AS170 REPORT the Rise of Neo-Realism

8/20/2019 AS170 REPORT the Rise of Neo-Realism

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/as170-report-the-rise-of-neo-realism 1/27

The Rise of Neo-Realism

P o s t W a r P h i l i p p i n e A r t



Inspirations

To portray the tensions, conficts, the horrorand devastation o the recent war.

There is a need to break rom the Amorsolo’sgenteel tradition.

Taking Edades’ modernismo much urtherthan he did pre-war.

odernists elt that Amorsolo’s pastoral visiono the country side had reached a dead end

and that there was much more to modernismthan Edades’ heavy handed , post-!mpressionism and Art-"ouveau murals.



Inspirations

The circulation o Life maga#ine $ brought atthe end o the war. !t published articles aboutcontemporary masters like %icasso, &ra'ueand (hagall , )andinsky and ondrian, &u*et

and +ubu*et and the "ew ork AbstractEpressionists.

!ncluded ull color reproduction o mastersworks.

/eatured (ubism, 0urrealism and /auvism inits pages.





Members

1riginal embers23. 4ernando 1campo

5. 6amon Estella

7. 8icente anansala

9. 8ictor 1yte#a

:. (esar ;egaspi

<. 6omeo Tabuena

They were =oined later on by "ena 0aguil, anuel6odrigue# 0r., Anita agsaysay-4o, /ernando>obel, Arturo 6ogerio ;u#, (enon 6ivvera, etc.



The Neo-Realists

;ydia Arguilla ?/ounder o %hilippine Art@allery, 3:BC described the original "eo-6ealists as Dsi o the most aggressivelymodernwho insisted on the reality , not o

ob=ects and sub=ect matter, but orelationships.F

Relationship $ interaction between the line,color, shape, teture and space establishing

points o movement and rest, tension andrelaation, in the design o the painting.

A regard to Dplastic reality,F rather thanDrealistic representation,F o paramount

importance.



Neo-Realism and abstract painting

1. Non – naturalistic The sub=ect is transormed by innovative or

radical simpliGcation, Ddistortion,Fragmentation and deconstruction. This is to

give emphasis and importance to line, color,volume, pattern and paint 'uality $Representational Abstraction. The sub=ect is stillidentiGable no matter how severe the

reproduction or how more abstract the work is .



Blue Madonna6amon Tabuena, 3<



Fish Vendors8icente anansala



5. Non- objectie art+eletes the sub=ect matter altogether. !t is the

art o pure abstraction or abstraction orabstraction’s sake.

1utcome2 the new reality that corresponds not othe perceived reality but the artist’s vision o it.



Venues for Experimental Art

3. Art Association o the %hilippines ?AA%Counded by %urita )alaw ;edesma in 39H.

5. %hilippine Art @allery o ;ydia Arguilla



AAP Exhibitions

39H $ /irst Annual o AA%. 0i pri#es wereawarded to "eo-realists.

(arlos D&otongF /rancisco $ Da convert to

modern artF and Edades’ assistant in muralcommissions , won Grst pri#e or his entry,!ain"in, depicting a countryside grittier thanAmorsolo’s portrayals. ost controversial is

4.6. 1campo’s Nude #ith Flo#er and $andle %a 0urrealist painting with /reudian symbolsthat many ound enigmatic and sick $ Grstpainting o a nude in a public ehibition.



!ain"in(arlos /rancisco



&lantin" Rice

3:7/ernando Amorsol



$apas

+emetrio +iego



AAP Exhibitions

The ollowing ehibitions were won by thelikes o &otong /rancisco, 4.6. 1campo,anansala, ;egaspi and Tabuena. !t arousedhostility rom (onservatives who ound their

works not only incomprehensible butperverse. any o whom had not received anacademic Gne arts training.

35th Annual AA% Ehibition $ DThe IalkoutF oconservatives leading to establishment o A.abini Academy ?abini ArtistsC.



Debates Ihy modern artist took such liberties with sub=ect

matterJ

Edades2 DThe academic practice o copying nature ina lielike way had certain limitations2 it couldn’treveal the essence o a sub=ect , its structural order

and inner states o eeling, with the kind oimmediacy and epressive orce that distortion could$ through simpliGcation, eaggeration, attenuation.

'istortion( to serve purely aesthetic ends andintensiy a eeling or rhythmic ormK a stress onDpowerFand DvirilityFover DsweetnessF and DcharmF



Debates A +ominican priest2 D!magination in modernist art is o

a warped mind. !t has closed the avenues to @od andburned bridges to create reality.F

The di*erences between two camps led to the

decision o AA% to set up divisions between(onservative and odern with two sets o pri#es.

'ouble standard controers)(

Are there two norms for judging art?;ater on the idea was =unked. The criteria or =udging

considered the originality or reshness o creative ideas,not only technical ecellence.



Exhibitions

Two ehibitions served as landmarks in thedevelopment o local modernism2

3. The /irst "eo-6ealist Ehibition sponsored by AA%in 3:B

5. The /irst Ehibition o "on-1b=ective Art by %A@ in3:7

These were attacks against the Gne-arts schoolreactionaries, a way to discredit the conservative

belie that art must copy nature and ideali#e it aswall. Though they did not put an end to that belie,they set the validity o the "eo-6ealist movement.



First Neo-Realist Exhibition

DThe ehibition did not concern itsel withpainting that had a strong native orvernacular accent but with one that grappledwith undamental, or universal , aesthetic

issues.F

"eo-6ealist Assumption2 DArt didn’t have tosoothe nerves or bring relaation but rather

open their eyes to new ways o seeing, toshake people up rom complacency andpresupposition, to make the think.



An"el*s !iss4ernando 1campo

+erenade6amon Estella



Advancement of Modern Art

/ernando >obel ?359-3H9C $ an artist,intellectual, lecturer and critic. 4e providedsupport to %A@ , promoted its best andbrightest students and collected "eo-6ealistworks which would be donated to Ateneo deanila Lniversity in 3: to serve as thenucleus o its art gallery and the Grst museumo %hilippine odern Art.

An artist who responded to native orm andmaterials was likelier to produce a distinctly%hilippine art than one who didn’t.



Moimiento +obre $laro

Dovement on (larityF/ernando >obel



,mniptero3<5/ernando >obel



&aintin" ?letC$arroa ?rightC

/ernando >obel



&y start o sities, the %A@’s infuence haddiminished. /inancial and managementproblems as well as Arguilla’s railing healthworsen its condition. 4owever, new galleriescontinued its legacy o making modernism itsheadway to public consciousness.

he bi" little room on Ar'ui#a 0treet.

:Bs - any had not received any Gne arts

instruction and held ull time =obs ?engineer,movie director, teachers etc.,C



Modernism and National Identity

AA% =urors to address the /ilipino element inan artist’s entry ?3B percentC

1yte#a , 4.6. 1campo, ;u# et al 2 paintingcarabaos, nip huts, rice plantin peasants did

not contribute to %hilippine art. Ihat wasimportant was its orm and design.

They maintained their attitude on Filipinism asparochial, narrow minded and irrelevant.

To be relevant meant to be recogni#edinternationally.

Documents

AS170 REPORT the Rise of Neo-Realism