Artistic Skills and
Techniques to
Contemporary Art
creations
Collage are the techniques 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.
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 place over another or others, and the top poster or posters have
been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters
underneath.
• 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.
An example of this is
the Singapore art Bridge
just beside the Oxford
Hotel where the writer
stayed in their visit to
Singapore. It is said to
be painted by a Batanes-
born artist.
Singapore Art Bridge
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.
Sculpture is not placed in the landscape rather, the landscape
is the means of their creation. Often earth moving
equipment is involved. The works frequently exist in the
open located well away from civilization, left to change and
erode under natural conditions.
NAZCA LINES IN PERU
Digital Arts
Digital Arts Is an artistic
work or practice that
uses digital technology
as an essential part of
the creative or
presentation
Digital art is placed under
the larger umbrella term
new media art.
• New media art refers to artworks
created with new media
technologies, including digital art,
computer graphics, computer
animation, virtual art, Internet art,
interactive art, sound art, video
games, computer robotics, 3D
printing, cyborg art and art as
biotechnology.
• 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 installation
art, and virtual reality have become
recognized artistic practices.
• More generally the term digital
artist is used to describe an artist
who makes use of digital
technologies in the production of
art.
The techniques of digital art
are used extensively by the
mainstream media in
advertisement and by film-makers
to produce visual effects. Both
digital and traditional artist use
many sources of electronic
information and programs to
create their work. Digital Art is a
term applied to contemporary art
that uses the method of mass
production or digital media.
Mixed Media
It refers to the artwork in the making of which more than one medium has
been employed
It refers to a work of visual art that combines various
traditionally distinct visual art media. 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
drying 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.
Print Making
-it is the process of making
artworks by painting,
normally in the paper
Prints are created by transforming 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 o etching; stone aluminum or polymer for lithography;
blocks of wood crafts and wood engraving; and linoleum for linocuts.
Any Questions?
Activity
Make or Create a collage presenting the causes and effects of climate
change. Materials:
- pages of colored magazine/newspaper
- Paste
- Scissors
- Manila Paper
- Pentel Pen
Procedure:
1. Gather pages of used colored magazines, cut into pieces.
2. Assemble the cut pieces of colored magazines.
3. Create figures that would represent the causes and
effects of climate change.
4. Paste them to the manila paper.
5. label the causes and the effects using the black pentel pen.
Put a title to your collage.
6. Present your collage to the class.
