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SUBJECT & Contemporary Philippine Arts From the Regions
GRADE/LEVEL Grade 12
4th __________________
QUARTER WEEK 7 and 8 DATE
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Lesson 7: Mediums and Techniques
Lesson 8: Elements of Arts and Principles of Composition
TOPIC Lesson 9: Themes and Subject Matter
Lesson 10: Integrating the Local and the Contemporary

The learner:

9. Promotes arts from the regions arts

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10. Researches on techniques and performance practices applied to
contemporary arts
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11. Identifies local materials used in creating art
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12. Critiques available materials and appropriate techniques
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13. Justifies the use of materials and the application of techniques
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LEARNING
COMPETENCY
14. Conceptualizes contemporary art based on techniques and performance
practices in their locality.
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15. Applies artistic skills and techniques in the process of creation
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16. Incorporates contemporary characteristics to one’s creation with attention to
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17. Creates the intended final product using appropriate materials for the best
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
Do not write on this module. Write your answer on the provided answer sheet.
Be honest in answering your module and doing your activities.

Lesson 7: Mediums and Techniques

What is Medium? MEDIUM – defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work
is made Media is the plural of medium
SCULPTOR uses metal, wood, stone, clay and glass  Sculptures fall within the category of
“three-dimensional” arts because they occupy space and have volume Pottery is a form of
sculpture Guillermo Tolentino.
ARCHITECT uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete and various building materials •
Buildings are also called “three-dimensional” arts because like sculpture, they occupy space
and have volume • However, architecture has the added element of time, since we move into
the structures.
PAINTER uses pigments (e.g., watercolor, oil, tempera, textile paint, acrylic, ink, etc.) on a
usually flat ground (wood, canvas, paper, stone wall such as in cave paintings)
M U S I C I A N uses sound and instruments (including the human voice) D A N C E R uses
body and its movements • Dance is often accompanied by music, but there are dances that
do not rely on musical accompaniment to be realized • Dance can tell stories, but at other
times, they convey abstract ideas that do not rely on a narrative.
THEATER ARTIST uses the stage, production design, performance elements, and script to
enable the visual, musical, dance and other aspects to come together as a whole work
PHOTOGRAPHER uses camera to record the outside world FILMMAKER uses the
cinematographic camera to record and put together production design, sound engineering,
performance, and screenplay
The writer of a novel, poetry, nonfiction and fiction uses words. Designer, the performance

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 artist, and the installation artist combine use of the range of materials above.
16. Onthebasisofmedium,theartscanbeclassified aspractical, environmental,
pictorial,auditory,narrative,dramatic,andmusical.
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.
Environmental arts occupy space and change in its meaning and function depending on
their categories including architecture, sculpture, and site-specific works such as installations
and public art.
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.
All these art forms can be integrated and result in Combined arts, such as designs, mixed
media, photography, film, video, performance art, theater productions, and installations. For
example:

WHAT IS TECHNIQUE? It 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
The distinctive character or the nature of the medium determines the technique. For example:
Stone is chiseled Wood is carved Clay is modeled and shaped Metal is cast Thread is woven
Technique involves tools and technology, ranging from the most traditional (for example
carving, analog photography, and filmmaking) to the most contemporary (digital photography,
digital filmmaking, music production, industrial design, and robotics).
How is art experienced and consumed? Art is considered “artifact” when it is directly
experienced and perceived. It can be spatial and static or unmoving or time-based and in
motion painting building novel Live theater production Mobile sculpture
When we experience a work indirectly or through a medium like film or video, we described it
as a “recorded” or documented artwork Examples are: 1. A documentation of a
performance 2. A photograph of a painting 3. A DVD or CD of a film or musical piece 4. A
novel read from an electronic tablet. We call a work a time-based artifact or performance if
we receive or perceive it live or directly in real time. A time-based artifact is recorded, and we
watch it in real time but not at the site of production Examples are live plays, live performance
art and installation

How have contemporary artists expanded the range of medium and techniques they
utilize? Contemporary artists are producing artworks that are more process- based, site-
specific, interactive and collaborative.
Untitled (Mirrors) by Maria Taniguchi • She uses the traditional medium of acrylic on
canvas and the traditional modern style of abstraction • However, she gives these elements a
contemporary twist that turns painting into a meditation on form • Instead of being an object or
artifact that is exclusively “pictorial”, the painting process itself also becomes an important
aspect of both creation and reception • The viewer imagines the artist painting grid by grid
meditatively, with careful and diligent brushwork

Lesson 8: Elements of Arts and Principles of Composition

What are the elements of art?

