Fourteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

Academic art has been the established standard of arts by fine arts students in the Philippines and somewhat became the embodiment of the imagined sense of nationhood. This study digs deep into self-awareness and reflection combined with global citizenship education to produce portrait paintings inspired by instrumentalism aiming to produce works that surpass the culture where they came from to manifest wider universal values. Results show that art educators can help shape young minds to use their art to propagate awareness on global citizenship and the social development goals striving to promote unity in diversity to unite nations as one big community.