Techniques and
Performance
Practices Applied to
Contemporary Arts
Have you been to a museum? Have
you ever wondered how the artist
utilizes their materials and how they
apply the technique in their artwork?
Medium
Medium refers to
the materials an
artwork is made of.
These can include painting,
sculpture, or photography.
Within a medium, there can
be many subsets. Clay,
marble, bronze, and metal
are all materials commonly Remember: “media” is
associated with sculpture. plural for medium.
Arts can be classified as
practical,
environmental, pictorial,
narrative, dramatic, and
musical.
The musical arts include music, poetry (those that have
perceptible rhythm and can be sung or danced to), and
dance that is accompanied by music.
The practical arts have immediate use for everyday
and business life such as design, architecture, and
furniture.
Pictorial works include painting, drawing, graphics and stage
and production design (lighting, dress, props, and set).
Works that are staged and performed are considered
Dramatic and they include drama, performance art, or
music and dance. If they are based on stories, the art
forms are classified as narrative and they include
drama, novel, fiction, nonfiction,
music, and dance.
Technique
Technique is the manner
in which artists use and
manipulate
materials to achieve the
desired formal effect,
and communicate the
desired concept, or
meaning, according to his
or her personal style.
Stone is
chiseled.
Wood is carved.
Clay is modeled and
shape.
Metal is cast.
Thread is woven.
Traditional
Techniques
Wood Carving Wood Carving is an art that has been
practiced all over the world but very avidly
in Southeast Asia where great pieces of
woodwork have been crafted throughout
the ages.
carvings of saints in
Bulul woodcarvings from
Christian churches
the Cordilleras
Silk-screen Painting
Is one of the most popular
printing techniques, and is
most-used by companies
when printing design onto
products of different sizes
and materials. It has been
used for more than 100 years
in the commercial and artistic
sector and is mainly used for
printing images and designs
on T-shirts, Tote bags, paper,
wood, ceramics and other
materials.
Analogue Photography
Analogue photography refers to
photography using an analogue
camera and film. A roll of film loaded
into the camera and the magic begins
once you start clicking: light interacts
with the chemicals in the film and an
image is recorded. The pictures
collected in your film roll come to life
when the film is processed in a photo
lab.
Filmmaking
Film production is the process of making a film. The direction or
production of films for the cinema or television is a visual storytelling.
Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story,
idea, or commission, through screenwriting, casting, shooting, sound
recording and reproduction, editing, and screening the finished product
before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition.
Contemporary
Techniques
Digital Photography
Uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to
capture images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on
photographic film. The captured images are digitized and stored as a
computer file ready for further digital processing, viewing, electronic
publishing, or digital printing.
Digital Filmmaking
Is the norm these days, enabling filmmakers to blend art and digital
media and speed up the process of filmmaking as well as be more
creative and enterprising in the special effects department.
Artistic Skills and
Techniques to
Contemporary Art
Creations
Collage
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.
Decollage
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”.
Graffiti
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.
Digital Art
Digital Art is an artistic
work or
practice that uses digital
technology
as an essential part of the
creative or presentation
process.
