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You know what I'm trying to finally write again and anywhere is a good place to start so here are some bite sized reviews of my bite sized YA binge (including two other books I read a few weeks earlier):

The Narrow, by Kate Alice Marshall: This was a book I borrowed after skimming it with a strong impression I would enjoy it, and thankfully I was right! The main character is the daughter of two well off but neglectful parents who spend way more time on her deeply troubled brother, to the point where she doesn't find out they forgot to pay for her final year at boarding school until she's already arrived. Fortunately the wealthy parent of a sickly student is willing to cover her tuition, as long as she rooms with and takes care of that student for the year. Pity she's pretty sure she's the reason that student is sick. Oh, and their dorm room is haunted as hell.

The Narrows deals a lot with the subject of abuse--both romantic and familial--while couching it in an atmospheric ghost story. I liked the tone and the characters, and one thing I really enjoyed is that it used its first person narrative to paint a very familiar romantic fiction picture of the main character having no one else to relate to or rely on other than their new love interest who is ~the only one who understands them~, and deliberately made that the product of her own insecurities. The ghost and possession element also explored sense of self and identity in a way that pinged pretty hard with my ozqrow days. Bittersweet ending, but would recommend for anyone into sapphic ghost stories.

Before the Devil Knows You're Here, by Autumn Krause: Ehh this was the mediocre apple story. I loved the summary--the main character's struggling single father passes away suddenly, and before she even has time to mourn, the monster her father has been warning her about her entire life shows up on their doorstep to steal away her brother as well, so she sets out to find the monster and save her brother. I dunno, the problem could be me, that summary had me expecting Guillermo del Toro style Labyrinth--which I am now realizing someone could say "don't you just mean Pan's Labyrinth" and no, I mean the relationship with maturity and sexual awakening where the monstrous is outwardly monstrous--and that's...really not what it was at all. It was "what if Johnny Appleseed made a deal with the devil," which kudos, I have not seen before, but wasn't really into in its execution. I do appreciate a heroine with guile, though, and she does have that.

I Fed Her to the Beast and the Beast Was Me, by Jamison Shea: The premise of this one is pretty straightforward--a talented black ballet student makes a deal with a dark entity to have the opportunity to actually make it into the prestigious Parisian ballet troupe she's been chasing after her whole life, and discovers that being part of a cult with monstrous powers is actually less toxic than being a girl of color in the Parisian professional ballet scene. I really liked this one, it wasn't afraid to have its leading lady be monstrous and cruel and wrong, and it also made it clear which parts of her mindset were just the product of spending so long in a cut-throat industry that spent every moment rejecting her. The ending was a bit too neat for me, but overall the atmosphere was great. Genuinely almost anything with a title like that is probably something I'll end up enjoying lmao

What Stalks Among Us, by Sarah Hollowell: Two best friends get stuck in an evil corn maze! This wasn't my favorite, but I still enjoyed it a lot; the main character's habit of self-censoring even among friends was very resonant with me. The story hits the ground running and has good momentum on exploring the mystery of the maze and how it came to be. The nature of the maze is ultimately rooted in [womp womp] trauma, so that's a major element of the story, and unfortunately there is greater focus on the main character's trauma with her best friend supporting her, but I guess that's to be expected in a first person narrative. It still is ultimately about their friendship! Which is portrayed as valuable as is without developing into anything else.

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, by Andrew Joseph White: Ultimately the most brutal of the books but I think that was what I liked about it. The main character is a trans boy in an 1882 London where mediums are a hot commodity but the women are only prized as potential baby makers for male mediums. The main character is caught trying to escape his conservative family and inevitable impending marriage, and sent to a corrective boarding school designed to turn mentally unwell spiritually sensitive women into demure brides. This boarding school is run about the way you would expect, and most of the story is the main character realizing just how bad it is and figuring out what can be done to escape. The exactly one way he's gotten lucky is that he and his future betrothed turn out to be t4t and are really quite cute together, but the main character is an aspiring surgeon and that means the story is not afraid to get visceral. Which really elevated the tone; there's room for a sequel in the ending to this one that I wouldn't mind reading.

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A Review

In an age of unquantifiable styles and techniques interwoven with art, indigenous and modernized likewise, it is a boldness to create a homogenized definition of the Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics. We’ve heard about the Alibata system of writing, the Manunggul Jar and several other historical artifacts recovered in the archipelago that confirm the predominance of curvilinear and rectilinear lines in traditional indigenous art, but at present, what has become of the concept of Philippine Aesthetics?

