MATERIALS

USED IN
CONTEMPO
RARY ART
LESSON 3
This lesson will enable you to:

• Identify the materials used in contemporary art

• Describe how technology has redefined art

• Make an artwork using selected materials creatively

• Explain the process of making one’s artwork

• Contemporary artists salvage
Chime Halo by Impy Pilapil
The hanging bamboo chimes that
materials that can be recycled and create sound when blown by the
wind.

made into creative forms.

• Artists can make artwork that

combine structure and wood and

interact with the wind to make music.

 Project Belonging by
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan’s

Gathered used objects,

clothes, personal
accessories, and many
other things compressed
into cube-shapes.

• These represents the boxes sent by the Overseas Filipino Workers to their
family left behind.

• They combined various found objects to create a metaphor of everyday

human life and depict issues of identity, journey, migration and displacement.
• Some artists combine indigenous materials
with textile and mount these on a painted flat
surface.

• Paper art medium is also explored by artists

like Mona Alcudia of Cebu who makes solid
forms aw well as transparent artworks using
paper.
• Painting is no longer confined to canvas hung on the wall. They can

also be found on ceilings and floors. Some are outdoors.

Painted by
Pacita Abad,
Batanes-born
artist.
• In performance art, artists use variety of props such as rope, plastic,
textile, and found objects. Paint is also used for body art.

Nicolas Aca, Cagayan

De Oro artist

“Sa Pagbabalik
Tanaw kay Yolanda”
• Technology has also refined art in many ways.

a) Light structures and floor drawings using colored laser beans and
smoke.

b) Tubes hanging on the ceiling that respond to the viewer’s

movements, sound and touch.

c) A wall climbing robot holding a paint; and

d) A pen controlled by a software program to create certain patterns.

• The availability and variety of materials and the possibilities offered

by technology expand the choices of artists.

• This is essential to the development of contemporary art.

- END
ACTIVITY # 3
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Independent Work 3.1

A. Search the internet for artworks by Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan,

Pacita Abad or Impy Pilapil. Choose one artwork that you like.

Study the Materials that the artist used for the artworks. Note how

he/she put together the materials to form an art piece. Then answer

the following questions:

Questions:
1. Describe the artwork
2. What is the subject matter of the artwork?
3. What materials are used in the artwork?
4. What are the dominant colors?
5. How do size of the repeated elements vary?
6. How is texture used?
7. Is it beautiful? Why do you think so?
Independent Work 3.2
B. Now make your own contemporary art using paper as an art

medium.