School Academy of St.

Joseph Quarter First

Teacher Mr. Reach Vee C. Salacup
Week 5-6
09567225851/reachvees@gmail.com
Grade Level and Grade 12- CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE
Number of Days 10
Learning Area ARTS FROM THE REGIONS
CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs):

a. Discusses local materials used in creating art;
b. Critiques available materials and appropriate techniques; and
c. Explicates the use of materials and the application of techniques

TECHNIQUES AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES

Have you been to a museum? Have you ever wondered how the artist utilizes their materials
and how they apply the technique in their artwork? This lesson will discuss comprehensively the
different mediums and techniques used by the artist in creating their masterpieces.

What is medium?
Medium is defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through
these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas. The medium also defines
the nature of the art form as follows:
1. Sculpture uses metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass. It is the branch of the visual art that operates
in three-dimension because it occupies space and has a volume. One form of sculpture is pottery and
the notable examples are Guillermo Tolentino’s Oblation, Bulul woodcarvings from the Cordilleras
and carvings of saints in Christian churches by Santos.

2. Architecture uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete, and various building materials. It is the
art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.

3. Paintings uses pigments like watercolor, oil, tempera, textile paint, acrylic, ink on a usually flat
ground such as wood, canvas, paper and stonewall used in cave paintings.

4. Printmaking uses ink normally on paper but can also be used on woods, metal plates, or
silkscreens. Prints is classified as two-dimensional because they include the surface or ground on
which coloring substances are applied. However, while paintings are unique, prints can be
reproduced in several pre-determined editions.

5. Music uses sounds and instruments (including the human voice), while the dancer uses the body.

6. Dance uses the body and its movements. Dance is often accompanied by music, but there are
dances that do not rely on musical accompaniment to be realized. Dance can tell stories, but at other
times, they convey abstract ideas that do not rely on a narrative.

7. Theater artist integrates all the arts and uses the stage, production design, performance elements,
and script to enable the visual, musical, dance, and other aspects to come together as a whole work.

8. Photography and filmmaking use the camera to record the outside world. The filmmaker uses the
cinematographic camera to record and put together production design, sound engineering,
performance, and screenplay. In digital photography and film, the images can be assimilated
into the computer, thus eliminating the need for celluloid or negatives, processing chemicals, or print.

9. Writing of a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction uses words.

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 On the basis of medium, the arts can be classified as practical, environmental,
pictorial, narrative, dramatic, and musical. The musical arts include music, poetry (those that have
perceptible rhythm and can be sung or danced to), and dance that is accompanied by music. The
practical arts have immediate use for everyday and business life such as design, architecture,
and furniture. Environmental arts occupy space and change in its meaning and function depends on
their categories including architecture, sculpture, and site-specific works such as installations and
public art.
Pictorial works include painting, drawing, graphics and stage and production design
(lighting, dress, props, and set). Works that are staged and performed are considered Dramatic
and they include drama, performance art, or music and dance. If they are based on stories,
the art forms are classified as narrative and they include drama, novel, fiction, nonfiction,
music, and dance.

As we have learned, all these art

forms can be integrated to Combined
arts, such as design, mixed media,
photography, film, video,
performance art,
theater productions, and installations.
As we have learned, all these art
forms can be integrated to Combined
arts, such as design, mixed media,
photography, film, video,
performance art,
theater productions, and installations.
As we have learned, all these art
forms can be integrated to Combined

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arts, such as design, mixed media,
photography, film, video,
performance art,
theater productions, and installations.
As we have learned, all these art forms can be integrated to Combined arts, such as design,
mixed media, photography, film, video, performance art, theater productions, and installations.
For example, a ritual involves the use of a sculpture such as a bulul, a dance, music, and
production design that involves the wearing of textiles, jewelry, and a circular design where
lighting can be as simple as a torch or sulo. In such settings, we do not sit separately from the
stage, like what happens in a regular auditoriums or theaters. When sitting or standing in a circle
with lead chanters, dancers, and musicians, everyone is encouraged to dance and participate. In our
own ways, we become part of the community and the creative process, as active “artists”
ourselves, rather than just audiences or spectators. The arts in such settings are integrated and
cannot be separated into distinct forms; art is collectively consumed and created.
On the other hand, the UP Chapel is made out of works made by individual National
Artists practicing in the various arts. The architecture is by Leandro Locsin; the crucifix is by Napoleon
Abueva; the floor mosaic is by Arturo Luz, and the Stations of the Cross are by Vicente Manansala
who was assisted by Ang Kiukok. In 1968, the chapel was the site of a performance created by
another National Artist, Jose Maceda. His piece combined indigenous voices, and instruments,
and prayer is sung in Tagalog.

What is technique?
Technique is the manner in which artists use and manipulate materials to achieve the
desired formal effect, and communicate the desired concept, or meaning, according to his or her
personal style (modern, Neoclassic, etc.). The distinctive character or nature of the medium
determines the technique. For example, stone is chiseled, wood is carved, clay is modeled and
shaped, metal is cast, and thread is woven. See for example below.

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 Technique involves tools and technology, ranging from the most traditional (for example
carving, silkscreen, analog photography, and filmmaking) to the most contemporary (digital
photography, digital filmmaking, music production, Industrial design, and robotics).