If this is exactly your cup of tea today, then you may want to lookup the name Alice G. Guillermo in your mobile devices. She has spilled literally everything from her cup in her authored work Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics about these thoughts.

If you’re a fan of long, wordy essays, then you’ll probably find yourself engrossed in reading this ten-paged academic text. This article covers possibly every single fact you may need (and want) to know about the Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics and all things spinning around it like planets; traditional artistic expressions, the quest for national identity in art, etc. Not only that, but all the information presented in this writing are amazingly supported with subdetails. I didn’t find myself asking two questions while reading this! Everything is already laid out there on the screen of my phone just waiting for my eyes to scan through.

For the convenience of the less patient readers out there, the topics and subtopics are wonderfully sectioned in identified paragraphs, making it super easy for you to spot the fractions you want to read alone. This is a full-course meal so if you feel like you can’t take everything all at once, you can just start by taking a small bite of something before digesting all the details little by little.

But if you're like me and the mere spectacle of lengthy texts makes you yawn and you prefer short and concise materials, then this reading will quickly bore you out of your wits. The subject matter Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics is generally broad and extensive. It literally branches out like Science so it seems to me that the length of the article was in fact of justice.

Though when I was reading the article a few hours prior to writing this, I genuinely felt like I was taking a longer route towards somewhere I quickly needed to be. There were a lot of stops that felt kind of unnecessary. And when I say stops, I’m talking about all the drawn out details that I didn’t quite feel like reading. Though I do understand that these details exist to support bigger ideas and are in fact important in the composition, I still feel like some sentences could’ve been cut out from the work and it wouldn’t have made any difference at all.

But that’s just a minuscule, barely noticeable blemish in this masterfully written article. I can tell that the author has thorough knowledge and is extremely familiarized with the subject just by looking at how the ideas are laid out with precision, and to be honest, I won’t hesitate giving a perfect ten for this reading's content any day if you ask me.

In the few minutes that I spent on repeatedly browsing through the pdf file I have available on my device, l honestly liked it and learned about a lot of things surprisingly. And even though I was a little reluctant on finishing the article--the primary reason being the course of discussion, which wasn’t particularly close to my area of interest--I can say that I’ve gained more than I lost, no humor intended.

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Exhibition Of Large-Scale, Immersive Installations to be Highlight of the Newly Expanded Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

The Museum of Modern Art will inaugurate its latest transformation on New York City’s Wesr 53rd Street with Surrounds: 11 Installations, opening in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions, in The Peggy and David Rockefeller building, on October 21, 2019. The presentation, spanning the entire sixth floor, presents 11 watershed installations by living artists from the past two…

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First lines from the books I read in 2018

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd: Thus is 1711, the ninth year of the reign of Queen Anne, an Act of Parliament was passed to erect seven new Parish Churches in the Cities of London and Westminster, which commission was delivered to Her Majesty’s Office of Works in Scotland Yard.

Métamorphose en bord de ciel by Mathias Malzieu: Les oiseaux, ça s'enterre en plein ciel.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Le plus petit baiser jamais recensé by Mathias Malzieu: Le plus petit baiser jamais recensé.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll: One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it -it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson: Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity-Good.

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin: Dear James: I had begun this letter five times and torn it up five times.

The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri: Benjamín Miguel Chaparro stops short and decides he’s not going.

At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why.

The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes: This books is the factual account of the life, up to now, of William Stanley Milligan, the first person in U.S. history to be found not guilty of major crimes, by reason of unsanity, because he possessed multiple personalities.

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket: If you are interested in stories in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.

Puckoon by Spike Milligan: Several and a half metric miles North East of Sligo, split by a cascading stream, her body on earth, her feet in water, dwells the microcephalic community of Puckoon.

Piercing by Ryu Murakami: A small living creature asleep in its crib.

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket: The stretch of the road that leads out of this city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleasant in the world.

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini: So, then.

The Shape of Water by Guillermo Del Toro and Daniel Kraus: Richard Strickland reads the brief from General Hoyt.

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell: He’d stopped trying to bring her back.

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell: The Rue du Coq d’Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart: Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack: First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.

The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket: If you didn’t know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcases at Damocles Dock, you might think they were bound for an exciting adventure.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco: I remember, I don’t remember.