Elements of art are stylistic features that are included within an art piece to help the artist
communicate. The seven most common elements include line, shape, texture, form, space,
color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality. When analyzing these
intentionally utilized elements, the viewer is guided towards a deeper understanding of the
work.

ELEMENTS OF ARTS
(1)Line (2) Color (3) Value (4) Texture (5) Shape (6) Composition in Space (7) Movement

The bahay kubo of the lowlands and the traditional houses of the Cordillera in the North

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 derive their materials from the immediate surroundings. The Northern houses are compact
and adjust to the mountainous terrain, built to withstand cold an rain. The bahay kubo on stilts
is shaped to withstand flood and to let the air and light circulate, especially in dry and hot
weather in the lowlands. The native dwellings’ harmony with human scale is seen in the way
houses are built to correspond with the human body. Example:● In the system of belief of
Tausugs, the different posts of the house represents the various parts of the body, the head,
the shoulders,the limbs, with the navel-post taking central position. ● In other Asian societies,
the central post of the house is the vertical axis which links the three levels of being which are
the underworld, the world of people, and the world of heavenly spirits. Folk beliefs also
surround the timing of the season. The best time for building a house coincides with the tides
of the moon, or the position of the mythical sky serpent called the bakunawa. Conventions
also figure in deciding the direction of the stairway, and the number of steps, the best time for
moving into a new house, and many more.

While Western dances like classical ballet strives toward lightness, Asian dances are in
continuous contact with the ground. Some dances, like those from Sulu in Mindanao are
linear and asymmetrical, punctuated by sculptural or static positions. Traditional Asian dances
are also largely ceremonial and cannot be separated from other artforms such as textiles,
sculpture, and music. Movement in the cinema partakes the movements of camera such it
pans, scans the height of a building, and dwell in the contents of the room. It is tracked when
it follows an object in locomotive. It zooms when a camera makes a sudden movement. A
camera can also be shaky or handheld.

National Artist Guillermo Tolentino’s Bonifacio Monument (1933) in Caloocan has

circular composition; and his Oblation (1958) a bronze cast which together with other
buildings which follow the “town and gown” composition. Composition in space can also be
discerned in dance. Example: ● The soaring movements of classical ballet defy gravity, while
the earth-bound staccatto and sculptural poses, and flowing, fluid hand an feet gestures of
dances like the pangalay in Mindanao harmonize with the rhythms of nature. In architecture,
massive cantilevered block of the Cultural Center of the Philippines dominates and
overwhelms the human scale and juts out of the reclaimed land on which it stands.

Lesson 9: Themes and Subject Matter

What is the difference between subject matter and theme?

The difference between the theme and the subject matter relies in finding the point or the
reason. The subject is what a piece is about, the theme is what you are supposed to learn
from the subject matter. The subject matter is what the work is actually “about”, while the
theme defines the “story” behind a work in a particular genre or style, or with a particular motif
or look.

Subject Matterin arts refers to what they are all about.If there is an image,we identify that
image and recognize how it is presented.The image may be representational or
figurative,which means the image is drawn from the world around us.If it is abstract,non-
representational or non-figurative ,it does not have a recognizable subject,such as a tree,or
face,or object.Its subject is its form and elements,its texture,color,composition,shape or
movement among others. Themesare what connect subjects to their social milieu,and there
are many ways of determining the theme of an artwork.At the most obvious and surface
level ,we note its initial data:title,artist,medium,dimension,and the year it was made.Beyond
this initial data are text,images,allusions and symbols that clue us in to the social and
historical context referred to.It is at this level of symbolism and allegory that the thematic
plane operates.

Describe the following themes in contemporary arts.

