Subjects as

Materials for
Painting
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 Portraits are pictures of men and women
singly or collectively.
Still life is a painting of an inanimate objects
or a non-living things on a table or another
setting.
 Many realist and impressionist painters are
fond of country life.
 Country life is the subject of most of
Amorosolo’s works.
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 TOOLS USED IN PAINTING:
 Assorted brushes are used to have a
variety of strokes.
 Palette is one that contains or holds the
painting medium.
 Palette knife is used to mix colors on
the palette and sometimes to add colors
to and scrape or remove colors from the
painting surface
 Easel is the frame that supports the
painting; it usually have 3 legs.

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 SCULPTURE
Mediums
1. Additive Sculpture
- the sculptor simply puts together the
materials to come up with the desired figure.

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 SCULPTURE
2. Subtractive Sculpture
- the sculptor removes the unnecessary
parts of the medium he uses to form the
desired figure.

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 Subjects Used as Materials
in Sculpture
• People
• Animals and Plants
• Places
• Events
• Religious Items
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 ARCHITECTURE
MEDIUMS
1. Light Materials
- paper, nipa, bamboo
- all, except paper, form part of nipa
huts and similar dwellings in tropic countries.

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 ARCHITECTURE
2. Heavy Materials
- fire-resistant, durable, able to
withstand natural forces

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 Traditional Techniques Applied To
Contemporary Creation
1. MUSIC
- According to Boethius, the most
eloquent music writer of the Middle Ages,
there are 3 types of music:
• Musica Mundana
• Musica Humana
• Musica Instrumentalis

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 MUSIC
• Musica Mundana
- created by the orderly relationships found
among the planets and the changing seasons of
the world.
• Musica Humana
- music created by humans, the unity of the
body and soul
• Musica Instrumentalis
- music created by musical instruments
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 MUSIC
• Vocal Music
- produced by the voices of the singers,
without accompaniment (acapella)
• Instrumental Music
- produced by musical instrument
• Mixed ensemble
- combination of vocal and instrumental
music.
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 MUSIC
ENSEMBLE are classified into:
1. Orchestra
2. Symphony Orchestra
3. Chamber Orchestra
4. Concerto
5. Band
6. Rondalla

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 ORCHESTRA
- most spectacular ensemble because of its large
size.
- usually performed under the direction of a
conductor, the musicians play several
instruments of the same kind
- It is divided into 4 sections
• the string
• the woodwind
• the brass
• the percussion
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS
BRASS INSTRUMENTS
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT
 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
• is a large ensemble composed of about
100 players.
• it includes all the principal instrumental
types divided into 4 sections, each of
which has at least one instrument which
falls under the 4 basic ranges (soprano,
alto, tenor, bass)
 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

• is an ensemble larger than a chamber

ensemble and smaller than a full
orchestra.
• CHAMBER ENSEMBLE – small group of
musicians playing from 1 to 9 musical
instruments
 CONCERTO
• is a form written for an orchestra in which
one solo instrument is given prominence
 BAND
• is an instrumental ensemble having the
size of an orchestra but consisting mainly
and exclusively of wind and percussion
instruments
 RONDALLA
• is a band usually composed of stringed
instrument
• it is the best known instrumental group in
the Philippines today