The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket: Sometime during your lifetime -in fact, very soon- you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby: The word is everywhere, a plague spread by the President of the United States, television anchors, radio talk show hosts, preachers in megachurches, self-help gurus, and anyone else attempting to demostrate his or her identification with ordinary, presumably wholesome American values.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare: Theseus, duke of Athens, is planning the festivities for his upcoming wedding to the newly captured Amazon, Hippolyta.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in, followed by a new boy not wearing a school uniform, and by a janitor carrying a large desk.

The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket: If you were going to give a gold medal to the last delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn’t give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding: The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: Christopher Sly, a drunken beggar, is driven out of an alehouse by its hostess.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: My name is Katy H.

Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami: “There’s no such thing as a perfect piece of writing.”

The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket: The book you are holding in your two hands right now -assuming that you are, in fact, holding this book, and that you have only two hands- is one of two books in the world that will show you the difference between the words “nervous” and the word “anxious.”

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Two households, both alike in dignity, (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Adventure Time: The Enchiridion & Marcy’s Super Secret Scrapbook!!!: My Devoted Evil Daighter, Marceline, I admit we’ve had a somewhat volatile father-daughter relantionship ever since the regrettable Fry Incident.

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin: Ser Waymar Royce glanced at the sky with desinterest.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami: I used to love listening to stories about faraway places.

The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket: No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.

Dracula by Bram Stoker: 3 May. Bistritz. –Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:43, but train was an hour late.

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare: I know this hartred mocks all Christian virtue, but They I loathe: their very sight  abhors me.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac: I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami: It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket: There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word “stop” written in entirely in capital letters STOP.

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince by Mayte Garcia: The chain-link fence around Praisley Park is woven with purple ribbons and roses, love notes, tributes, and prayers for peace.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Who’s there?

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin: The comet’s tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky.

Out of Africa by Isak Dinensen: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of Ngong Hills.

Carrie by Stephen King: News item from the Westover (Me.) weekly enterprise, August 19, 1966: RAIN OF STONES REPORTED.

The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket: When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen and sawed holes in my rented canoe so it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends.

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick: The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a boal of outmeal.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve on an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only tale he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.

Carmilla by Sheridan J. Le Fanu: Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborated note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: No one has ever suffered as I have.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka: One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski: I still get nightmares.

Othello by William Shakespeare: In the streets of Venice, Iago tells Roderigo of his hatred for Othello, who has given Cassio the lieutenancy that Iago wanted and has made Iago a mere ensign.

Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami: I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket: A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled,” describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: “What you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay…”

A Most Haunted House by G. L. Davies: The house first came to my attention a few  years ago.

Ghost Sex, The Violation by G. L. Davies: I met with Lisa at her home in Pembroke Dock.

Any Man by Amber Tamblyn: Am I in a body?

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay: “This must be so difficult for you, Meredith.”

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin: The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent.

Macbeth by William Shakespeare: When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?

You by Caroline Kepnes: You walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it doesn’t slam.

The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket: After a great deal of examining oceans, investigating rainstorms and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the worlds developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named “the water cycle.”

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys: They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: About thirthy years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the country of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of a handsome house and a large income.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë: My name is Gilbert Markham, and my story begings in October 1827, when I was twenty-four years old.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare: Boatswain!

Lucky by Alice Sebold: In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheather, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered.

The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket: Certain people had said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

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ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS

Alternative materials ang isa sa nag paliwanag kung gaano kahalaga ang mga materyales na gagamitin sa pag gawa mo ng arts. Pinaliwanag din dito na kung ano ang magiging resulta kung ang mga materiales mo ay kulang at di angkop sa gagawin mong sining. Pinaliwang ng manunulat na si Alice G. Guillermo na kung ang pag gawa ng sining sa pilipinas ay napakahirap, dahil madaming mga alagad ng sining na libhang napakagaling sa pagawa ng sining na kulang kulang sa kagamitan at ang kakulangan sa kagamitan kagaya ng mga pintura, lapis, papel, at madaming pang ibang kagamitan na ginagakit sa paggawa ng sining ay lubos na nakakaapekto sa mga ito. Dahil hindi nila magagawa ng maayos ang lilikhain nilang sining. Ngunit dahil sa kakulangan ng kagamitan naisip ng mga manlilikha na punan ang kakulangan nilang pangangaylangan at naisip nila na pwedeng lumikha ng sining sa pamamagitan ng mga dahon ng puno, balat ng puno, tinta na nanggagaling sa ibat ibang uri ng puno at mga bagay na may mailalabas na pwedeng gamitin sa pag likha ng sining. Ngunit sa pamamaraang ito hindi nila malilibot ang lawak ng sining dahil kapag mga krayola at oil pastle ang gagamitin nila ay hindi sila makakakuha nito dahil hindi sapat ang kakayahan nilang makabili ng ganitong uri ng kasangkapan. Ani ni Guillermo ang kakulangan sa kagamitan ay labis na nakakaapekto sa mga manglilikha dahil hindi nito maipapahayag nang maayos ang sining na lilikhain nila ngunit mas maipapahayag nila ng maayos kung may sapat na materyales ang bawat manglilikha. Sa ganitong paraan mas malilibot nila ang lawak ng sining sa ating bansa.

