CPAR 4-6

Module-4

Elements and Principles of Contemporary Art

APPROPRIATION

when an artist creates a new work of art taking pre-existing images from other sources and modifies
and/or incorporates those images with new ones.

 Usage of prints, images and icon to produce another art form

 Revives interests to existing forms. of art.

PERFORMANCE

refers to artwork created by or presented to an audience. Performance as an element can also include
the processes used by the artist to create the work. This takes place when the process used to create the
artwork is more important than the finished work itself.

Performance evolved to "emphasize spontaneous elements of chance"

 Zarzuela: Ibong Adama

 Live art
 Dancers

SPACE

Arts transforming space.

 Flash Mobs
 Smiley face
 Andres Bonifacio Shrine

TECHNOLOGY

Usage if technology in the creation and dissemination of works

 Art technology in Japan

 Japanese Contemporary Artists Present, past and Future)
 Revolutionizing art.
 Lights and sounds

HYBRIDITY
Artist use hybridity in their work through the bending of new or unusual materials with traditional
mediums. The incorporation of these materials, such as recycled or industrial materials, plays an
important role in the meaning of the artwork.

 Coffee for painting

 Miniature sculpture using crayons Deer head made of shoes

Module-2

Typical Approaches in Accomplishing Art Tasks

in Accomplishing Art Tasks

1. Brainstorming

This step is effective in for central lookingtha for will most likely boost interest on the matter at hand. It
will also provide direction for art making since this will kindle flexible thinking.

2. Researching about the task given

Research fuels exploration. The more you explore, the more ideas you will gather. This is best for an
artist to clarify what he/she really wants to accomplish.

3. Deciding on what idea to materialize

After gathering all inputs from brainstorming and researching, one must have arrived to his/her final
choice

4. Creating a plan of action

This solidifies one's stand on planning for any task in contemporary arts. One way to reach success and
achieve your goal is to create a solid plan of action.

5. Making the task

Finally, this step is the "doing" part. The artist can now materialize the plan that he/she has created.

Approaches in Researching for Techniques and Performance Practices

1. Cooperative Learning Approach

Two heads are better than one. This idiomatic expression states that when two or more people share
their ideas and work together, they are more likely to accomplish a specific task.
2. Focused Exploration

This approach instructs artists to take advantage of what is present in front of their very eyes. It means
that they explore the use of any medium available in their area based on their choice.

3. Discussion

The more you talk to people, the more relevant information you will gather. Young artists should lend an
opening ear to people who have been in the field of arts for a long time. This entails open but healthy
communication between and among artists regardless of their position, experience and mastery.

4. Free Exploration

This approach is tantamount to learning/researching on your own'. More than experimentation, an

artist like you possesses the full capacity to search on your own without any reservation. No one limits
you to look for best artistic style and technique that can be acquired in improving your craft.

5. Experimentation

This is actually the core of contemporary arts. As an artist, you are not only limited to using the same
technique or practice that you use before. Certainly, there is another door for discovering something
new, unique, genuine, and distinctive.

6. Media Analysis

In the advent of modernization and industrialization, technology has greatly influenced innovation and
development in the field of artistic expressionism. Consequently, various incorporations have been
contemporary practices. made in numerous art techniques and

Advantages of Researching New Techniques and Practices

1. It can push artists to aim for better versions of their works and grab the opportunity to expand artistic
horizons.

2. It is a helpful way to immerse oneself in the culture of others and thereby allowing own creativity to
design culture-based means of artistic expression.

3. It gives an artist the chance to look for another window that lets him/her see what's inside other
artist's mind.

4. An artist can express his/her own choice combined with other ideas generated from researches.

5. Best practices of artists are shared to both professional and aspiring ones.

6. It is a powerful thought-provoking strategy because the mind is exposed to new and extensive
information.

7. It can be a kick-start for an artist's inspiration and ignite a spark to get the passion even more alive.
8. It enables the artist to plan for a multi-faceted, captivating, and detailed final output.

9. It exposes one to new discoveries and perspectives.

10. It encourages the artist to spot unusual angles and try modern art techniques.

11. It teaches new style and additional comfort of one's artistic specialization.

12. It adds pro art techniques with a mix of traditional and contemporary insights to an artist's
vocabulary.

Module-3

TECHNIQUES AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES

1. Minimalism One of the most important and influential art styles of the 1960s, Minimalism identifies
works of art most often comprised of geometric shapes in simple arrangements and lacking any
decorative or dynamic flourishes. These geometric shapes characterized the elemental or "bare bones"
forms of art, which, according to critics, represented the culmination of modern art's progression
toward the most simplified form of abstract art possible. It is a movement in various forms or art and
design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or
identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. It is characterized
by simplicity.

