Is Conventional Art Dying?

It’s no secret to anyone that art is taught completely divergent nowadays than before. What was once immeasurable and guided by unbound expression has completely flipped to pushing creativity through modern method. Ipad painting apps, mobile sketchbooks, and outline draft for notebooks.

I question everyone, "Is conventional art dying? And does technology has something to do about it?"

Art is intangible, and so it lends itself to many different interpretations. What captures one viewer may not capture another in the least. But art shares a common spectacle out of any human, and that is emotion.

At a small space in Tapuac District, Dagupan City lies a cavalcade of the conformists, where the emphasized subjective expressions of artists are truly welcomed.

Titled “Liing” - Gumising at Managinip, the event was organized by Liongoren Gallery through its vision of contributing Filipino culture in the country, and providing exhibition space for recreation and learning.

The small show and the gallery can get as many as 300 entries, and Pangasinan artists strive to incite the message across that conventional art is already plunked on its last legs. It is now the time to pick up the traditional brushes again, and start making art.

What pours out of an artist onto canvas or other support is their emotional response to their subject. A whole range of emotions can find themselves on canvas. I’ve asked some of the aspiring artists who with the likes of  Amorsolo and Luna, will be rousing the resting hearts of Filipinos towards the fading conventional art scene.

Watch the rest of the clip in Pangasinan Watch Aug. 6 Ep. (starts at 5:36 - 10:26)

Mister Paco Santos, the acting guru for these young artists, says that in today’s struggling art market, delimited with what we experience from technology, takes away creativity, and the revelation of the real art.

All too often we hear comments like, "I don't like art.", "I don't understand it." These are from people who rarely expose themselves to art, perhaps, moved by a piece before. A fear might be growing in this planet soon, and that negative trend in future potential-art-mind could become a crisis.

I ask again, "Is conventional art dying?"