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Pagtalakay at Pagsusuri sa kahulagan ng Aesthetics mula kay Alice G. Guillermo

Sining, iba't iba ang porma nito, maaring isang pasulat na teksto, larawan, pinta, kanta at marami pang iba. Sa madaling salita lahat ng bagay na may kaugnayan sa buhay ng isang tao ay maaring tawaging sining. At sa bawat sining may aesthetics na tinatawag. Mayroong pamantayan sa pagkilala ng isang sining sa pamamagitan ng aesthethics. Sinasabing ang teknikal na kahulugan ng aesthics at tumukukoy ito sa; pormal, linya, texture, composition at visual arts ng isang sining. Ngunit, sa pagpapakilala ni Guillermo sa aesthetics ito ay isang uri ng pilosopiya sa sining na kung saan uusian ang nilalaman at kahulugan ng obra na ito mula base sa kasaysayan, kultura at lipunang kinagisnan ng may likha nito. Dagdag pa ni Alice, dapat ay mayroong katangi - tanging mukha ang sining na siyang nagkwe - kwento sa kung ano mang buhay ang nakita at naranasan ng may likha nito sapagkat ito ang magpapakilala sa identidad at kung ano mang uri ng sining mayroon ang partikular na lipunan na ito na inilalarawan sa mismomg obra.

Mayrong mga premise na binanggit si Guillermo sa kaniyang pagpapakahulugan ng Aesthetics. Na kung saan ang sining ay socially and historically situated na kung ating papalawigin ang kaniyang ibig sabihin dito na ang sining ay nakaugnay kung paano kumilos ang lipunan base sa kasaysayang kaniyang natamasa upang madetermina kung bakit ganito ang itsurang kinalabasan ng sining na ito. Dagdag pa niya na ang sining ay socially and historically situated based on particular time and place. Na kung ating tatalakayin na ang itsura, teksto o nilalaman ng isang sining ay dapat magkaugnay ang oras at lugar kung kailan at paano ito nangyari sa panahon na ito. Ito man ay moderno o luma na. Sa madaling salita, ang aesthetics ay pagdetermina sa nilalaman ng sining hindi lang basta ito nakabase sa composition, linya, texture at pagiging pormal nito kundi nakaugnay rin ang kasaysayan, oras, lugar at kulturang mayroon ang lipunan na siyang pinoportray sa sining na kinikilatis gamit ang kahulugan ng aesthethics.

Maari rin maimpluwensiyahan ang pamantayan ng aesthethics ng isang sining. Dahil nga ang Pilipinas ay nasakop ng mga dayuhan ang mga likhang sining ng bansang ito ay nahuluan na, kung saan walang sariling identidad o natural na katangian mayroon ang lipunang ito. Maaring ito ang kadahilanan ngunit sa pagpapatuloy... May mga artist ang nagbabalak gumawa ng sariling imahe ng sining sa bansa ngunit sa paglipas ng panahon ang mga bagong sibol sa larangan ng sining ay nabuhay lamang sila sa pang - gagaya at ang mga kinikilala bilang dalubhasa kalaunan ay bumababa sa hagdanang inakyat nila noon upang maipakilala ang sining mayroon ang kanilang lipunan na ngayon ay siya na mismong nagalis ng pagkakakilalan sa identidad mayroon ang sining ng bansang ito. Aaminin ko na ang ilan sa pagsusuring na aking binanggit ay narinig ko kung kanino man. Ngunit, mas mabuti na ito upang ipapakilala at ipakalat kung ano ba talaga ang gustong ipamungkahi ni Guillermo sa kaniyang akda sa pagpapakahulugan at pagpapakilala sa aesthethics.

REYES, RYAN EMMANUEL HUMSS 12 - 5

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Anything that is made by anyone is an art. God made you. You're an art. And the way you do things is also an art. The way you smile seeing your loved ones after a long tiring day, the way your coffee tastes, the way you pursue your dreams and goals in life, the way your eyes glow even after you cried, is aboslutely an amazing art.

