CONTEMPO Flashcards
Technical characteristics of contemporary arts:
● INNOVATION IN ART
● USING NEW MATERIALS
● USE OF COLOR
● NEWER TECHNIQUES
From the meaning of contemporary art, it is an art that lives in the present times. It reflects current issues or current events. So, from time to time it changes along with the society. It could sometimes break the rules of traditional art, created by modern humans.
INNOVATION IN ART
“Hangarin” (Aspirational goal)
-Emmanuel Garibay
Another characteristic that was employed to bring about modern art was the employment of different objects, materials that looked useless to the common man but were brought to great use by modern artists. The means or instruments to make the works of contemporary art are changing, and new technologies are used day by day.
USING NEW MATERIALS
SOME EXAMPLES OF USING NEW MATERIALS
● STONE ART OF A DOG
● JUNK ART OF A WHALE
● NEWSPAPER ART
● JUNK ART
EXAMPLES OF USE OF COLOR
- Warm colored painting
- Cool colored painting
Modern art is not only about playing and experimenting with colors and objects, rather it has also given birth to newer techniques that form the basis for contemporary art today.
NEWER TECHNIQUES
NEWER TECHNIQUES INCLUDE THE FF
- ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
- CUBISM
- SURREALISM
- Are the techniques of an art production used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from on assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
COLLAGE
- May sometimes include magazines and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paints, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or text, photographs, and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas
COLLAGE
- May sometimes include magazines and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paints, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or text, photographs, and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas
COLLAGE
- Is the opposite of collage; instead of an image is being built up all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, treating away or otherwise removing pieces of an original image
DECOLLAGE
- The French word “decollage” in English means
”Take-Off” or “To become Unglued” or “To become unstuck”.
- Example include cut-up technique. Similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been place over another or others, and top poster or posters have ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath.
DECOLLAGE
- Are writing or drawings that have been scribed, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in open space, range from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings
GRAFFITI
- May express underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based spray paint styles.
GRAFFITI
- May express underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based spray paint graffiti styles.
GRAFFITI
EXAMPLE OF GRAFITTI
Singapore Art Bridge
beside the Oxford Hotel where the writer stayed in their visit to Singapore. It is said to be painted by a Batanes-born artist
Singapore Art Bridge
- Earth works or earth arts is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked
LAND ART
- Also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock (bed rock, bolders, stones), organic media (logs, branches leaves), and water which introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.
LAND ART
- Sculpture is not placed in the landscape rather, the landscape is the mean of their creation. Often earth moving equipment is involved. The works frequently exist in the open located well away from civilization, left to change and erode under natural conditions.
LAND ART
- Is an artistic work or practice the used digital technology as an essential part of the creative presentation process
DIGITAL ARTS
DIGITAL ART placed under the larger umbrella term
new media art
- after some resistance, the impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as paintings, drawings, sculpture, and music/sound art, while new form such as net art. Digital installation art, and virtual reality have become recognized artistic practices.
DIGITAL ARTS
used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art.
digital artist
- Term applied to contempo art that uses the method of mass production or digital media
DIGITAL ARTS
- TECXHNIQUES used extensively by the mainstream media in the advertisement and by flimmakers to produce visual effects. Both digital and traditional artist use many sources of electric information and programs to create their work
DIGITAL ARTS
- Refers to the artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed
MIXED MEDIA
- Refers to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage.
MIXED MEDIA
- When creating a painted or photographed work using mixed media, it is important to choose the layers carefully and allow enough dying time between the layers to ensure the final work will have structural integrity, if many different layers are imposed.
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- Many effects can achieve by using mixed media. Found objects can be used in conjunction with the traditional artist to attain a wide range of self-expression
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- Is the process of making artworks by painting, normally in paper
PRINT MAKING
- Prints are created by transforming ink from a matrix or through a prepared screen to a sheet of paper or other material. Common types of matrices include metal plates, usually copper or zinc, or polymer plates for engraving or etching; stone aluminum or polymer for lithography; blocks of wood crafts and wood engraving; and linoleum for linocuts. Screen made of silk or synthetic fabrics are used for the screen printing process.
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