CPAR’s REVIEWER
Contemporary Art Techniques and Performance Practices
Contemporary art - provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the
issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us. Contemporary artists work in a
globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world.
A work of art is the skillful manipulation of a medium to express an idea or an
experience.
Medium is the substance that is manipulated, while Technique describes the skillful
manipulation of the medium. Technique may utilize tools or technology.
Technique - 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.
1. Minimalism
- an artistic movement that seeks to take away unnecessary and leaving only the essential.
- usually use this technique use a well selected material that is indispensable in art
production.
- most often comprised of geometric shapes in simple arrangements and lacking any
decorative or dynamic flourishes.
- These geometric shapes characterized the elemental or “bare bones” forms of art, which,
according to critics, represented the culmination of modern art's progression toward the
most simplified form of abstract art possible.
2. Found Objects
- taking something that people seem to find useless and use it in a unique way in order to
make an artwork.
- I’m Happiest at Home
3. Large Scale Art
- accounts for the creation of something huge to express diverse perspectives in artwork.
- Created for public view.
- Monumental Sculptures
- Interactive Installation Art
4. Cubism
- an art movement that made its debut in 1907.
- fragmented subject matter deconstructed in such a way that it can be viewed from
multiple angles simultaneously.
- it takes landscapes, objects, and people, and transforms them into geometric shapes.
- Pablo Picasso was one of the most well-known masters of cubism.
- Pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
- Harlequin (1918), by Pablo Picasso
5. Social Realism
- using art—primarily visual art—to highlight political and social issues.
- takes a critical look at the poverty, injustice, and corruption within a society.
- Krista (Female Christ) 1984 by Pablo Baen Santos
- Vintana
- Turns of a Term in the Philippines
6. Digital Application
- Digital Art
- made with digital technology or presented on digital technology.
- images done completely on computer or hand-drawn images scanned into a computer and
finished using a software program like Adobe Illustrator.
- augmented reality technology and transforms Filipino digital artworks into immersive
experiences.
7. Abstract Art
- originates from unnatural objects, such as geometric patterns, shapes, and formats.
- all about colors, lines, textures, patterns, compositions, and processes.
- nonobjective art or concrete art that usually embraces non-representational work.
- Hills of Nikko, 1964 by Jose Joya
8. Graffiti Art
- drawing, inscription or sketch done hastily on the wall or other surface made to be seen by
the public.
9. Body Art
- uses the body as the medium or main material.
- can be painted or clothed and use to perform an artistic act in public.
- Tattooing and piercing
10. Land Art
- Earth Art
- made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making
structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs.
- monumental earthworks that interact with nature and the environment.
11. Performance Art
- combines a variety of media and the human body to execute an artistic theatrical
expression intended to be performed before a live audience.
- Philippine Educational Theater Association
Other technique in Visual Art:
1. Collage
- adhering flat elements such as newspaper or magazine cut-outs, printed text,
illustrations, photographs, cloth, string, etc. to a flat surface to create a thick layer that is
almost like a relief sculpture. - Vortex by Jay Cabalu
2. Decalcomania
- applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a reversal of that image onto canvas
or other flat materials.
3. Decoupage
- adhering cut-outs of paper and then coating these with one or more coats or transparent
coating of varnish.
4. Frottage
- rubbing with crayon on a piece of paper which has been placed over an object or an
image.
5. Montage
- used for photography or film where a pictorial image is juxtaposed or placed overlapping
to make another picture or design.
- a single composition created by juxtaposing a series of pieces of paper, photos or other
media to create an artistic image.
6. Trapunto Painting
- used by Pacita Abad
- canvases are padded, sewn, and often filled with sequins, beads, shells, buttons, tiny
mirrors, bits of glass, rickrack, swatches of precious textiles and other things that she picks up
from her travels and journeys.
- The Village Where I Came From (1991) by Pacita Abad
Methods_of_Art_Production_and_Presentation
Art Styles -the way artwork looks
Style - manner which Hie artist portrays his / her subj. matter
Medium – another important factor in determing style refers to methods or technique that the
artist ure.
Methods:
o Realism - accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature of contemporay life
Attempt to represent subject matter truthfully
o Abstraction -do not attempt to represent an acurate depiction of a visual reality
Painting sculpture or graphic art in which portrayal hom the visible world plays no part
o Distortion - strenthening , stretching, shortening squeezing, melting or twisting
Clearly manifested when the subject in mishappen condition
o Elongation - art by is lengthen, protracted | extended
Abstract art that depicts stretched forms of people | objects in nature
o Mangling - subject objects are cut, lacerated, mutilated or hacked w/ repeated blows.
o Cubism - stresses abstract form through the use of cone, cylinder or sphere at the
expense of other pictorial clanents; basic geometrical chape
o Abstract Expressionism – this method is employed, strong colors, heavy impasto,
uneven brush strokes & rough factures are evident
Emphasizing artist’s liberty to convey atitudes and emotions
o Symbolism – visible sign of something invisible
Michael angelo Sistine Chapel Hands - God’s right arm is outstretched to impart
the spark of life
o Fauvism painting pictures of comfort, joy and pleasure; used bright colors
Uses of unnatural color
o Dadaism - negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war.
Satrical / nonsensical in nature
o Surrealism – “super realism”
Declare that magical world are more beautiful than the real one
o Futurism – emphasized speed, technology, youth, violence
o Expressionism – artist depict subjective emotions not objective reality
Image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist’s inner feeling I
ideas.