But for some reason, people can have their own perceptions on how you do things. It is because we have our own context of art.

According to the Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics, a well-written article by Alice G. Guillermo, aesthetics as the Philosophy of art, is about the content, form and history of an art, aside from its technical side (line,texture,shape). Aesthetics isn't just something that are appealing to the eyes of the people, but it is also the context of the art and the artist who made it.

Alice Guillermo enumerated three things about the aesthetics of an art. First is the form and content. She said that each work of art has a unique meaning based on its form and structure. The way an artist made an art is already an art. Whether the artist used oil paint on a canvas, or used fruit extracts on a plain paper, already tells a story.

Second, art has something to do with the culture. Every artwork speaks of its own identity. It tells the story of the artist who made it, his/her language, culture, way of living, etc.

Lastly, an art is historically and socially situated. All countries have their own historical background, which is the reason why art varies all over the world. For example, the Philippines. Our way of doing art differs everytime because of the influence of the colonizers. During the time that we weren't colonized by any country yet, our artwork focuses on creating hunting materials, because it is the way to survive during the primitive times. Therefore, no art is inferior to one another because our history and cultures differs from each other.

The author also stated some things which we need to consider in the area of contemporary aesthetics. First one will be the tradition. Why do we need to consider our tradition? It is because we need tolook back on how our contemporary art developed from long ago up until now.

The second one is about the alternative materials. Long ago, Filipino used stones and branches of a tree for making fire, mud for creating pots, and spear for hunting animals to eat. Those things were used because it is the only thing available to use at that time. Nowadays, most of the artists in our country use digital technique, using electricity and some technologies like a computer, to create their own art. Some Filipinos create their art with their own hands, but with the use of modernized materials such as charcoal pencil, oil paint, canvas, paintbrush, watercolor, colorful pens, etc. Art also differs depending on the materials available on that time.

Lastly, is about the subject, content and meaning. Each artwork tells us a story, with the available medium used, and how the artist made use of that medium. It tells us what kind of situation the artist is experiencing while doing his/her art. Every line, color, or shape has its own meaning which makes the art beautiful.

This article made by Alice Guillermo is something that the young generation must read. You should contextualize and historisize an art before judging it. Because art = uniqueness.

I can now say that Art is seeing or doing things in a different perspective. It may be greatly influenced by your experiences, feelings, and imagination. And we shall respect each other's perception of things.

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Pagsusuri Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics

Ni: Alice G. Guillermo

Sa textong aking nabasa, pinapatungkol dito ang kung ano ba ang mabuting ehemplo ng aesthetics sa bansa pilang kabilang tayo sa third world country o umuunlad/pag-unlad ng bansa at kung saan ba ito nagsimula. Ang aesthetic ay may tatlong saligan. Una, ito sanghay ng pilosopiya na kung saan pinapakita o pinapahalagahan nito ang kagandahan ng bagay, pormal at maaaring makaimpluwensya sa kultura. Pangalawa, may kaugnayan sa kasaysayan at lipunan na mayroong makabuluhang mensahe sa likod nito at panghuli, pinapahiwatig na ang bawat lipunan ay nagbabago ng sarili nitong aesthetics mula sa makasaysayang karanasan nito. Sinasabi rin dito na ang pilipinas ay pluralista at mayroong ibat ibang katangian dahil sa mayroon ibat ibang relihiyon ang bansa tulad ng kristiyano na mas marami kaysa sa islam na kung saan kinakailangang igalang at pahalagahan ang mga magkakaibang kontribusyon na ito sa ating pambansang kultura at hindi sumusukat sa pagkakaiba nito. Nang masakop ang pilipinas mula sa kanluran, espanya at amerika, nagkaroon ng iba't ibang ideolohiya at pananaw sa kultura ng sining. Ang mga maranaws at tausogs na parte ng islam na grupo dahil sa mataas ang kanilang political na organisasiyon, matagumpay na nilabanan ang pagsisikap ng espanya na sakupin ito. Dahil dito, nagkakaroon ng pagkakaiba at pagtanggap nito sa ating tradisyon upang makilala ang may likha nito.

Noon, pinaniniwalaan nila na ang lahat ng bagay ay may buhay o tinatawag na animism. Mayroong din malaking pagkahilig sa kurba o curvilinear lines na kadalasan makikita sa wood carvings, drawings at paintings na pagpapakita ng pagpapala at katamisan. Sa kanilang pag-gawa, gumagamit sila ng iba't ibang materyal. Naging kapansin-pansin din ang gawa ng wood carves na gawa sa abaca fiber at Ifugao naman ay mantel na kaibahan ng itim at pula.