2. Cubism-It was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braques. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in
response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was an attempt by artists to
revitalize the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course. The Cubists
challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the
Renaissance. Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age.

3. Social Realism- It is the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as a means of social or political
comment.

4. Found objects - " is used to describe an object, found by an artist, which - with minimal modification -
is then presented as a work of art. The idea is, that the artist believes that the discovered object
possesses a certain aesthetic quality - stemming from its appearance, social or personal history - and
therefore displays it for the appreciation of others. Typical "found objects" include natural materials like
sand, earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man-made items such as
newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an
unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.

5. Large scale art - artists have produced works that play with scale. Juan Luna's Spoliarium displayed in
the National Museum is an example.
6. Digital application- It comes with augmented reality technology and transforms Filipino digital
artworks into immersive experiences

PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS-WEEK 5

Local Materials Used in Creating Art

Local materials in the Philippines are materials that are naturally and locally found in a specific places.
Here are some examples:

MATERIAL

Abaca belongs to Banana family. Its ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown. Eastern Visayas is
the widest abaca supplier.

PRODUCTS

slippers, ropes, twine, hammock, frame, fiber has a natural luster with colors display jar, jars, Chelsea
chair

MATERIAL

Bakbak is the outermost covering or leaf sheath of the abaca stalk. It is a flat thick durable sheath as
twine or braided. The strong brown fiber is used to make furniture.

PRODUCTS

mat, bangkuay bin, boxes, bin, display, jar, Cecilia dining table, and arm chair

MATERIAL

bamboo is a raw material used in kubing, bungkaka, tongatong, angklung. creating many products. It is
used in construction. textile, musical instruments, weapons, and many more. It is abundant in La Union,
Pampanga, Capiz, Cebu and Bukidnon

PRODUCTS

kubing, bungkaka, tongatong, angklung, pateteg, gabbang

MATERIAL

Buntal is a cylindrically shaped fiber. The supple ivory white strands are quite durable, pliable, and have
good dyeing qualities. The most noted producers are the provinces of Bohol, Pangasinan, Marinduque
and Quezon.

PRODUCTS
bags, shoes, desk accessories like pen holder, picture frames, file trays, wallets, place mats, braide,
lampshades, window blinds

MATERIAL

Buri is extracted from the matured leaves of the buri palm. The fiber is durable and resistant to
moisture.hats, bags, baskets, memorabilia boxes, perfume tray, & other woven products.

PRODUCTS

hats, bags, baskets, memorabilia boxes, perfume tray, & other woven products

MATERIAL

Coir is the fibrous material surrounding the fruit of the coconut tree which are abundant in
CALABARZON, Northern Mindanao and Davao Region

PRODUCTS

indoor or outdoor fiber carpets, wall covering, doormat, trellises, and geo textiles

MATERIAL

Nito is a plant belonging to the fern family that grows of Mindanao. abundantly in the hinterlands of
Southern Philippines. Mindanao

PRODUCTS

family bags, bread tray, lampshade and that grows abundantly in the hinterlands decorative jar.

MATERIALS

Pandan is a tropical plant. It is processed and transformed into splints that are being used as raw
material which are abundant in Calatrava in the Visayas.

PRODUCTS

baskets, hats, picture frames and bags

MATERIALS

Rattan belongs to the palm family. There are different types of rattan palms, such as high or low
climbers, single stemmed or clustered rattan species.

PRODUCTS

baskets, picture frames, furniture and other novelty items, Zoya lounge chair, Valencia queen size bed,
Rest divan.
MATERIALS

Tikog belongs to sea grasses. It is a native reed plant used as a raw material for mat weaving.

PRODUCTS

bags, decorative mats, hampers, newspaper racks, table mat, waste bin, tower candle holder, wall décor

Different Contemporary Art Techniques and Performance Practices

1. Collage Is made by adhering flat elements such as newspaper or magazine cut-outs, printed text,
illustrations, photographs, cloth, string, etc. to a flat surface to create a thick layer that is almost like a
relief sculpture

2. Decalcomania - Is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a reversal of
that image on to canvas or other flat materials

3. Decoupage - Is done by ahering cut-outs of paper and then coating these with one or more coats or
transparent coating of varnish.

ARTISTIC SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES TO CONTEMPORARY ART CREATIONS

1. COLLAGE

⚫magazines, and newspaper clippings

• Ribbons, paints, bits of colored or handmade papers

• Portion of artworks or texts

• Photographs and other found objects that are GLUED TOGETHER TO A PIECE OF PAPER OR CANVAS.

2. DECOLLAGE

• Opposite of collage

• Created by cutting, treating away or removing pieces of an original image

3. GRAFFITI

• Writing or drawing that has been scribbled, scratched or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface,
often in a public space.

