Materials, Skills, Techniques, Production, and Description

• Materials used in Contemporary Art:

  1. Wood
  2. Paper
  3. Paint
  4. Milk
  5. Rice
  6. Wax
  7. Stone
  8. Glass
  9. Metal
  10. Plastics
  11. Photos
  12. Slides
  13. Videos
  14. Computers
• Chime halo: artwork that combine structure and wood and interact with the wind to produce music.
• Imelda Pilapil: Maker of chime Halo
• Project belonging: gathered used objects, clothes, personal accessories and many other things and compressed them into cube shapes
• Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan: Makers of Project belonging
• Paper: as an art medium, makes solid forms as well as transparent art works
• Outdoor Sculpture: welded brass mounted on concrete is used a lot because it will be affected by several factors that may lead to its destruction
• Indoor sculpture: can use wood and glass as it will be less affected by factors that can weather it.
• Paintings: no longer confined to canvas hung on the wall. They can also be found on ceilings and floors.
• Architecture: this has an extensive use of glass and steel.
• Performance Art: in this art style artists use a variety of props.
• Paint: is also used for body art
• Collage: is made by adhering flat elements to a flat surface to create a thick layer that is almost like a relief sculpture.
• Decalcomania: is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a reversal of that image onto canvas or other flat materials.
• Decoupage: is done by gluing decorative paper cutouts onto an object and then coating these with one or more coats of transparent coating or vanish.
• Frottage: is the technique of rubbing crayon on a piece of paper which has been placed over an object or an image.
• Montage: is used for photography or film where a pictorial image is juxtaposed or place overlapping to make another picture or design.
• Trapunto: is a technique used by Pacita Abad where her canvases are the things that she picks up from her travels and journeys.
• Digital Applications: for art viewing is another technique. With the aid of technology or other digital devices.
• Interactive and Collaborative works: when an artists interact or works with another artists.
• Visual and Performance artists: They combine their talent and skills for public performances.
• Subject Matter: is what you see that is depicted in the artwork.
• Subject Matter: it may be  human form where the figures are engaged in an activity.
• Subject Matter: it may also be a figure made from found objects put together.
• Material: is what the artwork is made of. Can be a combination of objects
• Art elements and principles: refer to the physical qualities of the image.
• Art elements and principles: the artist uses color, lines, spaces and other elements to make visual images.