CONTEMPORARY REVIEWER

DIFFERENT CONTEMPORARY ART TECHNIQUES AND

PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
LESSON 1

- With the broadening of the art world, many people are getting confused about what
qualifies as an artistic skill.

ARTISTIC SKILL
- Are abilities that possessed by the artist who operate within fine art capacity.
SCULPTURE
- Three-dimensional art forms
- Use as a ritual object
- Metal, glass, stone, clay
ARCHITECTURE
- Uses wood, bamboo, stone, concrete, and various building materials.
- Added element of time
PAINTER
- Cave paintings
- Uses pigments
PRINT MAKER
- Ink
- Classified as a two dimensional art form

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ART TECHNIQUE

TECHNIQUES
- The way of artist
COLLAGE
- Used in visual arts where the artwork is made from
DECOLLAGE
- It is the opposite of the collage
- Removing pieces of an original image
GRAFFITI
- Often seen in a public space
LAND ART
- Earthworks or earth arts
- Related to one another
DIGITAL ART
- New version of painting
- Is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the
- creative or presentation process
MIXED MEDIA
- Artwork that combines various traditionally distinct visual art
EGGSHELL MOSAIC
- Artistic technique that uses tiny parts of eggshell to create a whole image or object
TRAPUNTO PAINTING
- canvases are padded, swen, and often filled with sequins, beads, shell, buttons, tiny
mirrors
PRINT MAKING
- the process of making artworks by painting
FROTTAGE
- technique of rubbing with crayon on a piece of paper
 TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO CONTEMPORARY
CREATION
LESSON 2

WOOD CARVING
- A technique encompassing any form of working wood with a tool into some sort of
aesthetic object.
 Alamat ng machete – “tuwing gabi nagiging tao”
 Vase, rebulto
MOLDING
- A technique shaping liquid such as a clay
 Clay
FABRIC WEAVING
- Is a method of textile production in which two distinct set of yarns or threads are
interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth
 spider web – alamat ng gagamba
BASKETRY TECHNIQUE
- There are four different types of basketry methods, coiling, plaiting, wickering, and
twining

THREE TECHNIQUES
MINIMALISM
- One of the artistic movement that has been most relevant throughout the contemporary
art movement
 Simplicity
FOUND OBJECT
- Taking something that people view as useless and then using it in a unique way
ASEMBLAGE
- Putting different object together to create three-dimensional art
LARGE-SCALE ART
- Creating some huge to express diverse perspectives in artwork
 INTEGRATED ARTS AND PRODUCTION PLANNING
LESSON 3

INTEGRATED ARTS
- Used here to denote the assimilation of arts experience into the classroom-learning
process
PERCEPTUAL COGNITION
- Facilitation of knowledge acquisition and understanding
METAPHORICAL MODES OF THINKING
- Development in the students of the ability to go beyond their concrete experience into a
more abstract/philosophical manner of thinking
USE OF ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF COMMUNICATION
- Human expression may take several forms other than through language
INTEGRATED ARTS PRODUCTION
- Is for artists whose interest is crossing boundaries between media and a discipline. This
usually involves the use of two or more discipline in producing or creating a work for a
specific audience.
- The knowledge of your own audience
PRODUCTION PLANNING
- Know the difference between arts and crafts.
- Separate the process of art from the production art.
- Arts and crafts develop different developmental skills.
- Know the theory of learning by doing.
- Know your creative potentials.
ARTISTIC JOURNEY
 Create a pleasant work environment - Ideal Working Environments
 Spare a few moments each day to look closely at the surroundings – Shadows and
Color Tones
 Practice makes perfect - Practicing to draw
 Form a concept of the work before starting a project – Planning
 Composition - The Rules of Grid
 Be aware of other artist's work - Artist Studying the Work of Other Artists
 Never stop learning - Contemporary Works
 DECORATING AND GLAZING
LESSON 4

PAINTING
- Is often applied to pottery that has been fired once and may then be overlaid with a glaze
afterwards.
CERAMIC GLAZE
- The most common form of decorating
- Molding and use of pipe
CARVING
- Instrument used
BURNISHING
- The surface of pottery wares may be burnished prior to firing by rubbing with a suitable
instrument of wood, steel or stone to produce a polished finish that survives firing.
ADDITIVES
- Can be worked into the clay body prior to forming, to produce desired effects in the fired
wares.
- Add such as sand and grog (fired clay which has been finely ground)

LITOGRAPHY

- Also called “litho”, although the alternative names of transfer print or “decal”
- Color or image, the cover coat and backing paper

Color or image – backup

Cover coat – durable

Backing paper – when you indicate the color, you can see the result

BANDING

- Also know as “lining”

- Application by hand or by machine
AGATEWARE

- Is named after its resemblance to the quartz mineral agate which has bands or layers of
color that are blended together

ENGOBE

- Clay slip that is used to coat the surface of pottery

- Combined with sgraffito decoration

GOLD

- High quality

BEST GOLD

- a suspension of gold powder in essential oils mixed with a flux and a mercury salt
extended

ACID GOLD

- The glazed surface is etched with diluted hydrofluoric acid

BRIGHT GOLD

- consists of a solution of gold sulphoresinate together with other metal resonates and a
flux

MUSSEL GOLD

- An old method of gold decoration

BONUS QUESTIONS

Molding – a technique shaping

Eggshell mosaic – tiny parts of eggshell

Collage – there’s an assemblage which creates a new image

Architecture – added element of time

Sculpture – use as a ritual object

Integrated arts –
Practice makes perfect –

Composition – rules of grid

Grog – gawa na – additives – to add new grog

Gold – high quality