unsuspecting places.
Contemporary or modern art is
not intended to be reduced to
conventional notions of space and
medium.
- Artist have brought their artworks
into the street, in public it is how
they able to connect with the
spectators.
 Allows Filipino artists to
portray the subject and
the medium in
innovative and skillful
ways. reflecting Filipino
identity
ARCHITECTURE
 In Manila the 16th century Binondo Church
is just a few blows away from modern
Lucky Chinatown mall. Each structure tells
a story of how the art of building was used
to shaped the course of history and
society.
New and fresh structures are sprouting all over
the country. Attributed to the designs made by
the likes of Carlos A. Santos-Viola, Jason
Buensalido, and Angelo Manosa.

Carlos A. Santos-Viola – INC Building


New and fresh structures are sprouting all over
the country. Attributed to the designs made by
the likes of Carlos A. Santos-Viola, Jason
Buensalido, and Angelo Manosa.

Jason Buensalido – Chiayi Cathedral


New and fresh structures are sprouting all over
the country. Attributed to the designs made by
the likes of Carlos A. Santos-Viola, Jason
Buensalido, and Angelo Manosa.

Angelo Manosa
Architect and critic Paulo Alcazaren
notes that today’s Philippine
architecture is faced with threats
from globalization.
- Globalization threatens
Philippine architecture by bringing
designs made by foreign
architectures.
“Much of what we see, in terms of
iconic buildings, in the Philippines
nowadays, is either designed by
foreigners, or are derivative designs
mimicking copies of western forms”
Paulo
Alcazaren
LITERATURE
 An eminent scholar and writer Roland
Tolentino who described that the Filipino
writing in today's world contains the
diasporic experience and the
incorporation of both the rural and the
urban experience.
LITERATURE
 Writers have also explored the western genre and
have produced legitimate texts on prose poetry,
flash fiction, magic realism and science fiction.

 Prose Poetry - imaginative poetic writing in prose.


 Flash fiction is a genre of fiction, defined as a very
short story. 
 Magic realism (also known as magical realism or
marvelous realism) is a style of fiction and literary
genre that paints a realistic view of the modern
world while also adding magical elements.
 Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi
or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that
typically deals with imaginative and futuristic
concepts such as advanced science and technology,
space exploration, time travel, parallel universes,
and extraterrestrial life.
 Dean Francis Alfar, an award winning writer,
pioneered the speculative fiction movement
anf has been publishing the Philippine
Speculative Fiction Series.
 Flash fiction, with stories of 1,000 words or
less, has been gaining interest among writers
such as publication of Vince Groyo.
 “Very Short stories for Harried Readers and
Anvhil Publishing’s Fast Food Fiction
Delivery.
 Filipino writers are also getting recognition
abroad. In, 2008 Miguel Syjuco bagged the
Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel
Ilustrado.
 Marivi Soliven published her novel “The
Mango Bride in 2013 under Penguin Books.
Sophia Lee won the 2014 Scholastic Asian Book
Award for her novel “What things Mean”
 Contemporary Filipino Writers
are continuing to struggle with
the lowe readership among the
public and the domination of
foreign titles in the market.
 Despite the odds, Contemporary
Filipino writers continue to
write without fail.

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