CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS, TECHNIQUES

AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES

Contemporary Art refers to current and very recent practice. It also refers to works of art made
by living artists. It tends to be assessed thematically and subjectively, drawing on an expanded range
of theoretical and practical disciplines and can be driven by both theory and ideas, and is also
characterized by a blurring of the distinction between art and other categories of cultural experience,
such as television, cinema, mass media, entertainment and digital technology.

DIFFERENT FORMS OF CONTEMPORARY ART

VISUAL ART- the art forms that created primarily for visual perception.
Types of Visual Art
1. Painting - it is the practice of applying tint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface or
support base
2. Sculpture - the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially
by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.

3. Architecture - the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any
other structures
4. Pottery and Molding - the process of forming a ceramic (often clay) body into objects of a required
shape and heating them to high temperatures to increase the strength, hardness and to set permanent
shape.
5. Papier-mâché - is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced
with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.
6. Mosaic -a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material,
such as stone, tile, or glass
7. Collage -a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces
of paper or fabric on to a backing
8. Graphic Arts -the arts that rely more on line or tone than on color, especially drawing and the
various forms of engraving
9. Designs and Fashion Art - exhibiting a popular style, especially in textile and clothing, footwear,
lifestyle products, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body
10. Culinary Art -the art of cuisine and plating for market value and enticing appeal of foods in
serving table and packaging.
11. Landscaping - the art of botanical and garden arrangement
12. Digital Art or New Media Art - an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of
the creative or presentation process. It is created with new media technologies, computer graphics,
computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, sound art, video games, computer
robotics, 3D printing, cyborg art and art as biotechnology
13.Photography -creation of durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation,
either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive
material such as photographic film.
14. Film (movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay) - a series of still images videos that,
when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images (motion pictures).In the advent of
digital technology, it is a thread of selected or edited video shots to organize the event and create a
story.
15. Vlog - a video blog or video log, is a form of blog for which the medium is video, and is a form of
web television. Vlog entries often combine embedded video with supporting text, images, and other
metadata.it is the new social media trend today trend

PERFORMING ART - a form of arts in which artists use their voices or bodies, often in relation to
other objects, to convey artistic expression.
Types of Performing Art
1. Music - vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of
form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
2. Dance - rhythmical movement to music, typically following a set sequence of steps.
3. Theatre - a play or other activity or presentation considered in terms of its dramatic quality.

Types of Theatre
 Skit-a short comedy sketch or piece of humorous writing, especially a parody.

 Role Play- the acting out or performing the part of a person or character.

 Tableau- a striking or artistic grouping or scene arrangement. A depiction of a scene usually

presented on a stage by silent and motionless costumed participants.

 Pantomime- a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers

express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.
  Musical Opera- a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and
instrumentalists.

 Musical Play (Musical theatre)- is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs,
spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

 Shadow play -is a form of storytelling and entertainment which uses shadow puppets or real
actors which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim to create
visual illusion or image

LITERARY ART - the body of written works of a language, period, or culture. It is the integrative
discipline of ideation, literary appreciation and creative writing

Types of Literary Art

1. Poetry -literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas
using distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

2. Short story or Novel -a printed story about imaginary characters and events

3. Comics (“sequential art”) -the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story
or dramatize an idea

DIFFERENT ART TECHNIQUES

1. Realism -Realism is the art style most people regard as "real art," where the subject of the painting
looks much like the real thing rather than being stylized or abstracted
2. Impressionism- “Instead of painting in a studio, the Impressionists found that they could capture
the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by working quickly, in front of their subjects, in the
open air (en plain air) rather than in a studio,” the Tate explains. This resulted in a greater awareness
of light and color and the shifting pattern of the natural scene. Brushwork became rapid and broken
into separate dabs in order to render the fleeting quality of light.”
3. Expressionism and Fauvism-Expressionism and Fauvism are similar styles which are characterized
by their use of bold, unrealistic colors chosen not to depict life as it is but as it feels or appears to the
artist.
4. Abstraction- the essence of a subject as the artist interprets it, rather than the visible details
reducing the subject to its dominant colors, shapes, or patterns, as Pablo Picasso did with his famous
mural of three musicians.
5. Cubism- a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly
by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents,
and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational
requirements.
6. Surrealism- a liberal and very contemporary art technique associated with our imagination,
unrealistic, illogical subjects and juxtaposition

APPROACHES in the PERFORMANCE PRACTICES of ART

1. Retrospective-the subject or theme is inspired by the past events or situations.
2. Introspective-the theme provokes one's own conscious thoughts and feelings to reflect and examine
her or himself.
3. Social Realism-It aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the society and the
class struggle of people.
4. Allegorical & Allusion (Symbolic)- an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is
used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.