Sa kaso sa pilipinas, isang talakayan ng katutubo ang aesthetics ay nagbibigay ng diin sa mga katangian nito sa tradisyonal na sining ng pilipinas hindi katulad ng ibang bansa sa asya ay may katutubong pag-ukit ng istilo. Para sa akin, dahil nasakop tayo ng mga dayuhan, nagkaroon tayo ng iba't ibang pananaw patungkol sa sining na mayroon tayo. Naghahalo-halo ang mga ideya at pagturo sa atin nito. Huwag balewalain ang naituro sa atin ng mga ninuno natin dahil para sa akin, malaki ang naging impluwensya nila para imulat satin na mayroon at di pa rin nawawala ang sarili nating sining. 'wag din sana dumating sa puntong ang pinaghirapan at pinagsumikapan ay isa na lamang basura sa ating bayan.

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Review on Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics of Alice G. Guillermo

The Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics is an article that talks about changes of Philippine art aesthetics from its most primal to its contemporary form, the article is written by Alice G. Guillermo a writer, researcher, art critic and professor in Philippine Art. There are three premises mentioned in the article to make a larger view from the productions of a hundred years. The first premise is about the definition and meaning of aesthetics. Originally, the meaning of aesthetics is only the formal, technical side of arts or the line, texture, composition itself. But being a branch of philosophy, it should be concerns with content. In my own view, aesthetic should mean as the nature of art or how the art (painting, sculpture, etc.) created, it is about the story behind the art not only the art itself. The second premise explains that art is dependent on what really is happening in our surrounding and its history. Art has its own distinction or specification and uniqueness. And the third premise is about the aesthetics itself. It is socially and historically situated and shaped by the social conditions of a particular time and place. It means that aesthetics is not universal or true for all men or society. Each society has its own unique culture so aesthetics differs for every place and time. Each society’s aesthetics is not the same because of its own historical experience, social conditions, cultural and artistic traditions. Historical experience of Philippines especially the colonization of other country to us affects our aesthetic norms and standards and even our national identity.

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A review of Alice G. Guillermo's Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics

In today's world, art has evolved. Every nation and tribes have their own signature style that when you see an art, you will be like "Oh! That's from *toot* back in *toot*" or maybe "ooohhh.. I haven't heard that before, but I think it's from *toot*." The texture, technique, material, instruments, etc. could determine the origin of an art. By 'art', we have songs, poems, dances, paintings, sculptures, and a lot more which an individual expresses herself/himself. BUT! It does not just define one's self, hence, it defines and reflects the society where and when the artist/creator belong. According to Alice Guillermo, "Art is socially and historically situated and is shaped by the materialconditions of society." And here's where aesthetics come into the picture for it is the philosophy of art. Guillermo defined aesthetics as "[a branch of philosophy that] has something to do with conserns of content, as well as of form, with the nature of art and its place vis-a-vis society."

The real condition of Philippine culture was revealed in the text-and that condition is cultural identity crisis. The reason why we - Filipinos, have an unstable cultural identity is because of our history of colonization. This crisis is the one that our Filipino artists are striving to resolve and give justice. The foundation of our culture identity is weak - as well as the foundation of the Filipino language. If our Filipino artists' and scholars' goal is to eradicate culture alienation from its own, then why don't they just focus on developing it - making works that truly defines the Philippines, instead of making accounts that states the problem of Philippine culture vis-a-vis its society. In the sense, it does not help, and it's just making things complicated in the idea that it does not end the problem - just acknowledging it. Anyone who would be reading this kind of texts may be inspired and may decide to write something that also involves Filipino culture alienation. It will just go round and round not resolving the problem at all.

With the realization, in contrary with the latter, that Guillermo's text, Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics is also an art - in correspondence with our society. She wrote in the third premise given that:

"aesthetics itself, like art, is socially and historically situated and shaped by the social conditions of a particular time and place. This implies that aesthetics is not universal nor true for all men and for all time, and neither should there be a dominant aesthetics that imposes its standards on different cultures, but it differs from one place and time to another, from one culture to another."

Therefore, the account is not making anything worse, hence, it is the reflection of the status quo of Filipino culture, in the span of its evolution through history. Aesthetics is not something that has an imposition of a constant standard which will dictate if an art is beautiful and creative or not. With whatever condition a place may have at a certain time, and an art was made in reflection to its status qou, it is an art - a genius' art. Thus, she further explained, "Only a process of reeducation will from centuries of miseducation will heal this alienation from our deepest sources."

