Q2: Different Contemporary Art Techniques and Performance Flashcards
An art is always created with a ________________.
technique
The way the artist uses and manipulates the materials to express an idea or feeling through an art.
technique
This is a popular Bulakenyo’s way of decorating using leaf fronds folding which has a Malayan origin.
Puni
Bulacan
In this art, the straws are folded by rolling elongated sheets of wax coated paper into cylindrical, hollow tubes.
straw folding
Origami is from ori meaning ____________, and kami means ____________.
- folding
- paper
The art of paper folding that is associated to Japanese culture.
origami
It is a decorated bamboo arch to welcome signage of a town, city or village in the country.
Singkaban
Malolos, Bulacan
it undergoes some processes such as cleaning and cutting, peeling, splitting, stripping or weaving it. For more detailed designs, artists use incising, burning, carving, and dyeing.
bamboo art
Cookies made with imprint of San Nicolas de Tolentino, the miracle healer according to Pampanga’s local legend.
Saniculas
Pampanga
This kitchen tool can help you mold the powder for polvoron into perfectly oval or round shapes.
polvoron molder
The art of making pastillas wrappers which has transformed in recent years from being a local, folk tradition into a popular art.
Pabalat
San Miguel, Bulacan
An application of Pabalat to contemporary arts in which the design can be simple and straight forward, or colorful and complex.
packaging
It refers to the paper maché using carved wooded sculpture used as a mold.
Taka
Paete, Laguna
Molds, paper pieces or pulp are put together with a glue or other adhesives.
paper maché
They are characterized by fine design with delicate, embossed, durable and colorful patterns.
Pagbuburda
Taal, Batangas and Lumban, Laguna
The basic elements of sewing, knitting or embroidery whether by hand or machine.
stitching
These are also called as rainbow looms which are a plastic tool used to weave colorful rubber and plastic bands into decorative items such as bracelets and charms.
loom bands
A tough light weight elastic synthetic polymer ornament band hoop or chain worn on the wrist.
nylon bracelets
Three Common Techniques in Contemporary Arts
- minimalism
- found objects
- large-scale art
This is an artistic movement that seeks to take away unnecessary and leaving only the essential.
minimalism
a Filipino modern artist best known for his minimalist, geometric, and abstract styles of art and his animated paintings of circus performers and musicians as well as his revered cityscapes series.
Arturo Luz
This means taking something that people seem to find useless and use it in a unique way in order to make an artwork.
found objects
When people seem to think that something must be thrown away as junk, it is used to tell a story and create a diverse perspective that we are looking for.
found objects
This is an art that accounts for the creation of something huge to express diverse perspectives in artwork.
large-scale art
The idea is that things that we often view as junk are more valuable than we think that they are.
found objects
This art is created for public view.
large-scale art
It refers to material that is easily available in the community.
local material
It can be any materials such as woods, materials, paper that are easily produced and available in the community.
local material
It can also refer to wherever the artist finds himself or herself.
local
It is defined as the material or substance used to create an artwork.
medium
Classification of art forms according to mediums
- musical
- practical
- environmental
- pictorial works
- narrative
Classification of art forms that use rhythms, sounds, instrument, human voice.
musical
Classification of Art Forms according to Medium
Art with immediate use in daily life.
practical
Classification of Art Forms according to Medium
An art that needs a space for installation and public view.
environmental
Classification of art forms that uses shapes, pictures, graphics.
pictorial works
Classification of art forms that is based on story.
narrative
This art was created for a small room at the Vargas Museum to show a site -specific work. Being able to accommodate the audience and experience the “garden” makes the art interactive.
Mark Salvatus’ Secret Garden 2
This artwork is composed of set of trump card with images of Philippine car wrecks, its body parts and details of accident. These cards are installed on the table with chairs for the players.
Interactive Games by Ikoy Ricio
This artwork used traditional medium of acrylic on canvas and traditional modern style of abstraction. Instead of typical painting, the artist used diligent brushwork that the painting encourages meditations apart from viewing.
Untitled (Mirrors) by Maria Taniguchi
This space in Museum of Contemporary art and design is a simulation of a waiting room with real digital clocks and metallic immovable chairs.
Felix Bacolor’s Waiting (2012)
The excavated animals were presented with specific and scientific names and other important details for a real animal. Invented stories by curator make the animals seem to exist with embedded journalist/photographer.
Anonymous Animals in Mariyah Gallery in Dumaguete (2013)