A.) Heroism and Identity- heroism is the qualities characteristic of a hero, such as courage,
bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc; the display of such qualities while identity is sameness,
identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
B.) Heroism and Ecology- it is the relationship between the subject and the people or
environment surround to it.
C.) Spirituality, Ecology, and Everyday Life- Some artists explicitly use ideas and symbols
from religious or mythological traditions in the expression of their ideas; others have a more

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 'pick-and-mix’ approach to spirituality, where aspects from different traditions, including
private beliefs, are amalgamated.Art surrounds life, all people in every location, without us
being aware of it. Since time immemorial, art has existed as long as man has. It is a huge part
of our culture, which shapes our ideas, and vice versa, and provides us with a deeper
understanding of emotions, self-awareness, and more.

Identify the subject and themes focusing on the Rizal monument and its various versions
found all around the world. The monument consists of a standing bronze sculpture of Rizal,
with an obelisk, set on a stone base within which his remains are interred, holding his 2
famous novels “El Filibusterismo and Noli Me Tangere”. It reminds Filipinos of the sacrifices
and contributions made by Rizal and other Filipino heroes to the country’s independence and
progress. Historical significance: The monument marks the spot where Rizal was executed by
the Spanish coloni.

Lesson 10: Integrating the Local and the Contemporary

LOCAL • Can refer to material that is easily available, like bamboo. The local can also refer to
wherever the artists finds himself or herself. For Diokno Pasilan, a Neo-ethnic Musician-
visual/performance artist and one time art director from Negros the “local” involves various
places: Baguio, Bicol, Palawan, ( Where he resided for a long period) and most recetly,
Victoria, Western Australia, where he resettled. This process entails interacting and
immersing with host communities.

EXAMPLE • In a performance for the third Bagasbas Beach International Environment Art
Festival in the Bicol region, Pasilan communicates the need to be more aware of our natural
environment by painting his body green, the color of the environment movement. Like bungee
jumping human anchor, he thrust material that is easily available around Bagasbas’s
fisherfolk communities. These communities provided information and support for Pasilan and
other participating artists to create their performance and site-specific work on the Bagasbas
public beachfront. Pasilan, Gong Fishing (2010)

Lani Maestro and Poklong Anading • Another artwork which used bamboo as basic
material is Digital Tagalog, a collaboration between Lani Maestro and Poklong Anading, who
are known for creating mutli- sensory environments that come out of their research about the
contexts of spaces and communities.

Digital Tagalog used Bamboo to construct physical nodes and create sounds. They also
used found and crafted sound, some of which were inspired and sourced out of the digitized
audio files of National Artist for Music Jose Maceda.(housed in the U.P College of Music
Center for Ethnomusicology). The artists could make up playlists which not only could be
streamed through personal listening devices, but also could be amplified within larger gallery
space. This larger site was where bamboo- made music they themselves produced could
overlay the digitized sound selected by the impromptu musician-deejays working with sound
in the smaller room.
Still other artist create work by reinventing not just tangible objects like bamboo, but other
artforms sourced from the performing arts of ritual, music and dance.

Agnes Locsin • Davao-based choreographer Agnes Locsin used the techniques of modern
dance to interpret a component of the Moriones holy week festival of Marinduque. The
Moriones narrates the story of Roman centurion Longino’s Conversion to Christianity upon
the healing of his blindness by the dying of Jesus whom the soldier had been ordered to
guard.

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Global Technical School of Zamboanga, Inc.
 ASSESMENT

Activity Time!

Activity l. Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters to form word/s and tell something about it the
class. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper. (50 points)

(1) M V O E M N E T
(2) V A L E A U
(3) T E X U R E T
(4) CLROO
(5) L N I E
(6) S A H P E
(7) C O M O P S I T O I N I N S P C E A

Activity lI. Essay Directions: Make a summarize of the Lesson 7: Mediums and Techniques,
Lesson 8: Elements of Arts and Principles of Composition, Lesson 9: Themes and
Subject Matter and Lesson 10: Integrating the Local and the Contemporary. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Essay Grading Rubric

CONTENT 20 points
ORGANIZATION 15 points
MECHANICS & GRAMMAR 15 points
Total 50 points

REFERENCE/S
REX BOOKSTORE Contemporary Philippine Arts From the Regions
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