Also, with regards to the idea that artists should be the one to preserve Filipino cultural signature would be a bit restricting to some. For they will be locked up with following the patterns available in Filipino art ONLY. This approach of preservation is condemning the growth of our Filipino artists, Guillermo explained.

Furthermore, Guillermo created an art that corresponded with the modern problem of Filipino culture. She created it with aesthetics.

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Review of "Role of Tradition" in Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics

By: Alice G. Guillermo

For the Philippine contemporary aesthetics’ development and our country’s national identity regarding arts, we must consider the roles of our traditions. We must recall and analyze our cultural traditions as our traditions are what separates and gives us our own essence, identity, and uniqueness indifferent to other countries.

Per history, the Philippines, together with other third-world countries, was colonized by colonial or imperialist countries such as Spain, Japan, and United States. This series of colonization and occupation degraded our culture and tradition and made us ignorant of our identities. It keeps us from our origins. The colonial mentality and values integrated in us by our colonizers, throughout the years, is hard to remove as it was practiced in years. In order to bring us closer to our origins and understand them, we need reeducation.

Though the Philippines had undergone a series of colonization and occupation, there are still untouched cultural traditions in some provinces. Their textiles, pottery, basketry, oral literature, music, and folk songs express their art. These ethnic groups, specifically the Mangyans, T’bolis, and Ifugaos have withstood the colonization by isolating themselves and resisted the tradition our colonizers prompted to them. Sadly, a nation’s culture is influenced by its economic and political state. Consequently, it is not enough that our traditional and indigenous culture’s products and artworks are displayed without studying its history. We need to help them and provide basic necessities and future for them, equal opportunities in terms of education and occupation without disrespecting their respective cultures.

Our culture is a pluralist with a diverse character. It is influenced by the culture of those in the urban, rural, and the religion in our country. As our country varies with these rich culture and tradition, we must respect and appreciate each culture, its uniqueness, and its respective cultural communities as these reflect the social conditions and interests inside a country. It is important that the government presiding a city is unbiased towards the culture and their ethnocentric views. As our culture is influenced by our everyday lives, and our religion and rituals, it is different from the western countries.

There are artists that paint using indigenous art because it is the way to give us a national identity in arts. It is appealing to the folks and to the larger population but it has its limitations. It is impossible to make the Philippine contemporary art into a single entity. They may breathe ingenious and beautiful artworks but there will be uninspired works alongside it.

The traditional art is composed of our national popular culture which is still in the making in rural areas and cultural communities as they say, these are the living traditions which must be continued to be practiced. It is dynamic as it adapts to the societal changes and it allows itself to transform by the hammers of historical process.

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Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics

Repleksyon

Napapanahon ngayong kasalukuyan ang mga usapin patungkol sa sining ng ating bansa. Isa sa mga talagang nag-iinit ngayon ay ang pagtanggal ng asignaturang Filipino sa kolehiyo at ang pagtuturo ng korean language langguage sa mga pampublikong paaralan. Ang aking nabanggit ay isa lamang sa suliraning kinahaharap ng mga artist sa isang third world country na bansa.

"What is aesthetics? What is contemporary aesthetics? These questions become all the more crucial because of the colonial history of most asian countries." Yan ang isa sa mga katagang pumukaw sa akin mula sa akda ni Alice G. Guillermo. Nang una ko itong nabasa ay hindi ko alam ang isasagot ko kung ano nga ba ang aesthetics at aesthetics contemporary nating mga Filipino sapagkat kapag sining ang usapan dito sa Pilipinas, kadalasan ay mababa ang tingin ng karamihan at ang di maganda, halos hindi na ito pinapahalagahan. Sumasang ayon ako sa sinabi ni Alice G. Guillermo na mahirap sagutin ang tanong na nabanggit dahil sa sinakop ng iba't-ibang bansa ang Asya. Dahil pagsakop ng tatlong bansa sa Pilinas ito ay nag iwan ng kolonyal na mentalidad sa mga Pilipino.

