Quarter 2 – Module 1

LOCAL MATERIALS USED IN CREATING ART

QUESTIONS:
1. How do the following houses differ from each other?
2. Why do the structures of the three houses differ from each other?

 Artworks are made of various materials that are found in the environment.
Each artist becomes unique from the other artists based on how they use and
utilize the materials they have chosen in creating their art. The materials used
in creating artwork are considered in choosing the technique or how the
artwork is to be made.

o MATERIAL
 Material/s, or the substances are the things in which the art is made of.
Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings
and ideas. Some contemporary artists used found materials like old
bottles, scraps, and unusual materials in creating their artwork.

o SCULPTURE
 In Sculpture, the sculptor uses metal, wood, stone, clay and glass.

o ARCHITECTURE
 The architect uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete and various
building materials.

o PAINTER
 The painter uses pigments (e.g. watercolor, oil, tempera, textile paint,
acrylic, ink, etc.) on a usually flat ground (wood, canvas, paper, stone
wall such as in a cave painting.

o PRINTMAKER
 The printmaker uses ink printed or transferred on a surface (wood,
metal, plates, or silk screen that is in keeping with a duplicating o
reproducing process. While paintings are unique and one of a kind,
prints can be reproduced in several predetermined editions.
o DANCER
 The dancer uses 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.

o Theater Artist
 The theater artist integrates all the arts and uses stage, production
design, performance elements and script to enable the visual.
Musical,dance and other aspect to come together as a whole work.

 The Photographer and Filmmaker uses the camera to record the outside
world.

o FILMMAKER
 The filmmaker uses a 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.

o WRITER
 The Writer of a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction uses words.

o DESIGNER
 The designer, the performance artist and the installation artist combine
the use of a ranger of different materials

LOCAL MATERIALS IN THE PHILIPPINES THAT IS USED

FOR ARTS AND CRAFTS

 Belongs to a banana family. Its fibers have a natural luster with colors
ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown.

 Used in creating many products. It is used in construction, textile,

musical instruments and many more.
  Is extracted from matured leaves of buri palm. The fiber is durable
and resistant to moisture.

 are translucent to allow light to pass through but still allow privacy.
The capiz comes from the windowpane oyster (placuna placenta)
found in the Philippines' coastal waters and are known for their
beautiful mother of pearl look.

 belongs to the palm family. There are different types of rattan

palms, such as high or low climbers, single stemmed or clustered
rattan species.

 hard exoskeleton of marine mollusks such as snails, bivalves, and

chitons that serve to protect and support their bodies. This material is
usually used in making ornaments and house decorations.

Materials &Techniques
Contemporary art is often looked at
with a skeptical eye. The truth about
contemporary arts that it uses
techniques that most people aren’t
quite used to, causing that
skepticism to come up into play.
However, these techniques are quite
difficult, and all deserve our credit.
It is incredible
feat to create a piece of
contemporary art, especially using
these techniques. They challenge the
mind and offer unique perspectives
in a way that art has never been
able to do before. For that reason,
there are some of the most valuable
techniques that a person can
experience through artwork.
  As an artist, the contemporary art techniques and performance practices are
just breaking the conservative’s rules. “Contemporary art is the art of today”
that could be the best definition. This kind of art produced by artists who are
living in the 21st century. Here are the three (3) techniques that are among the
most relevant in contemporary art today.

1. MINIMALISM
 One of the artistic movements that has been most relevant throughout the
contemporary art movement is minimalism. Minimalism seeks to take away
what is unnecessary and leaving only what is essential.

Arturo Luz
 is 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 city scape series

2. FOUND OBJECTS
 Taking something that people view as useless, and then using it in a unique
way to make artwork is one of the most important movements that currently
exist in contemporary. The idea is that things that we often view as junk are
more valuable than we think that they are. Everything you find can be used
to tell a story, or to create new diverse perspectives that we are looking for
when we attend an art exhibition.

 The technique of putting different objects together to create three-

dimensional art is called Assemblage. It is similar to collage, a two-
dimensional medium

3. LARGE –SCALE-ART
  Walter De Maria created an art piece in 1977 that included a four hundred
steel poles over one mile by one kilometer. That is incredible. Creating
something huge to express diverse perspectives in artwork is incredibly
popular, even today. Over the past forty years, largescale art, and art that
includes the environment has come into its own as one of the most important
movements within contemporary art. That is why you often see modern art
pieces alongside buildings, or as huge structures out in the open

 “The 2000 Sculpture” (1992), by Walter De Maria, an example of his

groupings of ordered elements using precise measurements.

Pacita Abad
 On October 5, 1946, a trapunto painter, a global Filipino artist, who
described herself as a painter who paints "from the guts" was born in Basco,
Batanesto politically active parents, Jorge Abad and Aurora Barsana.

 Alkaff Bridge bridge in Singapore.

Traditional Technique used in

Philippine Contemporary Art
 In your own opinion, why do each artist unique from the other artists?

 Each artist is unique from the other artists because of the technique being
used or practiced by the artist.

TECHNIQUE
is the manner in which artist use and manipulate materials to achieve the
desired formal effect, and communicate the desired concept or meaning,
according to his or her personal style. It is the individual signature that
makes each artist different or identifiable from the other artists.
 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.

TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE
 PAINTING  ARCHITECTURE
 SCULPTURE  MUSIC
 DANCE  TEXTILE

TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES
USED IN PHILIPPINE ARTS

is a technique encompassing any form of working wood with a tool into some
sort of aesthetic object.

is a technique of shaping liquid or pliable material such as clay. Traditional

pottery making in the Philippines involves the method of molding. Pottery
making in the Philippines is one of the longest traditions in Philippine art.

is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or

threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

Textile hand-weaving is one of the most attractive and interesting

traditional crafts of the Philippines, imbued with romanticism and laden with
cultural significance.

art and craft of making interwoven objects, usually containers, from flexible
vegetable fibres, such as twigs, grasses, osiers, bamboo, and rushes, or from
plastic or other synthetic materials.
 FOUR TYPES OF BASKETRY

 COILING

 PLAITING

 TWINING
  WICKER

CONTEMPORARY ARTS PRODUCTION

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– is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by
recording light or other electromagnetic radiation

EXTREME WIDE SHOT (Establishing shot)

wide range of distance, establishes a scene, or setting.

WIDE SHOT
shows everyone in the scene (internal or external) people in the crowd,
children inside the classroom.
LONG SHOT
whole body, a person running and walking.

MEDIUM SHOT
framing of a character, body language, gesture, facial expression.

MEDIUM CLOSE UP
torso, shoulder range.
CLOSE UP
detail, face, object.

EXTREME CLOSE UP
extreme detail of information.

POINT OF VIEW(POV)
shows the view from the characters perspective.

OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT(OSS)

it’s filmed as though it is from the back of the character’s shoulder.

2- SHOT
A shot showing two characters communicating, interacting or conversing.

LOW ANGLE SHOT

this is taken from a lower place looking up at the character/subject. It
usually is used to make the character, subject appear bigger, more powerful
or dominant.

High angle
An angle taken from a higher place that looks down on the character. It is
often used to make the subject appear smaller, vulnerable, and weak.

Oblique
A camera angle used to make the shot appear disorientated, or tilted. Often
used to unbalance the audience.