Application of Techniques to Contemporary Arts

With any new age of art, there are new and special techniques that determine how the
movement progresses. For modern art, among several techniques, you will find techniques
such as minimalism, objects found and large-scale paintings. Of them brings its own unique
insight to the creative world, and each of them is respected as a preference for a technique that
is most common in contemporary art. The following are the different techniques and
performance practices of contemporary art.

A. Minimalism
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
nonessential forms, features or concepts. It is characterized by simplicity.

1. Repetition, or creating multiple images of the same shape, especially simple geometric forms
like lines and squares. Artists repeat shapes and produce paintings composed of vertical color
blocks.

2. Works are extremely simple, pared down to the fewest possible lines or forms needed to
paint the image.

3. Areas are smooth and finished, devoid of obvious brushstrokes or hint of the artist's hand.

4.Focuses on things like geometry, line, and color.

5. monochromatic, limited to one color and related hues (like black, grey, and white).

6. Precise borders between areas of color. There's no shading or subtle transition.

B. Graffiti
Graffiti is a writing or painting that has been scribbled, scratched, or improperly painted on a
wall or other surface, frequently in public space. This ranges from plain written to intricate wall
paintings. Graffiti can convey underlying social and political messages, and a whole genre of
artistic expression is focused on spray paint graffiti styles. In modern times, spray paint and
marker pens have become commonly used graffiti materials, and there are many different
types and styles of graffiti; it is a rapidly developing art form.

C. Land Art
Earth arts or earth art is an art movement in which landscape and works of art are inextricably
connected. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as dirt,
rock (bed stones, stones), organic media (logs, trees, leaves) and water with materials such as
concrete, cement, asphalt or mineral.
D. Digital arts
Digital art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of a creative or
presentational process. Since the 1960s, various terms have been used to characterize the
process, including computer art and multimedia. The influence of digital technology has
changed activities such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and music / sound art, while emerging
forms such as net art, interactive installation art and virtual reality have become well-known
creative practices. More broadly, the term digital artist is used to identify an artist who uses
digital technology in the creation of art. In the wider context, "digital art" is modern art that
uses mass production techniques or digital media. Digital art techniques are commonly used by
mass media in advertisements and by filmmakers to create visual effects. Digital publishing has
had a major influence on the publishing world, but it has much to do with graphic design.
Several types of online knowledge and technologies are used by both visual and traditional
artists to produce their work.

E. Mixed Media
Mixed media is an artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed.

Mixed media art, a visual art, is distinguished from multimedia art which combines visual art
with non-visual elements, such as recorded sound, literature, drama, dance, motion graphics,
music, or interactivity.

The first modern artwork to be considered mixed media is Pablo Picasso's 1912 collage “Still
Life with Chair Caning”, which used paper, cloth, paint and rope causing a pseudo-3D effect.
Due to the influence of movements like Cubism and Dada, mixed-media grew in popularity
throughout the 20th century with artists like Henri Matisse, Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, and
Ellsworth Kelly adopting it. This led to further innovations like installations in the late 20th
century.

Mixed media continues to be a popular form for artists, with different forms like wet media and
markings being explored.

Types of Mixed Media Art

1. Found Objects
A found object is a natural or man-made object, or a part of an object, which is discovered (or
often bought) by an artist and held in place because of some of the artist's intrinsic interest in
it. The artist sees in it because of some intrinsic value.

2. Collage
Collage is an art technique used in the visual arts, where the artwork is created from the
assemblage of various objects, forming a new whole. It can also include magazines and
newspaper clippings, drawings, bits of colored or handmade paper, parts of other works of art
or documents, photos and other items found, stuck to a piece of paper or canvas. Therefore,
Collage defines both the process and the resulting work of art in which bits of paper, photos,
cloth and other ephemera are arranged and fixed to the supporting surface.
3. Decollage
Decollage means "Take off" or become unglued. To become unstuck. It is the opposite of
collage; instead of taking a picture of all or parts of existing pictures, it is created by cutting,
processing or otherwise eliminating sections of the original image. A 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
posters below.

4. Assemblage
Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate consisting of
three-dimensional elements projected out of or out of a substrate. It's similar to collage, a two-
dimensional medium. This is part of the visual arts, which usually uses objects found, but is not
limited to these materials. This is a 3-dimensional collage variant with elements jotting in or out
of a given substrate, or a complete 3-D arrangement of objects and/or sculptures.

5. Altered Book
Altered books is a form of mixed media artwork that transforms a book from its original form
into a different form, altering its appearance and/or meaning. An altered book artist takes a
book (old, new, recycled or multiple) and cuts, tears, glues, burns, folds, paints, adds, collages,
rebinds, gold leaves, creates pop-ups, rubber stamps, drills, bolts, and/or be-ribbons. The artist
may add pockets and niches to hold tags, rocks, ephemera, or other three-dimensional objects.
Some change the shape of the book, or use multiple books in the creation of the finished piece
of art.

Other techniques not mentioned:

1. Decalcomania- is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a
reversal of that image onto canvas or other flat materials.

2. Frottage- is the technique of rubbing with a dry medium on a piece of paper which has been
placed over an object that has texture. The impression of the texture will be left on the paper.

3. Montage- is the production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate

an association of ideas or a composite picture made by combining several separate
pictures.

4. Trapunto painting- is where canvases are padded, sewn, and often filled with sequins,
beads, shells, buttons, tiny mirrors, glass, swatches and other things to make an artistic
composition.