4. LAND-ART

• Earth work/ earth art

• Art created in nature (soil, rock, organic media, water, etc)

5. DIGITAL ARTS

• Using digital technology in the production of art

• New media art

• Using mass production or digital media

7. PRINT-MAKING

• Process of making artworks by painting, normally in paper

• Metal plates

• Stone

• Blocks of wood

• Linoleum

ARTISTIC SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES TO CONTEMPORARY ART CREATIONS

1. COLLAGE

2. DECOLLAGE

3. GRAFFITI

4. LAND-ART

5. DIGITAL ARTS

6. MIXED MEDIA

7. PRINT-MAKING

LOCAL MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES

Harvest festival

in Lucban, Quezon during May

Giant Lantern Festival

held in mid-December in the City of San Fernando

Wood carving

in Paete, Laguna
TAKA

in Paete, Laguna Paper Mache made using carved wooden sculpture used as a mold

PAGBUBURDA

in Taal, Lumban, Laguna Mostly done by women who are wives of farmers and fishermen

Sanikulas Cookie Mold Carvings

in Pampanga Arrowroot cookies having the image of St. Nicholas (The Healer from illnesses)

Puni or Palm Leaf Folding in Bulacan

Palaspas every Holy Week (most common Puni art)

LOCAL MATERIAL

✓refers to the material that is available to the immediate environment

1. BAMBOO

⚫used in construction, textile, musical instruments, weapons, and many more

⚫kubing, bungkaka, tongatong, angklung, pateteg, gabbang

2. BUNTAL

⚫a cylindrically shaped fiber

⚫bags, shoes, desk accessories like pen holder, picture frames, file trays, wallets, place mats, braid,
lampshades, window blinds

3. ABACA

⚫belongs to the Banana family

⚫colors ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown

⚫slippers, ropes, twine, hammock, frame, display jar, jars, Chelsea chair

4. BAKBAK

⚫the outermost covering or leaf sheath of the abaca stalk

⚫*strong brown fiber used to make furniture

⚫mat, bangkuay bin, boxes, bin, display, jar, Cecilia dining table, and arm chair

5. COIR

⚫the fibrous material surrounding the fruit of the coconut tree

⚫• indoor or outdoor fiber carpets, wall covering, doormat

6. BURI

⚫extracted from the matured leaves of the palm

⚫hats, bags, baskets, memorabilia boxes, perfume tray, other woven products

7. NITO

⚫a plant belonging to the fern family that grows abundantly in the hinterlands of Mindanao

⚫bags, bread tray, lampshade and decorative jar

8. PANDAN

⚫a tropical plant, processed and transformed into splints baskets, hats, picture frames and bags

9. TIKOG

⚫belongs to sea grasses, a native reed plant bags, decorative mats, hampers, newspaper racks, table
mat, waste bin, tower candle holder, wall décor

10. TIKIW

a large, erect, and aquatic or marshy herb plant baskets, hampers with lids, bags, rugs, carpets,
placemats, jar, and other decorative items

11. RATTAN

belongs to palm family baskets, picture frames, furniture and other novelty items, Zoya lounge chair,
Valencia queen size bed, Rest divan

12. RAFFIA

a fiber extracted from unopened buri leaf in 3 stages hats, placemats, folder, shoes, slippers, boxes,
portfolio and ladies bags, placemats, boxes, document boxes

12. Coconut Shells - Considered equal in quality and appearance with turquoise shells or ivory. It may be
used to create a wide array of boxes, lamps, tabletops, chairs, bags, belts, body accessories, household
ornaments.
13. Blocks-out of rice hulls/ saw dust.

14. Scrap/Cut tiles- made into decorative walls etc

15. House cleaning materials (scrubs, rog, strainer) - made into furniture designs

16. Scrap woodmade into wall decors, etc

17. BEADS

18. Paper, corrugated boxes

19. Metal, tie wires, tin cans

20. Empty & recyclable styro and plastic cups/bottles

21. Pieces of Cut cloth

A help for decision making! To help you decide what artwork to create out of the resources available in
your locality, you may evaluate each material with the following factors:

Availability is the material available and not scarce? Is it available anytime of the year? Is it available at
the nearest possible source?

Cost the materials durable and can withstand weather changes? Can it support its function? Will

it last for years if not for lifetime?

Process needs - Does it involve a process with available tools/ equipment? Do I have the skills to create
this material and transform it into an artwork?

Durability is the materials durable and can withstand weather changes? Can it support its function? Will
it last for years if not for lifetime?

Resourcefulness & Creativity- Is the material sourced out from scrap? Is it a less consumed/ less used
material? Does your community regard it as unimportant or waste? Do you think it is a "first time"
product? Can you make this into a creative contemporary artwork? Will it "wow" the viewers/users?

Number of possible use will this material be used for only one function/artwork? Does it have any other
purpose? Can you make this material into a variety of artwork or