PHILIPPINE INTEGRATED SCHOOL

FOUNDATION, INC.
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Bangon, Marawi City 9700
School ID: 478012
email add: [email protected] , FB account: Pis FI
2nd Semester School Year 2021 - 2022

CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPPINE ARTS
OF THE REGION 12

MODULE 7 & 8
(Traditional Technique used in
Philippine Contemporary Art &
Contemporary Materials and
Techniques Used in Art)

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 Traditional Technique
used in Philippine
LESSON 5 Contemporary Art

What Is It

What is Technique?

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 (modern, Neoclassic, etc.)

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.

There are some places in the Philippines that became famous because of the unusual or
extraordinary products that they make. These products become their way for the people to know
about their places. These people used traditional technique in creating a particular art that
makes them famous.

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.

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Incised designs also appeared in the posts of Masbate. Among the finest of early Philippine pottery designs are footed
dishes that were decorated with geometric cut-outs, molding, cording or finger impressions, most of these were made
in Batangas. Pottery traditions continued to develop in certain locals, such as Burnay, unglazed clay pottery of Vigan.

Fabric Weaving - 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.

“Abel” or “inabel” is a fabric customarily made of cotton fiber turned into spools of beeswax-
brushed yarn & woven in a handloom

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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.

T’nalak is a sacred cloth woven by the T'boli people in communities around Lake Sebu, Mindanao
island.

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.

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 Coiled basketry, using grasses, rushes and pine needles

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.

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 Contemporary Materials
and Techniques Used in
LESSON Art

What Is It

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 21st century.
Here are three 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.

Red Sky, 2007 5 Bottles, 1994 Arturo Luz Arturo Luz

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 cityscape 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.

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 Small PaddleFish by Stephen Palmer

The technique of putting different objects together to create three-dimensional art is

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

Other example of Found Objects Art:

Conglomerate Seahorse Found Object Art

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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.

Credits: Museum Associates/LACMA

Pacita Abad working the Alkaff Bridge bridge in Singapore.
On October 5, 1946, Pacita Abad, a trapunto painter, a global Filipino artist, who described
herself as a painter who paints "from the guts" was born in Basco,
Batanes to politically active parents, Jorge Abad and Aurora Barsana

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 PHILIPPINE INTEGRATED SCHOOL
FOUNDATION, INC.
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Bangon, Marawi City 9700
School ID: 478012
email add: [email protected] , FB account: Pis FI
2nd Semester School Year 2021 - 2022

MODULE 7&8

NAME: ______________________________ STRAND/SEC.__________________

DATE:________

ACTIVITY 1. Multiple Choice. Read the sentence carefully, select the letter of your choice and
place it on the space provided before the number.
________1. It is the manner in which artist use and manipulate materials
A. Subject C. Technique
B. Style D. Theme
________2. What is the importance of having a unique way of creating art in the local area?
A. It makes their community beautiful C. It brings solidarity to the people
B. It is a way of drawing other people to D. It makes the community more
their place productive
________3. Which phrase is incorrect?
a. Stone – fabricated c. Wood – carved
b. Clay – molded d. Thread – woven
________4. Which is not a traditional technique in creating art?
A. Painting C. Basketry
B. Weaving D. Woodcarving
________5. What is the best material for making a mat using plaiting technique?
a. Abaca c. Clay
b. Nito grass d. Wood
________6. Which material is not use carving technique?
A. Clay C. Stone
B. Wood D. Ice
________7. What technique is used in making the Burnay?
A. Stone C. Fabric
B. Clay D. Grass
________8. What weaving technique is used in making a banig?
A. Coiling C. Wickering
B. Plaiting D. Twining

________9. What technique in weaving is illustrated here?

A. Coiling C. Wickering
B. Plaiting D. Twining

________10. It is the fabric that is popular and made in Ilocos?

a. T’nalak c. Jusi Baron
b. Inabel d. Malong

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ACTIVITY 2: Compare traditional from contemporary in terms of technique and materials used.

Technique Materials

Traditional Art

Contemporary
Art

Activity 3: Identify what is being described in the statements

__________________________1. A contemporary technique in art that uses junk materials in

art production

__________________________ 2. He is a Filipino artist who is fond of using geometrical shapes

in his artworks

__________________________3. A technique in art that take away unimportant elements in

leaving only what is essential

__________________________ 4. A technique of putting found objects together to create a

new composition or art

__________________________ 5. The technique that uses big spaces and environment as a

venue of art creation.

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