Traditional Techniques
1. Wood Carving
Wood Carving is an art that has been practiced all over the
world but very avidly in Southeast Asia where great pieces of
woodwork have been crafted throughout the ages. Siem Reap was a
center of arts for many years during the Angkor Empire, with
sculptures of Apsara, Angkor tales and other stories regularly adorning
the royal compounds. Today, these very same sculptures are made by
craftsmen and placed in hotels all over Siem Reap.

2. Silk-screen printing
Is one of the most popular printing techniques, and is most-used by companies when
printing design onto products of different sizes and materials. It has been used for more than 100
years in the commercial and artistic sector and is mainly used for printing images and designs on T-
shirts, Tote bags, paper, wood, ceramics and other materials.
3. Analogue Photography
Analogue photography refers to photography using an analogue camera and film. A roll of film
loaded into the camera and the magic begins once you start clicking: light interacts with the chemicals
in the film and an image is recorded. The pictures collected in your film roll come to life when the film
is processed in a photo lab.
4. Filmmaking
Film production is the process of making a film. The direction or production of films for
the cinema or television is a visual storytelling. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages
including an initial story, idea, or commission, through screenwriting, casting, shooting, sound
recording and reproduction, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that
may result in a film release and exhibition.
Filmmaking takes place in many places around the world in a range of economic, social, and
political contexts, and using a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques. Typically, it involves
a large number of people and can take from a few months to several years to complete.
Filmmaker is the one who takes the onus of a feature film from beginning to end, and
most commonly fulfills the dual role of producer and director (or more).

Contemporary Techniques
1. Digital photography
Uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to capture images focused by a
lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The captured images are digitized and
stored as a computer file ready for further digital processing, viewing, electronic publishing, or
digital printing.
2. Digital film making
Is the norm these days, enabling filmmakers to blend art and digital media and speed up the process
of filmmaking as well as be more creative and enterprising in the special effects department.
In short, more flexible digital cameras—such as the Panasonic HVX 200 and the RED One
and Scarlet cameras—and editing software such as Final Cut Pro Studio, have made the
cinematographer's and editor's jobs easier and made it possible for filmmakers to produce quality
films at much less expensive cost.
3. Music production
It is the process of creating a recorded music project. A record producer usually handles music
production, managing every aspect. That can include being a critical part of the creative process,
such as deciding what instruments are used and contributing to song arrangements. Since music
production plays a vital role in the quality of the final product, it can make or break the success of an

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album. Record producers give recommendations on which songs are best to record; manage financial
aspects of recording; hire outside performers, if needed; and work with sound engineers in the
recording process.
4. Industrial design
It is a combination of art and engineering; drawing skills, creativity and technical knowledge
are critical. Industrial designers usually choose to work on products in a specific industry, such as
the medical, automobile, or technology industry.
5. Robotics
It is an interdisciplinary research area at the interface of computer science and
engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of
robotics is to design intelligent machines that can help and assist humans in their day-to-day lives
and keep everyone safe.

Artistic Skills and Techniques to Contemporary Art Creations

1. Collage is the technique 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 texts,
photographs, and other found objects, glued to a piece.

2. Decollage 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. The French word
“Decollage” in English means “Take-Off” or “To become
Unglued” or “To become unstuck”. Examples of
decollage include cut-up technique. Similar technique is
the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been
placed over another or others, and the top poster or
posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or
lesser degree the poster or poster underneath.
3. Graffiti are writing or drawings that have been scribed, scratched, or painted illicitly on a
wall or other surface, often in a public space.
Graffiti 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
graffiti styles. An example of this is the Singapore art
Bridge just beside the Oxford Hotel where the
writer stayed in their visit to Singapore. It is said to
be painted by a Batanes-born artist.
4. Land art - Earthwork
or earth art is an art
movement in which landscape and the work of art are
inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in
nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock (bedrock,
bolders, stones), organic media (logs, branches, leaves),
and water which introduced materials such as concrete,
metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments. Sculpture is not
placed in the landscape rather, the landscape is the
means of their creation. Often earth

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 moving equipment is involved. The works frequently exist in the open located well away
from civilization, left to change and erode under natural conditions. Digital Art is an artistic
work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or
presentation process.
5. Digital art is placed under the larger umbrella term new media art. After some
resistance, the impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as paintings,
drawing, sculpture, and music/sound art,
while new forms such as net art. Digital
installation art and virtual reality have
become recognized artistic practices. More
generally the term digital artist is used to
describe an artist who makes use of digital
technologies in the production of art.
Digital Art is a term applied to
contemporary art that uses the method of
mass production or digital media. The
techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media in advertisement and
by film-makers to produce visual effects. Both digital and traditional artists use many
sources of electronic information and programs to create their work.
6. Mixed Media- It refers to the artwork in the making of
which more than one medium has been employed. It
refers to a work of visual art that combines various
traditionally distinct visual art media. It 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. When creating a painted
or photograph work using mixed media, it is important
to Artcreationbyvicky.com 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.
Many effects can be achieved by using mixed media. Found objects can be used in
conjunction with the traditional artist to attain a wide range of self-expression.
7. Print Making- is the process of making artworks by
painting, normally in the paper. 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 o etching; stone
aluminum or polymer for lithography; blocks of wood
crafts and wooden graving; and linoleum for linocuts.
Screens made of silk or synthetic fabrics are used for the
screen-printing process.