Local Materials Used

in Contemporary Arts
Material
• or the substance are the things in which the
art is made off.
• 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.
The Sculptor
• uses metal, wood, stone, clay and glass.
The architect
• uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone,
concrete and various building materials.
The painter
• uses pigments (eg. watercolor, oil, tempera,
textile paint, acrylic, ink, etc.) on a usually
flat ground (wood, canvas, paper, stone wall
such as in a cave painting.
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.
 Musician
• uses sound and instruments (including the
human voice) A T’boli chanter sings creation
stories in a way that is different from a
classical singer or pop singer influenced by
the Western music scale.
 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.
 Theater artist
• integrates all the arts and uses stage, production
design, performance elements and script to enable the
visual, musical, dance and other aspects to come
together as a whole work.
The photographer and film maker
• use the camera to record the outside world.
• The film maker uses 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.
The photographer and film maker
The writer
• of a novel, poetry, nonfiction and fiction uses
words.
 Local Materials in the
Philippines that is used for arts
and craft
 ABACA
• belongs to banana family. Its fibers have a natural
luster with colors ranging from pure white to ivory
and dark brown.
 Bamboo
• is used in creating many products. It is used in
construction, textile, musical instruments and many
more.
 Buri
• is extracted from matured leaves of buri palm. The
fiber is durable and resistant to moisture
 Capiz shells
• are translucent to allow light to pass through, but still
allow privacy. The capiz comes from the windowpane
oyster (placuna placenta) found in the coastal waters of
the Philippines and are known for their beautiful mother
of pearl look.
 Rattan
• belongs to the palm family. There are different types of
rattan palms, such as high or low climbers, single
stemmed or clustered rattan species
 Sea Shells
• hard exoskeleton of marine mollusks such as snails,
bivalves, and chitons that serves to protect and support
their bodies. This material is usually used in making
ornaments and house decorations
 Activity:
You will be shown 4 photos in a grid, all of which share a word in
common. Your goal is to figure out the common word based on word
length, which is provided to you, and a selection of possible letters.
 Activity:
From the pictures and answer that you made, arrange the letters below
to create a word that describe our topic in this week.
 Quiz:
DIRECTION: Identity the following artworks/crafts to its materials where
it is made of.
1. 2.
3. 4.
5. 6.
Write which artist is using the following materials
on their artworks.

1. clay 2. piano 3. camera

Write which artist is using the following materials
on their artworks.

4. paints 5. props 6. body

Write which artist is using the following materials
on their artworks.

7. cement 8. typewriter 9. printer

Write which artist is using the following materials
on their artworks.
10. canvass
Write which artist is using the following materials
on their artworks.
 TECHNIQUES AND
PERFORMANCE PRACTICES
APPLIED TO
CONTEMPORARY ART
What is 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
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 techniques
• used by the Filipinos even from the past years
are depicted in our painting, sculpture, dance,
architecture, music, and even textile.

• It only proves that Filipinos like any other

people in the world can be very proud of our
Philippine arts
Traditional Techniques Used in
Philippine Arts
Wood Carving
a technique encompassing any form of working
wood with a tool into some sort of aesthetic
object.
Molding
• 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.
Fabric Weaving
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
The Ilocano still practice hand-weaving using the pedal
loom. Their materials are cotton and natural dyes,
although now they use store-bought threads and
synthetic dyes. They know several weaving techniques
and designs, passed down to many generations.
Textiles in Mindanao are predominantly handwoven
from abaca (musa textilis). Among the Moslems of
Mindanao, the Magindanaon, Maranaw and Yakan
continue the tradition of cotton and silk weaving.
Basketry Technique
There are four different types of basketry methods:
coiling, plaiting, wickering, and twining.
• Some of the terms that are specific to basket weaving include loops,
twining, ribs, and spokes.

• The common raw materials used in making baskets are rattan, abaca,
nito, tikog, buri, bamboo, pandan, coconut leaves and sticks, palm
leaves, and beeswax.

• There are several baskets that use combined raw materials.

Plaiting technique - interweaving or braiding two or
more strands, fibers, etc.
Twining technique, using materials from roots and tree
bark. This is a weaving technique where two or more
flexible weaving elements ("weavers") cross each other as
they weave through the stiffer radial spokes.
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 of paper or canvas.
Collage
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”.
• Example of decollage include cut-up technique.
• Similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which
one has been over another.
Decollage
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.
Graffiti
Land Art
• earth works, or earth arts 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 (bed rock, bolders, stones),
organic media (logs, branches, leaves), and water which
introduced materials such as concrete, metal asphalt, or
mineral pigments.
Land Art
 Digital Arts
• is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of
the creative or presentation process.
• Digital art is work made with digital technology or presented on digital
technology. This includes images done completely on computer or hand-drawn
images scanned into a computer and finished using a software program like
Adobe Illustrator.
• Digital art can also involve animation and 3D virtual sculpture renderings as
well as projects that combine several technologies. Some digital art involves
manipulation of video images. After some resistance, the impact of digital
technology has transformed activities such as paintings, drawing, sculpture,
and music/sound art, while new form such as net art.
Digital Arts
Mixed Media
• It refers to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally
distinct visual art. 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 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.
Mixed Media
Print Making
• is the process of making artworks by painting, normally in the
paper. Prints are created by transforming ink from a matrix 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 or etching; stone aluminum of
polymer for lithography; blocks of wood crafts and wood graving;
and linoleum for linocuts.
• Screen made of silk or synthetic fabrics are used for the screen-
printing process.
Print Making
 Frottage
• is the technique of rubbing with crayon on a piece of paper which
has been placed over an object or an image.
• The impression of the image can be created using leaves, woods,
wire screen, or metal with embossed image or words.
Decalcomania
• is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then
transferring a reversal of the image onto canvas or other flat
materials.
Decoupage
• is done by adhering cut-outs of paper and then coating these with
one or transparent coating of varnish.
Eggshell mosaic
• is an artistic technique that uses tiny parts of eggshell to create a
whole image or object. Mosaics are usually assembled using small
tiles that are square, but they can also be round or randomly shaped.
Trapunto painting
• is the technique used by Pacita Abad where her canvases are
padded, sewn, and often filled with sequins, beads, shell, buttons,
tiny mirrors, bits of glass, rickrack, swatches of precious textiles and
other things that she picks up from her travels and journey.