Madami ang Pilipinong tumitingala sa mga banyaga pagdating sa lahat ng mga bagay tulad ng lenggwahe, sining, musika, kultura, mga produkto at iba pa. Pero kapag ang sariling atin na ang pinag-uusapan kawalan ng kaalaman at kahihiyan ang pinapakita ng ating kababayan. Ang ating wikang Filipino ay tunog baduy para sa mga sosyal-sosyalan, ang pagkuha ng mga kursong patungkol sa sining ay minamaliit, ang mga katutubo at tribo ay tinatanggalan ng karapatan, at madami pang iba na halos lahat ay ginagawa nalang biro at katatawanan. Makitid ang mga Pilipino pagdating sa ganitong usapan dahil sa tingin ko hindi ito tungkol sa pagkakakitaan at pagkakaperahan. Dahil sa isang third world country na bansa, mas prayoridad ang pangangailangan kesa sa pagiging makabayan.

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After reading the essay "Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics" of Alice G. Guillermo, it made me curious and at the same time to think critically on what is happening to our Philippine art. In her essay/article, the author pointed out and explain all the premises and ideas about aesthetics.

It is said in the first premise that aesthetics cannot just define as formal and an technical side of art. When we talk about 'aesthetic' it can define as a philosophy of art because it has something to do when it comes of its content especially the form. When we talk about the content and form, they are mere categories of something that is convenient, in short they're the form of a work where each work has a unique meaning because it has an originality and unique structure. The second premise, art is historically situated which is true. Our art has its own specifity, own language and vocabulary which make our society distinct. On the third premise, this is the aesthetic itself. Like an art, aesthetics were also shaped by its social conditions of a particular time and place. It alluded that aesthetic itself, is not for all and for all time. It may differs from one culture to another. It may also differs from time and place to another. It made me realize that there are society that has its own aesthetic based on their historical experiences and social conditions as well as its influences from their culture. And it happens today. This third premise may define the art of our society nowadays. I like how the author viewed our traditions particulary our arts and culture. I agree to have an alternative materials since our culture is nearly colonize and slowly eating our national identity by the Western Country. And I also like the idea of our urban artists searching for an alternative materials because instead of using the western materials they find some ways in order to move away from them. So, they search for materials that can be seen in our environment. They shown us their creativeness.

Over all, I want to persuade the readers that we must value our own art, aesthetics itself. Not just on watching the beauty of artworks in the museum, but simply patronizing and appreciating on what culture,traditions and arts we have.

(Artist of this painting: Juanito Torres)

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Sa article na “Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics” na isinulat ni Alice G. Guillermo, it ay sinimulan nya sa tanong nyang “what is aesthetics” o sa tagalog “ano nga ba ang kagandahan” ngunit sa pagtatanong nyang ito, isinalang alang nya ang maaaring isagot ng mga bansang nabibilang sa Developing Countries o ang Third World Countries o ang mga bansang nasakop ng mga dayuhan noong nakaraan at naimpluwensyahan ang sariling kultura, paniniwala at sining. Sinabi nga ni Alice na bago raw sagutin ang tanong, isama raw sa konsiderasyon ang mga bagay bagay. Kung kayat nagbigay sya ng mga “Premises” upang magkaroon ng mas malinaw at mas malawak na pagtingin. At ang una nga raw sa mga Premises na ito ay may kinalaman sa pagpapakahulugan sa kung ano nga ba ang aesthetics. Dito sa article, binigyang kahilugan ang Aesthetics bilang pilosopiya ng sining kung saan may sinusunod at may isinasalang alang sa teknikal na pag gawa. Pangalawa namang Premise ay sinasabing magkaugnay at ito nga ay ang sining ay ginagawa o nagagawa base sa sosyolohikal at historikal na kondisyon ng lipunan at ito ay may sariling pagkakakakilanlan, may sariling lingwahe at pagpakakahulugan na nagpapabukod tangi at nagpapaangat sa likha. Pangatlong Premise naman ay Aesthetics sa pagkakahulugang ito raw ay nakadepende sa sosyolohikal at historikal na sitwasyon ng lipunan na ang ibig sabihin ay ang pagpapakahulugan ng isang bansa sa Aesthetics ay maaaring hindi parehas sa pagpapakahulugan ng iba pang bansa. Na hindi sa lahat ng pagkakataon ay matatanggap sa isang lipunan ang Aesthetics mula sa ibang lipunan sa kadahilanang hindi lahat ng lipunan ay parepareho ng karanasan at nakaraan lalong lalo na sa mga bansang nagdaan sa kamay ng mga banyagang bansa na sumakop at nagbigay impluwensya sa kanila kaya naman sinabi ni Fredrick Jameson, sa pagdedepina ng mga bagay, kailangan mong tignan ang nakaraan nito dahil ito ang madalas maging dahilan ng pagkakaiba sa pagbibigay kahulugan at kahalagahan.